quent coöperation with the bosses,
114-115; essential features of creed
of, regarding politics, 115; the
Garfield campaign in 1880, 116-117;
broadening of political interests after
Garfield's election, 117-118; mem-
ber of state Republican committee,
118; the experimental period of his
political career, 118-119; plunge
into national politics with election
as delegate to National Convention
of 1884, 120 ff.; close relations
between James B. Foraker and, 124-
126; activities in electing Foraker
Governor and in Cleveland munici-
pal politics, 126-127; backed by
important business men rather than
professional politicians, 127; rup-
ture between Foraker and, and
causes, 128-137; constant support
of John Sherman for the Presidency,
129-137; appointed director of
Union Pacific R. R., 131; at the
National Convention of 1888, 133-
136; permanent hostility of Foraker
and, and effect on Mr. Hanna's
career and on Ohio politics, 138-139;
McKinley definitely replaces Sher-
man in mind of, as a Presidential
possibility, 140-141; increased in-
terest in national politics due to the
tariff issue, 143; as a campaign
fund contributor and successful
solicitor of campaign contributions,
145-147; his assistance of Mc-
Kinley and Kimberly in money ways,
146-147; visit to Washington in
1889 to help McKinley's fight for
Speakership, 150; open hostility
to Foraker in latter's candidacy for
Governorship in 1889, 152-153;
open dislike and lack of recognition
of, by President Harrison, 153-154;
controversy with Congressman
Burton over the Cleveland post-
mastership 154; growing friend-
ship with Sherman, McKinley, and
Butterworth, 154; letters of Butter-
worth to, 154-156; McKinley's
cautious letters to, 156-158; success-
ful efforts by, to elect McKinley as
Governor and Sherman as Senator
(1891), 158-162; grateful letter
from Sherman to, but total neglect
of mention of in Sherman's "Rem-
iniscences," 162-163; work for
McKinley at Minneapolis in 1891,
165-166; offered Treasurership of
National Committee by Benjamin
Harrison but declines in order to
leave hands free to work for Mc-
Kinley (1891), 165; great help
given to McKinley during latter's
financial ruin, 170; importance of
McKinley's brilliant reëlection in
1893 appreciated by and made full
use of, 171; decision of, to with-
draw from direction of M. A. Hanna
& Co. to give time to politics, and
reasons for decision, 172–174; rents
house in Georgia to help McKinley's
cause in the South, 175-176;
management of McKinley's cam-
paign for the nomination in 1896,
175 ff.; cost of McKinley's cam-
paign for nomination in 1896
paid by, 183-184; strict objections
of, to illegitimate use of money by
his lieutenants, 184-185; reasons
traced for success of his ambition
for McKinley, 188-189; attitude of,
favorable to a gold standard, 194;
letter to A. K. McClure concerning
St. Louis Convention, 198-199;
recognition of services of, and speech
by, on nomination of McKinley,
205; made Chairman of National
Committee, 206; ovation to and
speeches by, on return to Cleveland,
207-208; masterly generalship dis-
played by, in managing campaign of
1896, 209-227; amount of money
raised by, for election expenses,
218-221; defence of his methods of
meeting campaign expenses, 221-
223; made the victim of malignant
personal attacks, 223-225; popular
approval of and interest in, after
McKinley's triumph, 228; declines
Cabinet position (Postmaster-Gen-
eralship) offered by McKinley,
229-230; reasons, 230-231; ambi-
tion to become Senator, 231–232; his-
tory of appointment of, to Sherman's
seat in Senate, 232-241; reason for
desirability of seeking election to
Senate, to preserve personal prestige,
242; story of confirmation of his
title to Senatorship by the people
and Legislature, 242-271; first
stump speaking by, 243-247; bri-
bery charge against, 259-263; re-
jection of corrupt methods by,
263-264; speech to supporters in the
Legislature, 266; letter to David K.
