Pike County Democrat, Volume 27, Number 36, Petersburg, Pike County, 15 January 1897 — Page 5

PRACTICAL POLITICS. How Hanna Conducted the Republican Campaign. HAS $16,000,000 AT ELS DISPOSAL. Mammy Came From Hooks. Railroad* Pro-j tacked Industrie* and Tiaats kiim : aaeata britd by State*—A Perfect Sya- i tern of Taxation. '' Various stories afloat relative to the j recent Republican campaign fund have { created amusement in political circles.; says the New York Journal, because, the stuns alleged to bare been furnished' If r. Hanna are so far short of the actual cash amounts contribued. Reports from tbe same source differ, one stating that j the Republican national committee hadj «$1,600,000 to expend, another raising j \heee figures by a million. As a matter of fact, Mr. Hanna’s: committee had upward of $16,000,000! at its disposal, if reports of Republican* j and Republican organs are to be credited. This is only four times toe ram* 5 usually spent by national committees j during a presidential elect iou. and not; particularly large when it is considered! that all tbe financial institutions, rail-j road companies, mercantile establishments, protected industries and wealth ; in general were opposed to the Demo-< cratic ticket and anxious for the success: of tbe Republicans. Chairman Hanna, who is intenselyj practical and has frequently said that! fie conducted the McKinley campaign * as be would a busiuews, suggested that j assessments be levied upon states. The | agents in the various states were in- j struct. d to divide prospective coutrib-' ntors into classes. Iu this way a perfect; tions were national banka, state banks,; savings banks, trust companies, railroad - companies, firms representing foreign t financial interests and all kinds of■ manufacturing concerns having an interest in high tariff legislation. Divided by states, the list of Republican contributions looks something like

this: N«w York.... ttOOO.OOC Femis-y Irani*... XWU.UK CuniM'aticQt....,.. l.OOUOJt M—Binhniirttn . l.JOO.lOC Mat nr. Kew Hampshire and Vermont Sua.UK Ucw J«r»ey. l.SUO.QOC UluaoU.... l.OUO.UX Ohio. i.ooo.uoc Jsouthrrn itUttws....... XOOU.UOf Masters Mbam. . ...... X3uu.UK Total tt6.0UC.UK Them figure*, while large to the ordinary citireu. are trivial in view ol the great object to be accomplished and represent probably three-fourths of the sums actually collected. In New York, where all financial and mercantile i usinees centers, the Republican national, committee secured contributions from most of the trusts and foreign bankers,, aggregating about |2,000.000. Here is a list that represents *the leading New York donations: , Could fwaUy.,. tSMQt l«asard FTvru«i and fon-ica kaaa...,. i Brown Pro*, t tX and foreign hoasos. Gm.Ua! Beidelbach. i t«-U»**lmtr de Co. and foreign hOQtaM.,...v:........ 60.UXJ banking buuaa and connection*..— ................. 50.00, R. 1'. Flower banking bcu«© and conauctions ... 2X00 J.’Pl' r;*»nt Morgan SCb. and cooaeieUam. IOO.UJ Vanderbilt far.Ujr.. ... SjU.Ua Verm i lye A Ou. and csnavcttooA. SO, OOP Morton. Bliss A On. sad cvnnvtiun* fiM.uK PrvA.dc*t» of lnainiue eoxupanios .. 1.W0.UU In considering these lists it must be recalled that the states contributed through some trusted agents and that the firms mentioned acted as collecting Agencies for Mr. Hanna. Themis some controversy as to the Vanderbilt contributions. One authority says William K. Vanderbilt gave $150,000, and Treasurer Bliss deulbd the statement, but it is generally accepted the family gave the sum credit

ed, $*50.00e. Relative to Connecticut, ex-Goveruoij Morgan G. Bu Ike ley declared prior tc the election that be had obtained th« million dollars he iras expected to collect. His statement was printed in Cou necticut newspapers at the time. New Jersey gave liberally aud did it through Garret A. Hobart, who, as a1 member of *he Coal trust, had unusual facilities for securing contributions. Penusylvania had for its collecting agents such successful managers as Sen* a tor Quay, Andrew Carnegie and H. C. Frick. The venerable Colli* P. Huntington acted fur many of the western states, while Mr. Hanna himself looked out for Ohio and Henry Cabot Lod?*? for Massachusetts aad the rest of New England. .6 & The immense sum thus collected h>( not all been expended. There is a surplus of about $2,000,000. It is because of this surplus that the national committee continues in permanent head-. quarters with an expensive staff. It i* the first national committee that evei wound up the campaign with something left < or and for the reason that there was no way to spend it tdL Aside from the innumerable expenses of the two headquarters and the regular campaign work throughout the country, it ia notorious that in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, the Dakotas, Missouri, Nebraska and Towa the stun of $74,000 was given for “fecial work’* in each congressional district That amount wet also sent into ex-Bepreeentative Sibley’s district in Pennsylvania. Mr. Hanna was particularly anxious to beat Towns, Sibley and Richard P. Bland becauat of their interest in the silver causa How will all them heavy donations be receipted for? Hie presumption if that the distinguished contributors will receive appointments helpful in a soda) way. hor Mr. James X Van Aten was appointed minister to Italy, aad he gave only $40, M0 tow fate ago.

