Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 243, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 December 1935 — Page 8

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Wall Street Fight Against Bryan Recalled by Assault on New Deal

BY THOMAS L. STOKES Time* HprrUl Writer Dec. 19. * * The ‘'ganging up" of big business and finance against President Roosevelt has an interesting parallel in the organised assault of the same interests against William Jennings Bryan In ‘96. Standing before a vast throng at Madison Square Garden in 1896, the Great Commoner made this declaration in accepting the Democratic nomination: “It has been charged by men standing high in business and political circles that our platform is a menace to private security and public safety; and it has been asserted that those whom I have the honor for the time being to represent not only meditate an attack upon the rights of property, but are the foes both of social order and national honor.” He divined the type of fight that would be made against him and on behalf of the placid William McKinley. The genius of the anti-Bryan campaign, Mark Hanna, was a newcomer to politics but he convinced the old-timers that as an organizer of the interests, a procurer of war funds, he had no equal In the history of American politics. His approach was direct. He went to New York from Cleveland, summoned the kings of industry and finance about him, made them stand and deliver, and then, with the millions he had garnered, organized a propaganda machine by which he sought to frighten the middle-class voters of the nationa, then as now the bulwark of the ballot, with the fear that Bryan’s free silver program would destroy them. an n HANNA ‘‘levied staggering assessments on those who feasted at the national banquet and organized such a campaign of education, information and effective influence as the American populace had never witnessed in ail its history,” write Charles and Mary Beard in “The Rise of American Civilization.” “The rhetoric of the campaign,” they add, “was that of the battlefield, the pirate ship and the cave of forty thieves.” Mark Hanna’s tactics are described more lightly by Thomas Beer, a friendly biographer: “Mr. Hanna returned to New York. He was there on Aug. 15, again, in a gray suit, drinking mineral water. “Also there was James J. Hill, the railroad king, who had words to say in certain offices. Mr. William Rockefeller did some rapid telephoning from his house in the Hudson Valley. “Mr. Cornelius Bliss went personally. in a closed carriage, from place to place around the lower end of the city. Late at night 20 or 30 checks were in Mr. Hanna’s CONFERENCE CALLED ON PERMANENT CCC President’s Aids Expected to Cut Enrollment in Corps. 2?// tlnitrrl I'rrax WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—President Roosevelt called a conference today of Administration leaders to discuss a permanent program for the Civilian Conservation Corps. The conferees are expected to work out a reduction in the number of youthful woodsmen working for their Uncle Sam and to seek some basis upon which the corps can be made a permanent part of American life. The conferees included Robert Fechner. director of the CCC; Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes; Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Rexford G. Tugwell; Daniel Bell, acting Director of the Budget, and Frank Walker of the Emergency Council. TWO PARTIES ARRANGED AT COMMUNITY HOUSES 1000 Children Are Expected to Attend Celebrations. Two Christmas parties for the entertainment of nearly 1000 children are to be held at city park community houses, the city recreation department announced today. The Garfield Park Women’s Club will be host to more than 600 children on Saturday. Candy and oranges will be the chief attraction. The Christian Park Women's Club will distribute fruit and candy to 300 children on Monday, Dec. 23. School No. 82 pupils and neighboring firemen are to assist with arrangements and donations. SHORTRIDGE WINDOWS DECORATED FOR YULE Christmas Spirit Typified in Display at City High School. Two large decorated windows at Shortridge High School typify the Christmas spirit. A tall tree, shrubbery and a snow-swept field occupy a first floor window, which was decorated by Theodore VanVoorhees. art instructor, and Druley Barker, chemistry instructor. The second floor window includes a tree and display of Christmas gifts made by pupils. The window was decorated by Misses Dale Waterbury and Velma Mayer and Mrs. Florence Porter of the home economics department. COURSE IS OFFERED IN VISUAL EDUCATION Instruction at Butler University Available to Teachers. A course in visual education for teachers is to be offered at Butier University on Monday nights, beginning Jan. 20. J. Malcolm Dunn, county schools superintendent,today had informed his visual education committee. , The Marion County Council of Parents and Teachers is to sponsor a visual educatior program in county schools. C. E. Eash. Warren Township High Bchool principal, told the group last night. The committee adopted a plan for financing the program by leaving dues on participating schools.

wallet, and anew phase commenced in the high regions of the party. “The bluff of the Wall Street set had been called. In one day, and a number of men who'd been talking of the sums they had paid to the Republican campaign now actually paid those sums.” a a a "CO the machine.” Mr. Beer Cl says, “swept against ihe Democrats in an explosion of pamphlets, blue and gold emblems, placards and voices. A dynamo

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whirred inside Mark Hanna’s head. “This man knew how to carry West Virginia? Send him speakers or money to hire them.. Crowds in California liked a lot of music? Give it to ’em.” Some Republicans objected to Mark Hanna's activities. Theodore Roosevelt said. "He has advertised McKinley as if he were a patent medicine.” “This,” comments Beer, “was Mr. Hanna’s crime. He had openly made use of the full powers of propaganda. He had dealt with

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politics as if the birth of a company was being arranged. He had thrown a hundred thousand tons of advertising into the nation, against Mr. Bryan’s voice, bad logic and good intentions.” "The East and the moneyed interests everywhere were whipped into frenzy by terror,” says James Truslow 1 Adams in “The Epic of America.” “I well recall the members of the Stock Exchange marching in a body up Broadway, and the general sense of untold horrors overhanging the w : hoie country if Bryan were elected.”

Mark Hanna had done his work well. ana Ayf RS. HENRY CABOT LODGE. -*-*A W jf e 0 f the Senator from Massachusetts, who was enlisted against Bryan but seemed to have been magnetized by the man and the battle he fought, estimated that $7,000,000 had been spent by the McKinley forces and $300,000 for Bryan. “The great fight is won.” she wrote to Cecil Spring-Rice, the British ambassador, in a letter quoted by Adams.

The fight, she said, was "conducted by trained and experienced and organized forces, with both hands full of money, with the full power of the press—and of prestige—on one side; on the other, a disorganized mob at first, out of which burst into sight, hearing and force—one man, but such a man! “Alone, penniless, without backing, without money, with scarce a paper, without speakers, that man fought such a fight that even those in the East can call him a

Crusader, an inspired fanatic, a prophet! It has been marvelous.” The late Speaker Henry Rainey, who traveled with Bryan in the

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1896 campaign, told the writer that he believed Hanna spent as much as $20,000,000 in defeating Bryan.