Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-16
DISTRICT COMMISSIONERS.
All Speak in High Terms Of Senator
Hanna

Mr. Henry B. F. Mcfarland. president
board of District Commissioners. said:
IF Senator Hanna had died ten years ago
he would have been -msurned by thousands
of devoted friends but not by the entire
country. for he did not then have ma
tional reputation, His national career dates
only from 1896. when he directed the forces
that nominated and elected President Nc
Kinley He was sixty years old when he
came to the Senate an age when other men
feel as William c. Whitney did, that they
ought to retire. But Mr.. Hanna began
new and remarkable development or nina
and heart. of ambition and achievement I'M
paralleled in the life Of any other man of
that age. He grew steadily and remarka-
bly, as few young men grow He was the
closest adviser of President Mckinley, one
of the closest advisers of President Roose-
welt. a power in the Senate and the actual
I as well as the official manager of the re-
publican party He was not a candidate for
the presidency. but if he had been he would
have had a great following. His name,
thanks first to his political enemies but
afterward to his own attachments, became
known not only wherever the American nag
| flies. but all over the world.
And all this did not spoil him. On the
contrary. side by side with this Kind OF
progress went another kind for the man
broadened and deepened in his patriotism
and in his regard for humanity In general.
He came to take the largest views of public
service. This was evident not only in the
way in which he advocated such measure
as the Panama canal project as the best
for the country, although he had at first
taken different view. but in what he did
with characteristic zeal and sagacity to Inn
prove social conditions. In the largest sense.
As an organizer and active manager OF the
National Civic Federation he worked hard
to bring capital and labor to avoid strikes
and lockouts. and, by arbitration and other
wise make peaceful settlement OF their
L di tfpi AS a tStnHf11~ fr{and and o.
worker with the Salvation Army he took
every opportunity To promote Its undertake
ings for the good Of the unfortunate and
ment. x9sU
''Ridicule from smaller men because of
! ms interest IN these movements. and es-
walton Army. only ififeHsined hts zeal. I
these activities he fSdha 1 his deepest salts
eu not the to
carry out all the plans he had in mind.
he had come to see mpfs clearly than ever
before the true vafuesD OF material and
opportunities Of this life, ana was just at
, the beginning Of eBest usefulness of the
highest kind. shall meyer forget what no
said and did at the dinner which he gave
IN January a year ago to Gen. William
Hcoth founder OF the Salvation Army, or
what he said afterward of his future pur-
poses.
Il think great number OF his country
men had come to appreciate the higher life
and aspirations of the man as shown in his
phiiantnropic endeayors, and that this had
given him hold upon their hearts which
few pub lie men have today
We of the national capital suffer spe-
cial loss In the death of Senator Hanna,
because we had no better friend among thu
senators who are not connected with the
committees dealing directly with our af-
fairs. Senator Hanna believed in the full
along the best lines, and In the most gem
eSaus treatment of 1t by Congress. He
took deep interest In the plans for the
Improvement OF the park system, and In
every project that was recommended by
the Commissioners for the advancement OF
eur larger interests. He told me repeated
~ that he took q personal pride, which he
Americans. In every Improvement here. and