South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-27
Mark Hanna's Venerable Ghost Begins
It's Quadrenndl Stalk in South Bend
Embellishments Waving Calamity Banner

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MARX HANNA'S ghoSt-the venerable full dinner
Nl pail" of 1896 filled with intimidation and fear--S
making its quadrenne stalking tour arriving in South Bend
ull blast and with quite as much if not more adqeraed
display than that which marked the recent arrival of the
Hughes Bilion Dollar Special laden with Siken petit
coats
Instead of the feminine caste of Wall st. however this
time It is James Eli Watson of Col Muhal fame and old
time emssary of the National Association of Manufacturers
both on the floor OF congress and in the lobby.
The way has already been prepared for him.
To protect Your Job, Choose Hughes-beamIng into
the face of every workingman who can afford to ride
street car to and from work;
The distribution of widely prevarcang and semi-thea
enng tariff literature through the factories under the dis
guSe of its being furnished by the Socaed American Pro-
ectiYe Tariff League though the least slip of democratic
literature could not be pned in with a crowbar;
Calamity articles comment and advertisements appearing
in the local republican press
These are all well calculated to prepare the tmd the u
thinking uninaed gulble weak-spned scare-babieS to
grab the nipple held out by the National Association of
Manufacturers wetnurse-and swallow the whole nursing
bottle
The profered superstition is that by so doing they
escape the COLLINS that lurk just around the corner
The question is will labor again consent to being brow
beaten buly-ragged, humbugged softSoaped, driven,
drummed bought for pitance into going to the
polls election day. and there contrary to its best intel
ectual and moral sense vote to return political power
aggregation of economic, monetary and industrial porch
climbers to whom the workingman never has been and
never will be anything other than goat to be kicked
about for its folly from the moment that the polls close'
The reason this determined intimidation of the work
ngman in South Bend, in Mshawaka and throughout the
The republican party and its candidate Mr. Hughes
by this time well aware that all the other trmped-up issues
At first was the Mexican situation and PreSt Wilson'S
European policies that they determined TO grab off the
popular vote with then by attacking the child labor law,
the eamans act the federal bank law rural credits
and AdamSon eghhour aw-but throughout il all has
been laundering, struggling bufing Cutting, but we'll
The halabaloo about Mexico was conured up to get the
backing of the Wall St interests in the way of fat campaign
contributions this supplemented by the thought that per
mOllVcOddlinp
exercised the Catholic situation beyond the Rio Grande
where revoluonss of Catholic faith have been ravishng
Catholic destroying Catholic church property
they might through such clergy force the solid vote of the
American Catholic people.
re this support and then learning that Professionalism and
well lay Catholicism had discovered that Mexico has
lean people Catholcised and Professionalism completely
eliminated that the raviSherS and church-burners of
themselves merely evidence of Mexican Catholic ine-
cheney in Spiruazng, cvilzng and in bringing justice
without revolt TO its people, we'll the republican
tona committee concluded that would about have
some Protestant votes as only part of the Catholic and the
film Sheved.
We have heard less about Mexico since then but more
about Europe Driven to the wall Mr.. Hughes next under
took to square himself by telling us what he would have
done in the of the Lusitania. He would just have
threatened Germany and the Lusiana would never have
been Sunk-Some WondrouS threaener Evidently the re-
pubcanS hope to prevent the reelection of PreSt Wilson
by much the same process threatening cabling brovbeat
ing, and buly-raggng the wor<ingman with street and
press battancy and American Protective Tariff League
teratue-the literature of another of those rePubicoa
pendent league variety.
Next it was the child labor act the seamans law the re-
bank rural credits and the AdamSOn b'-bu no.
where has the G. O p found leg to stand on Desperate
but close to the tough election day. it but natural
that having fell flat its fiat issues should decide
sort to force corruption intimidation anyhing-and is
in such straits that old Mark HannaS ghost always walks
The protective tariff is the big bogy; the moneybag the
big bait calamity here but-luing just around the
and waiting for the end Of the war is the big howl
1t is the last resort The "COpperheadiSm that marked
and still marks the republican attitude toward the president
and his Mexican and European policies; the putocracy
which has inspired quite equally attitude toward
demOCTacyS internal and humanitarian achievementS-are
how merely casting aside their DISCUSSES and stepping forth
in their full hdeOuSneSs
Republican leaders know that the brains of labor is
against them They know that the real intelligence and
humanitarianiSm of the country is against them They are
that they have humbugged and that dependent
upon the intelligence and patriotism of the people they will
get nowhere Antidemocratc prejudice and the promo
ton OF fear perhaps monetary corruption and appeal to
Scarecrow impulses have accordingly been placed the
regular order of business.
The question is Mr.. Workngman, or whoever YOU are;
you going discard your brains and your preu-
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