The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1898-08-19
M'KlNLEY PROMOTED
"A Tribute TO 4 Man Who Has Grown srsat
10 Three Months.
From Richmond Item.

From 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 President
William Mckinley. Dewey and
Schley and all the rest deserve
their honors, but cKinley is the
man whose judgment. firmness
and craftsmanship made most Of
our navy's performances possible.
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
With that we differ. There is
a promotion that is not designat.
ed by shoulder straps, or titles,
or rank, and that promotion is
William McKinley's. 1t is the
promotion in the hearts of the
people. in the love OF an appreci-
alive and intelligent country, in
the respect of all true citizens, in
the admiration and esteem of a
just world. This promotion is
William McKinley's. 1t comes
only to the men who lin the times
that try mems souls prove they
have souls to try; it comes only
to men who prove themselves
strong in diversity and calm in
success; it comes to only those
who do thu duty the present de-
mands and trust to truth and
justice for judgment. 1t came
to William Mckinley.
When he took the presidential
chair no man was more misunder.
stood, more greatly underesti,
mated, more persistently malign-
ed than Mckinley, with the ex-
ception of Abraham Lincoln. In
the campaign that elected him.
as we'll as the years of his poltti-
cal life previous, he had been
classified by even his own party
followers as man Of one idea
tariff. He was thought narrow
extremely partisan, wholly lack.
ing the deep, broad, far-seeing
qualities that should mark a
statesman. In addition to this,
he had been limned, cartooned,
besmirched, misrepresented in a
manner unequaled. The opposi-
ton papers outdid bilingsgate,
and from the New York Journal,
with it's SANDER artist, to all the
little trucking handbills of
similar faith in the nation, was
he represented as a petty man,
creeping between Hanna's huge
legs, or jumping jack, manipulate
ed by Wall street. He wasschar-
acterized as "spineless,' a "time
server a peanut politician. !"
whom money and a chance wave
Of destiny had landed in the White
House, He was intirm of purpose,
with a commercial conscience,
and a hatred for the people. It
was asserted he would not be
President, but the powers be-
hind the throne would rule.
But day by day he net the
problems of the nation and solv-
ed them with the decision of a
man and scholar. He soon dem
onstrated that he was President
and he alone; that he had 1.-The
heart to conceive, the understand
ing to direct, the hand to exc
cute" He displayed the type
of true American manhood and
independent intelligence. The
war came on, and then his char.
acter stood out in bold relief.
With their judgment turned to
prejudice, their justice to venom
and their conscience on vaca
ton, the papers once again be-
gan their TRADE. Throughout
his efforts to avoid war he was
villified and illuminated by his
opponents, criticised and doubt
ed by his own party, nor the
vituperation of the opposition
swerved him from a course die
tated by his convictions of duty.
Ever uppermost in his mind
was the thought
"Bejust and fear not;
Let all the ends thou aims't at be thy
country's.
Thy Gods and truths,
He went as far as he possibly
could then turned the affair over
to Congress accompanied by a
state paper, which will become