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For tho next few weeks the unities
of two men will bo often coupled in
enthusiastic phrases by Republicans
all over tho country They will wnvo
on banners They will be spoken by
lolltlcal orators before audiences
which will take this lis n cue for lot
ting loose the rapid Ore butteries of
applause
These names ure McKlnley and
Roosevelt Both names were familiar
to tho people before the Republican na
tional convention The public acts and
the careers of both men from their
Ing In Homo way affoctcil by It Mr
McKInloy seems to have Rained dig
nlty of carriage mental poise and gen
tlenoss of mannor All throo he had
In some degree before but now as has
been said they are distinctive traits
They nlwnys bespeak the ripened char
acter
lcrhups his gentleness Is due to his
kindly domestic relations As Is well
known he has for many years been tho
devoted and tenderly solicitous hus
band of a partially Invalided wife Ills
devotion to his aged mother us wit-
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Cciijriiiht ItWO by diaries A Gray
WILLIAM MKINLEY
boyhood on have been subject to ex
haustive publicity Wo know when
and where they were born what were
the conditions surrounding them in
youth and every step of their progress
up the ladder of national fame
But we may know all this and still
be unacquainted with the real men bo
hind tho names Character is abstract
You cannot define it by dates and rec
ords We have words to describe sa
lient features of It but at the host
they picture only vague generalities
It is only tho great masters of Action
who are able to make us know a man
wo have never seen and who probably
never existed There is still another
manner of getting acquainted with
men with whom we have not tho op
portunity of intimacy This is by In
ference It Is un indirect mode and Its
accuracy depends upon our own judg
ment
The traits of character which are
most apparent In William McKInloy
the Republican standard bearer are
manliness dignity and gentleness Yon
will admit tuat they are good traits
They command your respect But these
traits by no means muko up the sum
of his character They arc simply the
ones which are most prominent They
are the ones which show on tho sur
face For the rost you must go much
deeper than the limits of mere printers
Ink will allow
The cnndldato for re election to tho
highest office In tho gift of tho people
is today a man who might well be tak
en as a typical American He is rather
stout but none too much f for his
height and age Ills Is not the com
manding figure of Lincolns nor Is It
ilacklng In Inches ns was Grants Men
who knew Stephen A Douglas say
that Mr McKlnley resembles him very
much
Mr McKInloy looks practically no
older now than ho did when he was
nominated for the first time Four
years of presidential responsibility
linay have thinned somewhat the hair
on his forehead and touched it with
iwhlto on tho temples but tho lines
about tho mouth and eyes seem no
deeper In spite of an eventful admin
istration It is probable that the gain
of self confidence and mental poise has
inoro than made up for the strain of
Jiard work and the anxiety about ex
ternal things
I Men who finally roach a successful
period In their lives seem to ago very
elowly It appears to be this way with
Mr McKlnley Some of his friends
even Insist that he has grown younger
during Ids four years In tho White
Ilouao At any rate he does not look
all of his 57 years
Yet tho McKlnley who Is now presi
dent and presidential candidate Is by
no means the same McKlnley who
inado tho campaign In 1800 No man
can occupy for four years a position at
the head of a great nation without be-
nessed during the last years of her life
was no less tender
An instance of this is the fact that
every 24 hours during those closing
years the president sou communicated
in some way with his mother While
he lived In Canton his daily call on her
was a part of tho routine of his life
After he became president ho did not
nllow the days to become so crowded
with affairs that there was no time
left for his message to mother So
every day there was sent to tho dear
old lady in Canton a White House en
velope containing some word from
My William at Washington as she
always spoke of him
He is too as good a husband ns w
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In tho White House for a few momonttt
with her He has been known to do
this a dozen times In a day
For Mrs MoKlnleys sake White
House etiquette has been radically
altered In other administrations It
has been customary for the president
to sit nt one end of the table at Htato
dinners and the lady of the executive
mansion at the other Hut Mrs Mc
KInloy has always been given tho seat
of honor nt the right of her husband
where he could hear her slightest wish
When great affairs of the nation were
at stake he has always given her the
most cheerful and optimistic view pos
sible When they travel together she
Is shielded In many ways by his con
stant care
Tills gentleness Is even extended to
others There arc many who can testi
fy to it Ills custom of giving flowers
to casual callers Is an Instance of this
The pink carnation Is President Mo
Klnloys favorite flower lie Is seldom
seen without one In his buttonhole and
when he is In tho White House there Is
always a big bunch of them put In a
vase on his desk Sometimes the vase
Is replenished several times during the
