The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-02


 h~en sent as campaign contributions. clared that if the campaign had lasted q month longer Mckiniey's majority in New York State would have been reduced to less than zoo ,0D0
 Busy Mark Hanna.
 In 1Se6 the Republican Headquarters were in the Metropolitan Life Build ing. with a branch in Chicago. Mark Hanna looked after both. Most of his time was spent in Chicago. but he kept close personal supervision over the New York headquarters. His chief as- sistants in New York were Senator Nathan B. Scott, of West Virginia, and Cornelius N. Bliss, of this city. senator Quay often came into offer his advice. There was no question about tariff reform then. It was alto- gether a sound-inoney campaign. and Now York was practically solid for the gold standard
 Hanna never had any doubt about the result after the "sound- money parade. in which there were nearly as many Democrats as Republicans. He was SO sure. that two weeRs before election, he made arrangements for dinner at the Waldorf Hotel for the New York and Chicago political AcpoatcAc Ut WhtCn tHCy WcAo " " ceive gold medals. as emblematfc of the gold standard campaign, surmount- ed by brooms. indicating the general sweep which he expected. The dinner came off all right. and the medals were handed round by Hanna's personal rep resentative. Perry Heath, afterward Assistant Postmaster General. and everybody present made a speech con- graduating Hanna.
 Medals Were Plated.
 short time afterward one of the newspaper men. who was chemist before he went on the stan of a Chi cago newspaper, discovered that the gold standard medals were made of siiver, and when he published his dis covery 1t caused a laugh throughout the country. Hanna himself had a good laugh. too. He appreciated the humor of the thing-that silver med als, with gold washing, had been given out as emblemB of Q campaign against silver
 Mckinley was elected by a large electoral and. popular majority, and carried even New YUfK City.
 Tn 1900 Bryan and Mckinley were renominated. the former at Kansas City, the latter at Philadelphia. It sp- peared to the Democrats that there
 
 cause the Kansas City platform did not make the free coinage of silver A paramount issue. Bryan himself wens in for Imperialism as the great 4s- sue. and tried to keep ''1s to l" in tine background
 It was clear, however, that he had no hope of carrying New York, Senator Jones. the manager of this campaign. as he was in lsa6. came to this city once in a while: but there was no Democratic national headquarters here. Richard Croker had private head quarters at tho Hoffman House, and James K. Mcclure directed the State campaign for Bryan and the State ticket, in the St. James Building. Croker talked every day to the report CTS, and each talk injured Bryan. MT. Mcclure made an earnest fight, but he knew at the beginning that Me- KinIey would be elected and the only question with him was the size of Me- of saving the Democratic State ticket.
 Mcclure Dropped Out.
 One day, the newspapers published a report that the late Frederick s. Gibbs, who was then one of Hanna's chief lieutenants at Republican head quarters, had offered to bet $l,000 to $500 that Mckinley would have more man lOU,UOO maJOrlIy aDOVe Ile BEOhA. McGuire covered the bet, in the name of one of his clerks. Gibbs won. At that time. Mcclure was great favorite among the workingmen. He had been a newsboy in Syracuse. and had been elected mayor of that city several times After the campaign of 1900. he dropped out of politics, and to the great astonishment of his labor friends, he entered the employ of one of the great trusts. and has since travelled through the country as its agent. Like many other conspicuous opponents of the so-called trusts, MT. McGuire drop ped his opposition to the monopoiies when he set out to make money.
 The Republican campaign of 1900 was conducted by Senator Hanna along nearly the same lines as in 1896 He had found that the sound-money issue was a good thing. and he stuck to it. His campaign orators were Instructed to avoid the Imperialism or tariff is- sues Efforts were made to induce him to send out some literature promising at least a mild reduction of the tariff, but he did not consider the matter for a minute. Mckinley carried New York by an overwhelming majority. and B. B. Odell, Jr.. Republican candidate for Governor. was elected by above 111.00 plurality.
 The events of the campaign of 1904 %a ka ,II koI l..A1