Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1904 — RESTS FROM HIS LABORS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RESTS FROM HIS LABORS

Death Writes “Finis” in Marcus A. Hanna’s Book of Life AT THE END OF A WEARY DAY Ohio’s Warwick Gives Up His Fight Against Dissolution. Lwt Day Was One of Unconsciousness and Waiting for the End—Scene at the Passing of the Senator. Washington. Fe. 16. Marcus A. Hanna, United States senator from Ohio, and one of the foremost figures in American public life, died last evening in hi* apartments at the Arlington hotel at 6:40 p. m., of typhoid fever, after an illness of two weeks. He passed away peacefully and without pein, after being unconscious since 3

a. m., at which time the first of a series of sinking spells came on, from the last of which he never rallied. All the members of the family with one or two exceptions were at the bedside when the end came. HE SIMPLY “WASTED AWAY” Final Sinking Spell Admonishes the Watcher* of the “Laat of Earth.” Shortly after 6 p. m. word came from the sick room that the sick man was “simply wasting away.” Mrs. Hanna, worn out with the unceasing watch she bad kept by the senator's side since the Inception of the illness, had been persuaded to go into another room, and tired nature had forced her to sleep just before the end came. She was not present when her husband passed away. At 6:30 p. in. there was a severe sinking spell. Dr. OsleT realized that dissolution was ut hand, and he hurriedly summoned the family. “The end is very near,” he said to them. Sorrowfully they passed into the chamber just before life flickered out. Around the bedside were ranged Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hanna, Mr. and Mrs. McCormick, Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, Miss Phelpa, H. M. Hanna and Elmer Dover, the secretary to the senator. Beside them were Drs. Osier and CarteT and two trained nurses. For ten minutes life ebbed slowly, and finally, at precisely 6:40 p. m. the senator breathed his last. The flags on the Capitol are at halfmast and will rgmain so until after the funeral. The desk of Senator Hanna In the senate chamber is draped In 'mourning. There will be an official 1 funeral in the senate chamber at noon ■tomorrow, the body lying in state in the senate marble room in the morn- , ing. The body will be taken to Cleveland, where it will be buried on Friday. Washington, Feb. 16.—Both houses 'of congress adjourned today immediately upon the announcement of the death of Senator Hanna. No business was transacted in either house.

SENATOR HANNA’S CAREER. Business ud Politics Together Kept Him an Active Man. Mr. Hanna was born in New Lisbon, 0., Sept. 24, 1837, and received a common scboo'l education in the town of his birth. When he removed to Cleveland in 1852 he attended the Western Reserve college, and later he entered the employ of a grocery house as an Invoice clerk. * His subsequent success te business was rapid, if not marvelHe became a partner In the gro<k f firm, engaged in various other enterprises, became the head of the coal and iron firm of M. A. Hanna & Co., a director in the Globe Ship Manufacturing company, president of the Union National bank, president of the Cleveland City Railroad company, owner of itreet car lines, and for a time was the principal owner of the Cleveland Herald. Mr. Hanna first became prominent in politics in 1880, but his national career did not begin until four years a ter. It was the year of Blaine’s lamination at Chicago, and Hanna sms a delegate at large from Ohio. During his campaign tour in the auumn Blaine was a guest of honor in Cleveland at a dinner given by Mr. ianna. The date was Sept. 28, 1884, kßd the affair marked Mr. Hanna’s ormal entrance into the councils of

