The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1904, Page 9

SENATOR MARCUS HANNA ANSWERS SUMMONS OF DEATH R-A BRAVE . AFTE End Is Peaceful in Nation’s Capi- tal. P Wife of Lawmaker Absent at Final Moment. riesist N, Feb. 15.—Senator at 6:40 apart- after an two t recoveries nd finally drift- , which in his was unable to died the Hote nearly the members her were his ressing incidents s te. It was| | n ten s ain| | \ to come | | p well under | MRS HANNA COURAGEOUS. y to ns ed MEN NOTABLE - eral Dick. Then Postmaster General |intense severity of the infection, and ayne rang the telephone, and, the |the outlook at first seemed bright. ite House responding to his call, he | Since Sunday, the 7th, the progress p of the fever became more marked, s has just passed | there being a gradual rise in the tem- | the news to|perature from day to day, and by, President z . Rqgosevelt. | Wednesday the evidences of a severe A large number of messages were | to condition were such to make sent out by and by | the physicians in attend: ey - - - -~ Mareus A HANNA. SANiFRANCISCO. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1904. Typhoid Fever Closes the Career of the Notable Ohioan. x5 the Hanna family Herrick ann the | as to the ultimate outcome, though - Throughout the there | counting somewhat on Mr. Hanna's steady stream of ® and | indomitable will, they continued to be ges of condolence, Secretary | hopeful. & -1 Speaker Cannon, “The early inability to retain nour- if he was looking for his wife has my handker- rba Indiana and John F ishment was finally overcome and the case seemed to be progressing more favorably. when on Friday last in the afternoon the Senator had a severe chill, a most unusual occurrence in the course of typhoid. Following this his temperature rose rapidly, reaching Lean of Ohio being among the earliest th of gr se personally to offer their re- >resident Roosevelt called at the Ar-| lington Hotel to-night personally to ex- | press his condolence to the members of | the late Senator Hanna's family. The | 105 that night, and the evidences of Presid walked to the hotel wiat-|profound toxemia were marked. Dur- tende Some consideration has been |ing the last days of Senator Hamna's Jast the | Biven by the President and several |illness he was able to retain the nour- of his | members of the Cabinet to the question | ishment given and responded in a way ¥ r he moved bis of accompanying the funeral party tollittle short of marvelous to every v and his eves a little. The | the place of interment of the late Sen- | treatment which was resorted to, The matter, | rallying promptly from a serious col- lapse which at intervals followed the chill of Friday. Saturday had been such a favorable day that his physi- ator’s remains in Ohio. however, is still undecided. The flags on the Capitol will be at ot the Senator whispered half-mast to-morrow and ren:lairll( 80 | SU a5 A - . K < until after the funeral. The desk of cians took courage and even then DIEESTIL MABE A8 JARNMN. Senator Hanna in the Senate chamber | hoped for a favorable outcome. The of the family when told| . "ho araped in mourning. There will | change for the worse came early this ; mark a e recognized it |y, up official funeral in the Senate on (morning and was followed by & grad- of his ; !rejo}}?’ ';n“ " | Wednesday, the body l¥ing in state in |Ual failure of his strength, which al- g ured plaguing n [‘i»‘ - C : 2 ]r the Senate marble room in the morn-|ready had been overtaxed by the anna often indulged. t ing. It is expected that the Gridiron | Severity of the disease. His wonder- custom when he ful recuperative power was such that, article, especiaily to say: has it."” unconscious and the seem to know what ken by Sculp- The cast will be ge as it may seem, oxygen, had taken on ed to be a coat of tan, almost a life-like ap- earance . yered in the office room, where or Hanna so often had occupied desk dic \g campaign correspond- t the time of his death were aster Ge al Payne, who was d with Mr. Hanna as of the national com- rnor Herrick, Represen- ve Dick of Ohio and a host of associated with Mr. Hanna po- ock yesterday the | | nd that was done | | Cleveland, and another with the House e in its usual full- I s face shows little SENATOR'S BRAVE FIGHT. owing to the con- Club quartet will participate in the ser- | vices and sing the hymns. This will be done on account of Senator Hanna intimate