The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-02-18
MARCUS AURELIUS HANNA.

degrees and parties declare that the little
experience he had in politics before 1886
amounted to nothing at all: That was ut
terly false. but it was what practically all
the politicians said, and still say and
think. They think that unless q. man has
been a ward boss, q district leader or an
o~tnceholder, he has known nothing of pol
ltlcs. But in tudyirg the life of this arch
politician and master of vote-getting we
are forced to the conclusion that he has
mad a longer and more intimate ac-
q~ualntance with true politics than most OF
the men who have become pastnasters in
the less valuable. the very unreliable and
ltictanS of the old school.
In the first place, the men of Ohio in
Mark Hanna youth were all in politics,
at least to the extent of taking active in
.tercst in each election in attending politi-
cal meetings., digeSting the arguments of
their leaders and OF the partisan press,
debating with their neighbours, and voting
.'as ~rcllgiouslS as If voting was what it
should be considered: the highest privi-
iege, 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
:Dften l ~ en ;Tp onta the E peop 2rhts and md far aat 100 TOO
case OF the Ohioans of Hanna's and Nc
Kiniey's youth. They We're intense par
the weight of public affairs on the should
ers OF each individual. Politics grew in
warmth until the fever brought on war,
and youths too young to vote went forth
to light. Prom my arrival in cleveland
as a very young man." Senator Hanna has
old me, Il always attended my war pri-
maries and caucuses, tooA an interest in
politics and never failed to vote"
Darfield, conkliny, Hanna.
With Il modesty which is remarkable. he
played an important part in the Garfield
sboat & m of 1SSe By bytw e,sSeF asrti eEinE anS
Roscoe Conkling, who had been sulking
in retirement because his plan to renomi-
nate General Grant had failed. Nothing
pNcpnff the voting hat sn1pl HI tla r. ga n
paign was of more Importance to the re-
publican party and its candidate than this
meeting Of the New York chieftian and
the nominee of the party. During this
campaign Senator Hanna actively inter-
ested himself, as a friend and admfrer of
the candidate, in national politics. hut in5
what then seemed a small way.
What We did was to organize the Bust
ness Mems league, beginning it in Cleve-1
lent force OF organized work and inau-
entail opinion and its help in drawing
campaign funds from men of large meails
made 4 g, poWerfal that the politicians
who said that Hanna was sonly a busi-l
ness man came to lean npcii it-Withoutl
that it was the offspring of this
public paid..no heed to thise powerful or
gantzatioff beyond applauding the great
parades of merchants which beenlne al
tenure q al subsequent caI1paigns
Thus We see with new interest the
form and manner Of the bow lad hythis
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