Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-02-18
MARCUS A. HANNA.
Sioux Falls Argus Leader.

wears chairman OF the republican ma
tional committee, the close personal
friend and stalwart political champion
OF tie late William Mckinley, the
American people have lost real man,
one with red blood in his veins, and an
honest heart in his breast, q hale.
healthy, direct. forceful. virile citizen,
and worthy public man.
In 1896 when Mark Hanna hrst APP
peared in national politics In the very
room in which he died. the people re-
Allied that sizeable man had appear
cd on the situation. 1t is quite within
the truth to say that no man who has
been in public life for generation has
been SO much misunderstood. Hanna
was fighter; this meant that he made.
many enemies and many friends. Hun
dreds OF thousands of people made up
their judgment of Hanna from the car
toons OF 1855, even to the dollar marks
on his clothes, and the cruel whip In
his heavy hand. 1t took personal
view to dispel this notion. This was
undoubtedly the reason back OF Hanna's
trip through the country in 1900. Dur
ing that year Hanna spoke to hun
dreds OF thousands OF his fellow citi-.
zens, and he convinced most OF them
that he was much more the man than
they mad thought him. His meeting
in Sioux Falls in 1900 will never be- for.
gotten. People we're SO anxious to got
into the auditorium that it was almost
q mob at the entrance. Hanna's
speech was full of that direct, and
straight-aimed talk which was so char
actsristic of the man, and ever since
that time no one in Sioux Falls felt IT
incumbent on them to apologize for
Hanna. It was the same all through
+ the country. That benevolent and
Pickwickian face, that open and con-
tagious smile. that plain and direct
talk, without polish and without At
tempt at rounded periods, convinced
the people that here was 9 man who
was safe and honest leader, and who
mas list OF friends has BEEN CROWN
over since until at the time of bis
death. there were few public men who
could lay claim to SO many.
Senator Hanna WAS not m old man
only 66 last September-but there
wore many who feared the outcome
when he was stricken, because his life
for the last eight years has been
strenuous ono. During his waking
hours he has been always busy. A
Sioux Falls man who called on Hanna
ct Cleveland several years ago said
that each morning HE waiting rooms
were filled by from twenty TO fifty peo
pie waiting for an interview. This
ono wanted An ONCE, this one had q
complaint, this one had q message,
another appealed to Hanna to arbitrate
political quarrel, the next had mat
ter OF personal business, and 80 on
through the list. This is q sample OF
tho days that Hanna has put in since
he became chairman IN 1896. 1t burned
out the senator's vital energies and
left him without reserve to fight dis
case when it attacked him. Added to
this was the bitter political fight out of
which he has just emerged with tri-
umph, and the annoying connection Of
his name with the presidential success
sion-all making burden too great
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As business man Hanna enjoyed
ideal relations with his men. From
eight to ten thousand we're on his pay
roll, and all his employees were his
friends. A lew years ago, he refused
to 20 into com bine of iron foundries
because he was afraid that some of his
erayheaded and faithful old employees
might lose their places if the business
passed out OF his hands. No public
man has done so much TO promote arbi.
tration in disputes between capital and
labor, and no one man SO much to tenn
per the ill-feeling which was produced
between the Two by the bitter CAM
paign OF 1896.
In an article on Hanna in McClure's
for 1900, William Allen White gives
this pen picture OF the senator: s;If a
large brown Jagged damn is needed in
diplomatic situation Hanna furnishes
it. If q laugh is needed Hanna has it,
and is not afraid to use it. II an open
fight is required, Hannamakes it. he
is man OF simple instincts, and simple
purposes. Hanna is no prude. He has
q consoience-the conventional con-
science OF commerce. To him wrong
is wrong and right is right. Every
thing is black or white; he is color
blind to the pea greens and heliotropes
and electric blues of conduct. II a
man lies, he lies; If he steals, he is .
thief; il he cheats, he is liar and a
theft; and that's the end OF him with
Hanna"
Public life will not seem quite the
same with this blunt, blut1, direct.
wholesome, and dominant figure gone
Asnyn IL. whila AMONG his n0PaoaA1