Watson concerning attack on Stand-
ard Oil Co. by, discussed, 266-271;
first three years of, in the Senate
viewed as a transition period,
272 ff.; handicapped by prominence
as a friend of the President and as
Chairman of the National Com-
mittee, 273; work in connection
with the Dingley Law, 275-276;
committees on which he served,
276; attitude on public questions
as indicated by his votes, 277;
attitude on the Spanish War, 278-
279;
as an Imperialist, 279-280;
his ship-subsidy bill, 280, 344 ff.;
interest in the Gathmann Torpedo,
280-281; votes against seating M.
S. Quay, 283; takes active part in
armor-plate debate, 286-288; Sen-
ator Pettigrew's attack on, and
Mr. Hanna's defence, 288-290;
part taken by, in Ohio politics in
1898 and 1899, 291-296; skill dis-
played by, in distribution of patron-
age, 297-298; rules laid down by,
on appointments, 299-301; prepa-
rations of, for Convention of 1900,
302 ff.; the trust issue, 305-307;
opposes Roosevelt's nomination for
Vice-President, 310; forced to ac-
quiesce in the nomination of Roose-
velt for Vice-President, 315-317;
McKinley's hesitation in selecting
Mr. Hanna to manage campaign of
1900, 320-321; eminent skill dis-
played by, in conducting the cam-
paign, on receiving appointment to
Chairmanship of National Com-
mittee, 321–322 ; irritation over
certain attitudes taken by McKinley,
329-330; his stump-speaking tour
in the Northwest, 331-340; resent-
ment of, over McKinley's attempted
interference, 333-334; overwhelm-
ing success of tour, 340; prestige
of, after McKinley's reëlection,
342-344; ship-subsidy legislation
urged by, 344-354; failure of, to
control his party's politics in Cleve-
land, 355; at Buffalo at time of the
President's assassination, 358-360;
exchanges pledges as to mutual
behavior with Roosevelt, on death
of McKinley, 360-362; comparisons
and contrasts drawn between Mc-
Kinley and, 363-368; change in
public sentiment toward, following
McKinley's death, 369; the Gridiron
Club dinner and address, 369-371;|
continued influence of, at the White
House and friendship with Roose-
velt, 371-372; takes part in debates
on Department of Commerce and
Labor, Chinese Exclusion Act, Penn-
sylvania R. R. station in Washing-
ton, Cuban reciprocity, etc., 374-
375; position in the government
in 1901-1902 analogous to that of a
German Imperial Chancellor, 375-
376; great importance of work of, in
behalf of Panama Canal, 376 ff.;
becomes leader in the Senate of pro-
Panama route party, 380; exhaus-
tive investigation by, of advantages
and disadvantages of different canal
routes, 381-382; speech of, in behalf
of Panama route (June 5 and 6,
1902), 382-384; interest aroused in
capital and labor problem, 386 ff.;
publicly identifies himself with
work of National Civic Federation,
391-392; chairman of Industrial
Department, Civic Federation, 391-
392; work of, to settle anthracite
coal miners' strike of 1902, 393-400;
settlement of various labor disputes
by, 401-402; description of official life
of, at Washington, 412-413; proba-
bility of election to Presidency, in case
McKinley had lived, 413; numerous
advocates of Mr. Hanna's nomina-
tion in 1904, 414-415, 416-417, 420;
effect on relations with Roosevelt of
efforts of friends in behalf of nomina-
tion, 422-423; cornered on Roose-
velt nomination question by the
Foraker faction, 423-425; indorse-
ment of, by Ohio state convention
of 1903, 429; celebration by, of
marriage of his daughter Ruth, 429-
430; efforts put forth by, in state
election of 1903, 430-433; reëlec-
tion by a large majority in 1903,
433; letters of congratulation to,
from widespread sources, 434; re-
newed efforts by supporters to boom
him for the Presidency, 435; sup-
posed motives of, for not coming
out decisively for Roosevelt's re-
nomination, 442-444; question if
he could have been persuaded to
accept nomination had health per-
mitted, 444-446; personal habits
relative to eating, smoking, and
exercise, 447-448; premonitions of
physical breakdown in 1903, 449-
450; visit to Europe, 450; last
public utterance, his address to the
Legislature on being reëlected to
Senate, 451-452; depressed by
death of Mr. Foster and ex-Governor
Bushnell, 452; forced to take to
his bed by attack of typhoid fever,
453;
last exchange of notes with
President Roosevelt, 453-454; death
of (Feb. 15, 1904), 455; memorial
and funeral services, 455-456;
honest, fair, and discriminating
appreciation of career and personal-
ity of, pronounced by Senator
Foraker, 457-458; further descrip-
tion of personal life and character-
istics of, 458-464; to be regarded
in the final summing-up as the em-
bodiment of the pioneer spirit,
whose conception of the business
of the government was to further
the interests of individuals, 465-
471; analysis in this light of his
business and political career, 471-
477; his crowning distinction his
spirit of fair play, his constancy to a
standard which the average Ameri-
can attains only in his better
moments, 478; durability of the
value inherent in his example and
in his life, 479.
