Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-09

loT among tnelr 1ol-
lowers are persons
anxious to vote for
him from all sections of the country.
One New York man, who says that his
factory-he is a cutler-was preserved by
Mckinley, means to vote for him on the
first ballot. When they proposed in New
England delegations to take up Reed for
the dark horse they found Mckinley sup
porters there. He is a man of pure char
acter and equally pure appearance At the
last convention, when he read the platform
which was adopted without dissenting
voice, most people were impressed with his
nearly sacred appearance. Now and then
he looks white, as if something like predes-
tination had intentions upon him, yet he
would avoid the appearance of assisting
himself at the expense of Harrison, and his
rectitude is genuine.
Something About Major Mckinley.
Not a man of extensive scholarship or
versatile parts, there is nothing restless
about Mckinley. His domestic life is
happy, in spite of years of invalidism of
his wife. He is strict Congressman, pay
ing attention to all things, but particularly
TO tariff legislation, for his father before
him was an ironmaker, some say only a
foreman in MILL who never had luck in the
manufacture for himself His stock, Scotch
Irish, from among the charcoal furnaces of
Pennsylvania, which were established in
the first quarter of this century. In the
course of time the family passed up the
Mahoning Valley into Ohio, and Mckinley
represented part of the Garfield district.
There is higher idealism, it is said, over
in Ohio among the iron men than among the
substantial Pennsylvanians, and Ohio poll
tics more frequently produces national
leaders, as if the blending of the New
England Puritans on the Reserve had
thinned the corpuscles of the Keystones
Allison, Rusk, Mckinley and Garfield
came out of Pennsylvania to Ohio, and
Rusk and Garfield drove the canal mules
between New Castle and Cleveland
Education Acquired in Pennsylvania
Mckinley studied at college in Pennsyl-
vania, and about finished up at the law
when q company marched away from his
little town. He reflected perhaps he had
better gone also, so he set out next day with
sioner in Boston, and walked to a camp and
enlisted as private soldier. He is the fol-
lower of the rank The death of Garfield
uncovered him as a rising Republican.
Passing the Mckinley bill was in reality
his entrance in politics. As the executive
Of Ohio he added the captivating role of
Governor of his State to his youthful fame.
One learns of Mckinley, after knowing
him for some time, that mightiness is his
representative quality. He is mild and
active and in good health. His face, which
has undoubtedly the Napoleonic look in it,
has nothing swarthy, like the Corsicans
His hair is dark, and his skin gives the ap-
pearance of abstemIousness and Office habits.
He is little disposed to be corpulent, vet
NAV be regarded as one of the handsomest
men and sons.
Mckinley Not a Bit Handicapped.
Mckinley has a little start in his favor,
for in spite of all movements of population
westward, Ohio continues to be the resery-
ing station between the East and the West.
From it depart to the farther west the we'll
mingled emigrants which have come from
the East.
A son of iron mills, with legal educa-
tion and military experience in the war;
and thorough reasoning in politics and
Congress make him what might be called
the American Golden, in spite of the diyerg-
ing views the two names represent Golden,
a spinner, went into politics 10 get legisla-
tion favorable to his trade. So has McKin-
lev been devoted to the iron which, from
Pittsburg districts, sends out a mountain
development South and lake development
North. Iron and coal formed their advance
camps at the head of Lake Superior.
The author of the Mckinley bill owes
to his personality, rather than to his legis-
lation, the strong secondary support which
has come to him here. In the midst of it
be is possessed and solid in countenance,
like one growing older under strain. He
is a magnificent youth, has not the years of
Blaine or Harrison, and his influence has
exceeded the popular understanding. In
1884 he produced the platform of the con-
yention, probably his own composition. |
He followed up with extreme legislation |
in the same direction.
Made a Governor by Democrats.
The Democrats were kind enough to make |
his district the scene of national contest, |
where manifestly the cards had been |
stacked against him, and he was thus side |
tracked into the Governorship. Now, at
the head OF the national convention, he will |
be closely watched, but the average man
inhales from Mckinley, coming near to
him, more OF the priestly and supernatural
ether.
"Both sides are afraid of him." said
newspaper talk this morning; ''they have
put him in the place be might be dangerous,
but they probably have put him in a place
where he will be guarded from committals
and become the portrait of Providence in
the eyes OF the convention"
1t seems TO be the fate of John Sherman
for Ohio always to have some younger man