What A Wonderful Man?

Under the heading " Wicked Mark Hanna," the Chicago Tribuae publishes this from a Montuna correspondent, showing what an exalted opinión f the powers of Mark Hanna they have out there. It is ludicrously funny: "He Ievied and collected $$0,000,000 n the banks and trusts tor carnpaign urposes. He hired and paid 750,000 ïen to journey to Cantoii to see McKiney, making the world believe it was ie spontaneous desire of the people to ay their respects to the great American atesman. ïhis trick cost Mr. Hanna 1,500,000, or $20 for each man. He ired the owners of 300 great factories, nploying 250,000 men, to simt down ne month before the election and then o open up a few days ufter it, to make stir in business. This cost hiin $;,-, 00,000. "The proprietors of 200 other factories nd shops have been paid $2,500,000 to coerce their men and to compel their men to vote for McKiuley. Hanna aetually bought Ingersoll, Cari Schurz, Bourke Cockran and Benjamin Harrison, who were paid $50,000 each to make speeches for M.cKinley. Hanna worked a great scheme on tl ie chinches. He actually imluced 10,000 preachers to pui up prayers for the purpose of getiing a drought in India o that the food erop would be short ..nd the price of wheat rise digher iban the price of silver. For thee playera lie paid $1,000,000. Theo to make i suré ihing oí it he went to San Francisco and bought 10,000 tons of wheat for whicfa he paid $250,000, Tliis wheat he osteiisibly shipped to India, but wheu it gut fairly out of the harbor every bushei of il was (umped overboard in the Pacific ucean. "Hanna was bound that McKiuley should have a laige popular majority, so he went to work and bought up a inillion of men for ,$10 each; that was $10,000,000, and he got the votes. You can see it in any of the tables of election returns. The tnmble of it all is that Hanna has prouiised those banks and trust couipanies who advanced the fifty millions that tliey shall liave it all back out of the United States treasury as Boon as McKinley is inaugurated, with a bonus of .$201 ƒ,000, 000 in addition. Great is Mark Hanna."