Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1896-06-16

oheapness 81 wearing apparel. stands oul
In all its loneliness with vivid distinct
ness.
IL was this earnestness and self CON
| viotion that made McKinley's address In
the house and on the stump SO effective.
Indeed tho occasion Is still recalled when
he held an audience Of Georgia people
for two hours at n Chautauqua assembly
near Atlanta while he preached to them
the glcrics OF the protective tariff sys-
tom. st was only by the greatest self
control, said Henry w. Grady, speak
ing Of this event a~fterward, that l re-
strained myself from rising as Mckinley
concluded his wonderful speech and de-
claring myself henceforth ready to fol-
low him as a disciple"
James G. Blaine, in his Twenty
Years Of Congress, +" reviews the Forty
fifth congress, in which Mckinley first
sat, as follows: william Mckinley,
Jr., entered from the Canton district.
He enlisted in an Ohio regiment when
but IL years old and won the rank Ct
major by meritorious service. The inter-
est Of his constituency and his own bent
Of mind led him to the study of indus
trial questions, and he was soon recog-
nized in the house as one Of the most
thorough statisticians and one Of the
ablest defenders Of the doctrine Of pro-
lection"
AT q great mass meeting in %Indianapo-
lis several years ago ex-President Har-
rison was presiding officer. Mckinley
was n Of the speakers, and Harrison
introduced him as follows:
"He has endeared himself to all by
his record as a gallant young soldier
battling for the flag. He has honored
himself, his state and the country by his
conspicuous services in high Legislative
and executive places. No man more than
he is familiar with the questions that
now engage public thought. No man is
more able than he lucidly to set them
before the people. I do not need to in
woke your attention to what he shall
say. He will command it."
The sentiment which resulted in the
nomination of Mckinley for governor
Of Ohio was engendered Immediately
upon the announcement of the result Of
the election Of 1890, when after IA
years continuous service in congress the
Ohio statesman was defeated for r~e-elec-
tion, despite the fact that he cut down
the Democratic majority from 2, 900 to
300.
During his gubernatorial campaign in
1898 Mckinley visited SO Of the 88 coun-
ties Of Ohio and made 1870 speeches. He
was elected by a plurality of so, 995, up
to hat time the record plurality in
Ohio's history.
The policy which Governor Mckinley
pursued during his four years of occu-
pancy of the gubernatorial chair was
well outlined when III his inaugural adj
dress he said: sit is my desire to CO.
operate with you in every endeavor to
secure a wise, economical and honorable
administration, and, SO far as can be
done, the improvement and elevation Of
the public service"
From the day Of his Inauguration
Governor Mckinley took the greatest in
terest in the management Of the public
benevolent institutions of the state, and
he made a study Of means for their bet
terment. During his first term the state
board of arbitration was created, and he
made the workings of the board a mat
ter Of personal supervision during the
entire four years Of his administration.
This board has had its services enlisted
in % strikes, and in Is cases its efforts
have beer successful.
No account Of McKinley's connection
with labor problems would be completes
without some mention Of the t~ireless
energy which he displayed in securing
relief for the 1000 miners in the Hook
ing valley mining district who early in
1896 were reported out of work and DIES
titute. The news first came to the gov
ernor one night at midnight, but before
5 o'clock in the morning he had upon
his own responsibility dispatched to the
afflicted district a car containing 81, 0Oo
worth of provisions. Later he made ap-
peals for assistance and finally distri-
buted among the 2, 732 families in the
district clothing and provisions to the
amount of $50, FOG, SO.
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