The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-30

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ings-He Eats Three Good square
Meals Per Day-Bryan Very All
stemiOus. Eating Heartily Only at
Dinner. and Drinking Nothing.
Swimming His Only HeaIthfuI Re-
creation.
Copyright.
II William Mckinley were James J.
Corbett, training for a pug.lstic contest.
he could live no more regular life than
| that to which he is now subiecting him
self. He is training for four years en-
! durance Of strength. and he does not in
| tend that Il shall find him with that fine
color paled. or that bright eye dimmed.
William Mckinley IS the handsomest
man that ever ran for the presidency.
His cousin. who is IN charge OF his New
York Office. says so. The women who
hear him speak come away raving about
his beauty. The men who listen to him
turn to each other and say "Handsomer'
Mckinley is in training to keep his
looks.
Every morning, as the little French
clock which Mrs. Mckinley carries in
her trunk strikes Z. Mr.. Mckinley
wakes up. He breakfasts at S. and II
takes him an hour TO dress. He is the
most regular man in the world: and all
through the early campaign fever he
Weakened promptly on that stroke Of Z.
Not a minute before. even when the Can
ton guns were being fred or
Mr.. Mckinley keeps no valet. He
dresses himself and blackens his own
shoes. He shaves himself The facilities
for this are carried with him when ne
! travels. in the neatest OF travelling cases,
and at home he has a private dressing
room where everything is at hand
Mckinley wears what he calls a gen
| tleman's uniform" 1t consists Of a black
/ suit; black trousers, a long black frocK
| coat and a snug vest. He puts these on
when he dresses for breakfast, and keeps
| them on all day. His collar is a stand
| ing one with a string bow tie. These are
| carefully adjusted before the Canton
breakfast table is set with the coffee
things.
McKinley's breakfast is an army one.
He eats all he can get With an Ameri-
| cam love of hearty early meal, he
has meat, potatoes, eggs, sometimes fish,
/ and coffee. He has fruit and rolls, ana
/ any delicacy that may come his way in
the shape of molasses cake and corn
bread are devoured.
After breakfast Mckinley takes to his
| faVorite recreation, that Of writing. His
brain is freshest in the morning, when
| there is not a scent of brain flag about
| him. He rushes from the breakfast table
| to the library, and in front of that IA
NOUS big oil painting of his wife he sits
/ down to write
His cousin asserts that nearly all the
campaign speeches and pamphlets are the
work of William Mckinley himself. He
| loves to write, and after he has prepared
his own speeches he is hot and eager to
write speeches for other orators. Local
stump speakers send to him for their ar
| guments and he replies by return mail
with a typewriter manuscript wholly
original in treatment and wording. The
same with the printed pamphlets which
| every campaign circulates. Mckinley loves
to get them up. He used to do this years
ago before the Mckinley bill was, ever
heard OF, and in those days half he wrote
never saw the light Of day.
The writing of these speeches over, Nc
Kinley is ready for his one and only re-
| creation-horesback riding. He is a mag
nificent rider. He was on the generals
staff in the army, and he learned how to
carry himself ON a horse For this ride
he puts on less imposing suit than the
frock coat, and sets Off for a gentle can
ter. He always rides alone. Mrs. Nc
Kinley is not we'll enough to ride, and her
husband has few other friends-none OF
the feminine sex. His speeches are
Thought out on horseback" he says.
After the ride comes luncheon, for tho
day ticks itself along like the little
| clock, and a candidate is such a busy
man that he must, like the clock divide
| himself into hours and do something diff
ferent each minute of the day.
Luncheon in the Mckinley household
| does not amount to much. According to
! country senator who dropped in at y
| O'Clock "for dinner" there was a small
fried fish, some hot biscuits, stewed po-
| tatoes and tea THAT was the highest
dinner 1 ever sat down to at a rich man s
table" grumbled the hayseed senator.
1t was McKinley's luncheon.
In the afternoon came the letter writ
! ing To the uninitiated this means a
| quiet hour in the library. To the candi-
| date for the presidency of the United
States it means the busiest three hours
of his day.
There are paper baskets full of letters
| These are sorted by skilled secretaries
into business letters, letters from friends
and personal letters. The personal let
| ters are from the autograph fiends and
| the people who want Mr.. Mckinley to
address their societies. They are from
relic hunters who want a piece of his
necktie and from boys who want to know
| If a college course is advisable They are
upon a million topics, twenty questions
| for each topic.
The business pile Mckinley tackles first.
/ He answers the letters with the aid of
| secretary and an amanuensis. The secre-
/ tary consults books for engagements to
speak, makes appointments suggests va
cant moments, reminds Mr. Mckinley of
this and that, and all the time the voice
| goes on gently talking off letters to the
stenographer, who hands the hieroglyphics
to the typewriter in adjoining room to
be tick-tacked off
The personal letters are put aside to be
done by hand That is why they are the
| longest unanswered. The old friends must
stand aside for business. The personal
letters are hardest to answer, for the mind
must go through with mental gymnastics
to grasp the topics one after the other as
the letters are opened. But Mckinley gets
through 1t somehow. and by the time the
last letter is dictated the type-written
sheets begin to come back to him.
Signing your name isn't such an arduous
task hut ii NAV become very tfresOune If