Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-09-09

| t1ng-off Of comforts and Iuxuries that are
now enjoyed by ali or nearly ALL Instead
| Of protective duties for the benefit of
| American labor we shall see revenue
| duties on tea, coffee, spices, sugar, and
| the like to pay the expenses of the Gov
! eminent The cost of housekeeping will
/ be no whit lower, although we shall have
| no duties for the benefit of the American
producer.
Under the Mckinley tariff the cost
OF living has gone down. There has
| been at least no rise in the cost of car
| pets, clothing hardware, food and all
the rest. | Lave asked one home pro-
wider after another to tell me what arti-
| Gle they pay more for than they did last
year. In every case they tell me that
nothing is dearer than it was, and that
| many things are much cheaper. The
difference in the cost of sugar alone is
| an important item in household ex-
penses. Wages have held up and in
many cases have risen.
| In word, the mckinley Prices" lie
| has been exploded by the evidence of
| facts which touch every mans pocket
The gallant Majors own district was
BAN boozled by that lie into voting
against him. His State now has the OBJ
portunity and the duty to give it it's
| final quietus. Shall not Ohio prove her
self equal to the occasion?
GAS man thinketh at heart, so is he. "
As a man takes with his neighbors at
home, so in no small part is he. There
are big men with frills and big men
without them. VIM. Mckinley, Jr.,
doesn't wear many.
Mckinley was scarce eighteen, when,
in spite of his mothers fears, he shout
dered musket, and went forth from
the little hamlet of Poland, Mahoning
County, Ohio, in the regiment led by
Colonel Rutherford 3. Hayes. Young
Mckinley stuck to fighting in modest,
business-like way, and grade by grade
pushed his way to the fore. Finally,
when the unpleasantness quoted down
in 1865, Mckinley had earned the gold
leaf of major and had developed sun
dry sound traits so we'll perfected in the
school Of war. What systematic school
ing Mckinley received in those early
years was acquired at an institution at
Meadville, Pa. A statesman was pre-
served to the Nation when, at the close
of the war, the young volunteer resisted
the urging of his father and declined to
join the regular army as aid-de-camp to
General Carroll for service in Texas.
SO the young fellow came home
and dived into the law books
of Judge Belden, an old practi-
toner of Canton. Politics and
its rewards now began to boom up
before the rising lawyer, and he soon
found himself Prosecuting Attorney for
Stark County. In 1876 he was first
elected to Congress, and two years
later he first encountered the Giant
Gerrymander, and with him wiped the
ur%h fnr oft ~ hn
fights, he was reelected over Gen.
Aquilla Wiley by small plurality. In
his next Congressional fight he had
clear field, for his district had been re-
stored to its original limits, and Judge
Thoman, of Youngstown, was obliged to
stay at home In 1882 dissenSions arose
and Judge Wallace, of New Lisbon,
beat him, although Mckinley was de-
clared elected by seventeen votes. In
1884 again he grappled with gerry
wandered district, $500 Democratic,
and down went David r Paige, of Ak
ron. In 1883 Mckinley forced Phelps,
of the Alliance Leader, to stick to his |
quill-Phelps had been heading for Con-
gress. Then came 1888, and, with re-
stored district, the Major laid away on |
the shelf George z. Iker, Of Columbiana |
County.
But the man, the husband, the citi-
zen. Eighteen years ago he married |
Miss Ida SaXton, of Canton. Those |
eighteen years have proven Mckinley |
the perfect husband, for during all this |
time his wife has required the extra de- |
votion demanded by a confirmed invalid. |
Major Mckinley is not a wealthy man, |
but he is in comfortable circumstances. |
He is not what is called a money maker, |
as it is said he never even charges |
interest on money he loans.
The Rev. D. H. Muller, of the First |
Methodist Episcopal Church, Canton, a
man who knows Mckinley we'll, says OF |
his dominant traits:
Gas to his moral qualities, his con- |
science is tender clear, strong, keeping |
him always in harmony with his own |
convictions, and making him reliable |
when great principles are at stake. / |
think the predominant heart quality |
which he has exhibited as person is his |
self-sacrifice, self-abnegation. His mod |
esty equals his unSelfishness, and his |
devotion to those he loves is exceptional |
Without trespassing upon the sanctity |
of his domestic relations, let me say that |
very few men, it any, have given them |
selves with such unstinted devotion to |
an invalid wife as Major Mckinley has |
for years. Save when Important duties !
demanded his absence from her side, he |
has ever been present to cheer and COM |
fort her. When other men, after their |
public duties of the day, have found |
relief in some social or physical recrea- |
tiOn, he has turned aside from all solicit |