Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-09-03

year. In every case they tell me that
nothing Ia dearer than it was, and that
many things are much cheaper The
difference In the cost Of sugar alone is
an important item lin household ex-
penses. Wages have held up and iii
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
bamboozled by that lie into voting
against him. His State now has the OPP
portunity and the duty to give it its
final quietus. Shall not Ohio prove her.
self equal to the occasion?
@As man thinketh at heart, so is he.
AS d 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 a musket and went forth from
the little hamlet OF Pc and. Mahoning
County, Ohio. in the regiment led by
Colonel Rutherford b. 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 well perfected in the
school OF war. What systematic school
ing Mckinley received in those early
years was acquired at an institution at
Meadville, Pa 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 I'm Texas
So the young fellow came home
and dived into the law books
Of Judge Belden, an old practi-
TONER Of Canton. Politics and
It's 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
earth, for, after one of the bitterest
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 it's original limits, and Judge
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 a re-
stored district, the Major laid away on
the shelf George p. 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 q confirmed invalid.
Major Mckinley is not 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. ID. HI. Muller, of the First
Methodist Episcopal Church, Canton,
man who knows Mckinley we'll, says Of
his dominant traits:
AS TO MS moral quallGleS, MS 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 unselfshness, 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, II any, have given them
selves with such unstinted devotion to
an invalid wife as Major McKin' ey 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