MAJOR WILLIAM McKINLEY.
Sidelights On the Life of the Great Apostle of American
Protection.
i NY man of ability
and application
who makes a gioat
I subject the stud;, of
hla life is sure to
become great.
When William Mc
Kinley waa at the
beginning of his
political career—o
young man of 34,
who recently had
ocen eiecica 10 ......
Hayes said to him: ‘‘To achieve suc
cess and fame you must pursue a spo
ctul line. You must not make a speech
on every motion offered or 1)111 Intro
duced. .you must confine yourself to
one particular thing. Become a epe
clalisW'' Take up some branch of legis
lation and make that your study. Why
not Hike up the subject of tariff? Be
ing a subject that will not be settled
for ycat's to come, It ofTers a great Held
for study and a chance for ultimate
fame." >'
The seed thus sown has borne fruit
which the whole world has tasted.
After fourteen years of preparation Mc
‘Klnloy’s time arrived, and his name be
came known to every nation as the au
thor of the great tariff hill of 1890. It
was h great stroke of policy, a grand
strategic movement In commercial war
fare, Redounding greatly to the benefit
of America and the discomfiture of the
European nations, which were seeking
to bring prosperity to their own indus
tries by destroying those of the United
States.
Sojfar did the fame of McKinley
spread abroad that the negroes in Cuba,
having heard of "Rill" McKinley and
the McKinley bill, and being taught by
tlielr Spanish oppressors that both
wore bail, got the two mixed up in a
sort of ogre, and used to bar the doors
of tlftyr huts at night for fear that “Old
Hill McKinley would catch them."
The congressman had become a man
of national and International Import
ance, Since then his name has stood
as the visible sign of the republican
parly's principle of protection to Ameri
can Industries. As the second admin
istration has brought out into strong
relief the administration of Harrison,
so the weak and halting tariff bill of
Wilson has caused the tariff bill of Mc
Kinley to at pear stronger by contrast.
In the lust election the theorists fooled
the ufoplo with juggled phrases, but no
theory can fill an empty dinner-pail,
and^he revulsion of sentiment in favor
of the McKinley tariff Is complete.
But not only in Cuba Is the name of
McKinley cordially disliked. Every
loyal Englishman, in England and else
where, believes it his bounden duty to
his own country to berate the states
manship of the great American.
McKinley is of Irish descent on his
father’s side, and of Scotch on his moth
er’s. His ancestors were settled In this
country before the revolutionary war.
Whei the War of the Rebellion broke
out'AVIUlam McKinley, then 17 years
old, was teaching a little country school
In Ohio. He enlisted, and as a private
went to the front with the Twenty
third Ohio Volunteers. At the close of
the*.war be was mustered out as major
Of the same regiment. He won his
promotion by gallant and efficient serv
ice at Antleiam and In the Valley cam
paign.
Then young McKlnleyhadallklngfor
the profession of arms, and wanted to
stay in the army after the war. The
. mental qualities of the man are un
doubtedly those which would have gone
to the making of a good officer in the
regular establishment, and there is
something about his personal appear
ance.' perhaps it is nothing more than
his facial resemblance to Napoleon, but
t| is there, which makes one think of a
military commander. McKinley’s
father and mother objected to his be
, cbinM'g an officer in the regulars, so
ithe\£rmy lost a general and politics
.gained one.
"" HU Wife Interested*
• McKinley studied law, graduated
‘\fom a law school in Albany, and then
, went back to Ohio to hang out his
^shingle” in Canton. His was the us
, nal experience of a young lawyer start
A Culmi» Itogejr.
Scoteh-Irlsh Stork.
ernor of Ohio. He married in 1S71
Mias Ida Saxton, the daughter of a
hanker in Canton. Two children have
boon born to them, but both died in in
fancy. Mrs. McKinley has not been in
good health for several years. She is
fond of collecting laces, and has accu
mulated many interesting specimens.