BRYAN'S. GREAT VOTE. A Goldbag Xeif»p»?er Ffadi Food Fox Tkoagkt U the Election Wgim ~ The Washington Post, which support* ed Hr. McKinley daring the campaign, ; does not take tit*** view oI most goldbag papers that tlie American people repudiated Mr. Bryan. Referring to th» popular vote, it soys in a recent editorial j There are some very significant features in these figures. They furnish much food for thought The Republican , and assistant Republican organs, for instance, are sneering at Mr. Bryan, i declaring that he has -been repudiated by the American people aird that it is a piece of ridiculous impertinence in him to think of 1900 or to suppose that the American people regard him with anything bat pity and contempt It strikes ns as very stupid to put forward such propositions as those. Mr. Bryan got 6,921,559 votes. Six and a quarter millions of men are worth thinking about especial lyy» nearly all of tdbar are native born white American* There were not that many voters for Mr. Cleveland in 1899, as his vote that > year was only 5,556,562, nearly 700,- j 000 less than Mr. Bryan received on the \ 8d inst If, therefore, Mr. Bryan is an j object of derision because of the popu-! lar repudiation - involved in a vote of only 6,221,552, how are we to estimate Mr. Cleveland’s standing with the masses in the light of his vote of only 5,556,562? The fact is that taking the 188,570 Democratic, votes that went to Palmer and the 400,000 or 500,000 other Democratic votes that were given to McKinley direct and adding these to; the vote that he actually received, BVyau would have carried the country so far j as concerns the popular Wto—carried j it by an immense plurality. Bnt it is idle to talk of a man who I received 6.250,000 4-otea as a man, who has been discredited and rebuked j by bis fellow citizens. No such moral > can be drawn from the figures of 1896. Bryan developed a phenomenal strength, especially when we consider the utter demoralization of the party when he became its nominee, the titanio influences brought to bear against him. from the administration itself down to the smallest moneyed corporation in the land. Let no one delude himself with the idea that Bryan has been obliterated. If in 1888 Mr. Cleveland had broagbt out the Democratic vote as Bryan brought it out this year, General Harrison would not have been president in 1889.

TOM REED’S VIEW. Ha Says W. Cannot lloUt I p Our Heads m a Solwat Nation. Speaker Thomas R Reed was on the floor of the Duluth beard of trade the oilier day aud was prevailed upon to make a short speech. He said: “I am not here to talk politics, and I do not want to; tot, since yon insist, I will say tuat wehave had an election. That, I believe, is an assured facL^< “Whether the result be rights or wrong, we must live under it for four years. There is one thing I do want to call your attention to. With the revenues of this nation running from $30,000,000 to $50,000,000 below its expenses, we can never expect to hold oar heads among solvent nations. “A bill was introduced in the last congress which did not affect the tariff question at all, but was only to raise revenue.. 1 appeal to you as business men to investigate this matter and create a sentiment that will result in the passage of such a bill aa will enable ns to establish ourselves as a solvent nation. ** It is indeed refreshing to see that Repubican leaders show some disposition I ruth now that the elecJut who is responsible for Mr. Reed? The present i may have quickened the cay, but the nation was eu it fell iuto Mr. Cleverom President Harrison, makes the matter worse, rod nor any of the other aders, even with the aid i sound money Democrats sleet McKinley, seem to

nave any bwivf M« to get "out of the * woods." NuboaY with any sense can now claim that (Be Dingley bill would have raided the n\j aired revenue, in | view of recent experience The people will watch the effort* of j the "powers that be” with a good deal j of interest to see how th^c again "es- j tablish ourselves as a solvenwiation. TH AT WAVE OF PROSPERITY. it h ia x«it of Its Waving 1 Next (iUkt*. On the actual state of business eii the certainty became known of McKin ley’s election there has been a good deal of con dieting testimony. There is plenty of reviving prosperity, but most of it seems to lie in the stats just beyond where the inquiry has been making. Dun ^ Co. count up over 800 establish me nti throughout the country which have I seen reopened after a period of complete shut down, and 800 other* that have bunt running oo short time, but which have increased their complement of help, -i A* good a thermometer of the business temperature as there is is in the railroad system. The summing up of the general transportation situation, as published on Saturday in The Railway Age, shows that the railroads are not doing the amount of business that was expected.—Detroit New*. CkuwInafUhM^ There was never a time when American* could feel more pride in oall

