The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-04-12

Washington, April THE Senate
today listened to eulogies of the late
Senator Hanna The galleries were
well filled, and the speakers given
close attention. Those who spoke
were Messrs. Foraker. Scott, Cock
relI, Platt, of Connecticut; Cullom,
Blackburn, EIkins, Fairbanks, Dan
Eel, Perkins, Depew, Beverage, Dolh-
yer, Kearns and Dick.
Mr.. Foraker's address was a candid
review of the public career and a
frank analysis of the character of his
late colleague
Mr.. Foraker said his friendly reIa-
tons with Hanna had been inter
rupted- for three years, but were re-
sumed in a modified and less cordial
way, and thereafter continued until
his death In political matters, he
said, they were generally opposed in
fractional contests Mr.. Foraker said
Hanna was a formidable political an
tagonist.
Hanna, he said, would often assist
his friends in their battles regardless
OF their character"
Only a man of uncommon strength
VA CDdTdGlGT anu one pOSScSSllS lIle
confidence of his fellow countrymen
to an unusual degree" he added,
could have done what he 8 habitu-
ally did in this respect, without Seri-
Gus injury to his reputation, but with
him it came to be regarded as a vir-
tue"
Mr.. Foraker spoke enthusiastically
OF Mr.. Hanna's intellectual qualities,
OF his unerring judgment of men, his
executive qualities, his strong common
sense, his business training, etc., but
said that he was deficient in scholar
ship and oratorical gifts.
Mr.. Scott, telling of the attacks
made upon Mr.. Hanna, particularly
during the second Mckinley cam
paign, when he formed the subject of
cartoons in many newspapers, related
the following incident:
Il shall never forget one morning
when hi handed me a New York pa
per containing a cartoon OF himself
pictured as a huge monster, clad in a
suit covered over with dollar marks.
smoking an immense cigar and
trampling underfoOt women and chill
dren until their eyes protruded from
the sockets and their skeleton forms
writhed in agony. After 1 had looked
at it for a moment, he said to me:
That hudtsi When 1 have tried all
my life to put myself in the other
fellows place, when / have tried to
help those in need and to tighten the
burdens of those less fortunate than
myself. to be pictured as 1 am here,
to be held up to the gaze of the world
as a murderer of women and chill
dren. 1 tell you, it hurts. n
looking up into the frank manly
face, I saw the tears coursinS down
his cheeks, and he turned and silently
walked away"
Mr.. CockreIl spoke of Mr.. Hanna
as a soldier; Mr.. Plat, of Connecticut,
of him as a personal friend. Mr.. Gull
lOm. as a great man from n state of
great men; Mr.. Blackburn as 4 Dnlit'-
cal ~opronent, and sir Elkins. as a
POLITICAL leader.
In referring to Mr.. Hanna's rise in
1896, Mr.. Daniel reviewed the cam
paign of that year. calling attention
to the fact that in that campaign the
issue of the single standard had first
been raised and saying that n con-
the Ohio Senator's Virginia ancestry,
and said that he a never shown Sec
tionaI vindictiveneSs-
Mr.. Hanna's successor in the Sen
ator. Mr.. Dick, was the last speaker
of the day. Mr.. Dick referred to fac
tional effort within his party to de-
feat Hanna for the Senat saying
there was no scheme too desperate &c
be resorted 10. Mr.. Dick referred to
the effort to make Mr.. Hanna a presl-
Dental candidate. of which he said:
He had no secret longing for other
political honors. The public viii
know but little of the great pressure
brought to bear upon him to accept
this crown, nor did he like Caesar
refuse each time with less and less
insistence. He a given his word
he would not be a candidate, and he
kept his faith"
The Senate adopted the customary
-acoI,YfianS on6 odinTrnp6 nc "A mark
of respect