the Republican party. Those at the feast were leaders of the party, and included John Sherman, Major (late president) McKinley, Mr. Manley of Maine, Aibos Townsend, Judge Jenney of Brooklyn, and the son of the presidential candidate, Walker Blaine. Mr. Hanna sat at the bead of the table and Blaine at the foot, and during the course of the repast the plans for the campaign were mapped out. Mr. Hanna managed the Blaine campaign in the Buckeye state, and won it for the Republican candidate, though the balloting throughout the country resulted in the election of Grover Cleveland. From this time forward he was a power in the politics of his home state and In the nation. It was at the Minneapolis convention that Mr. Hanna first became impressed with the popularity and the growing sentiment among the rank and file of Republicans in favor of McKinley. He had been associated with the latter in the conventions of 1884 and 1888, but their friendship extended to years previous. Mr. Hanna had been a firm l>eliever in the protection policy so warmly advocated by McKinley, and noting his popularity among Republicans In general, began actively to support him for the presidential nomination. Senator Hanna became interested in the council of conciliation of the American Civic Federation, which was planned to prevent or settle labor disputes, and accepted the presidency of that body. Mr. Hanna leaves a widow, to whom he was married Sept. 27, 1804, and a son and two daughters. The son, Daniel Rhodes Hanna, was associated with his fatlie.’ in business, and is married and lives in Euclid avenue, Cleveland. The daughters are Mabel and Ruth, and only a few months ago, June 10 last year, the latter was married to Joseph Medlll McCormick of Chicago. The Hannas have been famous as entertainers, and in their house at Washington and their palatial home in Cleveland, which stands on a promonitory overlooking Lake Erie, distinguished men and women of two continents had been guests long before Mr. Hanna took an active part in polities. TRIBUTES TO THE HEAD Universal Regret Among Public Men nt Washington and Elsewhere. Washington, Feb. 16. There are universal expressions of regret among public men at the death of Senator Hanna, ail of them without distinction of party saying the country had lost one of its most forceful and useful citizens. To Secretary Hay the death of Senator Hanna c-ame as a greet loss, and be paid him a warm tribute. Secretaries Shaw, Wilson and Hitchcock and Postmaster General Payne also expressed their sorrow at the nation* loss and their appreciation of the senator's qualities of brain and heart. Others who spoke warmly of the dead Ohio senator were Speaker Cannon, Senator Foraker, Secretary Cortelyou, Governor Herrick. Secretary Taft, and scores of other men well known. President Roosevelt called at the Arlington last night personally to express his condolence to the members of the late Senator Hanna's family. He saw Mrs. Hanna, H. M. Hanna, the senator’s brother and Dan R. Hanna, his soil, and remained with them for some time. Funeral Service* In Senate; Washington, Feb. 17. —The simplicity which marked the life of Marcus Alonzo Hanna was made the motive of the services over his body today in the chamber of the senate of tflie United States. The president and the great of this land and of the lands beyond the sea* came together to do honor to the memory of a man beloved, but the ceremonies were those which the dead would have wished—a prayer, a hymn, a benediction—the service of a church in some quiet country place. There was a prayer by the chaplain of the bouse, an effective word of eulogy from Edward Everett Hale, and a hymn, and then the remains of Ohio’s senator were given into the keeping of his family and of hi* state. At 5 o’clock the remains were removed from the senate chamber to the Pennsylvania railway station and placed on a train for Cleveland, O. Burton’* Trial I* Set. St. Louis. Feb. 17.—Judge Adams, in the United States district court, Tuesday overruled the demurrer of United States Senator Joseph B. Burton of Kansas to the indictment charging him with accepting money for using his Influence in preventing the issuance of a fraud order against the Rialto Grain and Securities company. The trial of the senator was set for March 22. A paiel of sixty jurors has been ordered for that date. We Take a Hand In San Domingo. San Juan, Porto Rico, Feb. 18.—A private message has been received here from Santo Domingo City, dated Feb. 17, saying that a United States warship bombarded the insurgents at Pajarito, near Santo Domingo, and then landed marines. These men, however, subsequently re-embarked. Sana Randall’* Son Defeated. Philadelphia, Feb. 17. — George A. Castor, Republican, was elected to congress from the Third district et a special election. His Democratic opponent was Samuel J. Randall, son of 4he famous speaker of the national bouse of representatives. Engineer and Fireman Killed. Easton, Pa., Feb. 18.—Two Pennsylvania coal trains collided Wednesday at Washington Crossing, N. J. Engineer Charles Herbert and Fireman William Worman, both of PhUlipeburg, K. J, were killed.

SENATOR HANNA.