relations with the club. His last public appearance was at the an- nual Gridiron dinner. It is expected that three special trains | will go to Cleveland Wednesday morn- ing, one with the body, accompanied by | the Senator’s family; another with the | Senators who will attend the funeral at | though the end had been expected at almost any time during the early hours of Monday he clung tenaciously to life until to-night, when he suc- cumbed.” S e e MASTERFUL LEADER OF MEN. Popularity of Marcus A. Hanna Due to His General Manner. “Mark” Hanna, as he was popularly | known, was one of the most unique | ana forceful characters ever known in | American politics. He combined in his | personality many qualities which made Caesar, Mirabeau and Napoleon great. Though his first appearance in national politics was in 1884, within a very few vears his name was on every tongue from Rastport, Maine, to San Diego, california, and he was recognized as one of the “mighty men” of his party. Without having done preliminary ser- vice in the minor places he became United States Senator first by appoint- ment to a vacancy in 1897, and in 1898 by election of his State Legislature. of Representatives committee. Physicians Say Resistance to the Dis- case Was Remarkable. WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.—Dr. E. P. Carter of Cleveland, one of the attend- ing physicians, to-night made the fol- lowing statement regarding Mr. Han- na's illness: “Senator Hanna died quletly at twenty minutes to 7 to-night, after a most superb fight against a very vir- ulent attack of typhoid. The Senator had not been well for some weeks, 1888. A warm friend of Senator Juhn] Sherman, he was a strong advocate for his nomination for the Presidential nomination and to the last thought that | Sherman’s eminent services were never | adequately recognized. | Hanna was one of the men who ad- vanced the means to relieve Mr. Mec- Kinley's financial embarrassment in 1888. He took charge of his prelimin- ary campaign for the Presidency in| 1895-96, and so well did he conduct it that he was chosen chairman of the national committee and given the en- tire conduct of the campaign, which he carried to a successful issue. He was the central figure also in the campalgn | for McKinley's re-election in 1900. | In 1885 President Cleveland appointed | Hanna to the very important position | of one of the Government directors of | the Union Pacific Railroad. In 1881 Hanna organized the West Republic Mining Company of Marquette, Mich., becoming the president thereof. In 1882 he was elected to the presidency of the Pacific Coal and Iron, Company of St. Paul and later became president of the Cleveland City Railway Company. He organized and controlled many other industries and enterpri: em- ploying at a late date as many as| 10,080 men, and always sought and ob-.| tained the respect and friendship of his men by dealing fairly with them. In many years there was never a strike in any one of the great enterprises with which he was connected or any trouble of an aggravated character. | His prominence in his party in the | national hdlls of legislation, as a man of large affairs and his efforts to bring about amicable relations between labor and capital, led to his selection as the head of the momentous conference lately held in New York City between the representatives of the two sides of the great question and to his being made the head of the voluntary per- manent commission to arbitrate any aif two Hanna's part in national affairs, poth domestic and foreign, is a matter of recent history, but it may be said that his act was cogent and pronounced and his motives of the highest order. He was even tempered and never fret- ted about anything. In his beautiful erences likely to arise between the home Windemere, DISTINGUISHED POLITICIAN AND NOTED FINANCIER, MENTIONED AS A PROBABLE CANDIDATE | OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY FOR PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, WHO PASSED AWAY IN | WASHINGTON, D. C.,, YESTERDAY MORNING AFTER A STRUGGLE OF MANY WEEKS. ‘ —_— e | | Eventful History of the Statesman Who Was a Master| in Politics and Finance. ] B . New Lisbon), Columbiana County, Ohlo, September 24, 1837, in the same corner of the Buckeye State where John Sherman, Garfield and William McKin- ley first saw light. His father was Leonard Hanna, one of the Virginia Quakers who came to