Evening star., 1916-10-01

ono Of the most vital parts Of the United
States, but the city Of New York does
not consist OF the gentlemen in Wall
street And would have you under.
stand that I am very much pretudiced
against than. as they are against me
No, not preJudiced. but aware.
Lobby Has Disappeared"
..rhey have suffered another incon-
great deal in the way Of legislation by
means Of q lobby tho people knew very
little about, and tho lobby. thank God
has disappeared. do not mean the le-
gttfmate lobby-the lobby that will 60
to the hearings Of committees and ar
que their case In public with the re-
porters present-but I mean tho but
tonholing lobby; mean the lobby that
uses influence and not argument. that
uses indueement and not fact, that un-
derstands some special interests and
terest That 10 the lobby mean, and
the little towards scuttled tho minute
they were mentioned. had only to
say in q casual interview with tho rep-
Of tho press that there was
such . lobby. whom all at once tho rats
began to scuttle.
$50 the instrum entalittes Of control
have been destroyed, and tho object Of
esa hg Do 1sa
Because see7 Not more than you do.
You sec who arc controlling tho pros
ent campaign on tho republican cido
There 10 NO oonoealment about that
Two years ago the republicans fancied
democratic party. because It had been
going some, admit, and 50 In tho
for tho congressional cleo
tons two yeers ago some Of their most
rh:1 said ,sa' vss III. %
country needed was q business admin
istration. wmoh for one point Of view
we might have ooncurred in II they
had not added to this definition that
wnas e. Tie e1 n'S vas e rstarn
"eRturned to Good Old Day."
Further definition was unnecessary.
The good old days Of Mark Hanna
ON thoughtful man in this country
would propose that we should return
to tho methods Of political control
practioed BY Senator Hanna It hap
pened that at that time q very lovely.
Trustworthy gentleman was President
of the United States mean Mr.. Will
liam Mckinley. He had no part dis
reditable to himself SO far as know.
in the political arrangements and tho
expenditure Of unlimited money in
campaigns for which Senator Hanna
was responsible. But now you win
notice We have returned to the good
old days Of Mark Hanna In tho repub-
ncan party.
Some Of tho very gentlemen who
were prominent in that odious regime
are now at the head of affairs In the
management Of the republican cam
paign. Tho lieutenants of Mark Hanna
have returned to authority, and the
lieutenants of Mark Hanna represent
the choices. tho determinations and. SO
much as we can conjecture, the policy
Of the republican party. What they
want to do 10 to get control and then
determine the policy in private con-
ference.
I'VE are not going to be taken into
their confidence. It would not be wise
for them to take US into their conf
dence. They want to control. possess.
Those are the magic words for them.
They do not think we have sense
enough; they do not think We have
conference enough: they do not think
great body Of free people know how to
hang together in its own cause, and that
a little body Of men that always hangs
together can in the long run manage
the people, and 1t Is up to US to show
them that that is impossible. The peo-
pie of the United States have frequently
been fooled. but they are not often
fooled several times in the same way,
them in the same old way is, in my