Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1904 — Never Went Back on His Friends. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Never Went Back on His Friends.

If the late Senator Mark Hanna owed his faculty for winning elections to any one trait it was to the candid way he had of putting confidence in others. Nobody knew better how to get reportorial favor. At the outset of his tour of Ohio during the late election he called the newspaper men on his private car around him. “Now, beys,” he said, “we’ll be together for several weeks, and while we are on board we'll be just like one big family. You are my guests, and you will be treated as though the car was my house. I will have many things to say that are not intended for print. We will form many plans that we do not wish made public. I don't intend to chase you out on to the platform,

and I will not whisper. You’ll hear every word, and you will know as well as I do what Is not intended for publication.” And some of the things said on the car would stir politics from coast to coast if printed, but they will remain secrets. In a few words at a meeting in a small town in the Interior of the state his answer to a question was a key to his whole character. "Isn’t it true that you got jobs for fifteen of the men who voted for you for senator?” a man in the audience asked. “That’s a lie,” was Hanna’s answer. “There were more than fifteen, for I never go back on my friends.”

“THAT'S A LIE,” SAID THE SENATOR.