Sho used to he fond of reading hooks,
but these days she devotes herself
mostly to reading newspapers, for she
is deeply interested in her husband’s
public career, as every good wife
should be, and reads eagerly of hi3
chances for the nomination. She is
about her house, however, every lay,
attending to her domestic duties with a
cheery courage at once admirable and
pathetic. Wherever duty has called
her husband sho has been his compan
ion, and the careful attentions he gave
to her have been remarked ever since
Major McKinley attracted, by his pub
lic services, the attention and regard of
the nation. No matter how engross
ing his public; work, he has always
found time to look after even the small
est of his wife’s wants, to look after
them personally and not delegate such
duties either to friends or servants. In
health, 1 am'told. Mrs. McKinley was
rarely beautiful, and as Ida Saxton she
was easily the belle of the Northwest
ern Reserve. And she is lovely still
lovely with the refinement of patient
suffering, beautiful with the courage
which conquers the painful disabilities
of little health.
Daily Visit to Ills Mother.
There is another woman who is for
McKinley for president first, last and
all the time,and that is hisaged mother,
who lives near her son, and upon whom
McKinley calls every day when he is at
home. The lower -part of McKinley’s
face strikingly resembles his mother's.
The upper part he gets from his father.
McKinley is ait early riser and a hard
worker. He has his breakfast every
morning at 7:45 o’clock, and then works
until 11 o’clock, when, if the weather is
suitable, he goes driving with Mrs. Mc
Kinley. After luncheon he takes a
walk, a short siesta, and then works
until 6 o’clock.
Fond of Smokliiff.
His evenings he devotes to his family
1;<_• says: “When I have an important
speech to make it absorbs me. It is
bard work and it takes all there is in
me. I do not like to speak; I dread It.
j My heart goes down (n my boots when
| ever i get up before an audience, and I
! tremble until I begin to talk. It is al
| ways so, and I have been making
| si caches for twenty-three years.”
McKinley is an accessible man, and
| will receive the greatest bores with a,
retained this until he answered Lin
coln’s call for volunteers.
T»lk With McKinley's Mother.
The McKinleys had had six other
babies before William was born. The
bright and sweet-mannered woman,
who bears her eighty-seven years with
easy grace, when approached on the sub
ject by the writer, repelled with some
thing like indignation the suggestion
that perhaps William was a little bet
MAJOR WILLIAM McKINLEY. MRS. WILLIAM McKINLEY.
(Copvrlahtcd. 1896. by Leslie's Weekly.)
supernatural self-control. He is fond
of a joke, but does not like anything
"risque” or profane. He is a member
of the Methodist church, and as a rule
bars all jokes which turn on the subject
of religion.
He has one, however, on a politician
of his acquaintance, who, he says, could
never become a Baptist because be
would have to be immersed, and would
never consent to stay so long out of Iho
public view.
McKinley On the Stniul.
Maj. McKinley has always been in
great demand as a campaign speaker,
and in the canvass which resulted in
the complete unhorsing of the demo
cratic party he probably made more
speeches than any other orator. As a
speaker he is effective aild persuasive,
because he thoroughly believes in the
doctrines which he advocates; his hear
ers never suspect that Major McKinley
is triflingwith thcmorwithhimself. He
RESIDENCE OF McKINLEY AT CANTON, OHIO.
(Copyrighted, lfi96, by Leslie's Weekly.)
and friends. He does not care for wine
or liquor, but is fond of smoking. He
is 52 years old and is in excellent phy
sical condition, though rather inclined
to corpulency. That is the reason he
takes a walk daily. Major McKinley
is fond of dancing, and, in spite of his
weight, is light and graceful on his feet.
McKinley has had the advantage of
having good advisers in his youth. His
father and mother were people of ster
ling worth, and when he was a boy sol
dier in the army he was fortunate
enough to attract the attention of offi
cers like Hayes and Crook,who did much
to guide and advise him. General
Hayes especially took a deep interest
in the young man’s welfare and had
him on his staff for awhile.
No doubt General Hayes had a large
part in shaping the career of McKinley
and in forming his character.
'j,MAJOR MCKINLEY'S FATHER. MAJOR MCKINLEY'S MOTHER.
**> (Copyrighted, 1S9S, by L she's Weekly.)
log out to practice law, and as every
p- persevering young man of good habits
t; does he succeeded ultimately in getting
a good practice, and became prosecut
- lng attorney of Stark county. Then he
went into politics and was elected to
■;. congress, where he served for fourteen
y<3m. made himself famous '..by hi*
tariff bill, and in 1891 was elected gov
. ' .' ■ v ■ - ti- ; . >- . ' T
Haring entered the house of repre
sentatives at an early age (he was only
33 when elected) and having served
so long in that body, he has an intimate
knowledge of all the machinery of
legislation. He is not an ornate
speaker, but is clear, logical and
i forceful. His speeches are all prepared
with great care.
ilscloses himself with entire frankness,
and the audience seeing a true man
fighting for what he believes a true
cause, cannot fail to respect and ad
mire, and in a large measure also to be
lieve.
