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The Struggle for Self-Government; Being an Attempt to Trace American Political Corruption to Its Sources in Six States of the United States
Lincoln Steffens
Paperback. TheClassics.us 2013-09-12.
ISBN 9781230297934
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... OHIO: A TALE OF TWO CITIES SHOWING BUSINESS RULERS OF A STATE RESORTING TO ANARCHY TO CHECK MUNICIPAL REFORM THE story of the latter-day politics of Ohio, as I understand the State, can best be told as a tale of two of her cities: Cleveland and Cincinnati; Cleveland, the metropolis of her Northeast, Cincinnati, the metropolis of her Southwest; Cleveland, the best governed city in the United * States, Cincinnati, the worst. Cleveland is, and except during one short period, always has been a business man's government. The New York Sun wondered once how it happened so often that in Ohio men who had spent the better part of their lives in business could step into politics up near the top and prove themselves first-rate politicians from the start. The explanation is simple. Those Ohio men came from Cleveland. If I remember aright, the Sun had in mind the sudden appearance of the late Mr. Hanna in national politics with the nomination of Mr. McKinley for President. Mr. Hanna had been in politics for years. Mr. Hanna is one type of the business men who have ruled the City of Cleveland. There are other types, as we shall see, but we must begin with Marcus A. Hanna. He is dead. I don't believe in "nothing but good of the- dead "; I believe that true obituaries of our great men would do the living good. But I hoped to be able to tell about Ohio without saying much about Mr. Hanna. That is impossible. You can't understand Cleveland, and you can't understand Ohio, jvithout understanding Mark Hanna. And you can't understand the American people and the United States without seeing Hanna, as he was--good and bad, a delight and a danger, a business man in politics, a business man who dominated a city, became United States Senator and the boss of a
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