Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1908 — WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HANNA? [ARTICLE]

WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH HANNA?

When it comes to hoarding money the New York banks have not beeq so slow, They have abont one-third of the total supply of the country in their vaults. There ie supposed to be about $34 per capita in circulation, but as New Yorkers have *2OO per head, the rest of the country is compelled to be satisfied with only $22 per bead.

Abe Halleck of Rensselaer wants the republican nomination for state senator from this distriot. For about twelve years he has already feasted at the public crib of Jasper county. The republicans of this section of the state have done many strange things in the past and there is no telling to what depths of insanity they will descend in the future.

Secretary Cortelyou, who has made such a botch of affairs in the treasury department, imagines that he is big enough to be president. His imagination in this respect has been stimulated by J. P. Morgan and other “saviors of Wall Street,” who profited to the extent of many millions of dollars by (Jortelyon’s bond issues and government deposits. As a matter of cold fact Cortelyou is not quite such a “son of destiny” as he thinks he is.

Bro. Carr of the Fowler Leader, one of the republican organs of Benton county, is still kicking about swallowing his Fairbanks cocktail, and it is evident that another injection of the Fairbanks virus will be necessary before it “takes” with the Leader. Listen to this from its last issue: “That Vice President Fairbanks should be indorsed at a love feaßt in Indianapolis with there not being anybody in the state for him is a strange phenomenon.”

Nelson J. Bozarth of Valparaiso, has been heard from again. We always hear of Nelee when a campaign is approaching. Sometimes he bobs up and wants the democratic nomination for governor, sometimes it is the Republican nomination that he is after. This particular time, according to press dispatches, be is after Crumpacker’s seat in congress, and wants the nomination for the place on the republican tioket. Poor Nelse, that political bee in your bonnet is a perserving insect, any™y-

than peculiar, for it gives promise of amusement) Watson expects the support of the state which has made the nomination for ten years, and so does Charles W. Miller. But they expect to rsoeive this support on very different grounds. Watson thinks he will receive it because be has been a faithful cog in the machine, while Miller, as a representative of the Beveridge contingent, believes that the Fairbanks crowd will take him up in order to secure peaoe. As both of them cannot be nominated, the defeated one will naturally feel that bis importance as a factor in the game has been treated lightly—or maybap contemptuously. The other Miller, Prof. Hugh Th., is supposed to have the support of Governor Hanly, a member of the Fairbanks faction, but temporarily doing enforced guerilla service. As for William L. Taylor, he asserts that he iB traveling in the middle of the Republican road, uninfluenced by fear, favor or faction. Taylor is working as hard as the others, and as he has a good knowledge of the game, he may hold the balance of pow§r in

the convention, In that oontin. gency be will have to be reckoned with. The whole thing is viewed by the Democrats with complacency, for it makes no difference to them whether the Republican nominee shall be one or another of the men mentioned. The next governor of Indiana will be a Democrat.

The Atlas Engine Works of Indianapolis has long been one of the big industrial concerns of the country. It was operated through the panic of 1893 and oarried on its business as a solvent corporation without the aid of courts, receivers or trustees. Hugh H, Hanna then was at the head of the concern, and he has been at the head of it ever since. Mr. Hanna was terribly afraid in 1896 that Mr. Bryan might be elected president. He was one of the noisiest of the “country savers.” He told bis men —as was said at the time—that they might come back to work on the morning after the election if McKinley was successful, but that there would be no work for them if Bryan was elected. On the night of the election in November, 1896, when it was known that McKinley was triumphant, the Atlas Engine Works whistles wasted much steam in celebrating the event. And now the Atlas Engine Works, after eleven-years of Republican rule and Dingley tariffs, has been put into the hands of trustees for the benefit of creditors. It is a calamity. No person will rejoice, but many will reflect. It may be remarked—for it is remarkable—

th at the Indianapolis newspapers have made no mention of the troubles of Mr. Hanna’s company.