McKinley and His Neighbors.
With his neighbors In Canton—one
of the prettiest small cities in the coun
try, by the way—he is on most cordial
terms, and they drop in on him with
out any formality,' sure always of a
friendly welcome. It is my experience
that Americans are usually possessed
with a deal of cynicism as to the merits
of most men with whom they come in
intimate contact. About such men
there is no veil of ideality, and we see
their short-comings, their littlenesses,
and sometimes their meannesses, too.
When a man has lived for more than a
quarter of a century in one community,
where every man knows every other
man, and that man still has the capac
ity to arouse universal enthusiasm as
to his worth, his ability, and his hon
'esty. then we may be sure that there is
no pretense, no humbug about him.
And such is Major McKinley’s position
in Canton and in Stark county, together
with the neighborhood thereabouts.
He is so clearly the first citizen that no
one has ever suggested a rival. The
little city has grown during the last
decade or so in a most gratifying way,
and has manufactures at once very
large and very prosperous.
HU Ancestors.
i As has been said Major McKinley
comes of Irt8h-Scotch ancestry. His
forefathers came to this country from
Ireland in the 18th century. They set
tled in Pennsylvania. Two of his great
grandfathers joined the patriotic Conti
nental army and were with it under
Washington until the British were
forced to evacuate. His father, who
died a few years ago, was born on a
farm, but was during all his active life
and iron-maker. Not long after the
birth of his son William, the elder Mc
Kinley moved with his family to
Poland, Ohio, because of the educa
tional advantages of that place.
When five years old the son started to
school and continued there for eleven
years, when he was graduated from the
academy. He at once secured a place
| as teaSher of a school In Poland, and
' - t. : - . " . Aft ■i: i'v; it ■ ■ - }
ter or maybe a little worse than the
)ther babies. To her the babies as such
were all alike. They were pretty good
sables, Mrs. McKinley thinks, and Wil
iam was no more so than the rest.
They were alike, too, in that they
were all good looking, for. what mother
would ever admit that her child was
not? To be sure, Mrs. McKinley re
luctantly admitted William had that
lose—that straight, long, masterful,
Vapoleonic nose—that clings* to him
ret. In fact, he hasn’t changed much
sxcept as the years have matured his
form and face, and if anybody can
imagine fifty-two years rolled away
'rom the McKinley of to-day he would
see the squirming, chubby, red-faced,
irown-haired McKinley child that en
ured a home in Niles one day in Jan
uary tlfty-two years ago.
McKinley’* Childhood.
And that is the only way a picture of
Liaby McKinley ever will be made, for
his mother has none, and if any is in
existence she says she does not know
where it is. Mrs. McKinley has none
of the little socks, night gowns, or
baby frocks that William grew up in.
Such as he did not wear out were given
away. His mother said she never be
lieved in keeping old things. She en
joyed restrospection as much as any
body, but she liked new things, she
said, so saw no use in clinging to the
old and worn out just because they hap
pened to be old.
Even the settee-cradle is gone, and it
is a pity, for as described by Mrs. Mc
Kinley, it must have been an imposing
affair. Perhaps it was a sort of elon
gated rocking-chair. In the chair part
the mother sat and rocked, while in the
extension, which had sides and a head
board, the baby cooed or cried itself
to sleep.
After baby William came, the other
ittle McKinleys took turns at holding
lim and putting on his woollen gar
nents for Mrs. McKinley is a great be
liever in the use of wool, and is firmly
convinced that no baby can be success
fully reared without woollen clothing.
Her boys and girls grew up in wool,
and It is barely possible that the
;rowh-up McKinley’s Interest in
American sheep is due to his early as
iociation with American-grown and
made wool.
Strong Drink Encliawed.
It was a rule in the McKinley house
hold that strong drink must be eschew
ed. When somebody needed a stimu
lant, or an aggravated case of stomach
tche proved especially obstinate, a cer
tain mysterious bottle appeared and a
small dose was measured out carefully.
