The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-02-16
CITIZENS OF THIS CITY
PAY LOVING TRIBUTE TO
THE LATE SENATOR HANNA
Governor Durbin Served with
Him on the Republican Ma
tional Committee.
EXPRESSIONS OF OTHERS
Harry S. New Feels Personal Loss
in His Death-Hugh H.
Hanna Talks.

The announcement of Senator Hanna S
death, although expected, proved shock to
men of this city who had known him per-
sonally and been associated with him. This
was true of Governor Durbn, who served
OF the Republican national committee with
him in 1896 The Governor, when asked for
an expression. last night, said: Every
crisis in the history of this country has
served to demonstrate the existence of suf-
ficient reserve force in our citizenship to
cope with any emergency. Such a crisis
arose in 1896, with the issues presented in
that campaign, and to the service of the
Republican party and of the country to
meet the demands of an unusual emergency,
there came man hitherto unknown in
politics, who grew to the stature of ma
tional figure within the brief period of less
than year.
'The Republican standard bearer in that
year was a man so firmly intrenched i'm the
esteem and even the affection of the Amer
lean people that direct assault upon him
was evidently inadvisable. The career Of
William Mckinley was as an open book to
the American people. They knew him and
they loved him well. But beside him stood
a comparatively unknown man. a wealthy
manufactures, a large employer of labor, a
type of the American business man. He
was destined to bear the brunt of the at
tack of the opposition, and he was assaulted
so violently and so persistently that a char
acter was created for him entirely foreign
to his real personality. Not only the op-
posing party, but a considerable section of
his own party, accepted the cartoonist's es-
innate of Mark Hanna-a low-browed
heavy-jawed, dollar-marked, felon- faced
labor crusher and political slave driver, the
man WHO owned William Mckinley. body
and soul, and who would use him to the
limit in the accomplishment of his selfish
purposes.
IAN awful responsibility rests upon the
men who educated the people of this coun-
try, by millions. 10 hate this gentle-faced,
loyal-hearted. sympathetic, broad and patri-
otic champion of William Mckinley. He
bore il ali bravely. He had fought under
the eye of Abraham Lincoln in the
defense of Fort Stevens more than
thirty years before, without finchng
in a storm of bullets, and by the side
of another great American leader destined
to martyrdom, he withstood without COM
plant an ordeal that those near him in
that campaign knew was even more trying.
for the iron OF the attack entered into his
sou and he writhed with an anguish un-
expressed.
I'm the long run this very misrepresenta-
tion brought it's compensations. Drawn
upon the public platform against his own
protest, he began to meet his countrymen
by the thousands and hundreds of thou
sands, face 70 face. and everywhere he ac-
complished the conquest Of their admiration
and affection. Those who had seen the
grOtesQue caricatures of Mark Hanna. see
ing his kindly face lit up by the smile which
expressed the sweetness of his nature, who
noted his modest demeanOr and heard his
homely words preaching the gospel OF pa
triotism and common sense. went. in Il way.
through the process our Methodist friends
call conversion, and went away with the
pendulum OF opinion swung 10 the opposite
extreme and despising themselves for hav-
ing so misunderstood him.
"American politics has presented no more
touching example of personal devotion
than was afforded by the unselfsh. the un-
bounded, loyalty of Mark Hanna for VIII
liam Mckinley. So far from Mckinley
being the tool of Hanna. there was never
a moment when Mark Hanna did not re-
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