The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-07-22
.Milligan, Wlkin & Co.
N,K1NLEY PROMOTED.
A TriButo to a mun Who has GrOWE
Great Ia Three Month"


A Tributo 70 a msn Who has Grown
Great la Three Month.
Richmond Item: There Is one man
who has done great things in this war,
and yet the people can never promote
him. That man is William Mckinley.
Dewey and schley and all the rest de-
serve theIr honors. but Mckinley is the
man whose Judgment, aFmness and
craftsmanship made most of our navy's
performances possible. : Cincinnati
Commercial Tribune.
With that we diner. There IS pro-
motion that is not designated by Shout
der straps, or titles, or rank, and that
promotion Is William McRlnley's. It Is
the promotion in the hearts of the peo-
pie, In the love of an apprecIauve and
intelligent country, in the respect Of all
true citizens, in the admiration and es-
TEEN OF just world. This promotion is
William McKinley's. 1t comes only to
the men who in 1.-The times that try
mems souls" prove they have souls to
try; 1t comes only to men who prove
themselves strong In adversely and
calm In success; it comes to only those
who do the duty the present demands
and trust to truth and Justice for judg-
ment. II came to William Mckinley.
When he took the presidential chair
no man was more misunderstood, more
greatly underestlmated, more persist
emily 'malIgned than Mckinley, with the
exception Of Abraham Lincoln. In the
campaign that elected him, as we'll as
the years of his political life previous,
he had been classified by even his own
party followers as a man OF one idea
tariff. He was thought narrow, e&-
tremely partisan, wholly lacking the
deep, broad, far-seeing qualities that
should mark q statesman. In addition
10 this, he had been limned, cartooned,
besmIrched, misrepresented In manner
unequaled. The opposition papers out
did bllllngsgate, and from the New York
Journal, with its SANDER artist, to all
the little trucking handbllls OF SINH
lar faith IN the nation, was he repre-
sented as petty man, creeping be-
tween Hanna's huge legs, or jumping
lack, manipulated by Wall street. He
was characterized as 'splneless,"
slime server" q peanut politician"
whom money and a chance wave OF
destiny had landed In the white house.
He was infrm OF purpose, with COM
mercIal conscience, and hatred Tor the
people. It was asserted he would not
be President, but the powers behind the
throne would rule.
But day by dag he met the problems
OF the nation and solved them With the
decision OF man and scholar. He soon
demonstrated that he was President,
and he alone; that he had 1.-THE heart to
conceive, the understanding to direct,
the hand to execute" He displayed the
type OF true American manhood and In
dependent Intelligence, The war came
on, and then his character stood out In
bold relief With their judgment turn
ed to prejudice, their Justice to venom
and their conscience on vacation. the
papers once again began their TRADE.
Throughout his efforts TO avoid war he
was Vllliied and illuminated by his
opponents, criticised and doubted by
his friends, but neither the clamor o.
his own party, nor the Vituperatlon OF
the opposition swerved him from a
course dictated by his convictions OF
duty. Ever uppermost in his mind was
the thought:
"Be Just and fear not:
Let all the ends thou aims't at be thy
country's,
Thy Gods and truths"
He went rs far as he possibly could
and then turned the afialr over TO Con-
gress accompanied By a state paper.
which will become classic; paper pa
trlotlc, uplifting, ennobllng in tone,
fearless but humane In attitude, logical
and convincing in argument. Following
this has been his record In the prosecu-
ton OF the war, in which he has giveU
the world the assurance OF a man.
proven himself "a tower OF strength
which stands four-square to all the
winds that blow" His enemies have
turned into friends, his critics. to Gu
loglsts, his countrymen to disciples. He
to-day Is the greatest man In the ma
ton, the object OF universal applause.
william Mckinley hns boon promOtpd