There was also a little home-made
grape wine that was amazingly good in
mince pies and pudding sauce, but as
beverages these things were unknown.
Thus the lad McKinley grew up a
thoughtful, loving, dutiful child. He
was scarcely more than a child when
he came to his parents, then living at
Poland, to propose the enlistment in the
Union army.
He was a serious child, a thoughtful
lad and an earnest student. He pre
ferred his books to ball. He early be
gan to read "Robinson Crusoe,” “Swiss
Family Robinson” and the rest, and
went to his lessons with patience. He
had to strive hard for all lie learned.
He was an affectionate child and he
liked his own family better than any
other family. He made friends, but he
preferred his own little brothers and
sisters. What is more, he liked the
girls, and he liked girls better than
boys. There was nothing of the roy
sterer about him.
Andrea's Balloon.
Herr Andree, who is to start for the
north pole in a balloon this coming
summer, has engaged M. Lachambre of
Paris to make it for a little over £2,000.
The material for the envelope will be
pongee de chine, a Chinese silk covered
with India rubber varnish, and so im
permeable that if the gas had no means
of escape but ti.rough the pores of the
cloth it would remain aloft -in the at
mosphere for three years. The silk
will bo two-ply in the lower and three
ply in the upper portion, and the net
work is to be covered with varnished
silk to keep snow from lodging in its
meshes. Tlic balloon is to be proper
ly tried by actual ascents before the
aeronauts leave for Spitsbergen, from
the north of which they will start on
their hazardous Journey.
‘‘ • - 1 YJ. ' S ' {i
EMPTY DINNER PAIL,
\ WORKINGMAN TELLS OP HIS
THOUGHTS IN IDLE HOURS.
jmon of the Empty Fall Laid Upon
the Kltehea Shelf—“Cheap” Uoods
Cannot Be nought by “Cheaper**
Labor.
V
T
In public discussions as to the fitness
»f the several aspirants for the repub
iean nomination to the presidency, it
seems to me that a few very important
sssentials are entirely overlooked.
Newspaper writers who do not appre
ciate, or who are not in touch with,
he sentiment of the masses of the
people fail to reach a true understand
ng of their desires. Moreover, they
pverlook all future possibilities, as a
•ule. There are very few newspaper
writers who look far into the future
>r who really think. They are con
:ent with the business of the day, with
he events of the day, caring little for
the morrow or taking heed what a
lay may bring forth.
But there is more real earnestness in
he minds and considerations of the
nasses of the people than we would
se led to imagine, judging from the
;enor and tone of our daily press. And
he events of the past few years have
ieveloped this earnestness of thought.
Men have been brought face to
face with the affairs of the morrow,
rhey have been compelled to take heed
what a day may bring forth. “A con
lition, not a theory, has confronted
them." Dwell, for a moment, upon the
position of a man who, year in and
j ear out, has been able to sell his labor
for good wages. He has lived well;
lie has given his family far better edu
cation than he was, himself, enabled
to secure; he is procuring a home for
them; he is giving them comforts and
little luxuries, the ability to do which
cheers him at his work and adds zest
to his home coming. Let such a man,
through no fault of his own, be
brought face to face with the fact that
on the morrow there will be no de
mand for his labor, that he cannot sell
his finished product—the strength of
arm and the mechanical skill of his
brain—in the great markets of the
United States.
It has taken many men a long time
to realize fully the true depth of what
this means. At work day after day,
wages earned week after week, year in
and year out. “But, tomorrow, I can
not sell my labor. My boss has no
use for it. What does it mean?” Im
agine a steady hard working man sud
denly confronted with such a condi
tion. Imagine him, if you can, going
home to his wife, to his children, tell
ing them that he is an idler, that he
cannot earn for them their next day’s
bread and meat. There is no demand
for his strength or skill. Nobody needs
him. He feels his arm, his muscle.
It is good and strong as ever. The
paralysis is not there. But the country
is paralyzed, paralyzed with the cheap
labor products of foreign mills, sent
here from foreign countries, admitted
into our markets by the democratic
party, that promised him higher wages,
more work, cheaper goods and a period
of prosperity and revelry such as he
had never dreamed of.
