The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-06-25
ORIGINAL M'KINLEY MAN.
This One Is Genuine and Gets Full
Recognition.


This One Is Genuine and Gets Full
Recognition.
Special to the Globe.
w WASHINGTON, June 24.-'"The origi-
nal Mckinley man" received subStan-
tial recognition from the president,
when the name of Albert c. Thompson,
OF Ohio, was sent to the senate for
the position of commissioner to revise
and codify the criminal and penal laws
of the United States. He was born
at Brookville, Jefferson county, Penn
sylvania, Jan. %, 1912, and was gradu-
ated from Jefferson coll ge, at Cannons-
burgh. He served as second lieuten-
ant, first lieutenant and captain in the
One Hundred and Fifth Pennsylvania
Volunteer infantry during the civil war.
Bates history of Pennsylvania in the
war shows for Capt. Thompson a gal
liant record. He was discharged March
49, 1863, for disability occasioned by
wounds received in battle. He studied
law and went to Portsmouth, O., where
he still resides. He was made probate
judge, common pleas judge, and became
a member of the Ohio legislature. He
served eight years in congress as the
representative of the Eleventh district
Of Ohio; and in 1883 was the manager
of John Sherman's campaign at the
Chicago convention which nominated
During the progress of that convention,
Judg9 Thompson vas on the floor stand
ing very near to Maj. Mckinley when
a Mckinley boom was started, which
seemed likely to sweep the young Ohio
man into unanimous nomination. Maj.
Mckinley, with the Garfield nomination
fresh in his mind, stood upon a chair
and delivered stirring speech, in
which he declared his unalterable
n IN
the nomination which was undoubted-
ly coming TO him. Judge Thompson
then said, and the Times correspondent
was very near him: IF John Sherman
cannot get this nomination. shall he e.
after devote every influence that l can
bring to bear, to make Maj. Mckinley
president of the United States
He meant it, too, as subsequent
events have demonstrated. In 1890,
when Mckinley was defeated for con-
gress. Judge Thompson said in this
city: THAT defeat of Mckinley will
result in making him governor of Ohio.
If we can elect him governor of Ohio
we will make him president. He is the
only man on earth who would have
had the moral courage to decline the
nomination, as he did at Chicago"
1t was Judge Thompson who started
the boom which eliminated in making
Mckinley governor of Ohio. From that
time forth he energetically pushed the
Mckinley boom for the presidency.
Mark Hanna managed to supply the
funds. Judge Thompson was the
strongest political manager that Nc
Kinley had during his presidential
booming, and he was McKinley's most
loyal and most trusted friend He is
Internationally the original Mckinley
man.
Two other commissioners were nom
mated with Judge Thompson on this
commission. Alexander c. Botkin,
Republican politician of Montana who
worked diligently in the far North
west for McKinley's nomination and
ex-Congressman David B. Culberson
OF Texas, distinguished jurist and a
Democrat, who served in congress for
many years with Maj. Mckinley. Judge
Culberson is regarded as one of the
ahlest lawyers in the South He is
sixty-seven years of ge, but strong and
vigorous physically as well as intel
lectually.