The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-18
Major McKtnl y Does Not Re-
lish Her Questions.
A cOWED AND SILENT MAN
Thinks Him A Living Example
of Disruption Of Self"
NONE OF REAL M'KINLEY LEFT
"Be Still, For What You Are Stands
Over You and Speaks So Loudly
Cannot Hear What You
Have to Say.

New York, Oct 17.-Alrs. Mary r.
Lease, of Kansas, Mother of Popu-
lism," has visited the Mckinley shrine
at Canton and grasped the hand that
once held the coffee pot.
Describing the adventure in a COM
munication to the New York World,
Mrs. Lease says that Major McKinley's
hand is not glad hand.
THE handshake given at meeting
and parting" she AYERS, lis so per
functory that 1 laughingly suggested
that the routine of Methodist church
service must have been an excellent
preparation for his present duties. He
| 1.-THE Maior) admitted that as a MethO-
dist he had seen service in the art
of handshaking, and he added
cit is very much more tiresome to
meet and greet those who come to the
house than to address the multitude
in the open air
Ignoring any personal application
that might be contained in this re-
mark, | inquired, with an air of in
tense sympathy: You are very much
annoyed, are you not, by the calls of
professional politicians?'
! Yes, he admitted, YEARLY; they
come frequently and 1 receive from
/ them but little inspiration. But the
/ laborers who come to see me with no
other object in their hearts than the
good of the nation help me wonder
| fully / never speak to them with
out receiving some new thought, some
! fresh stimulus of ideas;' then drawing
| his hand rehectively across his eyes,
he added: Lodge of Massachusetts,,
Roosevelt of New York, Dingley and
others were here yesterday
/ hall
to the common people who inspired
him or to the professional politicians
who bored him is conjectural.
"After discussing Kansas politics, in
which discussion the Major became the
interviewer and elected q synopsis of
the political situation in that State, we
chatted pleasantly of our Scotch line
lage, till ] remarked:
Scotland is the only nation of the
civilized world upon which the money
breeders have not placed the octopus
of mortgaged Indebtedness r
a startled look, half fear, lest he
had given utterance to an unguarded
statement, half defiance, lest / should
pursue the subject further, leaped into
Major McKinley's eyes
"'\Vhat pity L continued, that
we have not initiated in this country
the example Of the Scots. The gold
owners have purchased MS body and
SOUL
mo reply Every effort to continue
the conversation was futile. l changed
cae theme. In reply to the question,
Has woman future in politics" he
. replied:
=" .Pevond all doubt she has a great
future Who can doubt the advance
ment along every line when we view
the wonderful progress she has made
in the paste
AN effort to obtain some expression
on economic questions was void
:" 4 am not being interviewed at
present he said. i think it is the
part of wisdom to remain silent
IF il is true, as DR.. Arnold of Rugby
fame says, that a man cannot act UNI
less he know then action cannot be
Expected from jor Mckinley, for APP
parently he is not in possession of any
knowledge. He impressed me as being
a milestone having engraved upon it
the distance more or less from the
National capitol
Major Mckinley is n living exam.
pie of disruption of SELF. The atnos-
pherie power which protects individu-
ality has been broken down by the fore
led conditions which have brought him
INTO contact with and made hiESe de-
pendent upon others. A lack of self
confidence marks the man. You do
not need to ask him questions to
know that he is a qualification. T
refuse 10 be put on record, is in his
manner and turks in his eyes. Looking
AT MN, one can say with Emerson:
lie still, for what YOU are stands
over you and speaks SO loudly | can
not hear what you say. His speeches
are read from manuscript. His every
public utterance is prepared. He does
not dare trust himself. for he has not
been true to himself. He is on record
1T is great misfortune to be
brought within reach of the throne It
deadens the sensibilities, makes GALLONS
, the understanding and sears the CON
science. The poisoned influence of
wealth and power proved fatal to the
real Major Mckinley, and burt his
/ corpse and the habiliments remain. As
a farmer he would have read the
mournful story of the report of the
4 Agricultural Department., and his soul
! would have gone out in sympathy IN
j the oppressed agricultural classes. As
! a laborer, he would realize that the
menace that confronts the wa0e-Nvorl,-
eF - iaDor-saVlng machinery in the
] hands of capitalists that has DESTROYED
the stlmuius or consumption by driv-
ing the labor into enforced idleness
while Quitting the markets with bound,
less production. AS candidate for the
Presidency on platform which his
past pass career and his every public ut
S NJ Gallee ia me past have repudiated,
MAYOR Mckinley has closed eve and
ear to the needs of the people and.
Sll1lilolng as did Pontius PLATE before
tne multitude he washes his hands Of
me blood Of the just One.
Major Mckinley is the most colos-
sal example Of moral tul-pftnde and
political coWardice the age has Known
took my departure from the Nc
h.nley homestead feeling assured that
n William Mckinley is elected Presi-
dent ne viii simply live and move and
nave bis being under the direction Of
the men who are sending Delegations
and making political moves 9n Az