The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1900-05-25
KKINLEY UNDER
REVIEW BY GATH.
@aunanunn Observation-Disclosures

OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES uuunnunnDuDEnG
New York, May 22.-McKinley's stuff
fing the offices with newspaper en-
ployes for the past 40 months was for
the end of having them, as ex-writers,
exert an editorial influence against the
publicity of such frauds as Neely's.
The most shameless beggar in public
life, the president, begs suppression and
a suspension of comment from the op-
position press.
This forestalling of deserved public
ity has been especially exerted of late.
Some of the largest and most absolute
places in the government have been
given to writer's from Washington for
Independent Democratic papers who
toned down, ameliorated, or suppress
ed the nasty facts about the Hanna
Mckinley regime.
To be reelected in spite of the thieves
he appointed, whose crimes are now
about due, Mckinley set bumpers
against the presses, and each of these
appointees has the entry to the proprie-
tor, when there comes a black day, to
say, "Mr. Jones, the president sends you
his personal compliments and asks that
you will not draw the issue too hard
against him in the grand larceny of A
b and C until he is able to procure the
evidence and prosecute the actual often
ders."
: The example Mckinley strove to dis
seminate from the hour of his appoint
, ment was that fidelity to him would
; be rewarded without regard to the NOR
, al or mental qualifications. go and
do this service! Fool Cullom! Coax
Allison! Betray Quay! And we will
, do the rest"
!, The royal 1--WE" in this case had an
!, excuse in that Hanna Is the Joab of the
. presidential David, more candidly re-
taliatory than Mckinley, but hardly
: more malignant.
: Hanna has the red-livered temper
, Mckinley the white-livered.
Hanna has no especially nice motives
on Row to prevail. The Scotch-Irish
3 Quaker Is a combination of militarism
: and butting, but Mckinley enters into
part of that type and was precocious-
ly pious.
Charles Manderson, now of Nebraska,
used to note when in the senate how
Mckinley first appeared at Canton and
Joined the chief Methodist church there
= with prompt emphasis. His systema-
tic preparations to underplan scatter
ing his opponents, from Manderson in
that early essay to Foraker and Tom
Reed now.
Mckinley never ceased to belong to
the mendicant orders. He can beg
: and trade when in tight place like
Louis XI.
But he rever had any use nor COM
prehension of an independent, unmer-
5 cenary gallant man.
1 And hence his administration is
honey -combed with thieves, each of
whom has passed through the presi-
i dents hands, comprehended his humil-
=, ity, seen his indifference TO honr and
shame, and practiced upon the know
ledge.
. The ability to know and realize re-
| porters Is quite new. Cleveland gave
them his usual ingratitude.
Cleveland was with difficulty prevail
ed upon by Manning to visit Samuel
> j. Tilden, when Manning said it was
necessary to get the Tilden vote and
press. Cleveland never forgave Man
ming for that it has been said, for he
regarded Tilden's cipher dispatches as
destructive to Tilden's moral preten-
e sions. 1t is to be remembered that
Cleveland was a preachers son, and
such continue to draw the strict moral
discrimination they do not always
practice.
We know this: That Cleveland aspir-
ed of a fierce independence and Nc
Kinley grasps at a second nomination
mortgaged up the hairs of his head and
willing to mortgage himself more. The
men he has touched, equalizcd moral
tone with, made his instruments and re-
warded are in many cases Jeremy Did
/, dlers. He knew that they had no honor
and would increase their store by any
eXpedient, but he knew no other kind
of successful man. The nature of his
success was to underreach with vulgar
or cheap instruments, and to offer ex-
travagant prices to constituents, and
!, be operated in the only business" he
= ever had, a swapping of votes with
z George Walker, to work the banks and
p get coal lands. His brother was Abner
Mckinley. Never has he resented Abb
= ner picking up the crumbs from the
' presidential table Whoever offers him
4 self for McKinley's host is accepted on
the spot.
Y The unsocialized uninspired, un-
= mettled agents Mckinley used to win
q the presidency are curses like
chickens now coming home to roost.
In Indiana he centered his postoffice
department, of which the two heads
have been mere men of grimp and
baton. The real master of the postal
@ revenues and patronage was Perry
Heath. He put out tin sign when
he first came to Washington announc-
ing this 'unhouseled, free condition: