Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1904-02-19
Mark Hanna Dead.

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ing, after an illness of nearly two
months from typhoid fever.
Mark Hanna was one of the Nations
great men, and during the past four or
five years became extremely popular
with the masses. He was a very sue.
cessful business man, and retained to
the last the warm friendship and admir-
alton of his employees, numbering sew
eral thousand men. AS chairman of
the Republican National Committee he
figured prominently in the Presidential
campaigns of 1896 and 1900. and wa
largely responsible for the election Of
his warm personal friend the late Pres
ident Mckinley. During the first
mentioned campaign Democratic Or
ators and newspapers, aided by Homer
Davenport, the famous cartoonist,
succeeded in creating a wide. spread
erroneous impression of Mr.. Hanna,
but he lived it down, and today many
of his leading political opponents re-
gard his death as a National loss.
Mark Hanna will be remembered not
as a great statesman, but as a strong
character and "a man for a. that and
a. that"
There are a scattered few, however,
who have expressed opinions of the
dead Senator not at all flattering. For
instance
Oregon's noble governor says of Sen
ator Hanna:
at is doubtful, however, even if he
had been spared beyond the limit of a
long life, whether he could have &C.
complished enough of good to outweigh
the evil influence of his example in two
great political campaigns. Never in
the history of this country did any man
ever raise such a campaign fund or
spend it so lavishly and corruptly as
did he in the campaigns of 1896 and
1900. For the first time in history,
through his efforts, great manufactur.
ing industries and employers of labor
coerced employees into voting a party
ticket through fear of discharge, or be,
cause Of threats of the closing of fac
tories"
How parrot-like Just like an echo
from the Democratic stump in 1896
1t is a statement without a tinge o
truth, and entirely worthy of the bril-
liant gentleman whom the chronic dis
senters in the Republican ranks helped
the Democrats to elect as governor o
the state. "The evil influence" of Mr.
Hanna's example will be felt and ap
preciated by the American people TO
years to come, even as it has been fel
and appreciated since the gloom anC
doubt were dispelled by the Repub
lican victory in 1896. Workingmen q
the nation who remember the las
Democratic administration will not for
get the great change wrought by tina
victory. They are today prosperou
and contented and ready to be ''cc
ercedr again.
In this connection it is in order t
note, also, the paradoxical tribute t
Senator Hanna by the editor of til
Qregonian, viz:
The qualities which made and OK
plain Marcus A. Hanna are bushes
talent, answering fidelity and an III
selfish disposition. His commercil
successes were won in open fights wit
strenuous competition. His aptitud
for organization and for assiduous o!
ecution Was unusual, he was capable
great devotion to objects of his intere
and affection, and his loyalty to thin
ono espoused never wavered. 1t is Il
measure Of his greatness in these +
spects that he undoubtedly reached
high a level of achievement and re
utation as a mau can reach who
philosophy of life is material, who a
preheuds men and affairs keenly b.
who apprehends principles not at all
In palmer English, it would seer
the editor OF the Oregonian would rel
to the lamepted Senator as q pref
good man, but without "princlple
Well, that is about as kind treatment
any dead mar ever received from Il
pen of Harvey Scott. lie could east
haye made it much worse.