Norwich bulletin., 1920-06-05

he still clung to the tarifr as the main issue.
 Fl am a tariff .nan, standing on a -taFin platform he said to his frief7T-s "The money matter is unduIy prominent. In thirty days you won't hear anything of it In thirty days it was the only question that the people would talk about Toward the end of August he I,BJ1 .lnlI siddJracked protection and puo gold in his letter of acceptance.
 The Democrats had come out for free silver and Bryan was riding the hign tide of his sensational campaign for iS to l. Silver men and silver states had bolted the republican ticket and it had become l,.artlingly plain that McKin- ley must win the votes of hundreds of | thousands of Cleveland democrats. who were for gold but who were also oppos- ed to a high tariff
 At MeKinley's back in the fight stood Marcus AlonZo Hanna of Ohio. This multRnillionaire had transfarred his genius for organization from the iron. coal and shipping industry whne Grover | Cleveland challenged in 1887 the protec- ton which his great business enjoyed and he had jumped into politics with | determination to put an Ohio protection ist in Cleveland's place. | After making a losing fight for the nomination of John Sherman in 1888 Mark Hanna turned 10 Mckinley. To- gether they made just the team that was needed for business camapign like that of 1896.
 The big railroads. banks. mines and manufacturing concerns had been for many years the ruling force in politics. They were the so-ralled invisible gov ernment." controlling legislation and the courts by controlling the nominating machinery of both parties in state and nation
 prudent business in those days took care to have democratic as well as re- publican partners or directors and these saw that their respective parties put uu safe" candidates on safe" platforms Having thus assured themselves that their interests would not lose which. ever side won. they contributed to the rival parties the money that 4abled the politicians to conluct campaien. full of sound and fury. but signifyine little
 In the disruption of the democratic party, the larger wing at the Chicagc convention of 1896. slipped out of con. trol Of the system adopted by rad. ieal platform and proceeded to run wild The interests saw themselves threaten
 
 rtr"ieal I1'-'a and that prospect alarmed them more than Bryan's slogan Of 16-to-1
 At this critical juncture Hanna step
 ped to the front. incorporating McI[in I ley's candidacy on business pr'nc 'ples
 capitalizirg the fears of tfe business world and irIuoi~-- e e., --lo--vr:te in ? | c2mpaiFn --r1 Tn lift tide that ran against the republ' 9 n"rs in .II'' ;---er.lbe-
 btu money did rt |, i The .nar wh, { gave the money did it. They took Of l their coats and plur~ed in ;,, save the in . vesfment in republican success whic' 2 Hanna had persuaded them 70 make an . their influence and example were wort @ more 10 him and Mckinley than thei . dollars.
 : With only one special interest behin r him-the silver mine cwHer-Bryan wa 0 hauled to the voters But Hanna haulA
 the voters 10 Canton by trainloads deIiI ering them f. O. b at the candidate x lawn. where Mckinley addressed th v whole reading nation day after day witt y out leaving his door yard. At the sam O time millions and millions of campaig = documents fell like snowf1al5es. coverin S the land wi.h printed arguments and aI
 peals.
 s Almost 2oOoOd0 voters came cut o | edection day than had voted only fou II years before. Gold won and McKinle Il was elected in the greatest referendum
 that ever has been held y 5roaday-A Strange Fortune.