the Old Domin- ion in the early days. The Hannas for generations have been influential peo- ple in Shelby County, Kentucky Middle Tennessee, New Orleans, Central Ar- kansas and Missouri. All of these were t;‘{ the same stock from which Mark anna sprung and of closer kin than is reckoned mear in Scotland. His mother was a Miss Converse, born in Vermont, and a Presbyterian in reli- gion. PARENTS OF STATESMAN. Of this peculiar union of cavalier- Quaker on the one side and New Eng- land Presbyterian on the other came a strong, sagacious, honest and master- ful leader of men, who for a full decade past has been a fore figure in the coun- cils of his party and the halls of na- tional legislation. His father was a physician and later a merchant in Cleveland, Ohiq, whither but had been confined to his bed only during the past fifteen days. “From the early course of the dis- ease there was no evidence as to the litically and personally. When the death was announced to them there was a moment of absolute silence. “It is a great loss,” murmured Gen- All through sheer force of intrinsic|the family removed in 1852, when the merit as a man of brains, integrity and | population was but 25900. Leonard forcefulness. Hanna, on going to Cleveland, em- Hanna was born at Lisbon (then|barked in the wholesale grocery busi- ness as head of the firm of Hanna, Garretson & Co. Young Mark, after going through the public schools of Cleveland, entered the | employ of his father’s firm, and on the | death of his father, in 1862, assumed { control of the business. In 1867 | grocery firm was dissolved and he be- |came a member of the firm of Rhodes & Co. He had married in 1864 Miss | Augusta Rhodes, a daubhter of the | senior member of the firm, and on Lhe retirement of Rhodes .in 1887 became | the head-of the firm, which he reor | ganized under the name of M. A. Hanna i & Co., which position he held up to { the time of his death. In 1887 he organized and equipped the Cleveland Transportation Company, one of the largest lines operating on the great lakes. On the organization of the Union National Bank he was elected its president. - All these enter- prises brought him good returns and Hanna was noted as a man of weaith land resources long before he entered public life. Though always taking an active in- terest in politics he made his debut on the national carpet only in 1884, when he was sent as a delegate at large to the Republican National Conventien. He went again as a district delegate in the — on Lake avenue, in the west end of Cleveland, Hanra lived, when not in | Washington, with his wife and two | | children, Ruth and Mabel, an ideal happy American home life. His only | n, Daniel R. Hanna, married some years ago and set up housekeeping for | himself. He entertained largely and | was a most hospitable but unostenta- tious host, though the family made no pretensions to social leadership. Hanna was not very pronounced in his religious views. His wife is a con- | ent member of the Episcopal church | and he was a vestryman of thein par- | ish, though not a communicant. 1 RELATIONS WITH McKINLEY. His first meeting with William Me- Kinley was in an Ohio courtroom, where a labor dispute was 1 ing tried, and Mr. McKinley was the covasel on the side opposed to Mr. Hanna. Mr. Hanna was so impressed with the conduct of Mr. McKinley at that trial that he sought the acquaintante of the f-ture Governor and future President, and this acquaintance ripened into war friendship. Mr. Hanna's opportunity to make Mr. McKinley the Presidential candi- date came four years later, in 1896. Hanna began the wotk of getting the delegates for McKinley at least two | all the Republican Sena | place, sitting in his office in W | rather_be | about harmo | last month. | names mentioned BATTLE THAT AMAZED MEDICAL MEN The President Calls to Express His Sympathy. Washington Flags Will Fly at * Half-Mast. years in advance of the meeting of the convention. While other Presidential aspirants and their friends were spee- ulating as to when would be the right time to get to work Mr. Hanna called a most important conference of admir- ers of McKinley at Thomasville, Ga. Here the whole plan of the campaign was mapped out. The conference in- cluded men from nearly every State in the Union, and the South was strongly represented. While Reed was busy in Congress and Platt and Quay and Clarkson were thinking of making a combination