Hartz, Augustus F., 73–74.
Hawley, Senator, 284.
Hay, John, 170; letter by, concerning
Mr. Hanna, 228.
Hayes, Rutherford B., 93.
Hayward, W. H., 45.
Hearst, William R., malignant attacks
on Mr. Hanna by yellow journals
of, 224.
Heath, Perry, 214.
Hepburn Bill relating to proposed
Nicaraguan Canal, 379–380.
Herald, the Cleveland, Mr. Hanna's
experience as publisher of, 66-70;
use of, by Mr. Hanna, in the Garfield
campaign, 117.
Herrick, Myron T., 132, 192, 456;
McKinley aided by, when financially
ruined, 170; at St. Louis Conven-
tion, 196-198; with Mr Hanna in
Buffalo at time of President Mc-
Kinley's death, 360; interest of, in
Panama Canal route, 381; nomina-
tion of, for Governor in 1903, 428-
429; great majority by which elected
Governor, 433-434.
Hill, James J., reminiscence of Mr.
Hanna by, 105; introduces Mr.
Hanna in Wall Street in campaign of
1896, 219.
Hanna, Robert, great-grandfather of Hitchcock, Henry V., 38.
M. A. Hanna, 2-3, 4.
Hanna, Robert, uncle of M. A. Hanna,
3 n., 5, 11; removal from New
Lisbon to Cleveland, 32; mentioned,
43, 50.
Hanna, Ruth, daughter of M. A.
Hanna, 34; wedding of, 423, 429-430.
Hanna, Thomas, ancestor of M. A.
Hanna, 2.
Hitchcock, John F., 38.
Hitchcock, President of Western Re-
serve College, 37.
Hoar, George F., 284; letter to Mr.
Hanna from, 431-432.
Hobart, Garret A., 180, 191-192.
Hollenbeck, H. H., 260.
Hord, A. C., 120.
Hough, A. B., 98, 207, 456, 459.
Hanna, Thomas B., uncle of M. A. Hoyt, James H., 170, 176.
Hanna, 3 n., 11.
Hanna & Co., M. A., succeeds Rhodes
& Co., 60 n.
Hubbell, Mr. and Mrs. Henry S.,
34.
Hanna-Frye Subsidy Bill, 280, 345, Hunter, Frank, 88.
347; failure of, 353-354.
Hanna, Garretson & Co., firm of, 36,
39-40, 43.
Harbaugh, Porter, 6.
Harrison, Benjamin, election of, as
President by small margin, 149-
150; dislike and lack of recognition
of Mr. Hanna by, 153-154; nomina-
tion and defeat of, in 1891-92, 164–
166; a possible rival of McKinley's
in 1896, 177-178, 179, 180; weaken-
ing of administration by mistakes in
selections for office, 297.
Imperialism, acceptance of doctrine of,
by McKinley and Hanna, 279–280.
Industrial Department, National Civie
Federation, Mr. Hanna as chairman
of, 391 ff.; work of, in anthracite
coal strike and other labor disputes,
393-402; ultimate non-success of, as
an agency for settling labor troubles,
407.
Initiative, Mr. Hanna's salient charac-
teristic of, 96-97.
Ireland, Archbishop, a friend of Mr.
on appointments given to, by Mr.