day lie gives them away not reck
lessly but with discretion He pectus
to know Just where they will lie appre
ciated
A case in point is an incident which
occurred early in his administration
when representatives of several labor
organizations called upon him to ask a
favor The request was one which he
could not grant but after he had ox
pressed his regret he took the carna
tion from ills buttonhole and pinned It
upon the lapel of one of the leaders
Then lie distributed the contents of tho
vase among the rest with the remark
Ilcase give these to your wives or
sweethearts with my compliments
Many a disappointed office seeker
has gone away from tho White House
with a carnation in Ills buttonhole
which he prized almost as much as he
would have valued the appointment he
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THE MKINLEY HOME IV CANTON
failed to get This may bo only tact or
it may bo genuine kindliness of heart
Tact he certainly has No better ex
ample could be found than his reply to
Captain Slgsbec when the president at
tended n reception given in honor of
the hero of the Maine
ilr Presidit said the gallant cap-
MRS MKINLEY
was a son Busy as he is he seems
never to forget the sweet faced wife
who suffers much yet hides It all with
a never falling choorfulaess It is not
unusual for him to Interrupt the most
Important conferences to run up stairs
tain I wish to thank you for this
houor
Not at all captain replied Mr Mc
Klnley It Is an honor to bo here
But with all his gentleness Mr Mc
Klnley knowe how to deal out stern
Justice when occasion requires Tho business ami otllcla Wt n They woik
leelopnieiits of the llauuin postal
scandal not long ago revealed to some
who had known him this other phase
or the tiiau When he full story of
the scandal llrst became known In
Washington there was a gathering In
the cabinet room at the White House
which will not soon be forgotten by
those present The look on the presi
dents set face and the short sharp
sentences which came lioiii tils lips
will live In memory ltcfuo the tem
per of that council all questions of rol
ntlve responsibility all Inclination to
express Incredulity all feeling of per
sonal friendship for the suspected any
thing which might tend to minimize
the Importance of the discovery was
dissipated The heads of departments
went out from that conference wltli
the knowledge that the full power of
togclhci On a railroad train ton will
1 1 till n conductor unit nu engineer In
a couit you will Hud a Judge and a
prosecuting attorney In an ocean
steamer ou will llnd a captain and an
engineer
None of these similes tits the caso
oviotl but they must serve Iortu
nately for the people who cannot have
n personal knowledge or him Mr
Roosevelt has written his own descrip
tion I believe In the strenuous life
he has said You have but to relied
on his record to believe that he has told
the w hole storj
Before he hit on this apt term Mr
Roosevelt used to say Woik for nil
that Is my doctrine lie has not only
preached It but he has conscientiously
lived up to It As lawyer leglslatoi
reformer hunter author soldier and
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THEODORE ROOSEVELT
tho government would bo Involved to
the complete exposure of the crimes
nnil the merciless punishment of till di
rectly or Indirectly concerned
This firmness is one of his dormant
traits Its presence is frequently un
suspected until it comes to the suifaco
Much has been said and written of
the president as an orator He is sure
ly notable In this regard Ills short
speeches are models of rhetoric and de
livered In n pleasing style but his tal
ents as an auditor ire equally remark
able and surrounded by Ids cabinet
he Is frequently called upon to show
them When he listens to a speech he
sits tranquilly in the large chair gen
erally placed for his convenience gaz
ing intently at the speaker and usually
holding ills silk hat in his hand No
nervousness marks his manner except
now and then ho will tap quietly upon
the arm of his chair with his gloved
hand or close and unclose It He does
not miss a single point tho speaker
makes looks grave or smiles as the
caso may be and often as though car
ried away by the enthusiasm of the
moment leads tho applause He Is
truly a sympathetic listener and as
one of the younger orators put It un
Inspiration to the speaker
While Mr McKlnley Is no such mak
er of epigrams as Tom Reed his wit Is
by no means sluggish Ills Impromptu
remarks are often humoroiu enough to
do credit to a Chain y Depew but he
never goes out of his way to drag in a
Joke Occasionally however ho turns
off what a story teller would call a
good thing Hero is one of them
On tho occasion of tho presidents
trip to Alabama Governor Johnson In
tho course of a public address said
Tho south has no apologies to make
and nothing to take back
Tho president was amply equal to
tho occasion He replied Wo had
something to take back we took you
back Wo wore glad to take you back
and you were glad to have us take you
hack
In his private life Mr McKInloy
practices the virtue of democratic sim
plicity He likes to live comfortably
but his Ideas of comfort uro on a lino
with those of tho ordinary well to do
citizen His home In Canton Is an ex
ample of this It Is a modest dwelllug
which does not oven suggest u man
sion Although it was tho house In
which tho president and Mrs McKIn
loy first began housekeeping Mr Mc
Klnley did not become tho owner of It