MILLS STILL CLOSED. Notwithstanding McKinley Has Been Elected. SO BOOK H BUSINESS IN SIGHT. Claim of the XepabUeana That the Suewm of Their Party Woal* Brine Prosperity Was a Sham—Traps Set For Ip ! aorant Voters The Bale of Tit For Tat. j hktthe senate the other day Mr. Vesti remarked caustically that he was as ton- ; tsbed to hoar that mills were still closed, although McKinley had been elected. ! Mr. Frye replied, “We are living tinder j Democratic laws. *’ While we do not j agree with Mr. Vest in the cause to j which he assigns the still cramped and j unsatisfactory condition of our indna ^tries, we desire to point out the shame-\ lessnoss with which the average Republican doubles on his tracks and eats his own words the moment that it seems to ! his party’s advantage to do sa Mr. Frye and his associates claimed , that if “the advance agent of prosperity’’ were elected, business would boom tight along and all distress and depres-! sion disappear. They claimed too much, j and they knew it. It was done to catch the votes of the ignorant, and now, when they are asked why their foolishly extravagant prophecies were hot fulfill- ! ed, they answer, “ We are living under Democratic laws.” It will not be nntil i the Repnblicaus have an opportunity to pnt their policy in full operation, they , say, that good times are completely re- ( stored. It is necessary only to compare this j argument with that which has been ; dinned into the ears of all readers of Republican newspapers for four years past to measure its absurdity and its falsehood. It will be remembered that the clonds of trouble began to lower above this country and the tempest to , beat npon its industries aud its finan- ■ cial institutions in the last part of1 189?, culminating in the great storm of the summer of 1898.

This destruction came, as we know, from the twin infamies of Republican legislation—the McKinley act and the Sherman silver purchase law. But we have never heard any Republican admit it They said that it was due to Mr. j Cleveland’s election and tho prospect of Democratic legislation on the tariff. If that charge has been made once, it has been made a million times in the last four years. •Confronted with the fact that the treasury wns empty, that business was at a standstill and that Secretary Foster had prepared the engraved plates for a bond issue before Mr. Harrison went ont of office, and asked how this could i happen under Republican rule, they told j ns that it was all because the worst had j happened. Mr. Cleveland and a Demo- i oratio congress were sure to ocme iuto ! power on the 4th of March following, i and everybody began to take in sail Now, “tit for tat is a very good rule, j as frequently people apply it,” and we ; desire to say that the diet which our i Republican brethren have been offering^ to ns for the last four years is the food that most be forced down their reluctant throat*. If the election of 1893 determined the views and the policy and the future of business in this oonntry between November of that year and March of the year next following, then the election of 1896 must be held responsible for the conditions prevailing between November of this year and March. 1897 We were living nuder Republican , laws in the fail of 1893, but the Repub- j Means told us then that these laws were impotent because Democratic law* were going to be passed in 1893. We are living under Democratic laws now, but Republican laws are going to be passed i in 1897. If the mere possibility of tariff j reduction in the closing days of 1893 \ was enough to make panic, why does not the certainty iu 1896 that Republican tariff laws will be enacted within six months, if the party’s programme can be carried out, stimulate and revive our failing industries?

Of course, the week* argument is a sham. The election of 1893 bad absolutely nothing to do with the business troubles of that year and the year followtofT'iwid the Republicans knew it The ebargeto the contrary effect with w]tiich\hey pl^tbe ignorant, is only another of theme chickens that come home : to roost They hare made their bed and i they can lie in it They hare taught the people to beilevathat business prosperity and financial stability depend upon the event of a national election. Now, they must take their medicine. of the argument, which t their sole plea for party power, they are responslunfavorable business oonexists today, and every dlsbetween the prosperity that we had and the prosperity that we want Is due tp the election of McKinley and the oertUnty that the Republican party will tiy\o raise the tariff.—St. Paul Globa In 651.5 972. So few their leader? lie be Democratic lowship with the tWiBgwutf of the receved Who is what terms would the 551,518 bad back into feiangled money variety? ■ Since the election of Mr. McKinley and the triumph of the Republican party cotton has dropped in price $7 per bale. Estimating the total crop of tbs season as 9,000,000 bales, the loss to the producers is *68,000,000. It begins to look very much as if tbs '‘advance agent*’ wen a good way ahead of proeperity.

