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and of Scotland have each i'm turn been
fitly called the Land of Liberty. But
if pre-eminence be given to none, sure
ly equality with any may be claimed
for the land of Bruce and the country
men of Wallace. The man whose fore
bears fought at Bannockburn and de
creed "No surrender at Londonderry,
and followed Washington from Massa-
chussetts Bay to Yorktown, may at
least lay claim to honorable ancestry.
The McKinleys originated in the
western part of Scotland, and early be-
came conspicuous for their valor and
devotion to principle. They were iden-
titled with the Covenanter party in re-
ligious and civil affairs, and shared to
the full its sturdy holding of the faith
and its indomitable resistance to the
persecution and tyranny of the Stuart
kings. In the time Of Charles III. the
family emigrated to the north of Ire
land and joined their clansmen who in
Cromwelps day had colonized the
Province of Ulster. There they were
again subjected to many ills in the
Jacobite war, through which they bore
themselves with manly loyalty to the
Covenant and TO the King. Thence,
about the middle of the last century,
they came to America, worthy MEN,
bers of that army of Scotch-lrish colo
nists, famous alike for brain and Drawn,
which contributed so largely to the
settlement and civilization of this con-
tinent, to the achievement ofindepend-
ence, and to the upbuilding of the Ma
ton.
There were two brothers Mckinley,
james and W,h.nm, among those colo
nists. They reached this country some
twenty-five years before the battle of
Bunker Hill. James settled in what Is
now the ancient town of York, i'm
Southern Pennsylvania, married, and
sent his son David to fight under
Washington's fig in the War of the
Revolution. When peace was restored
and independence gained, David Me-
Kinley returned to the Pennsylvania
homestead and there lived until after
the War of 1872. Then, joining the
great tide that began to move west
ward, he removed to the country be-
yond the Ohio River and settled in the
region now known as Columbiana
County, Ohio-a region dotted thiekly
with good old Covenanter names
There he founded the Buckeye
Branch" of the Mckinley clan.
While the McKinleys were thus max
ing their way from Scotland to Ireland
anil thence to Pennsylvania and Ohio
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Clyde Mountain and at New Bridge
In June the regiment Joined General
Hunters command and suffered a re-
pulse at Lynchburg. In July came the
battle of Kernstown, near Winchester,
in which they were also repulsed after
hard struggle. During this battle
Mckinley made himself conspicuous
by his daring execution of an order.
One of the regiments was posted in an
orchard, far in front. When the rest
of the army was compelled to fall back
it was left there unsupported, appa-
rently forgotten by the commanding
officers. Finally General Hayes, dis
covering the oversight, directed Me-
Kinley to carry an order to the unfOrtu-
nate regiment to retreat. 1t seemed
certain death to go but the young soldier
started on his errand without a mo
ment's hesitation. His comrades never
expected to see him alive again, but in
short time he returned safe and sound
with his errand accomplished.
Another striking incident occurred
in the battle at Opequan, near Win
chester, in September, 1864, when Me-
Kinley was member of Sheridan's
staff. Mckinley was sent with verbal
order to General Duval, directing him
to move his command quickly to
another position. General Duval, on
receiving the order, not knowing the
clay of the land" asked Mckinley,
''By what route shall i gOW Mckin-
ley knew little more of the country
than did Duval, but he had been OBJ
serving keenly all day, and he unhesi-
tatingly replied, III would go along
this creek" Duval hesitated, and
finally said, 81 will not go at all with
out positive orders as to the route y
Then Mckinley, knowing that the fate
of the battle was perhaps trembling in
the balance, said peremptorily, Gen
eral, this is case of great emergency.
| order you, by command of General
Crook, TO move your command imme-
diately along this creek to position on
the right of the army" Duval Obeyed,
and executed the manoeuvre in safety.
In a short time he had his division in
place, charged the enemy aud drove
| them from their works. The move
ment was brilliant success, thanks to
McKinley's judgment and decision.
The young soldier also distinguished
himself both for valor and for shrewd-
ness at Winchester and other engage
ments in that campaign.
"For gallant and meritorious service
at the battles of Opequan, Cedar Creek
and Fishers Hill," reads McKinley's
commission as Major and .he dOcu-
ment signed, "a Lincoln" He had
been made second lieutenant in Septem-
Der, 1862, at nineteen years Of age; first
lieutenant just after his twentieth birth
day. in February, 1868, and captain in
July, 1864. After Cedar Greek he saw
little more fighting but he remained
with his regiment until the end of the
war, and was honorably mustered out
with it on July 26, 1865, Major McKin-
ley, a four-years' veteran, twenty-five
years Of age.
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as public speaker. His first speech
was made at the close of thr war,
when he responded for himself and his
comrades at a public reception given
To them on their return to Poland In
Stark county, where he opened his
Office, the outlook was poor for a Re
publican. That was reckOned one of
the banner Democratic counties of the
state. so when Mckinley was put
forward by his party for District Attor-
ney, the nomination was regarded as
an empty honor. Perhaps that was
why it was given to so young and in
experienced a man. But, however,
the convention and the public consid-
cred it, Mckinley took it seriously.
He made a vigorous canvass of the
county and threw his whole heart into
the work, just as though he expected
to be elected. And to the amazement
Of pretty much everybody else he was
elected. At the end of his two years
term he was renominated, and though
he was this time defeated, he kept his
opponents majority down to only for
ty-five where the usual Dsm)cra tie
majority had been several hundred.
This was the beginning of his political
career. The next step was toward and
to much higher things, but it was not
taken until after five years more hard
study and diligent practice at the bar.
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THE MCKINLEY BILL.

