The morning times., 1896-07-19
MRS. M'KINLEY,S VIEWS
ON HOME AND FAMILY
"Pd Rather Live in My Little Home
Than i'm the White House,"

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| tory, u weekly paper then, established in
| 1916, but now daily paper run by Mr..
| George Frese. But the editing and own
| ing OF this small journal was but side
| issue to old Col. Saxton. He was a banker,
| the most prominent IN that part of Ohio,
| and he had ideas OF his own, and among
! these ideas was one. which appertained
To his daughter. He gave her all the
| advanta ges OF u liberal education, IN
| GLIDING a protracted stay in Europe, and
| then he brought her back and said to her:
| Ida, l believe that you should know my
/ business as 1 know it myself. 1 do not
wish you to marry early in life. l wish
| you to come to me at the bank and gain
u knowledge or my affairs"
That is how Ida SaxtOn obtained the
| rare business ability which has been OF
no mean advantage to her husband in
| his career, and that IL also how she
CHANGED to meet the man who was destined
/ to become her lover and then her hus-
| band.
She was, perhaps, twenty or twenty-onc
| years old when she entered her fathers
| bank as a Paid assistant. She had rare
beauty, both physical and mental, and as
| everybody knows, her suitors were both
numerous and persistent, but she seemed
F., TO care for meme of them; instead, 81 .
attended closely to the duties which her
| father placed III her hands. She had been
| iii the hank but comparatively short
| time when a young man, handsome OF face
| and figure, came TO Canton from the adj
| jacent town OF Niles. This young man,
| il soon became known, had just returned
! fruin The war, where, at the age Of seven
enteen years. lie had eniiste ed priv at c a nd
had emerged after Appomattox as a ma jor-
by-hrevet.
When Ida told her father that young
| Mckinley had asked her hand in mar
riagc, he replied: Il don't want you to
marry yet awhile, my dear. but when
you do, | know of no man to whom |
would SO willingly give you up as to Maj.
Mckinley. And so il was that in
1871 thcy were married, and they went
! to housekeeping at once in that same
square, wooden house where they now
I've. The Nicissitudes OF fortune and OF
| financial difficulties compelled them some
! time later 10 give UP this charning honie;
! but fortune is good sometimes, after all,
( AID so ii is that at this mur1cnt. in the
/ Cruwning triumph OF their lives, they find
thenselveSin the same old house where they
| spent the first joyous hours of their honey
| moon.
SHE BREADS PUBLIC LIFE.
Two children were born to Major and
Mrs Mckinley in the twenty five years
of their married life. but God in his wis
other Joined her baby sister wten size
was barely four years old. 1t was upon
! the death of the latter that Mrs. Nc
| kinley's health was shattered. and while
| her Deighbors will tell you that she has
been stronger in the past year than for
any of the twelve or fourtsel years which
! precede this. yet tLcy admit sorrowfuIly
| that she is very different from tie strong,
| vigorous, healthy Ida Saxton whom they
a ~ or nj n on
| 1t was plain to me that Mrs. Mckinley
was essentially a domestic woman. Sur
| rounded as she has been by an environ
mcnt of politics and turmoil, it was yet
evident from her words and manners
that she lonsed with an irresistible long
ingfor the peace Of hofnelifc.
one little sentence spoken to me proves
this. for she said with "a trace Of moist
ure about her great gray eyes. mo mat
| ter what the outcome of this campaign
may be. for my own part l would rather
| live here in my little home in Canton
| than in the White House. where l know
! he must sacrifice me to his duty. But
| she added. smiling wiStfully, Il will put
| no obstacle in his way. l will do the lit
| tie which may lay in my power to en-
| courage and strengthen him in the battle
| which now lies before him.
To many woman such statement
| might seem like can't. Few women l
| dare say but who would give up all rest
/ funess and quiet to become the first
| lady in the land. but what Mrs. McKin-
| ley uttered was uttered with a sincerity
| that admitted of no doubt as to Ter
| perfect truthfulness. Perhaps il YOU or
| I had been an invalid with only one
thing on earth to live for. and that a hus-
! bands love, we might more fully and en-
| tirely appreciate the sentiments of the
| sad-faced little woman. No doubt she
!
| more vigorous woman feels it. l think
| l can say with perfect truth that there
| is no self ambition in her heart. The
| only ambition that lies there is an amhi-
| ton for the man whom she almost Idol
| ICES. a. ---
A wOMANS UNDERSTANDING OF POL
| ITICS.
| And then she went on in that quiet
| wistful way, which sometimes made me
turn my head aside and gaze out upon
the trees and the flowers and the green
lawn when she spoke: You may not I'M
derstand how woman would feel about
these things. She syinpathtzes with her
husband, aud she realizes, in a measure,
| what it all is, and yet she cannot come to
| a complete understanding OF what Eoli-
| tics really are; nor can she see In her
woman's way why, when uian runs for
some great political office he must neces-
sarily be accused not only OF downright
corruption but Of mental incapacity and
moral in sincerity. 1 presui me that
Dug hit to be used to all that by this time,
! but am not" she said. Il am used to it
in this way that I am grown wise, Ior
! seldom if ever read the newspapers aud
IL do read them 1 take great care to
/ select only such papers. as know are in
sympathy with my husbands ambition.
in I'm. ~
chance that Major Mckinley al
ways calls him."tbe ma jor,' everybody
| in Canton does, to be sure" should be
! chosen President of the United States, 1
| would give up the Joys and the privacy
, which l have experienced IN this little
| home during the past year because 1t is
| my duty to do so. would pack up
| my few things and move to Washington
! again, and take up the life which destiny
ma have called upon me to live. l would
| not be able" and there was a break in
| her voice as she said this, to perform
many of the duties, which are in the pro-
| vince of the mistress of the White House:
but in my own way would do what my
| strength allowed me to do. 1t would not
| be proper for me at this time to even
| DISCUSS, IL seems to me, the possibility
or my becoming the wife of the President.
| Fortune is tickle and politics uncertain,
and II it should so happen that the 4th
| day OF next November sees the major
| elected to that exalted office it would
be ample time for me to learn what it is
! the wife of the President must do,
| II am not an old woman" said Mrs. Nc
| Kinley. suddenly, but 1 have suffered
and cannot tell you how grateful l was
when the ma jor's term OF office as 80 .
ernor expired. and came back here TO
Canton expecting and believing that a long
| life of uninterrupted quiet was before me-
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