And where are his higher wages?
He has no wages. Where is the extra
work he was promised? He has no
work. Where is that period of pros
perity and revelry? Alas, he has the
the money that~ivm~;
__ 1 "'ll i
veriest trash that' • -
foreign factory *3 !t">
Prison. Sues ... ,10 i
fered to him. u i®!*d- ^
got them because t/'
labor «ill "cheaper.-ro„
: (ioet ■
thwe ls-fl0 demand ,0,“,
low workers. la the " *
pulsory idleness of ?1
“change." Don’t th '^
have run their head*!
“condition?" How i! P
these hard headed thin! & i
°»t the (acts, to rea tl8"
down to the root of
know that every ca e o r, "“1
Bold here represent^ my°H
to foreign labor and than
a hundred dollars taken
American labor. it dJL .,
to think that out. *
ner pall still stands upon th!
shelf, that dinner pail ^
a tax to them in 1892 t
r‘°,poii3h u u» >"a..
the kinks that it incurred
daily use. Battered in the hoi
Ice of honest toil! Rusting,
Oh, for the chance to buy an
Kinley “taxed" dinner pail,
the chance to brand the
free trade lie with the ini;
serves. The chance is C0lni
portunlty will soon be here
bravely, for a few months
honest American wage earm
shall have the chance, vou
the opportunity to vote to ill
ner pails to the full again i
them filed even though the
liar tells you they are “tax;
Is no “tax" so heavy as t
idleness.
McKinley protection gav
dinner pails and filled the
Democratic damnation hi
them. And this is the reas
masses of the people, the s
r
mand the nomination of William
Kinley for president of the
States.—A Workingman-May 1,
sac
I to
What liroavenor Say*.
“"The fifty-first congress enacted I
cial legislation that placed this
eminent beyond a condition s
we have now. It turned o*?r
democratic party a surplus in the
ury, with a law which, if the
crats had left it standing upoi
statute books, would have abunffl
supplied the whole necessities
government during all of these,
What did the democratic yw
Coming into power with a t N
they would destroy thereveu^
law of the country, with a t re
they would destroy the great '
of legislation upon which S’ 1
of this country were
were never thriving be,or ’
breath of their entry into P
before they had acquired the®
tion of the election of
with a simoom all tb 1 „
country, paralyzed ** Jl
the country, made “
there had been pr® ' ®^ied thett
coming into power repea^^
which the treasui. ^
money, bankrupt. ^
made it impossible that n
this country could P«' ^1
debts.—Hon. Charles H. Gro
C., of Ohio. _]
Argument for rrotecu -
The closing down ^ t0
in this city means a go
siderahle numbe^ , connecti«‘1
Lowell, anti tak on print
the fact that the > r«
waS reduced more than(
the Democratic tariff ^oro(juS
tangible arfun’.,.m industries
tection to Ame derstaDd. 1
nobody can fat . ,ng for d>e
is not alone in s“ft ®tic part
of the nati°na’° “ vails ***'
the same condition P couM
reached b> th s jn the
of the tariff re£ n (Mass'51
third Congress^-Lo^
One Ch»Pter M‘‘‘‘°ecbajtt|
It would be an inter e ^
onomic hlstor> nt 0f fore'?11 Pa
.ures the abatement o jncreaS
ilcb have lollop ,ha.«
e tariff, for it wo >d/oade outs*
bus profits ha'e bn n0 protect'
these POOP’? * s B. Kefc,i'
.-H -Hon. Thomas n
T^1 ''1'!c0b^rmoeratici
more the tbe
jfcKinieJ Republican1
•the better t«w,r by it'
h*pn lv i ,hnr H
MhoTas ^ labor s
ien and women faclorie, of
a snoe» ,
—Daily V**
Jtflltl—
time to enjoy it, his time is all his own.
But he sees no prosperity, no revelry,
Even happiness, the true happiness of
industry has fled from his home. And
the “cheaper” goods, the product of
"cheap” foreign labor that has sup
planted his own labor, that has made
him an idler, how can he buy these
“cheaper” goods when he lacks the
money to buy such food as he had been
accustomed to provide for his family,
and which they must now do without.
Of what use to him are these “cheap”
goods? They have “cheapened” his
labor and stand tar more costly to him
today because of his inability to earn
