Show I TRYING TO TOU Ji HITCHCOCK HITCHC CK There seems to be a scheme on foot to separate Chairman Hitchcock from some of ot the money mone which the managers of oC the Grafting Old Party Part always have on hand during a presidential campaign A batch of or southern gentlemen g white black and propose to carry Georgia for Judge Tart Taft If Ir the national commit committee tee will supply the funds They say sa Johnson beat Bryan Dran in the primaries Brown beat Hoke Smith at the he same time for the gubernatorial nomination and they th can prove by analogy that Georgia is really a Republican state always bearing in mind the fact that a supply of oC cash Is necessary to Insure the party part against the possibility of or a mis miscalculation i I calculation Mark Hanna fell feU for this scheme twelve tele years ears ago ao and the memory of or orthe the luscious political pickings at that time still lingers In the minds of oC the Georgians as they sing the old song to Chairman Hitchcock Give us money and w ell carry Georgia It will be remembered that Mark Jark MarkHanna Hanna lIanna had a winter home at Thomas Ga and an that McKInley was wa guest ruest there a few months preceding his nomination in 1896 The business bu of the railroads and other Industries was still suffering from the panic of oC 1893 Mark Markwas Markwas was a good spender ld both men were popular with the Georgians with whom they the came In contact So when Bryan Bran was nominated and the false cry cr of oC disaster to the business Interests of oC the country countr was raised when the delicious odor of oC frying fat filled the nostrils of oC the purchasable el element element ement far and an wide and your Uncle Jark really reaU had more money mone than he knew what to do with Ith he Invested in two or three t southern states Georgia among the Ule number When the votes In the latter state were counted It was found that McKInley had against for Bryan Bran The other sure things In the south pan out any better and Hanna acknowledged that he had been This year when the presidents of or the thereat great reat life Insurance companies will not be allowed to ach Into the policy policyholders policyholders holders sack up to their elbows and corporations are barred from contributing ing In the Republican campaign com committee committee to be quite so flush as in former years and while we shall doubtless hear henr from time to time that things look good fOX for the Republicans rin In this or that southern state it Is highly Improbable that any portion of the contents of oC the Tart Taft war chest will willbe willbe be diverted from Ohio Ohl Indiana and Il Illinois Illinois only to find Us Its way Into the pockets of oC Georgia crackers or North Carolina t with the same old result resu It ItA A southern state stat for r Taft Pooh |