The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-02-15


That was back in 1874, when the min
ing men IN the copper mines of the
Superior district used 20 set him to-
help them in their troubles. And since
I then he has always been q friend Of
labor.
One day in Chicago during the
campaign CT 1896 the Democrats. got out
8 cartoon which represented E1r.
Hanna, with the dollar marks all over
his clothes. and very vilIainous ex-
. preston on his face. sitting on a pile
OF human skulls and boEes. the latter
being marked Labor. hung the car
tCon on the wall in the room where we
were in the habit of eating our
/ luncheon and discussing campaign
matters with other men associated with
him in its mana cement
He was almost the last one TO enter
tha room The other men laughed at
the cartoon, The soup had been
brought in. and AR. Hanna was in the
act Of breaking some crackers into his
bowl when he happened to look UP and
see the cartoon hanging on the wall
where 7 had pinned IT, Slowly the
rudy color left his face and he grew
the color Of wax. We all noticed the
change. and kept silent The mans
chin began 10 culver, and finally the
tears rolled down his cheeks and
dropped off his chin. The cartoon had
cut him 20 the quick; anything that
I pictured him as an enemy to organized
( labor cut him awfulIy.
Loyal to His Friends.
"Tfis loyalty to his friends. and how
he stood BN Mr.. Mckinley can best be
( illustrated by this incident. which gives
a true insight into the mans character.
During that same campaign the
s papers had accused him and his brother
! OF treating the miners working for him
/ in Il most inhuman manner 1t was
said. among other things. that the COM
: pany HAD built a lot of houses for
f; their men. which cost bout 500 and
were charging them about $50 per
month rental. And other things
/ equally as bad.
/ "Unbeknown to him I sent thwe
! prominent Chicago laboring men to the
/ Superior copper fields to investigate
! the newspaper stories. asking them to
} formulate a document for publication
| IL it was in Mr. Hanna;s faVor we
! would publish It over the mems sigma
/ lures without especial comment letting
/ the facts speak for themselves. IF the
/ stories as told in the papers were true.
/ it was our intention to publish the re-
/ port and then defend ourselves.
| The men were gone about week,
| Their report was a beautiful tribute 10
/ Mr.. Hanna. 1t contained the state
meut. among others. that the company
! built the houses the newspapers spoke
( Of but gave them to the men rent free;
/ if a man died leaving a grocery bill
unpaid. the company settled the .ac-
! count; if a man was taken sick or hurt.
I the company. if the occasion demanded
! il. took care of his family until he
=
T scented a bill for the doctor or. what the
/ family had eaten While the man was in
/ capacitated
1t was a beautiful tribute TO the
/ man, what have just mentioned being
/ but few of the facts that can. now
/ recall. being but q small portion OF
/ the report the three prominent taboring
/ men made. 1 made a 5000 or 1000 word
| condensation sf the document for the
| newspapers. At our regular midday
/ luncheon I read the report which had
/ prepared for the newspapers. Mr..
4 Hanna knew nothing of il until I read
/ it. When / got through he asked me
what I was going to do with it. When
J I told him. ne looked me squareIy in
/ the face and said:
You are going to do nothing of the
/ kind
/ we were thunderstruck, for it was
I a beautiful reply to the Democratic
/ newspaper attacks upon Mr.. Hanna
and his relations towards labor. the
/ only criticisms which ever hurt him.
/ When we asked him why we could not
/ use it, he said:
"T don't want any vindication.
While they are abusing me they VIII
not be abuseing Mr. Mckinley. You
VIII not print a line of that
And We never did. No amount OF
/ persuasion could induce him 10 change
I ks mind. still il would have saved him
many 3 heartache caused by the stories
! that he was an oppressor Of the labor
/ ing man.
Friendly With Cartoouist.
Strange as it may seem. he aud
! Davenport, the great cartoOnist, were
| warm personal friends. One evening at
D banquet, l SAT at the same table with
/ Mr.. Hanna. Mir. Davenport was also
! present When AR. Hanna caught my
! eye he beckOned for me 10 come over
TO him, which I did. saying:
] 50 What strange bed-fellows politics
makes" at the same time pointing out
Mr.. Davenport. He called the artist
over TO where he sat. and introduced
him to me. The two men sat side by
/ side throughout the remainder OF the
evening.
Il could go or for twenty-four hours
: telling you little things like these which
would give you better insight into the
! character OF nv. Hanna. he gave lots
Of money away. but always with the
J understanding that it was never to be
/ told. lie was great friend of General
/ Booth of the Salvation army, and gave
him more money in proportion to his
! income than any other man in the
! United states. And each check when
he was forced TO give a check. was with
the promise that be never told where
he got the money. As a rule, if he
! could, Mr.. Hanna gave cash to charity,
as checks We're liable to betray that he
was the man who helped along the
scheme.
Z recall one instance where Mr..
Hanna gave friend, unsolicited, 4
check for tens of thousands of
dollars, one that ran into six figures.
70 save him from bankruptcy and dis
grace. knowing at the time that he
! would never get il back And later he
refused TO ask that man not to take the
stump against Mr.. Mckmley-and he
was in his lifetime one of the most
eloquent speakers in the country. but
had gone wrong on the silver question
for fear the man would think that he
was making the request because he
had, a few years before that given
him that money. The man was so
prominent that his opposition might
have made q difference with more than
one state in the east. but rather than
have the man think that he was under
any obligations to him. Mr. Hanna
would not ask him not 10 stump the
country for Mr.. Bryan when he knew
the simple asking would have stopped