Although Democratic cartoonists, particularly those working for William Randolph Hearst, parodied him as Dollar Mark, he was a relatively moderate Republican. He had no desire to emulate Pullman, or for that matter Carnegie, both of whom professed sympathy for workers while crushing them. Hanna imagined a harmony between business interests and the public interest, but he was not a reformer. He thought traditional Republican policies of the tariff and hard money would yield general prosperity.
