Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1904-02-19

Hanna was very thorough in his bust
ness matters and very keen as TO Oppor.
tunities for profit He did not believe in
sharing profits with any one if it could
be avoided. Hanna acquired coal mines
in Ohio and iron mines in the Upper
Michigan peninsula. 70 save paying
freight to others he owned his own
boats, which carried his coal up the lakes
and his iron ore down the lakes. Then,
to avoid paying profits to the builders of
his ships, he started shipyard i'll Cleve-
land and built his own boats. He owned
a fleet of fourteen great ore-carryng yes
sells on the Great Lakes valued at more
than S1,0o0000. Then, to still further
increase his earnings, he built his own
rolling mills and blast furnaces. providing
his own iron ore and coal to run them.
Enters Politics.
His political career really began in
1851 when he was sent as one of the
delegates at large from Ohio to the Re
publican national convention in Chicago,
where Blaine was nominated During
the campaign which followed Blaine Wis
tied Cleveland and was entertained by
Hanna. Important details of the cam
paign were discussed at this conference
and it resulted i'll Mr.. Hanna being in
trusted with the management of the
Blaine campaign in Ohio. Hannas mas
ter stroke, his political admirers say, was
his organization in Cleveland of "Busi-
ness Mems League" and its extension
throughout the country as 4 political
movement.
Then he interested himself in Major
cJS inl
Ohio, who was beginning to make rep
utation for himself through the high tar
if bill bearing his name which was pass
ed by Congress. First, Hanna captured
the delegations from the Southern States
and got them to come out for Mckinley;
then he went to work on the country at
large. The nomination of Mckinley fol-
lowed Hanna was put in charge Of the
national campaign and he elected his
man. There was no app0intive position
in the gift of the new President which
Hanna might not have had if he had CON
scented to accept. But he would not enter
the cabinet. although the office of Post
master General was held open for some
months in the hope that he might be per-
suaded to accept it.
John Sherman OF Ohio was made Sec
rotary Of State and Hanna was appointed
to fill out Sherman's uneXpired term in
the Senate. Hanna was afterward elect
ed Senator by the Ohio Legislature.
In the Senate Hanna took Il command
ing position. He was recognized as the
spokesman of the administration and the
boss of the Republican party The
death of Mckinley came as Il great blow
to Hanna. who had been so closely Assoc
ciated with him politically, but he main
tanned his great influence in the party
and in the Senate even after new
President had come to sit in the White
House.
Recently Hanna had devoted much of
his time and energies to the Civic Fedora
ton movement for the adjustment of the
differences of capital and labor, and had
declared that his life ambition was to
aid in bringing about settlement of that
much-veXed question,
The art of public speaking was picked
up by Senator Hanna. A few years ago
he could not make speech, but later
was regarded as one of the most forceful
speakers on the political platform Sen
ator Hanna did not claim to be schol-
ar" said one of his colleagues, but fire.
oucntly he surprised his friends by quick
and keen quotations from philosophers
and historians.
The family of Senator Hanna consists
of his wife, one son Daniel Il. HANNAH
and two daughters. Mabel and Ruth.
Like all strong men, he had tender
symDathies. and his affections were deep
and abiding. His touching devotion to
Mckinley forms an inspiring chapter in
Sir,yn a
and democratic in his tastes, he easily
made friends, and he held them fast.
Hundreds of newspaper men all over the
country with whom he came in contact
will cherish his memory because he was
uniformly courteous, helpful and obllging
in the stress and turmoil of political