Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-02-25
THE LATE SENATOR HANNA.
Incidents in the life OF the dead states.
man reviewed by Walter Wellman
in the Chicago Record-Herald.

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senate and among men of Affairs the
country was still holding aloof 1t
could not conquer Its prejudice
AS late as 1900. when Mr.
Hanna had been senator
for. three years, and when his
true character should have been
l;nown to most of the intelligent peo-
of the United States, an incident
cnrred which will Illustrate the per
rse longevity of a suspicion. In the
campaign of that year Mr. Hanna had
made one or two short speeches.
Congressman Lands of Indiana con-
ceived the notion OF having Mr. Han
ma come down % his town OF Delphi.
where he was engaged In a bitter
fight for reelection to make a speech
He broached the matter to his cen
raj committee The members of the
committee, all intelligent men and
good Republicans. with one voice de
clared 1t would never do to have Mark
Hanna come down there and make
speech They told the congressman
1t would absolutely ruin his chances
not stand any Mark Hanna in theirs.
md that II would be suicide to make
any such experiment The truth was
that MIR Lands had already invited
Mr., Hanna 10 Delphi and Hanna had
accepted. so the representative was
n dilemma. There was no way Out
If it except to have the terrible Han
Htn u,aA . Of
Why Lands would try to stand 1t like
man. A few days before the meet
ms Mr. Lands met one Of his strong
est party men, a Inrmer from out a.
1ne OF the townships.
u hear You've gone and invited that
Mark Hanna down here to make a
speech for you" said The farmer is
| hat so?"
Mr.. Landis was compelled to admit
| hat 1t was
We'll, Charley Landis I've been a
Republican all my life never yet
| voted for Democrat. if you
bring that dolar.marked 81 "t Hanna
down here to make publican
speech in this county I'll be d--d II
don't vote the Dimmycratlc ticket
this year for the first time in my life. "
Mr. Lands labored with the farm
er and finally induced him to agree to
come and hear Mr. Hanna talk before
carrying out his dire threat to go
over to the enemy. MIR. Hanna came
made his speech, won the hearts oi
his auditors at once, and set them
uvtl With faG AT hn ptn
Df the meeting. Mr.. Lands hunted UP
his farmer friend. The latter was all
smiles He was wildly happy over
the speech he had just heard, and he
exclaimed: 81 take it all back-ev-
cry word of it. Mark Hanna is all
right. Charley, l tell you what's the
fact: they've just been lyn' on that
man" And such is the conclusion
the American people have at last
come to-Mark Hsnna's enemies have
been lying on him.
During the campaign of 1900 Mr..
Hanna was asked to go down to the
Chicago stockyards and make an
open-air speech. He accepted. His
friends advised him not to 60 They
but rough. and II might be just like
the opposition to organize gang to
break mp the meeting They did not
dare tell Mr. Hanna that at the stock
yards there survived In the liveliest
fashion all the old prejudice that
Mark Hanna was chief slave driver
for the money power, and that he was
.f "a nrlr In
man. Mr.. Hanna declined to with
draw his acceptance, saying he had
never yet seen the American work
ingman he was afraid to face So his
friends decided to 60 with him and to
throw n bodyguard about his person.
They also asked the police for special
protection. When Mr. Hanna was in
'roduced to the meeting there was n
7ew cat-calls in the outskirts of the
crowd. few hostile demonstrations.
and for a moment 1t looked as If ev-
erythins had been prepared for a first
class row MIR. Hanna smiled at the
people. A few men in the crowd
broke into applause. Mr.. Hanna con
tinued to smile More applause fol
loNfis ms HibhifH'h NV
applause swept through the entire es-
semblsge. It became enthusiastic; 1t
was an ovation Done now were all
fe7rs of breaking up the meeting
Without utterlng a word Mr.. Hanna
had conquered all hostility, and e was
some minutes before the delighted
workingmen would permit him to
speak at all. The smile had won
them. For in that smile they per
ceived. as so many others have per-
ceiyed. the man of big heart and big
brain and great love for his fellow
man.
Mr. Hanna did love his fellow men
If ever there was man-loyer in this
world. it was Mark Hanna. He was
never so happy as when he had his
friends around him, and they We're al
ways around Wherever he went in
this great country. there he was sure
to find men who knew him and whom
he knew and who We're as glad to be
with him as he was to be with them
His friends were in all walks of life
politicians, business men. public men,
bankers. railroad presidents. the