Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-06-30
Colby SENIORS
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test has yet to be applied to life ended

virtue and answering loyalty be quail
tiles which make for greatness, we can
not doubt times verdict on the charac-
ter of the late Senator Hanna of Ohio.
Marcus A. Hanna was born in Lis
bon. Ohio. Sept. oath, 1887. When 20
years old left school and entered his
fathers employ, thus starting on the
business career which proved SO uni
formly successful.
Hanna was too large man for any
single line of work. He had thou
sands of workmen in his employ. his
varied interests involving all classes
but, throughout his entire career. his
relations with his employees were of
the most amicable nature; strikes did
not affect his mines and railroads. His
workmen came to know that from him
they were sure of justice always and
help in time of need.
1t was not until 1896 that Mr.. Hanna
became prominent in the field of ma
tional politics, but his political career
began long before this time.
In his young manhood he had formed
the closest ties of friendship with Will
liam Mckinley, and his highest ambi-
ton was now not for himself, but rath-
er for his friend. Months before the
close of Clcveland's administration
Hanna had seen opportunity far i'm the
distance. He began his work at once
as leader of the Mckinley forces. The
campaign was against the strenuous OPP
position Of men high in place and pow
er, but Hanna's mastery organization
swept all before it. and Mckinley was
nominated on the first ballot by an
overwhelming ma jority.
But it is not only as 4 business man
or as a politician that Hanna has be-
come famous. His manly love for Nc
Kinley was the master passion of his
life and proved an ever present, and
all powerful influence. AS the lives of
these two great men were closely unit
ed so death itself did not long separate
their spirits.
When in the spring of 1898, the i'm
minence of war menaced business in
terests all over the country, Hanna
went on record publicly for peace. He
did all he could to avert the conflict
but when he saw it's Inevitable APP
proach, he was at the right hand of Nc
Kinley.
Such was the love of Marcus Hanna
for his friend. On that dark day, when
q mighty nation held it's breath and
listened in an agony of suspense to
hear the last heart throbs of it's dying
leader the soul of Hanna was Smitten
with thunderbolt of woe. The nation
was mourning the great President but
the man was looking his last on the
friend who had loved so truly. With
Il choking sob he uttered one anguished
William. William, don't you know
me?" and Hanna wept like child at
McKinley's deathbed.
SO short has been the time since the
death of Senator Hanna that l need
not dwell on his last days. Miners all
over the state of Ohio. at the hour of
his funeral laid aside their picks and
shovels and Joined in Il last tribute of
farewell to the man who had proved
himself their friend.
. Senator Hanna's tremendous popular
ity was all the more remarkable be-
cause he was not of the type that
usually makes the popular idol. He
was not Il great orator, although Il
speaker of convincing force and clear
ness But the American people loved
him, 1t was because they saw in him
the duplication of that simple, honest,
energetic American manhood that has
made this country greatest among the
nations of the earth.
The next speaker was MISS EVA
EstelIe Clement of Seal Harbor. who
gave an interesting account of Ma
thaniel Hawthorne as The ltomahce
Writer of New England Miss
Clements paper in part was as follows:
lust n century ago there was born in
n little Puritan village by the sea, Ma
thaniel Hawthorne, the greatest or
American novelists. AS child he had
n very imaginative nature and lived in
n world of unreality and mystery. he
was always inventing weird and fancl-
full stories. Reared as he was unuer
strict Puritan rules at a time when
.moral anxiety" and individual con-
science" were the most apsorDlhS
questions. it must indeed have peeh
hard to find anything with which TO IN
sp,re his fancy, so his ideas OF romance
had to grow out Of himself. On tne
puritan faith. on the mysteries OF lie.
nm the thousand things that were
sometimes openly shown and sometimes
l,ent haired in the innermost recesseS
of the soul. he fed his mind. lie
mused on these subjects, he Thought Oh
the sins of people. of awful evils ana
their consequences. and by his unique
inventive power he gave to them an
interest and mystery which the orui,
nary mind would not have discoveries
so. working slowly diligently ana skn-
fully he brought forth his great WORKS
The work that brought him III.
mediate distinction was the Scar'e'
Letter" Up to this time he had no'
mt the quality of intensity into ms
writings. Now they began to sho"
strong passion and gave full express'oi
of all the thoughts that his NINA hae
been storing up in past years sucn i
the subtle power with which the uu'
thor weaves the thread of MS s'ois
that the reader forgets the real am
finds himself absorbed in the ron,an.,
gcism that clings about the dinereh
s$characters. , ,ras
q The House of Seven Gables wa
v written in the fall of the year anu :.
enveloped in the haze of that autu.l',,a