The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-22
HUMAN DUPLICATES
LIKE ALI. GREAT MEN THE PRESI-
DENT-ELECT HAS
DOUBLE.
FACT WAS INVOLVEMENT.
ONCE ENDANGERED THE MAJORS
REPUTATION FOR SOBRIETY
AND RESPECTABILITY.
EvnLAND's DOUBLES ARE MANY.
Speaker Reed Has a Physical
COanterpurt-Nen Who Look
Like bryan.

OOaAIP FbEHt-NtSA ~ no LOOK
Like bryan.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 21-Prcsident-
elect Mckinney has a double. 1t is the
fate OF all great men. President Cleve-
land has a dozen. Speaker Reed, in
spite Of the marked peculiaritjes which
have helped to make him famous, has
more than one. No man is truly great
until he has at least two of them.
Maj NIcI<inley's double came very
near being a factor in the majors can
didacy for the goVernorsh:p OF Ohio
and if he had been we would have
another president-elect to admire and
read about today. If Maj. Mckinley
had gone into private life instead of
into the goVernorship of Ohio when he
retired from the house of representa-
tives. he would have ceased to be a
political quantity Of more than local
Importance. Politicians said to me
when the major retired from congress:
He has ceased to be a presidential
possibility unless he gets the nominal
ton from the next national cOnVen-
ton" They were wrong. The major
kept himself alive by becoming the
governor of d great state. Privacy
might have meant oblivion. 1t would
have meant at least partial eclipse
and the failure to realize the oppOr-
tunity which made the nomination of
Mckinley a fOregOne conclusion i'll
1896 That opportunity comes to most
men but once.
M'KINLFY'S DOUBLE
Here is where Maj. McKinley's dou-
HE comes into the story. A gentleman
conspicuous in the politics of Ohio said
to a friend. Il will not support this
man Mckinley for governor" 'Why?"
said his friend. 'ReCdUse.' he re-
piled, 4 cannot support for governor a
man who gets drunk Drunk said
his friend. You never saw William
Mckinley drunk. I doubt if he ever
tastes liquor" THAT shows how little
you can know Of the man." said the
first speaker. 81 saw him blind drunk
not many days ago at -." Mai.
Mckinley's friend was much disturbed.
He knew there was a mistake some
where. But where? He went to the
major in his extremity, and it happen
ed that on that very day there came
to the home Of the major a man who
lived not many hundred miles from
Canton. His card came in when the
conversation was in progress. The ma
jOr listened to what his friend had to
say Of his conversation with the ac-
cuser. Then he sent for his other Wis
ltor. He entered. The first caller look
ed at him in surprise. If he had met
him on the street he might have mis-
taken him for Mai. Mckinley. The
major smiled that quiet smile which
has made so many Of his recent Wis
itOrs at Canton feel at ease. Were
you At -- on such day?' he ask
ed. The newcomer said he believed he
Was MY dear fellow" said the ma
jcr. YOU viii ruin NE if you don't take
me pledge. Here is a gentleman who
brings me the story that I was drunk
I'm - On that day, when I wasn't
within 100 miles of the Mace" The Wis
itOr confessed that he had indeed been
drunk on the day and At the place
named. He was a good friend of the
majC~. and he lived not very far from
the majors home. He was not a pub
lie character. and he had not realized
that his conduct was a matter Of i'm
pOrtance to any one but the members
of his family and himself. He and the
major had a good laugh over the con-
fusion of their identity. and the first
visitor went away provided with an
alibi for the major and a solution of
the story which his friend had told.
1t is not recorded that there was any
further con fusion, proba bly, not any Sc
perscral habits have never been a sub
iect of criticism since he was elected
governor Of Ohio. 1t is fortunate that
he has the reputa alton Of being a sober.
decent man. though. for there is no
telling how much calumnv his double
might have brought on him If he had
had any little faults within the knowl-
ed~e Of his friends.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S DOU-
BILE.
President Cleveland, as I have said,
has many doubles. Some people think
that A A Wilson, the marshal Of the
District of Columbia, looks like him.
The resemblance does not strike me-
but ali eyes do not see alike. Any
stout man with fat face and a
mustache, without positive features
might look a little like Mr.. Cleveland
to some eyes. Speaker Reed is another
fat man who has doubles. The chief
among these in Washington was the
late Charles n. Bell, the photographer
He really did look like Reed, the point
of difference between them being that
Reeds little mustache was black, while
the shadows that hung on the upper lip
of Bell was red. If Mr.. Bell was liv-
ing now and had shaved off his mus
tache, as Mr.. Reed has done, there
would be little to distinguish one from
the other. What made it easy to re-
cOgnize Mr.. Bell or Mr.. Reed when Mr.
Bell was alive was the fact that Mr.
Bell rode up Pennsylvania avenue in
carriage, while Mr.. Reed always
walked or took a cable car. Few of the
statesmen who sit in the house or sen
ate have carriages.
The likeness of Mr.. Bell to Mr.. Reed
was a source of annoyance to Mr.. Bell
This is not often the case with men who
are doubles. Usually the double takes
pride in his resemblance to some
public man, and sometimes he uses 1t
as a means to play jokes or get drinks
There is clerk in one Of the depart
mentS who is used as the instrument of
a practical joke very often. He looks
like conspicuous statesman, and he is
introduced to a group Of strangers by
his friends as Senator -" He as
sCmes the character very seriously,
and the visitors go away from Wash
1ngtOn firm in the conviction that they
have spent an evening with a senator
They also note in their conversations
afterwards that it is chara cteristic of
a senator in Washington that he al
lows some one else to order all the
drinks.
DIR. DEPEW'S DOUBLE.
Chauncey Depew said the last time
ne was here that he was always get
tlnS letters from men who thought they
looked like him. Mr.. Depew is likely
to have doubles in almost every com
munity because Of the peculiar cut of
h &c !. toll,