To tell the story of Mckinley's seven
terms would be to tell the history of
Congress and the Nation for fourteen
years. From the beginning he was an
active and conspicuous member of the
House. He was an American, and he
reckoned nothing that concerned
Americans to be unworthy of his no
tice. He recognized, however, that in
view of the vast development, exten-
sion and multiplication of human in
.terests there was little hope for success
rs universal genius. a man must be
specialist if he would attain the
the greatest eminenee and the greatest
usefulness. Already, indeed, he had
devoted his attention especially to the
subject Of the tariff and its bearings
upon American industry. The story
is tod that soon after he opened his
law office at Canton, while he was yet
an unframed youth, he was drawn in
tn debate upon that subject. Pitted
against nun WIS u tfhlhcu, ShicNu
and experienced lawyer, who had at
his tongues end all the specious sophis-
tries of free trade. The older andmOre
expert debater won seeming victory,
but Mckinley, though silenced for q
time, was not convinced. "No one
will ever overcome me again in that
way" he said to companion 81
know am right and / know that
can prove it," Thenceforth the study
of books and Dnen and conditions o
industry to attain that end was th'
chief labor of his life.
Mr.. Blaine, in his Twenty Years il
Congress, made fitting mention o
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a family name l.ose, also prosecuted for
eonscience's sake, was seeking liberty
in another direction. Andrew Rose
was leader among the English Puri-
tans, and was among those who mi
grated TO Holland for refuge from ty-
ranny thence, attracted by the enter
prise of Penn, he came to America and
settled at Doylestown, Penn. There
he prospered, became leader in poll
ties and member of the Legislative
Council of the colony. Hisson, Andrew
Rose, jr., was not only a gallant soldier
in the Revolutionary army, but also an
iron manufacturer whose work supplied
the patriots with many cannon and
other implements of war. Now in
time i. came to pass that David Nc
Kinley and Mary, the daughter of An
drew Rose, jr., became acquaintance
and friends, then lovers, and then hus-
band aud wife. Thus were allied the
two sturdy stocks of ScOtch-lrish and
English Puritans, and fully blended in
the first offspring of this marriage a
boy, to whom was given the name of
William. The first William Mckinley
remained i'm Eastern Ohio, and was one
of the pioneers Of the iron business in
that region, with foundries at Fair
field, New-Wilmington and elsewhere.
His wife was Nancy Allison, a de-
scendant, like himself, of Scotch Cow
enanter stock. To them were born
eight children, to one of whom, a boy,
born at Miles, in Trumbull County,
Ohio-the second county north of
Columbiana-on January %, 1888, was
given his fathers name of William.
The house in which the future Presi-
dent was born is still standing on one
of the streets of Niles. Ii is a frame
structure, two stories high, and what
was once the parlor is now grocery
store. At the front is a vine-porch on
which Mckinley the child used to play
and from which Mckinley the states
man has made many an address to the
admiring citizens of his native town.
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".
LAWYER AND POLITICIAN.

What now? His occupation as a sol
dier was gone. He must return to the
arts of peace. Memories of his unfin
ished college course arose. He was
still matriculant of Allegheny, and
would have liked TO return thither.
But he lad not the means, and his
family could not now assist him. He
went over to Canton, the seat of Stark
COunty-the next county westward
from his ancestral Columbiana-and
had long talk with his eldest sister,
Anna, who was teaching school there.
That conference decided his future
course. He entered upon the study of
law, at first in the office of Judge
Charles +. Glidden, at Canton, and
then in the well-known law school at
Albany, y. Y. He was graduated at
the latter institution, ard admitted to
the bar in 1867.
His "shingle was hung out forthwith
at the door of little office of his own
in Canton, and he waited patiently for
clients. Days passed, and fortnight.
Then one day in came his old precep-
tor, Judge Glidden.
Mckinley" said he, "here are the
papers in a case of mine. 1t comes up
tomorrow. | have got to go out of
town, and / want you to take charge
of it for me-"
Mckinley was nOnplussed. He de-
clared that he could not do justice to
the case at so short notice. ~ never
have tried a single case yet, Judge"
said he.
"Well, begin on this one, them" was
the Judges reply. And it was finally
settled that Mckinley should doso. He
sat up all night working on the case,
tried it the next day, and won it. A
few days later Judge Glidden entered
his office and handed him So. Nc
Kinley demurred at taking it.
at is too much for one days work, !"
he said.
"Don't let that worry you," replied
Glidden, good naturedly. al charged
them 500 for the case, and / can well
afford a quarter of it to you"
a year or two later Mckinley found
himself pitted against John McSween-
ey, then considered one of the most
brilliant lawyers Of the Ohio bar.
The case was suit for damages for
malpractice, the plaintiff charging
that surgeon had set his broken leg
i'm such a way as to make him bow
legged on that side. Mckinley de-
Tended the surgeon McSweeney
brought his client into court and had
the injured limb exposed to the view
of the jury. 1t certainly was very
crooked, and the case looked bad for
the surgeon. Mckinley had both his
eyes wide open, however, and fixed
them to good purpose upon the man:
other leg. AS soon rs the witness was
| turned over to him, he asked that the
other leg should also be bared. The
plaintiff and McSweeney vigorously
objected, but the Judge ordered i
done. Then it appeared that this sec
ond leg was still more crooked thar
that which the surgeon had set.
"My client seems to have done bet
ter by this man than nature itself did,
said Mckinley, ''aDd move that tn
suit be dismissed with recommends
ton to the plaintiff that he have tn
other leg broken and then set by tn
surgeon who set the first one"
Ii was almost inevitable that the ris
ing young lawyer should sooner or late
get into politics. Already he was note
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quired to put of their shoes from their
feet and listen 10 the debate sbod only
in stockings. The dehater- themselves
did likewise, and young Kinley pre-
sided over the meeting in his stocking
feet.
At the Poland academy Mckinley
was prepared to enter college, and at
the age of sixteen he was matriculated
at Allegheny College, Meadville, Penn.
Scarcely was he well started in his
studies there, however, when he fell i'll
and vas compelled to return home.
When his health was restored he found
himself thrown largely on his own re-
sources. The hard times Of the Buch-
anan Administration had caused his
father some embarrassment in business,
and Justice TO the rest of the family
made it necessary for William at least
partially to support himself. He there
fore took TO school teaching in dis
trict school near Poland. He got 50 a
month salary, and "boarded around" "
Much of the time, however, he lived
at home, walking TO and from school
every day, distance of several miles.
His intention was to save up little
money aud return to college in year
or two. But that was not to be.
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the famous "Pathfinder," of whose
thrilling adventures he had read with
so much zest. The company was made
Company + of the sd Ohio Regiment,
of which William S. Rosecrans was
Colonel, Stanley Matthews Lieutenant
Colonel, and Rutherford B. Hayes Ma
jOr.
For fourteen months Mckinley car
ried a musket in the ranks He was
good soldier, intelligently obedientto to
his superior officers and genial and gem
erous to his comrades. There was no
more popular man in the regiment, and
no harder fighter. Nor was there any
lack of fighting to do. Six weeks after
it left Columbus the regiment had its
baptism of blood and fire at Carnifex
Ferry. Then it had to chase the rebel
raiders back and forth across the rug
ged mountain ranges, was drenched
by incessant rains, almost famished at
times for lack of food, and exposed to all
manner of unpleasant experiences. The
Young men from Poland thus had their
fighting qualities and powers of endur-
ance put to hard test. But they stood
it admirably. The regiment was soon
ordered to Washington, and was there
made part of the great Army of the
Potomac, of which Mcclellan was com
mander. Then came Antietam, in
which Titanic conflict the soldier boy
bore himself with all of a veterans
yalor, and at the end of which he left
the ranks with lieutenant's sword at
his side. Never was there more pop
ular promotion in the Fighting Twen-
ty-third," and never one more fully de-
served or more modestly borne. al al
ways look back with pleasure on those
fourteen months served in the ranks, y
said Mr.. Mckinley not very long ago.
"They taught me great deal. l was
but schoolboy when i went into the
Army, and that year was formative
period in my life, during which
learned much of men and affairs.
have always been glad that / entered
the service as private"
After Antietam came active and rapid
work in the West Virginia mountains
and then quick march into Pennsyl
vania and back again. One day th'
regiment had breakfast in Pennsylva
mia, dinner in Maryland and supper il
Virginia. A period of rest followed
from November, 1862, to July, 1868
| Indeed, there is no record of seriou
, engagement until April, 1854, whel
t General Crook made a raid upon tn
, Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. Bat
: ties were fought and victories won a
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WILLIAM MkINLEY.
THE PEOPLES CHOICE.
Record of a Typical American Career
in Public and in Private Life.
ANCESTRY OF THE MKT PRESIDENT
SCHOOL LIFE-A SOLDIER IN THE
UNION ARMY-FOURTEENY YEARS
IN CONGRESS AND FOUR YEARS
AS GovERNoR-HIS MANLY
BATTLE FOR HONEST MON
EY AND PROTECTION
IIIs HOME LIFE AND
p-:RSoS.aL TRAITS.

