The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-05-29
MCKINLEY AT HOME.
AS Unaffected as Grant, as Cordial as
Blaine.

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Blaine.
A staff correspondent of the New YORK
Mail and Express writing from Canton has
this to say of Mckinley:
AS we stood in the doorway glanced him
over just an instant for that quality in look,
manner, or speech that has made Mckinley
the man of the hour, marking him out in
the minds of the people as the embodiment
and expression at this time of their govern
mental principles and purposes. had seen
Grant in his home, Blaine in his home, Har-
rison in his home, Cleveland, and other ma
tional characters across their thresholds, but
never Mckinley until today. There is no
better place to study mans personality
than by his own Preside, for there, II any
where, true greatness sits enthroned by
force of its own intrinsic worth, and not by
reason of the pomp and circumstance or
power or fortune. Grant, of all the men
whom have seen in their homes, always
impressed me as nearer the unaffected and
unassuming than any other, until saw Nc
Kinley today, in his little frame dwelling
place on North Market street eere.
There was strong and cordial grasp OF
the hand, a frank and cheering welcome in
his words, and, above all, CLEAN OF kind
illness and manliness in that penetrating
Scotch eye-each in its way and all together
affording true index to the character OF the
man. He affects none of the attributes or
traits that usually mar greatness and that
appear to establish dividing line between
it and the rest of the world; but he meets
you man to man, looks not to the cut of your
clothes. but to the depth and breadth OF
your thought; talks freely and without any
assumption of over-weening significance to
his words, and because he has this manner
of the people about him he interests you
powerfully, irresistibly in his presence and
| his speech, Just as he has the thousands
upon thousands who have listened to him
the country over.
spent the morning with the governor and
his callers in his workroom and then out on
| the veranda, where he passes an hour OF
two each afternoon as the sun dies away,
and found that to his friends there is nc
concealment of his thoughts on public poll.
cies. Not day goes by that half dozen
republicans of greater or less renown II
their respective states do not stop over al
least one train to chat with him, and they
find him always ready to leave his little
work table, at which he dictates letters and
scans newspapers, for he cannot read then
all, and to accord his visitors so much of hi'
time as is possible. repeat that to these
friendly callers there is no subject of ma
tional concern upon which Governor Nc
Kinley's lips are sealed.
violate no confidence when say that
so far as those who are endeavoring to mis-
represent him and betray him into an am
buscade are concerned, they must seek thei
ammunition in garbling his past utterances
which are as numerous and quite as much IL
line with prevailing republican sentimen
as are those of his rivals in the pending con
test. He is on record with the majority o
his party at all times, in congress. and else
where, and should judge that he does no
propose to be singled out from among hi
rivals and catechized on any question of tn
day.
1t may surprise those in the East who ar
bent on a crusade against Mckinley on tn
money question to know that he has man.
letters from strong financiers and bushes
men In New York, Boston and Philadelphia
indicating their entire satisfaction with hi
expressions on that subject. They writ
that the effort to entangle him Is the join
work of the free trade democrats, who know
that a Mckinley triumph means the end o
their fad, and republican bosses who hav
vainly endeavored in every other way t
stem the tide that more and more engulf
them.