Hanna, 299-300.
Iron-handling business of Mr. Hanna's Leader, the Cleveland, war waged on
firm, 57-62.
James, John, secretary of Miners'
National Association, quoted, 94–95.
Johnson, Tom L., and Cleveland
street railways, 82; first election
as Mayor of Cleveland, 355; cam-
paign of, throughout Ohio in 1902,
419; defeated in state but continues
to hold city of Cleveland, 420;
defeated by Myron T. Herrick for
Governor in 1903, 430–434.
Johnson, Willis Fletcher, "Four Cen-
turies of the Panama Canal" by,
quoted, 384.
Jones, John P., 254.
Journal, New York, attacks on Mr.
Hanna by, 224.
Kean, Senator, 429.
Keefe, Dan J., 389, 390, 391.
Kennedy, James H., quoted, 117.
Kenyon College, Mr. Hanna's address
at, 247; donation to, 462.
Kimberly, David H., reminiscence by,
120-121; election to county treasurer-
ship, 126-127; Mr. Hanna's finan-
cial assistance of, 147-148.
King, Rufus, "Ohio" by, quoted, 29.
Kinney, Major Lewis, founder of New
Lisbon, Ohio, 1.
Kittridge, Senator, 384.
Knox, Philander, 170.
Kohlsaat, H. H., 170, 192; claims
responsibility for inserting gold
clause in Republican platform of
1896, 192-193; at St. Louis Con-
vention, 196-198.
Kurtz, Charles L., 176-177; enforced
retirement of, as Chairman of State
Committee arouses his animos-
ity against Mr. Hanna, 243;
leader in the conspiracy against
Mr. Hanna in his first Senatorial
election, 251-252.
Labor problem, keen interest of Mr.
Hanna in the, 386 ff.
Labor unions, speeches and articles by
Mr. Hanna on, 404-406; analysis
of motives underlying Mr. Hanna's
treatment of, 408-410.
Lac la Belle steamboat, 49, 52.
Landis, C. B., 332.
Lauterbach, Edward, 203.
Leach, Charles F., quoted, 110; advice
Mr. Hanna and the Cleveland
Herald by, 66-68; responsibility of,
for grossly false impressions of Mr.
Hanna's character and personality,
68. See also Cowles, Edwin.
Leland, Cyrus, Jr., work of, in cam-
paign of 1896, 214.
Leonard, Bishop, delivers eulogy on
Mr. Hanna, 456.
Leonard Hanna, steamboat, 59.
Letter, the historic Hanna-Watson, con-
cerning Standard Oil Co., 266-271.
Lewis, Alfred Henry, false and libellous
attacks on Mr. Hanna by, 224-225.
Lodge, Henry Cabot, 190, 192.
Long, John D., mentioned for Vice-
Presidency in 1900, 309, 311.
Lynchburg, Va., laid out by ancestor
of Mr. Hanna's, 2-3.
McClure, A. K., letter from Mr.
Hanna to, 198-199.
McClure's Magazine article on Mr.
Hanna, 71-72.
McCook, Dr. Henry G., "Threnody"
on M. A. Hanna by, 19, 24; descrip-
tion of Mark Hanna as a schoolboy,
22-23.
McCook, General Anson, G., descrip-
tion of New Lisbon debating club
by, 23-24.
McCook, George, 26.
McCormick, Joseph M., marriage of
McCook, John, 26.
Ruth Hanna to, 429-430.
McDougal, Thomas, 170.
McKinley, Abner, 359.
McKinley, James, 2.
McKinley, Mrs. William, Jr., devotion
of her husband to, 363.
McKinley, William, father of the Presi-
dent, 2.
McKinley, William, Jr., 2; defence of
striking coal miners by, 93-94;
possible first meeting between Mr.
Hanna and, 94; at National Con-
vention of 1884, 122-123; men-
tioned, 132; voted for, at National
Convention of 1888, 135-136; vital
effect on relations between Mr.
