The Indianapolis journal., 1904-02-16

ILLUSTRATIONS
In 1884 Mr.. Hanna took a yet more active
although not a successful part in Presi-
dent-ma king. He was a delegate at large
from Ohio TO the national convention, which
he attended in the interest of John Sher-
man. Mr.. Sherman was not nominated.
Four years later Mr.. Hanna attended the
Republican national convention as dele
gate from the Cleveland district. Again he
was of the coterie of men who dl-
rected the cause of Sherman, and again
he shared in Shermans defeat. But there
ne saw Congressman Mckinley put ASIDE
from him, in his loyalty to Sherman. the
possibility of presidential nomination. He
saw there. also. he had begun to per-
ceive it four years earlier, that there was
a growing sentiment in the country for
Mckinley as rising statesman.
In 1892 Mr.. Hanna attended the conven-
ton at Minneapolis, not as a delegate but
as an interested onlOoker. There he watched
Mr.. Mckinley preside over the convention.
There he saw the denomination of Presi-
dent Harrison, the rejection of Mr.. Blaine,
and again he saw balloting for Mckinley,
against the latter's protest. Mr.. Hanna
recognized the sweep of the tide toward
Mckinley and in favor of the principle OF
protective tariff.
WORK FOR M'KINLEY.
Mr.. Hanna thereupon set to work 10
crystalline this sentimen for Mckinley into
practical form. This work became especial
ly active in the spring of 1885, when Mr..
Hanna began the task of securing dele
gates to the national convention for Nc
Kinley. These efforts eliminated in sue
cess at the st. Louis convention.
1t was but logical that the man whose
Uniagging faith in the ability of the fav
ored candidate for whose success he had
striven so strenuously against a formid
able although not united opposition, should
be called upon to work for the election of
the candidate whose nomination he had
accomplished. The management of that
campaign and of the second Mckinley cam
paign Is too recent history to need recount
ing here.
After the election of 1896 Mr.. Hanna con-
sldered that his activity in politics had
come to an end. He believed that he had
done his duty as patriot by influencing
the Republican party in the right direction
and in striving for the election of Presi-
dent whose policy and whose attitude to-
ward legislation would safeguard business
interests and promote social and moral
elevation. 1t was Mr.. Hanna's full intention
to return to private business life. he was
devoid of personal ambition. 1t is no news
now to say that Mr.. Hanna declined an
President Mckinley. 1t is equally well
known that, failing to secure Mr.. Hanna
aid in his immediate official household, the
President urged him TO become candidate
for the Senate to fill the vacancy caused
by the selection of Senator Sherman as
| secretary of state.
full knowledge of the legislative training
and being in perfect sympathy with the
theories of President Mckinley, could be
of the greatest assistance in promoting that
harmony between the executive and legls-
lative branches of the government which
the President was known TO desire, IN
marked contrast to his immediate prede-
cessor. This was the disinterested motive
which led Mr.. Hanna to enter the Senate.
When he accepted the appointment TO the
seat that had so long and honorably been
tion to seek election TO full term.
But such an effort was made in 1897 by
a Democratic Legislature in Ohio, that II
became important to make a strong con-
| test to retain this seat. Thus circum-
stances and sense of duty compelled Mr..
Hanna to go into that struggle. He did not
enter II, however, until his prospective can
didacy had been unanimously indorsed by
the republican State convention and h@aa @
received the approval of eighty-three out
or the eighty-eight counties OF the State.
A BITTER STRUGGLE.
Then began a most bitter struggle. Mr..
| Hanna. as chairman of the Republican
national committee, had encountered con-
| tumely and abuse during the previous
presidential campaign. But he now to
| encounter the sings and arrows of the par
tisan politics of Ohio. 1t was to be the
most severe struggle he had yet encoun-
| tered
| for the first time went upon the stump.
| This was a new development in his public
! life. He had never considered himself a
| speaker and had confined his previous eff
| forts to directing, in an executive capacity,
| the distribution of oratory. But now he
was to speak for himself. in his own
only for himself, but to save a seat in the
| Senate to the Republican party during a
critical period in legislation. The battle
Senator Hanna's great-grandfather came
| TO this country from the north of Ireland,
| and back of that his ancestry has been
| traced to Scotland. Here we have that
| Scotch-Irish strain which has made itself
| felt in national history in the person
alities of score of eminent men. Senator
| Hanna's grandfather was born in Virginia
| and in accordance with the customs of that
colony, was bound OUT to a Quaker fam
| lily. Hence comes the tradition that the
| Hannas are themselves Quakers, which
would be rather curious doctrinal affin-
! ity for one of Scotch-Irish descent. How
! ever. the grandfather accompanied this
J Quaker family when it emigrated TO Ohio.
| Senator Hannas mother is of New Eng
| land descent, having been born in Ran
dolph, VT, Her father was of Pennsylvania
Dutch descent. so that in Senator Hanna
! that strain of blood was added to the
| Scotch-Irish.
HIS BUSINESS CAREER.
1t has been said that about 80 per cent
| of all men who engage in business ventures
has in some period encountered failure or
| serious disaster. 1t is not known that in
| all his business career Mr.. Hanna ever met
with a catastrophe. although. of course,
| his expectations may not have always been
| realized His business associates knew that
| IL was with him a cardinal principle
| never TO contract debt to whose payment
| he could not see clear way. and never to
| live beyond his income. 1t is a fact that
| no business obligation of Mr. Hanna was
| ever dishonored 1t was another fact
| that no one either in politics or business
| will dispute that Mr. Hanna never
failed to keep an agreement. written OF
| verbal. 1t is another fact that he ex-
| erted himself to the utmost always TO keer
| capital over which he had control In active
| employment With him nothing men OF
| money, was stagnant.
Those who knew Senator Hanna best
| say that he liked to study. and that he took
| pride in his ability to diagnose human ma
ture and TO perceive the true character OF
! others. His Pennsylvania Dutch BLOOD
| may have transmitted to him a certain
| stability, but the Scotch-Irish in him made
| him by disposition naturally buoyant Ht
| was a man of high coura ge-of a courage
| indeed, that was only stimulated by oppo.
| sition. He was one of those men who never
| say die" who never give up, who never
| quit until the last chance of success has
| been thoroughly explored and exhausted
OF all successful men in this world, the
| chronicle Invariably contains two words
| hard work This was as true of Senator
| Hanna. All his life long, since he slept OF
| the counter in his fathers store and worked
| from dawn until night, until he laboreC
| through equally long hours in the guidanc,
! of two great presidential campaigns, Mr.
| Hanna met and encountered the task in
| front of him, whatever il was. up TO III,
| full limit, fixed by his strength and health