Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-05-06

THE GREAT M'KIN Ely WHITE HOUSE
SYNDICATE.
Hanna /Herrck KOhsaat and Day.
SYNDICATE.
Hanna, Herrick, KOhlsaat and Day.

would do their enterprise of President
making no good.
But there be matters these in-and-
cutters can't hide; some truths they can't
stihe
Even had they talked-these four
managers of the great Mckinley syndl-
cate-one wouldn't have known the
weight to give their statements. Mark
Hanna is present-day fugelman for
them. and his word is as worthless as
any last years beech leaf. For In
stance He told me personally, not
month ago, and told it, too, with mucn
of that fat-not to say fiabby-pompas-
ity common TO the vulgar rich, that
Platt and Quay were the veriest poliu-
cal babies and no match in the game Of
White House tapping for ten-year-old
children. | printed it. and a week
after, when Plattand Quay got after this
blown bOaster. he denied making such
statement, at home and abroad allow
and aloft. and all with a prompt men
dacity which, did he really know much
OF practical politics, might take him
far.
Without the admission and the point
ing out, however, of Hanna, Herrick,
Kohlsaat and Day, this much may be
known: Fer several years prior TO
February II. 1898, Mckinley was the
partner in business Of Robert l., Walk
er. but lying silent and dormant. No
one knew Of the connection. Walker
was himself banker, reputed rich, and
had a home and headquarters at
Youngstown.
During February. 90. Mckinley was
Governor of Ohio He had been beaten
for reelection 10 the House following
the Reed Billion Dollar Congress. At
that very time the Hanna-Herrick-
KOhlsaat-Day syndicate formed to kill
a White House, with Mckinley as
stalking horse, was organizing. 1t had
its birth following the Mckinley bills
formation. and while his defeat for the
Fifty-seeOnd Congress dismayed, it did
not disband the syndicate.
Recovering from his overthrow in the
fall o. 1890. the syndicate took McKin-
lev in hand and made him Governor Of
Chic.
This would serve as well as a seat in
the House TO keep him before the pub
lie until 1896. The syndicate did not
intend to run Mckinley in 1892 for two
reasons. First. he couldn't defeat Har-
ris0n for a denomination; and, second.
the party at best seemed catering TO de-
feat So they withheld Mckinley I'M
til 1896. and ad interim made a Cover
nor of him to keep his fame afloat.
Thus stood matters with the great po-
litical syndicate of Hanna, Herrick.
KOhlsaat and Day on February II,
1898, when Robert L. Walker went
crashing to an assignment and the ruin
of his affairs disclosed McKinley's sig
nature to $11S,000 worth of promissory
notes.
This was as surprising to the syndi-
cate as it was to the general man.
Hanna and the others did not Know Of
McKinley's business relations with
Walker and his efforts to make money
on the quiet side
McKinley's name was on part of this
SllS0OO worth OF paper as indorser for
Robert l.. Walker. The latter was on
part OF indOrser for Mckinley. All of
1t had been used among country banks
in Northern and Northeastern Ohio to
borrow money, and the Walker McKin-
ley failure started Q run on these quiet
little money hoarders. which came near
to swapping two. They all wethered
the gale, however