Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-05-08

| WHICH i cOul0nt understand. 1hat
was the payment OF his recent debts
to the extent of $l25,00O by a coterie
OF volatile vulgarians, who came for
ward noisily exploiting their gifts, and
when Mckinley tumbled into bank
ruptcy-even as have other better men
paid what he owed. Why did Nc
kinley permit this? There are no
two trails out; no man of high sensi-
tive regard for himself would have al
lowed it. If it wasn't abject charity,
it was the merest case Of er poste facto
bribery. In either event a strong ma
tnre, clear of stream, swift OF current,
would have swept the dirty and de-
grading proposal away, and had none
of it.
But Mckinley accepted; his debts
were paid by subscription, and one is
left to wonder if the whole moral effect
of it all was not to leave Mckinley the
subject of a syndicate; practically the
property of those who took him out of
hook" These people who paid
would, by the same natural rule which
governs water as it flows and grass in
its growing, have moral sway and claim
with Mckinley thereafter and here
after, hard to be denied.
RELEGATEs FINANCE TO THE REAR.
Mckinley stock in trade just now is
protection. The show windows of his
boom are filled with it. Finance he
relegates to the rear OF the shop. Ask
Mark Hanna; ask any of the McKin-
ley toilers. "What about silverW and
he straightwsy talks tariff. Not an.
other word may one gain. Finance is
the skeleton in the Mckinley closet.
This would all look like a straddle !;
like the two faces of some Janus OF
politics who would te white silver to
the West and yellow gold to the East.
But Mckinley is, as the word and
the world wags, silver man. His
record is silver. He is what the Ohio
platform would vaguely but satisfac-
torily call a bimetallist word
mask which makes 10000 differing
faces of finance look alike.
Speaking of McKinley's attitude on
finance, the best light I could get was
from Judge w. X. Miller of Canton,
one OF the wisest as we'll as the oldest
of McKinley's friends.
Mckinley is not q gold bug. He is
limited bimetallist," said Judge
Miller, and is for money of gold, sill
yer and paper in such quantities and
at such ratios as shall pre.erve an
equality of value. But Mckinley
would die before he would espouse the
cause of a gold monometallism."
MARK HANNA's PERSONALITY.
Mark Hanna, who has charge and
complete control of McKinly's fortunes,
is a square, corpulent figure OF man,
with light eyes, light hair, heavy
jaw and whiskers Of mutton chop cut.
Hanna is q bigger, stronger man
mentally and nervously than Nc.
Kinley. He is keen, vigorous, with
the temper, almost the teeth, of bull
dog. When Mark Hanna fastens to
anything nothing shakes his grip. He
is loyal to the point of being blind. II
he had been a soldier he never would
have surrendered; if q sailor he never
would have given up the ship; but he
would-were it possible-have been
killed several times.
Hanna is not discreet. Moreover
he is vain and bit peacocky. This
last comes from inexperience. He will
not rooat so high when he gets through
with such birds as Platt and Quay.
Just now, however, he SCOTS at these
sorcerers OF Republican politics.
Hanna first met Mckinley when a
strike was on at Hanna's coal mines
near Canton and Mckinley represented
the strikers as their attorney. Ou
that occasion he liked Mckinley
courage. Later they found themselves
bunked in the same room, delegates
to the convention which finally named
Garfield which was for Blaine, Nc.
Kinley was day and night Sherman
adherent.
At one point Blaine plot was in
progress, whereby the convention was
to be stampeded and rushed for Blaine.
The conspirators felt the need OF
telling Hanna, to the end tha. he be
ready to aid in the uproar at the first
flap Of the blanket. They came quiet
ly in by means of key of one of their
number, who had a cot in the Nc
Kinley- Hanna room.
In the darkness they mistook the
sleeping Mckinley for Hanna, and
rousing him gently, poured into his
hali.awakened ears the details of their
plot. They told him very fully how
Sherman was to be routed, how he
Mckinley was to be borne down, and
how, as a climax, the nomination was
to 60 to Blaine like landslide.
"It's all very interesting, gentlemen"
said Mckinley at the close, " but you've
made q mistake. Pm the Sherman
delegate. The Blaine delegate" point
ing to where Hanna's solemn snores
marking his presence, "the Blaine
delegate is over there"
Mckinley, however, made no use OF
or reference to the Blaine story he had
so inadvertently been told, and Mark
Hanna liked his forbearing honesty