The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-04-02
THEY GET BITTER
VICIOUS ATTACKS Ale MADE ON
GALLANT MAJOR M'KINLEY.

although a Purer and Better Man Never
Lived, the Opposition are Getting Ohio
Papers to Denounce Him in the Most
VillainOus Fashion, Charging Him with
Being HypOcrite and Everything Else
Handy to Their Pens-Papers are Being
Widely Circulated In Order to DO Him
Injury.
Columbus, Ohio, April 1.-The anti
Mckinley forces are making the most
bitter fight in the history of this state.
They are traducing his character and
maligning both him and Mrs. Mckinley
In O shameless manner. Two Column
bus, Ohio, papers have now attacked
him and these papers are being sent
broadcast over the land. One of these
Ii the Columbus Dispatch. The Dis
patch is a Foraker organ. 1t says it
Is libel on Reed, Allison, Morton and
Cullom TO claim that the cause Of pro-
lection to American labor and manu-
tacturers is Identical with the candi-
aacy Of William Mckinley; that Pro
lection will not have been repudiated
with the nomination of any Of these.
Here is an extract from the editorial:
Major Mckinley stands for every
thing and anything, and the Ohio Re
publican managers have put up a sign
board, which points in all directions,
and every voter may read the side
ne prefers, and go the way he wishes
still shouting for the success of McKin-
ley.
The policy OF Major Mckinley in
this particular is precisely what it has
been in respect TO every other question
Of present moment. He has hesitated
and doubled in the face Of manifest
duty. While he was governor he saw
some of the states charitable institu-
tons torn with discussions, crippled by
tncompetency and despoiled by greed
yet he dared not to do that which the
people asked and the unfortunate pray
ed for, lest he offend some politician Of
power.
Everywhere he exhibited a weak,
undecided and shutting character, the
only certainty in his mind apparently
being his ambition. To that every
thing was subordinated and the inter-
ests Of the people, whose governor he
was elected to be, were traded off for
what he supposed to be most conducive
TO the growth Of a presidential BOOM"
A DIRTY ATTACK.
Another paper, the Columbus Press,
a paper usually Of no note has this Ii
bel:
Men entirely and conscientiously hon
est are very rare. There is especially
SO in regard to political matters. Wheth
er political ambition is more intense
now than In the genera tons and ages
that are passed, may admit Of doubt;
thus that greater sacrifices of fortune
and character are made now to obtain
place and power than in former age of
the world appears to admit of less doubt
There are many men in our own coun-
try of good reputation and honorable
fame quite willing to adopt any policy
and make use of any means to obtain
political place and power. This is a
strong statement, but it is justified by
the facts. The case of Ex-Governor
Mckinley is an eminent example He
is mifd-mannered man, of chaste hab-
ITS. He is a pleasant companion as we'll
as q genial and gracious friend. He
is neither profane nor vulgar. He has
a benign countenance, and his appear
ance is that of man of good charac-
ser and integrity. That he has made
a good impression upon the world in all
the respects above alluded to, there is
no doubt But that the general SUPER
fetal estimate of the character of Gov
ernor Mckinley has been too high and
will have TO be revised is equally true
His intellectual and moral qualities
have been much exaggerated. 1t is with
pain these words are written, but it is
true. The agencies now employed by
Governor Mckinley to force his nomina-
ton for the presidency are on the lar
gest scale, and involve the largest
system of indirect bribery the world has
ever witnessed. For weeks before the
expiration of McKinley's term as gov
ernor of Ohio, he began to announce
that he was going back to Canton,
Ohio, TO reside in the simple cottage
where thirty years ago, as a poor. brief
less young lawyer he had begun keep
ing house The announcement was re-
peated from one end of the country TO
the other that he was going back also
TO practice law in the simple, quiet and
natural way. And now may be seen
In hundreds of newspapers that the
great champion of protection" is qui-
city working himself into a profitable
law business. All this false, deceitful
and ineXcusably hypocriticaI gossip en-
anates from Mckinley himself, and Is
kept going by literary bureau in his
own house. The truth is the house is
not the same that he first occupied
thirty years ago. 1t is four times as
large and has several times been re-
built and enlarged, and all this senti-
mental talk has been manufactured
for the purpose of keeping the name
of the great champion before the world
as a superior brand of citizen. The
truth is. he never did have a law prac-
tice, and has none now and seeks none.
He did not go to Canton for that pur-
pose. All that is false and a great per-
versity of truth. Mckinley has neither
time nor inclination to practice law.
Neither has he the technical learning
10 qualify him for services at the bar.
He went to Canton pursuant to a plan
long before agreed upon to facilitate a
presidential canvass begun months be
fore.
All this sentimental talk about lit
tie cottage and the old Law office was
merely 10 mislead the unsuspecting pub
lisc and direct attention from real pro-
gram which was being carried out I'M
der the roof Of that "blissful little cot
tage" OF his early married life No
man OF the highest sensibilitieS would
permit these early "reminiscences Of his !
youth and poverty 70 be made The am
bulance 10 carry him forward on the
road of worldly ambition. There is a
sanctiJy about these tender years which
genuine men do not traffic in as if they
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