The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
a MoRTGAGED CANDIDATE
HANNA, KOHLSaAT ANO HERRICK
PAID ki'KlNL EYS DEBTS.
Worth Only $4,000, He Endorsed For
$4,000 Which He Owes
Hanna.

pucSIiOu went nome yesterday. lmclr
mission was fruitless, like the similar
missions of John Sherman and Col.
| Charles HI. Grosyenora Neither has
the calliopean clamOr or II. II. Kohl
saat, Of Chicago, that Mckinley is
sound on the currency had any weight
here in New York. All that the minor
| Mckinley bosses heard while in this
territory was that the Republicans of
the great Eastern States want a cam
didate for President who viii be safe
man" Everywhere the demand for
| safe man" was heard.
The minor Mckinley bosses were dis
heartened over the result of their mis-
sion They were chagrined also by
| number of awkward questions put to
them as to the story concerning how
McKinley's debts were paid
Mckinley while Governor of Ohio
was the silent partner of Robert L.
Walker, of Ohio, and when Walker
went to smash, on Feb. II, 1898, Me
Kinley, it was found, had endorsed
$11s,000 of Walkers promissory notes.
/ Mckinley did this, although he was
worth only $4,000 in all this wide
world. The Eastern Republicans could
not understand such business meth
DDS, and they declared to the minor
Mckinley bosses that it was vitally es-
sential this year to put up safe man."
and they talked and talked about "a
safe man. until things were unpleasant
for the minor Mckinley bosses.
These minor bosses ascertained also
that the Eastern Republicans knew
how McKinley's debts were paid, and
by whom. Here it is in brief:
ff.T[ ~ -
| Debts.
MARCUS H. HANNA,
Fl. H. KOHLSAAT,
AIYRON t. HERRICK.
Chief bosses of McKinley's campaign.
MARCUS III. HANNA,
I'll. II. KOHISAAT,
MYRON T. HERRICK.
In other words, the minor Mckinley
bosses LEARNED ON every hhnd that
their candidate was spoken of as 1.-The
mortgaged candidate" mortgaged not
only in untold promises of Federal pa
tronage, but mortgaged in other ways
and by every tie of business and friend
ship to his three chef managers and
syndicators, Hanna, Kohlsaat, and Her
rick, and to others. Mckinley is the
/ first aspirant for a Presidential NOM
nation to stand before the country
loaded down with obligations, which
after some fashion even he is bound
to meet, The coterie of manufacturers
and others who Clipped in to pay his
debts; the trio, Hanna, Kohlsaat and
Herrick; their satellites, all do not live
by bread alone. They must have their
pound of flesh in return for past fayors,
even unto the tiniest grain. Mckinley
remains silent and docile in their
hands; he is their creature, and after
all the wanderings of the minor AGcKin-
ley bosses in New York and elsewhere
in the East, solid business Republicans
said yesterday that they were amazed
at the audacity of Hanna, Kohlsaat,
and Herrick in springmg such a candi-
date upon the country.
4 candidate with a fortune of $4,000
to endorse his silent partners paper
for $118,000!
The Eastern Republicans naturally
wanted to know what return is McKin-
ley, if nominated and elected, to give
Hanna and the others for their aid in
paying his debts. 1t is as well known
as anything on earth that Ohio politi-
clans, and especially those in the Re-
publican camp, do not lift their little
Use of reward immediate -or in the near
fture. Instead, Mckinley, was spoken
of as the "mortgaged candidate for
the reason that no candidate for Presi-
dent not even Mckinley, can in honor
accept gratuities to the amount of
$11S,00O from a set of men dependent
upon Federal legislation for further
additions to their fortunes.
Tive Eastern Republicans declared
it to be destestable situation from be-
ginning to end, and one that to GER
tain extent reflected on the whole par
ty. But Mckinley accepted the $11S,
600 in gratuities, and there he stands
in Canton to-day loaded down with
these and a Thousand other obligations
which must be met if by accident he
should be boosted into the White
House chair.
Thousands of business men have
met with disaster within the last ten
years. They displayed nerve and set
to work to repair their fortunes. Nc
Kinley put himself in the hands of
Hanna, Kob lsaat HeITic<, and the 9th
ers, and they hauled him out of the
mire-not gratis. They lugged him TO
dry land, and with their eyes on the oh
legations under which he vested to
them they set to work to boom him
as their candidate for the Presidential
nomination. One big merchant asked
the little bosses:
| Why didn't Mckinley get to work
and pay his own debts2"
Another wanted to know by what
business process Mckinley could en-
dorse papers for $4,000 when he knew
he was worth only $4,000. And all
hands say;
eve want a safe man; not Mckinley
morgaged up to his neck and over his
mouth"