Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-13
MCKINLEY AT HOME.

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 a minute for that quail
ity 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 gov
ernmental principles and purposes. /
have seen Grant in his home, Blaine
in his home, Harrison in his home,
Cleveland, and other national charac-
tiers across their thresholds, but never
Mckinley until to-day, There is no
better place to study a mans person
atty than by his own fireside, for
there, if anywhere, true greatness
sits enthroned by force of its own in
trinSic worth, and not by reason of
the pomp and circumstance of power
or fortune. Grant, of all men whom
/ have seen in their homes, always
impressed me as nearer the unaffected
and unassuming than any other until
I saw Mckinley to-day. in his little
street here.
There was a strong and cordial
grasp of the hand, a frank and cheer
full welcome in his words, and, above
all, CLEAN of kindlineSS and manli
ness in that penetrating Scotch eye
each in its way and altogether afford
ing true index to the character of
the man. He affects none of the at
tributes or traits that usually mar
greatness and that appear to estab-
lish a dividing line between il and
the rest of the world; but he meets
you man to man, looks not to the cut
of your clothe,. 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, irrisistibly 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 gov
ernor and his callers in his workroom
and then out on the veranda, where
he passes an hour or two each after
noon as the sun dies away, and 1
found that to his friends there is no
concealment of his thoughts of public
politics. Not a day goes by that half
dozen republicans of greater or less
renown in their respective states do
not stop over at least one train to
chat with him, and they find him al
ways ready to leave his little work
table, at which he dictates letters and
scans newspapers, for he cannot read
them all, and to accord his visitors so
much of his time as is possible. | re-
peat that to these friendly callers
there is no subject of national con-
Germ upon which Governor McKinley's
lips are sealed.
/ violate no confidence when l say
that, so far as those who are endeav-
oring to misrepresent him and betray
him into an ambuscade are concerned,
they must seek their ammunition in
gargling his past utterances, which
are as numerous and quite as much in
line with prevailing Republican senti-
ment as are those of his rivals in the
with the majority of his party at all
times, in congress and elsewhere, and
/ should judge that he does not pro-
pose to be singled out from among his
rivals and catechized on any question
of the day.
1t may surprise those in the East
who are bent on crusage against
Mckinley on the money question to
know that he has many letters from
strong financiers and business men in
New York. Boston and Philadelphia,
indicating their entire satisfaction
with his expressions on that subject.
They write that the effort to entan.
gle him in the joint work of the free
trade Democrats, who know that a
Mckinley triumph means the end OF
their fad, and Republican bosses who
have vainly endeayored in every other
way to stem the tide that more and
more engulfs them.
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