''In him we find the best representa-
tive of the possibilities of American life
Boy and man, he typifies American
youth and manhood and illustrates the
benefits and glory of our free institu-
tions. He did not flash forth as me
teor he rose with measured and state
ly steps over rough paths and through
years of rugged work. He earned his
passage TO every preferment. He was
tried and tested at every step in his
pathway of progress. He produced his
passport to every gateway to opportn-
nifty and glory. His State sustain
ed him, and at last the Nation reward
ed his courage and consistency with
the highest honors it could bestow."
Such was the tribute paid little more
than ten years ago by William Me
Kinley to James Abram Garfield.
With scarcely a change of word or in
Election it may to-day be appropriately
rendered to its author.
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III.
THE SOLDIER BOY.

While this lad of eighteen was still
engaged in teaching, Fort Sumter was
fired upon. At Lincoln's summons
the whole loyal North sprang to arms;
no part of it with more patriotic ardor
than the old Western Reserve, in the
borders of which Mckinley was living.
From every county and town volun-
teers were soon marching toward the
frontier. Every village and hamlet
sent its quota. Poland was net behind
the rest. In June, 1861, a mass-meet-
ing was held, at which some stirring
speeches were made, and at its close a
company was enlisted. General Ere
mont inspected and mustered in the re-
cruits. He examined young McKin-
ley, pounded his chest, looked into his
eyes and said you'll do" That was
perhaps the proudest moment the boy
had yet known, to be thus treated by
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HON. WILLIAM M'KlNlEY.

can. Either may be his portion. Your
pauper may be Car at heart; your
millionaire, in creed and conduct, the
truest democrat. The young Mckin-
ley experienced neither extreme. The
prayer of Agur was answered in his be-
half. His parents were in his early
years well-tO-do people, though by no
means rich. He knew no struggle
with grinding poverty in his childhood.
Neither was he pampered in the lap of
luxury. His childhood was spent like
that of the average healthy, whole
some child of intelligent and thrifty
parents, in a simple and unpretentious
state OF society. No startling tales are
told of his,precocity. But he was, at
least, rather more than ordinarily OBJ
servant in mind and robust in body.
He was fond of play and out-of-door
sports, and was genial in his compan-
ionship with other children. At the
same time there was apparent, even in
his earliest years, something of that
quiet earnestness that is now so mark
sd a characteristic of the man: "a
blaek-haired, grave-faced, but robust
and manly little chap" is the memory
( the older inhabitants of Niles have ol
I their famous townsman's early appear
/ aEce.
The boy was sent fora few years to
the village school at Niles. Then the
family removed to Poland, in Mahon-
ing, the county between Trumbull and
Columbiana, in order that he and the
other children might enjoy the advant
ages of high school or academy in
that town. In both institutions ht
showed himself solid and thorough,
rather than a show student. He al
ready had leaning toward argument
and oratory, and was a prominent
figure in all schoolboy debates. A
Poland there was literary society anc
debating club, and of il he was 70
SOult tiiht pieSiueht. ihc StVis - toi'
that the boys and girls saved up thei
spending money until they had enough
to.buy a carpet for the meeting-room o
the club. They purchased at a neigh
boring carpet store what they deemed
an exceedingly handsome fabric. 1t
groundwork was green and its orna
mentation gorgeous golden wreaths
The society unanimously decided tina
no boots should ever profane that sacre
carpet, and the girl members, there
fore, volunteered to knit slippers for a
the members to wear. Unfortunatel,
the slippers were not ready for the fir
meeting, and so all the members VIII
attended, and the visitors, too, were r
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ANCESTRAL STOCK.

Every land has its traditions of hero
ism. Every people has its heroes. 1t
would be a thankless task to discfimi-
nate between them and to say which
was worthy of the greatest glory, the
men of Marathon, of Sempach, or OF
Bunker Hill, "Montani semper liberi'';
and the hills of Greece, of Switzerland
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VII
GOVERNOR OF OHIO.

At the election of 1890, as We have
said, the Democrats by shameless ger
rymandering defeated Mr.. Mckinley
by 800 votes i'm a district normally
Democratic by 1900, and thus prevent
ed his return to Congress. Great was
their glee at this. They thought they
had crushed their arch-enemy at last.
But they reekoned without the chief
factor in the problem. The answer to
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