Hanna and, of latter's rupture with
Foraker, 137-138; definite replacing
of Sherman by, in Mr. Hanna's
mind, as a Presidential possibility,
140-141; increasing political rivalry
master-Generalship) to Mr. Hanna
by, 229; history of appointment
of Sherman as Secretary of State,
to make room for Mr. Hanna in the
Senate, 232–239; advice to Mr.
Hanna before first stump-speaking
tour, 245; administration embar-
rassed by Cuban question, 273-
274, 276-277, 278; credit due, for
success of administration and united
support of Republican party in 1900,
296-297; change in relations be-
tween Mr. Hanna and, in 1900,
owing to the latter's increasing
personal power and popularity,
320-321; correspondence with Mr.
Hanna concerning discharge of
government employees during the
campaign, 329-330; his biographer
kept a good deal in mind by, 331,
363-364; attempts to interfere in
Mr. Hanna's conduct of the cam-
paign by trying to prevent the
latter's Northwestern tour, 332-334;
effect on cause of, of Mr. Hanna's
successful tour of Northwest, 340-
341; overwhelming plurality re-
ceived by, 341; second inauguration
of, 355; assassination of, at Buffalo,
358-360; depth and strength of
Mr. Hanna's attachment to, 362-
363; a colder man in disposition
than Mr. Hanna, 363-364; an
abler politician than Mr. Hanna,
365; Mr. Hanna's remarks on, at
unveiling of memorial statue at
Toledo, 367.
of Foraker and, 141-142; popularity
of, on account of attractive personal-
ity and high protection principles,
142-143; financial assistance ren-
dered to, by Mr. Hanna, 147; de-
feat of, in fight for Speakership
(1889) and beneficial effects of, on
political career, 150; as Chairman
of Ways and Means Committee
becomes responsible for new tariff
act, 150-151; unites with Mr.
Hanna in opposition to Foraker for
Governor in 1889, 152-153; wary
nature of, as shown by correspon-
dence, 156-158; successful cam-
paign of, for Governorship in 1891,
158-162; effect on Presidential
ambitions of election to Governor-
ship, 164; immediate steps taken
for nomination in 1896 after Con-
vention of 1891, 166-167; effect of
Democratic victory of 1892 on
prospects of, 167; contrasted as a
public speaker with W. J. Bryan,
167; effect of business depression
under Cleveland on chances of,
168-169; unexpected bankruptcy
of, and threatened political ruin,
169-170; ill-fortune of, works to
his advantage in the end, 170-171;
reëlected Governor by brilliant
majority in 1893 and acclaimed as
next Republican Presidential candi-
date, 170-171; effect on candidacy
for President of passage of Wilson
Bill and continued bad times under
Cleveland, 172-173; history of
campaign of 1896, 174 ff.; the con-
test with Platt, Quay and other
bosses, 177-180; cost of campaign
for nomination in 1896, 184; free-
dom of campaign from corruption
and preëlection promises of political
rewards, 184-187; success due not
only to pleasing personality but
because he represented a national
group of ideas and interests, 187;
vote cast for, in National Convention
of 1896, 191; the currency issue
forced upon, in Republican. plat-
form, 192-193; position of, on the
gold and silver question, 193-195;
the campaign of 1896 and election of,
209-227; receptions and speeches
by, at Canton, to offset Bryan's "Maggie," the Hannas' family cook,
personal stumping tour, 215-216;
handsome majority finally won for,
227; offer of Cabinet position (Post-
McKinley Bill, tariff policy embodied
in, 150-151.
McKinnie, W. J., 456, 459.
McKisson, Robert E., in the conspir-
acy against Mr. Hanna for Senator,
251; reasons for hostility to Mr.
Hanna, 252; nominated as anti-
Hanna candidate for the Senate,
255; defeat of, 259; fails of reëlection
as Mayor of Cleveland, 294.
McLain, Mary Ann, 32–33.
McLean, John R., unsuccessful candi-
date for the Senate, 255; defeated
in election for Governor by George
K. Nash, 295-296.
McMillan, Reuben, school teacher, 23.
McMillan, Senator, 284.
Maine, blowing up of the, 277, 278.
Manderson, General, 181.
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