Show The Silver liver Bolt of 1896 C Jle lure s t for November r ha an W r tide tiete en an A Hanna Hanav Allen Alien The h pen picture is as trI friendly as the same writers sketch of or Bryan some months mouths ago wa w unfriendly daf nd ly Nevertheless it is interesting Here Is 1 a paragraph describing the method of or g nomination In ISM Hanns Ha energy incorporated M ad every business house in inthe Inthe the United States from Wall Wail street to the carpenters S shop on the alley took I stock IJ ock H promoted the candidacy ox I before fore the Ute St Louis con oon convention v m H U Re put ut in that campaign w i e in the St Louis conven convention tiers tion every ery eft trained faculty which had made him hint a successful captain of tiie White tells tens the story of the St Louis convention in Iq detail His Hia description of the bolt belt i Ii especially good Let him tell it in JR his own o oe n words word W When ea the Ute platform had been Hen Henre reported re by the committee on resolutions resolutions Sad and the t th clause endorsing the gold g ld had PeeR been read Senator Sentor Teller Tellero I of DC o Colorado made a II speech eh favoring the adoption of K a minority report of the I committee which hleb report the Ute gold standard declara declaration declaration tion While Teller Iler spoke a pudgy man I h and of robust girth girthal tl al t in his hl chair but butone one row from the aisle among am ng the Ohio delegates It was Hanna The I Around his mouth twitched irritably as Tellers Te rs g rose ro and felt fell Occasionally O he lifted a broad hand I Ito to io a large iaze bumpy cranium as if to scratch aerate h Instead ad he rubbed rUb the rich I healthy hide on his full tull neck His HI bright brown bro n eyes took the tM orators mental and moral measure with precision pre When Teller sat down dOw Hanna ianna anna grunted his relief i Others Other spoke poke in favor of the Teller res resolution ohU s an Idaho man may mayba ba Ma b M nUnn from a chair behind the he theOa Oo Oa delegation Uon A dapper chap with a boutonniere on his perfectly fit fitting fitting i ting frock coat came lame fes fee i itt tt down the th rostrum and received Ived Chairman Thurstons recognition i uW O that asked ak d Hanna of Gros Grosvenor venor en r Cannon Wh s a Cannon 7 1 Mind you yuu U t was Hanna who was asking 1 kha ue questions Hanna who wa was popularly supposed suppo to be omnis omniscient cleat and omnipotent at St Louis l that day cI d Yet Yeb here hare was a senator whom I Hanna Henna did not know knew And nd whose e pres presence es ence on the speakers speaker list surprised the theman theman man who held the convention tn hi the hollow of his hand band Senator Utah replied ro Piled 1 The festive mart marl opened his 11 mouth to read his address I Well WeIl for heavens sake eke gem to I read it there And ARd Hannas broad fat hand band waved towa s the tho ora era orator I tor Perty Party aint he be Looks like a cigar clear drummer drummed The man on the rostrum continued He made an acrid 6 to the SOld gold I standard I Well d n him how did he get in inhere inhere here ere snapped Hanna Henna and no one I could answer an er I IA A fat teg II g flopped across I its mate and Han Hanna Haan changed his i weight wel t from one hunker to the t other ether Cannons remarks were growing more and more luminous Hannas brown browneyes browneyes browneyes eyes began to glow fat hi heat lightning as the oration proceeded ed His twitch twitching twitching ing tug mouth spilled its I rage ra In tu grunts The rhetoric of the Utah man was tell ten tellin in Ih He H began to t threaten ten to leave the party Finally he put the threat into a flamboyant period Then Han Hanna nat na harsh voice blurted Go go goThere goThere goThere There was a tragic haIC Si Silence sIlence Silence lence Ten thousand th eyes turned to toward toward toward ward Hanna Hann Evidently EVice Uy he could feel their glances gances halting hailing on his Ida back for his flinty auburn head bobbed down like a cork and an Instant later when the whole convention was firing gos at the rostrum ro trum Hanna Harms rose roe proudly from the small of his Me back and got on the firing line After that the Utah man was in the hands vf of a mob Han Hanna na devoted himself to the pl excitement of the chase He stormed and roared with the mob he guyed and he cheered with th the mob He was Vas of or it ii led by bt it It enjoyed it It whooping it up Then when it was wag wa all ail over when the gold ld standard platform had been adopted Hanna Henna climbed into his bis chair clasped his hands composedly behind him threw back beck his head let out his voice and sang ane America with Uh the throng When he be forgot the th words his dah ded hd e rang put out ou 1 with patriotic felicity and aid his smile of se Ze seraphic satisfaction was a good sight BIght for forSO sore SO eyes For Per Mark Hanna was irs s ghr giving ing lug fn In ii excellent representation of a Joy Joyous joyous ous American citizen c Uren with his wagon hitched to a bucking buckIs star tar jogging peacefully down the milky way ay of vie vic victory v e etory tory |