The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-05-29
Mckinley Tried to Avert the
Conflict With Spain.
HIS MILD Temperament
His Hesitancy in Acting Promptly In the
War Question Misunderstood He
VIII Be Ranked High Among
the Nations Leaders.


history.
The declaration of war agains
France by John Adams caused Hail
Columbia" to be written and that Wig
orous war attitude puts to the blusl
the domestic expressions of Mr.. Ad
ans.
Adams. however, was so jealous o
everybody. including Hamilton anc
Washington. that he sneaked to stoI
the war without consulting his cabinet
and the glorious fermen was allowed
to escape into air.
Mr.. Madison much resembled Adams
In his aversion to war and his vindic.
tlveness to political opposition. His
assent to the war with England was
wrung from him as the price of his re-
nomination, and the speaker of con-
gress did the war acts.
That war habilitated the Jeffersonian
party, and the Monroe doctrine was a
political platform invented by John
Quincy Adams while Monroe's secre-
tary of state, to outbid the various war
men, such as Calhoun. the vice presi-
dent. Clay, Jackson and Crawford.
Adams vas successful. but his adj
ministration was pacific beyond his
war D~reteEsions. and a real wal man
succeeded him.
In spite of its c~rudeness. Jackson's
administration became a success
through the forcible measures of the
president. He got up two or three
wars at home; one with the United
States bank. another with the multi
fiers, and some few living men who
lived in that time tell me that Jack
son was triumphant everywhere.
Mr. Van Rnrpn failad In attpa,t af-
tention because he had no external nor
yet personal conflicts. and there was
"A rebound in favor of. n warrior.
Harrison was taken up for his little
action at T~ippecanoe and his pursuit
of Tecumseh. The whig party became
a war party and Tyler, it's executor,
was the author of the Mexican war,
which fell into the hands of cold
blooded Polk to fight. and he was SO
full of m that General Cass was
put up to succeed him, and the wings
coppered Cass by putting Taylor on
top of him.
Then came the envious Fillmore,
willing to eat his head to be renomi-
mated. and two generals were put up
against him, Scott and Pierce, and the
latest one. Pierce, Immediately started
to acquire Cuba. but he had Douglas
on his back, who never had but one
visible principle, that was to become
president.
The tepid Buchanan, who required
permission from the constitution to
double up his fist or elongate his back
turned out TO be the ruin of both
the democratic party and the country.
After all we say otherwise, the
exercise of the wal powers
Abrahsm Lincoln his character.
and as a subjugator he was killed by
the assassin.
These memorials bring us to McKin-
ley, who has become "a war president
against his Will. and yet. IL he exhibits
The war faculties, may be reelected.
The attitude of the democratic party
McKinley's administration
that the Spanish war has only
made a feeble impression on American
The democrats cared nothing
or Spain, but were unwilling to have
Mckinley become the hero of a war.
They first tried TO beat Mckinley by
the exclusive war party. The
who set off the mine in Ha-
ana gave Mckinley all the war adj
'~antages. He asked for money. and it
voted with a cunning acquies-
nee that was reluctant.
The m that Mckinley appeared
o finch from the war the democrats
Hftftu LOT tue war
Blu there We're some old democrats
Ike Morgan who were willing To drop
'arty divisions If they could have a
war. Mckinley. therefore.
aid hold Of all the war powers, and he
ppears To have digested his tremors
nd Christian parallels and now to be
he forefront of the war, with a cabi-
ct aroun him which does not. at
sast. ~outdazzle his Na~poleonship.
Napoleon without His MarshaIs"
lust be the title of the next Head
'y's book.
Mckinley. as related TO me by his
ousin Osborn, did not enlist at the
ommencement OF the war i'm the COM
any which was recruited around Po-
Ohio. He and Osborn left the
go in grand parade through
oungstown and on to Camp Denison
hen. almost as an afterthought. Me-
Finley said to Osborn. I'VE ought to
o to that war" That's what | have
cen thinking" said Osborn. Lets
o. them said Mckinley. So the two
Il out for camp and arrived late like
Ne person i'm the parable who. when
il father told him to go into the vine
ard. said, Il go not" but afterward
2 went.
The democratic party under Bailey
as peen DenaNlng ike the otner man
that parable who said, Il GO. SIR
ut he went not. ,
Mckinley has been habituslly belit-
ed because OF a lack of promptness
~forwardness i'm his nature.
This arises. l think. from a mild and
,condary temperament which is pro-
'undly impressed In favor of the
people. Most of the people
Mckinley in Ohio were more
iccessful. more material. more haz-
than himself.
He only received the beginnings of
IS education at Meadville college and
the Albany law school. He seemed
tied To get a sweet taste of every
ling and never satisfying his thirst.
He much more resembles Washing
m than Napoleon. in mind. Wash
was very slow to receive coun-
after he had solicited IL. His I'M
was slow.
Albert Gallatin say that he met
'~ashington i'm a Western cabin where !
was taking counsel of everybody