November 11, 1897

The Revolt Against Bossism

“This year the bosses threw off all disguise. They declared that bossism is the ideal perfection of government in a democracy. [Mark] Hanna summed up their creed in these orders to his subjects a few days before the election:

September 27, 1902 

Mark Hanna kicked off his presidential campaign in Akron, Ohio with a parade featuring live elephants. Event organizers “wore looks of suppressed satisfaction” even though the “elephants did not arrive until the last minute…”

September 13, 1885
“Mark Hanna, of Cleveland, is the most objectionable and snobbish Republican in the State.”

February 16, 1904
Mark Hanna was “one of the country’s great men” whose death “caused profound sorrow in all quarters.”