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in inducing Judge Gary
to
keep himself aloof from a
spot where he might become the prey of too many per–
sons with questions to ask, or favors
to
seek. Judge Gary
was one of the biggest buyers of wine-particularly
champagne-that the hotel ever numbered among its
customers, but most of it was not served in the Bar.
Later on, he developed into an ardent supporter of pro–
hibition-for the working man.
Two-TIME WARWICK
Two men who occasionally sat at a table in a remote
corner were very much in the public eye during the late
nineties, and one for years later. The big man in the
baggy, homespun suit, during McKinley's last presi–
dential campaign, figured more extensively in the news,
the editorials and the cartoons, than did the candidate
himself. He was Senator Marcus Alonzo Hanna-not
"Marcus Antonius" or "Marcus Aurelius," as some re–
porters used to write his name. However, it was usually
abbreviated to "Mark A. Hanna."
Hanna was a merchant, iron-master and ship-owner
of Cleveland, who, in
I
896, had taken under his wing
William McKinley, father of a famous tariff bill, and by
applying the principles of "big business" to a political
campaign, twice made him President of the United
States. Often seen with Hanna, in the early days, ac–
cording to a surviving barman, was the Vice-President of
the United States. It was n"ot an
un~ommon
practice in
those days for a Vice-President of the United States
to
take a drink and admit it. Senator Hanna was very
temperate. His son, Dan, was a more frequent patron
of the Bar for many years.
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