until about a year ago when he pur
chased It for 14500 It Is tho samo
one occupied by him during tho cam
paign of 1890
Mr McKInloy has led such a busy
Ilfo that ho has never had time to ac
quire a tasto for any but simple recrea
tions Ills fondness for driving a good
horso Is perhaps tho only predilection
of this sort worthy of note During
tho early part of his administration ho
was occasionally soon on horseback
about Washington but for the last two
years ho contented himself with driv
ing
If William McKInloy stands for a
well recognized aud highly respected
typo of American Theodore Roosevelt
is a living example of another Ameri
can typo of which the nation Is Justly
proud -You will find theso two types
of Americans In every department of
governor he has been forever doing the
things which seemed right to hint anil
doing them with all his might
Energy fearlessness and honesty are
his chief characteristics lie Is super
lative In all Ills energy Is of the
steam engine variety His fearless
ness is tho kind of stuff that led men
to martyrdom In other ages His hon
esty is such that even ills most bitter
political enemies have never doubled
it a tribute none too common
It Is a significant fact that Mr
Roosevelt Is still listed by the popular
mind among tho very young men Yel
ho will bo 42 next October an age at
widely disliked for doing Ihe work he
Was set to do
II was the HMtue story when he wan
Hindu n police commissioner in Now
York lie found there a police forco
which neglected lis duly not as an
occasional lapse but as a steady thing
The taws against Immorality nnd tlm
excise law were not enfoiccd at all
1ollcctnen spent Ihe night In Imronmn
or slept In hallways Crime was com
moti
Itoosevell held the singular Idea that
tlu duty of patrolmen was to patrol
Single handed and unsupported by his
colleagues lie assumed the task of
uinliliiK hem do It On his little Mia
Mourl Hindi when a cowboy did not
ImiiimI to suit him he showed him how
he wanted It done In New York ho
bcnni patrolling on his own account
IucsmiiI phi inly Hometlmes with a sin
gle companion and sometimes alone ho
walked the NlredH nt all hours of tho
night When ho could not llnd a
patrolman upon a certain beat the fel
lows olllclal head fell Into tho banket
with n plunk
A spirit of unrest pervaded tho Now
York police force Tho officers com
plained Their friends the reporters
wrote protests for them Tho eotnmlH
sloncr was unmercifully caricatured
But he kept at tils work At last tho
policemen decided to do their duty
New Yorkers finally conceded that tho
man they had been so busily ridiculing
had done them a most valuable serv
ice
He took his linblti of work Into the
navy department before the outbreak
of hostilities with Spain He was at
his desk promptly nl l oclock In tho
morning nnd lie left It at I In the aft
ernoon In the hours between he dis
patched an enormous auioiiul of busi
ness Ills clerks liked him but ho
made tliem work lie asked no one to
do any more than he did himself but
he Insisted that all should do their
best Ills courage his aggiesslveness
his honesty his energy his executive
ability worked wonders In the depart
ment and the results weie seen later
when the lesl cillne
Ills wonderful popularity with the
rough riders was a slnccie surprise to
his custom acquaintances But they
hud not seen the side of the man which
hud boon shown to the cowboys of the
Bad I n nils The latter had iccogiilzed
in 111 in the kind of a man they liked
aud they went to Culm with him
whooping with delight
In the same manner that he rushed
up San 1 un it hill he Jumped Into the
campaign in New York when lie was
nominated for governor In two weeks
he was whirled through 40 counties
made Kill speeches and traveled over
2i0 miles
To tell the story of Theodore Roose
velts origin would take too long Per
haps It Is enough to say that In 1700
two cent in les ago there was an Alder
man Nicholas Roosevelt In New Am
sterdam 1 le was Theodore Roosevelts
great grea t grea I l grand fa t her
Of his home life Mr Roosevelt Is
Jealous He dislikes very much to see
II exploited In print He lias become
however a national character and this
reticence he must eventually modify
to some extent He has a delightful
homo near Oyster Bay on Long Island
There he lives when possible with Ida
wife and six children
Mrs Roosevelt Is of n retiring
MRS ROOSEVELT
which we usually credit men with hav
ing attained both discretion aud the
wisdom of experience
There Is no such tiling as separating
Theodore Roosevelts private Ufo from
his public career Almost from tho
day he left college ho has been more
or loss in tho public eye He began by
getting elected to tho New York stato
legislature In his first term he was so
actlvo that he attracted tho attention
of tho party leadors He was put on
the civil Bervlce commission whero
other men had found obscurity and
be made a mighty stir getting himself
sltlon ner tastes arc thoroughly do
mestic Her maiden name was Edith
Kermlt Carow She Is a sweet moth
erly looking young matron with light
hair blue eyes and a fair complexion
She Is of medium height aud of rather
slight figure She is primarily a home
ma kor ner tastes are simple and alio
Is much averse to extravagance and
display She believes that her mission
In life Is to mako home a cheerful
place for her husband and to keep her
six children healthy lu body and mind
It Is an old fashioned Ideal this but
one which still has many supporters 4
