The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-01-14

with vines, and Governor Mckinley comes
out upon this porch and makes his stump
speeches whenever he comes TO Niles.
found the people of Niles very proud of
him. Some of the older citizens told me
that he was a black-haired, dark-faced.
chubby little boy, and that he usually
went there hen, as he does to-day, by the
name of Bill Mckinley.
l called upon Governor Mckinley last
night in his rooms at the hotel. [ am STOP
ping at the same place, and l can tell you
that the Governor of Ohio has negro in
swallow-talled coat 10 wait upon him,
and without he has more persuasive man
ners than l have he has to pay quarter
three times day il he expects q full meal.
did not see him in the dining-room, and
L suppose he dimes with his family in his
apartments on the second floor. He has a
number of large rooms here, and the one
in which be received ne was about fifteen
feet square and was ordinarily well fur
nished. Its windows looked out on the
main business street of the city, and the
Governor sat in a swinging chs air by the
side of a fire before a high-rolIer
top desk, which was pushed up
against the wall near the window. He
stood up as | entered and | had a good
chance 20 see how he looks in this year o
our Lord eighteen hundred and ninety :
four. He has grown flesher since he lef
Congress and his form is beginning to as
sumo Nhot ehO WOuIu CHI
embonpoinr. He stands about feet Z in
his stockings, and he weighs, I venture,
175 pounds. He is a straight, broad-shoul-
defed. big-chested man. with a form and
face which have often justly been COM
pared to those of Napoleon BOnaparte. He
is taller than was Napoleon, but he grows
more like him in feature and form as he
grows older. He does not like the COM
parson, and he once told me he would kill
ME If | repeated it concerning him in the
newspapers. But the resem DlaDce is so
obvious that l can best describe him by
using il.
Governor Mckinley has very hand
some face and very strong one. He looks
trlfie older than he did six years ago and
his black hair Is mixed with gray at the
temples and there are few more serious
wrinkles in his face. His blue eyes. how
ever. are still full of life. and when he
smiles his face grows younger He is
smooth shaver. ana his dress, as usual.
was black. | don't think have ever seen
Governor Mckinley in anything else than
suit of black clothes, and he always
looks clean and we'll dressed. He wears
standing collar. black necktie and his
only Jewelry is a gold ring on the third
hnger OF his left hand and gold watch
chain. which runs across his vest from one
pocket to the other. The Governor is
very pleasant man in his manners with
bis guests, He is accustomed to meeting
men and he puts his callers at their ease.
There is no gush about him and he has
dlgDitled coOmOn-sense way which is very
homelike and pleasing. l talked with him
Tor perhaps an hour He is an easy con-
versationalist and his face changes in ex-
preston as he becomes serious or the re-
verse in his talk. During part OF the
time he chewed at bit OF cigar which
he had taken out CT his pocket and broken
of, and L was struck with his earnestness,
his simplicity and his evident honesty.
During the conversation l asked Govern.