THEY ROAR GENT’ Y. Soft Protest! Afloat the Power ood Privileges of Wealth. Postmaster General Wilson. Carl Schur* and Henry Watterson (now of Paris) all have come forward to tell the Republican -, party that behind the demand for free silver coinage is “social discontent, ” a widely spread feeling that wealth has too many privileges, too much power, and that tbA^rdinary citizen isn't getting a fair aeSuL They do not put it as strongly aaf this, of oourse, for since they address themselves to the class which enjoys the privileges and possesses the power Messrs. Wilson, Schur* and Watterson sink their toue to » respectful coo. The causes of the discontent, Mr. Schur* politely suggests to the self aggrandizing rich, “should be examined with candor, care and courage. ” Mr. Wilson murmurs that if the popular sense of grievance “rests on any real basis in onr laws or in the present working of our industrial organisation those laws and that organization should be brought into harmony with democratic government. " Mr. Watterson remarks genially to the mnltimillionnaires of the trusts, whom Mr. Stead has classified as “the fatted swine of civilisation," that they need “policies which will bring them friends and alliances—policies wise and broad, justifying in some measure the unlimited accumulations they havo been able to pile up in such a relatively short compass of time."

Nobody needs to be told that the walls of the plutocratic Jericho will never be shaken by such gentle blast: as these, yet they are better than no blasts at alL At least they servo to in crease the respect in which real men are held who blow the ram's hern with full breath. But the privileged few who are besought to do something cut of their free grace and pleasure for the pinched many are not apt to be disturbed greatly by blasts, rude or mild. It is not by appeals to the few that the woes of the many are to be relieved. As Mr. Bryan told his audiences during the campaign, no abase was ever yet abolished by those who*derived advantage from its existence. Till the many are wise enough and brave enough to help themselves they will stay where they are, sure the while of the approving smile of those who carry the shears. Nevertheless thereJis 6ome pleasure to be taken by tho regective in the dulcet piping of Messrs Wilson and Schurz and Mr. Wattereon’s fine performance on the Freuob horn. The truth, however diluted, (is always to bo welcomed. —New York!Journal. CRUSADE-OF MALIGNITY. Unmanly Warfare of the Gold Standard Press Against Mr. Bryan. In their efforts to remove William J. Bryan as a possible presidential quantity from the future political nominations the papers and politicians mo9t active in the election of tho gold standard candidates are taking a course which, if persisted in, will inevitably have the opposite result to the one they are pursuing. Hanna, during the progress of the dinner given by the Union League club recently, referred to him as “therepresentative of anarchy," and at the annual banquet of the New York Chamber of Commerce the other night Mr. Bryan was made the butt of contemptuous and abusive remarks by several of the wine heated “patriots" who responded to toasts at that uxftiual plutocratic wassail. But this crusade of malignity against j the leader of the forces of bimetallism ' is carried on by the gold standard firess with a coarseness of invective and an iteration of the old slande^band accusations that were so overworked during the campaign, which not only prove an accession of hatred for the object of them, but which are calculated to make ; the country believe that the corporation influences which own these newspapers or control their policies are aware of the high place Mr. Bryan has won in the affections and esteem of his countrymen and are trying to destroy his prestige and his reputation by training ; their mud batteries against him. —Kan- j sas City Times. „

A HUNGRY HORDE The Bald •t the Spoilsmen Will Soon Be Under Way. The organisation of the National Civil Service Relopn~league is soon to be pot to a test ouits usefulness as well j as of its strengru. Although Hr. McKinley, during thej recent campaign, expressed himself a> opposed to "any backward step" in the administration of the civil servioe laws, it remains to be seen what ho considers a "backward step" in that relation. He may conclude that filling all the offices with Republicans is a step forward. He certainly would have the practically > unanimous pontimeut of his party bo- j bind him in taking such a step, be it forward or backward, for there can be j no doubt that there are many hungry and thirsty Republicans opposed to life tenure for anybody bat themselves. It is doubtless the policy of the plutocracy to maintain a permanent officebolding clasp. But the pressure upon the next administration for piaoe will be something terrific. And Mr. McKinley in all probability will yield to it, whatever Carl Sahara or Theodore Roosevelt may think or say to the contrary. —St Louis Post-Dispatflb. A Mighty Lively Corpta The gold organs are continually bowling to Bryan to sit down, and yet every issue of the regulation gold organ mentions Bryan’s name from 1? to 800 times. It would seem that they are | mightily afraid of a man they call a political corpse. The funny thing about it is that the men who are now demanding a nonpartisan administration front McKinley

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