The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-09-15
THE INTELLIGENcER.
WHEELING, SEPTEMBER IS, 1881
INC DIscoyerer Of mckinley.


BE has been long while developing,
something like seven years, but he at
last looms up out in Chicago. and his
name is Mr.. Magnus A. Hess. he is
no more nor less 1.-THE Original McKin-
ley Man" There has always been an
original discoverer of President, who
looms UP when the particular PresI-
dents term is nearly over without his
being appointed to something or other,
whether 1t be a position in the cabinet
or postmastership at Wayback.
Mr.. Magnus A. Hess is the chap in
this instance, and movement he
started In a local club in Chicago In
1882 resulted in making Mr.. Mckinley
President Of the United States. His
request Of the administration was for
an indian warehouse commIsslonershlp
at Chicago. or as a paymaster in the
army. Mr.. Hess wanted place in
which he could handle money,
Mr.. Magnus Hess is not venting him
self through the press, because the
press did not desire that he should
work on his grievances through its me-
dium. Consequently, he is sending a
mass of literature through the mails
On the front page is Mr.. Hess por-
trait, showing Autographed reproduce
tion of a young man, which the New
York sun, which reviews the publica-
ton. says is noted for scanty hair and
a ponderous mustache, and a manly
breast, literally covered with cam
paign badges. In the opening OF the
pamphlet MIR, Magnus Hess says:
After ali the hard work have done in
behun o. PRESIDENT AcEGinley the last
seven years, three years before his nom.
nation, and The money have expended
ard the brain work 1t took 10 overthrow
the machine and secure his nomination
have all been overlooked. other Nooa!s
Jays are getting the credit. rs shame.
The sun advises everybody not to
crIttclse the grammatical construction
of Mr.. Magnus Hess circular Of pro-
test, nor his choice OF language. Here
is another extract:
81 have been urged on before the election
OF 1885 and jollied along until now, always
have been promised that / would be well
provided for. President Mckinley ought
to be ashamed OF himself, the way he has
treated me. and the Original Mckinley
boys who have stood by him and done the
dirty work IN his hour OF need"
To cap the climax Mr.. MaSnus Hess
publishes fac-simile letters received
from Messrs. Mckinley, Hanna and
Hobart, and other distinguished states
men, to whom he had detailed his
wonderful achievement in discovering
our Executives fitness for the presi-
dency. The letters are acknowledge
ments, but promise nothing. Away
back in 1898 Mr.. Mckinley wrote:
81 congratulate you and your friends up
on tho means you are taking to educate
the people In Republican principles. Inc
Wntchword OF the Republicans from now
on should be education and organization,
and II this watchword Is Ialthiuiy up
piled, there can be no doubt OF the result
al the next national contest"
And again In January OF 1896:
Many thanks for your letter Of Janu-
nry 81. with enclosure, which have read
with pleasure
Mr.. Magnus Hess departed somewhat
from the main features OF this strange
Iy constructed document long enough
to insert a curious letter from Col.
william Jennings Bryan, which indi-
Gates that Mr.. BlagnuE a. Hess had
not been so loyal to President McKin
ley, whom he discovered, as he now
pretends to be, as he had evidently
written to President McKinley's recent
opponent conadlng In him his griev-
nnce. Col Bryan's letter is brief and
is as follows;
Dear sIr:-I thank you for your letter
with papers enclosed. You were certainly
nctIve IN your support OF your chosen can
dldate, and should be well rewarded.
VERY truly yours,
"'WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
Camp Cuba Libre, Fla, July %. 1875"
Thus we see how President McKin-
Icy, through his inexcusable Ingrautude
to his dIscovercr. has come to lose one
vote he had figured on for next year,
which VIII show n net decrease Of one
from the 7iOi.77S he received in 1895.
we agree with the Sun that this Is
"only because the Original Mckinley
Man. self-styled. happened not to be
the right sort Of a noodle jay to hold
public Office anywhere outside the
Duchy Of Gerolsteln."