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Show TWO "EC5-SE3." Which Kind Dot s the Honest tter Prefer? A neighbor of ours keeps a haunted house, and the particular ghost that cannot be exorcised from its perturbed brain is Mark lianna. This particular ghiist ftiliows i: at day, peers through the keyhole or over the transom, and makes faces at our neighbor at night, and is to it what the pestilence is when it walketh at noonday. Yet, were it asked to name some man whom Hanna had wronged, it could not answer; the thousands of men to whom he has given and is giving giv-ing employment all endorse' him. .Mark Hanna is simply a iuge human hu-man steam engine that does his work, and does the work of half a dozen more such engines when necessary one of the mighty intellectual movers of the industrial forces of the United States. But let us turn from him to Boss Croker, from a creator to an absorber, from one who gives work to laborers to the one vilio, through his agents, him. Let us turn to Boss Croker, through whom Mr. Bryan hopes to receive the electoral vote of the great state of New York, and to whom it is charged that in the event of his election, Mr. Bryan promised the control of till the, federal offices of New York, and of the Navy Department. lie is raising a corrupt.ion fund of. it is said, si'.tMtl.i.0. 1, with tvliich to debauch de-bauch the Empire state voters, to carry the slate tor Lryan. ami lias wagered fabulous sums that he will win. He is a direct successor of P.oss Tweed, but lacks the old man's generous gener-ous impulses. His life is crooked: his great wealth is due to his being the silent compounder com-pounder of felonies and the receiver of stolen goods. His example is all that is wicked in politics and is a menace to free government, lie is the warm friend of William J .Bryan. Why does not our neighbor devote a little space to him'.' Salt Lake Tribune. |