The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1903-10-29

open letter urging Ohio republicans
to rally to the standard of Mark
Hanna to achieve an old time victory
because Hanna is said to represent
the highest ideals of the party.
Then may God save the party!
Mark Hanna typifes all that is most
corrupt and degrading in American
notifies. While no one questions his
personal honesty, in politics nothing
is too INSCRIPTIONS for him to sane
ton if it will gain votes for his party.
For years he has been the dispenser
of enormous corruption funds contrib
uted by the great trusts and other
beneficiaries of republican politics for
the purpose of bribing voters to cast
republican ballots. Without the fat
| fried from the men and corporations
enjoying special privileges by the
grace of the republican party it is
doubtful whether it would have been
| able to elect president since 1872.
But the art of raising corruption
funds and of using them to the best
advantage of his party was perfected
! bv Mark Hanna in 1896, when the
tariff barons and the favored finan-
cial institutions raised not less than
$40 900 900 to save the country from
voting for Bryan and free coinage Of
both gold and silver.
Mark Hanna is the arch champion
of the great trusts to which President
| Roosevelt processes to be opposed.
Hanna denies that such thing as a
trust exists in this country and he
urges the voters to stand pat" for
everything that Is bad In the admin
istration Of government for the ben
eft of a favored few at the expense
of the masses. Hanna is corporate
greed, selfishness and cunning incar-
nate. If he represents the highest
ideals of the republican party, as
Roosevelt would have the American
people believe, then it is high time
to consign the grand old party to per-
dition What a tOboggan slide from
the ideals Of Abraham Lincoln to the
| ideals of Mark Hanna! There has
been nothing to compare with it since
the fall of Lucifer.
| President Roosevelt should know
that practice is more potent than
preaching. He has been preaching a
great deal on good citizenship, but
his professions are belied by his
consorting with such spOilsmen as
Mark Hanna, Matt Quay, Tom Platt
and Gas Addicks.
All that the president has said or
may say about civil service reform
and purity in politics will be as
sounding brass and tinkling cymbals
| so long as the American people see
him using all the power of his posi-
| ton as president of the American peO-
| pie OF all parties to keep in places of
| honor and trust men who will stOOp
| to anything in political knavery in
order to keep themselves in power
and protect the great trusts in their
special privilege of robbing a credu-
lOus and long-suffering public.
The Statesman believes that in the
beginning President Roosevelt was
| sincere in his determination to en-
force the antitrust laws, but his over
weening ambition to succeed himself
| as president for another term has
| led him to fOregO his once resOlute
purpose to be true to the interests of
| the people at all hazards and to cast
his lot with the machine bosses who
have so long proved themselves to
| be the Warwicks of the party organi-
cation. While visiting this state last
May President Roosevelt is said to
have declared that he would rather
| be president for three and a half
years than to be president only in
name for seven and a half years"
But now that he has made terms with
the big Four bosses of his party,
it is evident that the native hue Of
resolution has been sicklied DER with
| a pale cast OF thought
The Roosevelt of today is not the
| Roosevelt who stepped into the place
made vacant by the tragic death of
William Mckinley with the lofty pur-
pose Of being faithful to the trust re-
posed in him by the American people
regardless of the wishes Of the boss
es Roosevelt was then a patriot
above all else Today Roosevelt is
above all else a politician.