some time in the future, Hanna had started tk movement that was to overthrow all opposition and place William McKinley in the White House. SUCCESS IN POLITICS. With the election of McKinley came additional responsibilities to Mr. Han- na. He had to reward thousands of men to whom pre-election promises had been made. As the chairman of national committee he was bound that the President received aid in carrying out the policy to which he was pledged. The President desired Mr. Hanna in his Cabinet, but that was not to be thought of so long as John Sherman lived, so Mr. Sherman was invited to become Secretary of State, and Mr. Hanna was appointed to the Senate. At the next meeting of the Ohlo Leg- islature it became necessary for Sena- tor Hanna to fight for the place. The Legislature was close, and the Foraker and McKissen wing of t party opposed £ tor Hanna and tried to defeat him, even though the place should go to a Democrat. But Hanna triumphed and his position was secure. N S however. There to the front only after he his way t The Sen- pre- obtained has forced ators of long service h rogatives, which only after years of g and a new man finds little consideration if he aspires to have a voice in leader- ship. Hanna gradually worked his way to the front, but he did not reach it until after the second election of McKinley Even then he got a rebuff which would have staggered an ordinary man. After the election of 1900 he sent a letter to tors, saying: “Let us all be in ou ts the first day of Congress and pass the shipping bill.” The Senators, they have planni almost to a man, sented this. and it was not until vears later that Senator Hanna was able to pass his bill in the Senate, and then with votes of the Iowa and Wisconsin Senators against it, which insured its defeat in the House, be- the influence of these two From the very minute that Mr. Roosa- velt became President the relations be- tween him and »r Hanna became E ter for lively specul n. It was believed that they would find it impos- to gether. Mr. Hanna had been regarded as the get along harmoniously to- legatee of Mr. M py, but the men from the V te States, who had forced the nomi Mr. Roosevelt at Philadelphia e s Roose- veit, then Governor ¢ ork, had compelled the w York delegation t> drop him as its choice f i1 so in the full bel s entitled to the nor Senator w preacher against s the platform must meet labor ha prevent a social Senator Hanna b the Council of Coneil American Civic Federation planned to prevent or settle putes. He accepted the pre that body. The day before that Roosev n in 1904, first He put and they w ton, he gave the Herald an in which he said: “To succeed in this work I would give up my seat in the Senate. I would instumental in bringing etween labor and cap- the Unitea ital than be President of States.” As president of the Council of Con- ciliation Mr. Hanna brought to the aid of the cause men who had scoffed at such a thing, and they are now hearty workers in the fleld of mediation. It was Mr. Hanna who brought about the settlement of the great strike of steel workers in 1901. He endeavored to bring to an adjustment the coal strike of 1 and if the coal operators and coal rallroad presidents had followed his advice the strike would have been adjusted on terms much more favor- able than they finally got and would have saved in business and wages the enormous loss to the country of $99,- 000,000. (D TALKING OF A SUCCESSOR. Many Will “Aspire to the Mantle of the Late Senator. CINCINNATI, Feb. 15.—As the Ohio Legislature is now in session Semator Hanna’s successor will not be appoint- ed by thesGovernor, but at once elevat- ed for the tferms expiring in March, 1905, and March, 1911. Less than seven years ago Hanna, who had never be- fore held office, succeeied John Sher- man as Senator. He was re-elected During the past week there has been much comment about the Senatorial succession. Ameong the in_this connection have been those of Governor Herrick. Charles P. Taft and George B. Cox of Cincinnati, J. H. Hoyt of Cleveland, General J. Warren Keifer of Spring- field, General A. W. Jones of Youngs- town, Congressmen Dick, Grosvenor, Burton, Nevin and Warnoek. Mr. Hanna lived in Northeastern and Senator Foraker in Southwestern Ohio. It is claimed by some that geograph- ical conditions are likely to add to the chances of Governor Herrick or Con- gressman Dick, who reside in lake dis- tricts.