The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-02-19
MARCUS AuRELlus HANNA.

degrees and parties declare tina the little
experience he had in politics before 1896
terly false. but it was what practically all
tle politicians said, and still say ana
think. They think that unless q man has
! Sc n ! z var !, boss ) q / a alssrle ,oi igaaer of Of non an
itics. But in studying the life OF this arch
politician and master of yote-gettlfg We
are forced to the conclusion that he mas
had a longer and more intimate &C,
quaintance with true politics than most OF
the men who have become past1nasters IN
the less valuable, the very unreliable and
the purely speculative methods OF the poi
iticians of the old school.
In the first place, the men of Ohio in
Mark Hanna's youth were all in politics.
at least to the extent Of taking active in
terest in each election, in attending pollfl.
cal meetings, digesting the arguments OF
their leaders and of the. partisan press,
should be considered: the highest privi-
lege and duty Of our citizenship. The New
Yorker especially and the dwellers in our
great cities in general hold themselves
aloof from politics, leaving them to those
who live upon the people. and far too
olten d % t not o S6ie g at all Of H HhiS IS vas and n1t Me- Me-
kinley's youth. They were intense par.
tisans and thorough republicans, who felt
the weight of public affairs on the should d
warmth until the fever brought on war,
and youths too young to vote went forth
to fight. From my arrival in Gleyelana
told me, II always attended my war pri-
maries and caucuses, took an interest in
politics and never failed to vote
Darfield, Conkting, Hanna.
With a modesty which is remarkable, he
played an important part In the Garfield
Campaign Of 1880 by ~cleverly bringing
about a meeting between Garfield and
in Retirement because his plan to renomi-
nate General Grant had failed. Nothing
except the voting that ended the cam
publican party and its candidate than this
meeting Of the New York chieftian and
the nominee of the party. During TINS
campaign Senator Hanna actively inter-
the candidate, In national politics, but in
what then seemed a small way.
What we did was to organize the Busi-
| ness Mems league, beginning 1T IN CleVe-
land, yet helping it to4spread until Its ST.
lent force Of organized work and influ-
entail opinion and its help in drawing
made it SO powerful that the politicians
who said hat Hanna was "only a busi-
ness man came to lean upon it-without
mere business mans brain. The general
public paid no heed to this powerful or
ganization beyond a%pplauding the great
fa pu + Of all SUBSEQUENT Campaigns.
THUS we see with new interest the
form and manner of the eoW made by en-
hard working. thrifty, rlend-compelllng
| descendant Of traders and scion OF Ole
! Quaker stock, when he entered the great
/ arena Of national politics. Being a prac-
teal man and "a business man, given to
the clannish habits of the Scotch and
Irish and the smooth and shreWd methods
Of the Quakers, he carried all these forces
into politics anu began his work on bnsif-
ness principles with a eague OF BUSINESS
men. w
A Sherman Delegate. nas
In 1884 he went to the national tsf34qhii
ltcan convention as a delegate pledged ts
support John Sherman. -Four yearsStgtSi
he went to the next convention as onnEel
the managers Of Sherman's campaign