The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-13

| says that ne does not Dencvo We VIII re-
tain one OF our conquests. and that 1t
looks to him like breakdown of Mr.
Klnleys ADMINISTRATION.
Sherman's hesitation to follow Mckinley
| into both peace and war at the same
| time may have resembled Polonius' weak
ness, but there was wisdom in II. He re-
lated the following as the way Mckinley
performed the liquid air experiment 20
| him;
"one day the president said to me:
Sherman, you are embarrassing Judge
Day!' was very much surprised and an
swered; Mr.. President, do you suppose
that would say anything to injure your
administration? The president repeated
! the same thing more extensively to mo
| got mad and came away and wrote out
my resignation peremptorily. ! had been
used"
This published November 8. 1898, and
with accompanying matter II evoked the
resentment Of both Hanna and Mckinley.
The VOLTS teeth give grandmother away
ia spite OF her endearmeuts. There Is a
curse in. gray hairs timid rulers should
not call forth.
4 Sherman's successor, directed by his ef-
fusiye chief paid Spain 500 900 900 for the
Philippines, which. II we do not keep
them, is a fool and his money soon part
ed.
THE ONLY WHIPPED AMERICAN.
Perhaps Mckinley thought that Spain,
unless brlbed had vitality left for one more
blow. and Mckinley was the only man in
America thoroughly whipped In that war.
Bob Acres on the du.ling ground was a
figure OF dignity TO him. Fifty million
dollars handed over to him by congress
hardly steadied him. The old queen OF
England and Paul Kruger were lions com
pared to the distributor Of warm coffee at
Antietam and the staff officer OF General
Crook. There are places In the army
safer than outside OF Il when the war Is
everywhere.
Not anything appears to have happened
to Mckinley In the war. Sheridan, whose
book was not published till 1888. after he
well knew Mckinley as a politician, mere-
ly says "at Newton the streets were so
crowded | made Il detour around Il, and so
meeting Mckinley Of Crooks staff, he
spread the news Of my return through the
motley throng there" OF stragglers
| have lndustrlously read Potters long
life OF Mckinley to find other war incl
dents than the above.
There Is one, however, which Is dlss!-
mulative, and by affirmative omission rep
resents Mckinley as an original volunteer
in the Poland, Ohio, company. Potter says
mark the manner,-"one by one the
choicest oil the young men of Poland
hAtppcu lpl NdIu. fSluuuH Iutu SlIbut
gray-eyed, boylsh figure might have been
observed. Too much impressed with the
seriousness OF the situation to put himself
In evidence he stepped UP with the rest.
He was only boyish private then
Read It again. He might have been
Observed to do what?
The~fntent is to claim that he lmmedi-
atey enlisted. but It Is not declared
l AN IMAGINATIVE BIoGRhPHER.
me years before Mckinley became presi-
/ dent. that neither he nor Mckinley enlist
ed and marched away with the company
$ but sitting together, on a subsequent day
V concluded that they had made mistake
and they followed after by train TO Gang
n Chase.
= Yet. after slurrng the facts in thu
T. passage quoted, and then taking on tn;
= attention to several other things McKiu
4 ley's bographer, probably rnisled by thu
- subject Of his book, says half the yillaE.
r followed them TO Youngstown, where tn
railroad was reached. With this littl
company followed by many fervent pray
ers and loving thought from father, moth
n er. sister, teachers, etc, marched the boy
lsh private-William Mckinley"
e Yes. but not out of Poland. He after
d ward repented and went by the cars,
picture Of many subsequent vacilations.
n
= years and months old. not far short o
q man Washington was adjutant genera
and a major at 10; Monroe whose feeble
!" ness of VIII Mckinley resembles, en-
listed Mt 20. Foraker enlisted at 10, an
70 was only 10 when mustered out after tn
Is war. Calvin Brice enlisted at 10, and wa
u, under ~ when mustered out in July
"a 1865
W Nobody wants to dlsparage soldier
g but Il president must tell the truth.
~ Mckinley on Crooks staif saw gentle
.e men in war; General Miles, Crooks com
y petitor in the Indian wars has not ha
" much benefit from McKlnley's educatio
y In the school OF the staff. Why did sue
!" rufhans as Eagan escape with full pa
and no duty, after calling Miles, the com
. mander-in-c chief Liar, liar. liar" at
y public court martial? Miles was tn
!, broken John Sherman's nephew Law
y and like every man OF distinction an
courage since Mckinley has been presI
y, dent. has been tremendously injured Of ca
~ reer.
~ 1t is wonder that one Independent ma
= remains around the government.
~, ~ The day Dewey landed in glory in Ne,
T., York Mckinley tardily let Carter, tn
~ robbing engineer. go 10 his sentence. Sine
then the United States court in New Yor
4 city, where the district attorney is froI
is McKinley's native district has let Car
20 ter's accompiices 80.
70 II Is the nature CT a beggar to admir-
. a thief. Warner Miller, after Mckinley
:, Atlanta speech offering gift graves
~ buried men, said 81 take Il that his tin
ldityN makes him admire brave men. II
,r doesn't resent anything from a bold maj
he Platt IL rewarded for all he said againl
him because Platt might lnjure him
~ A NEGATIoN WITH A PLAN.
i, Mems characters are the unfolding
vo their traits, but the germ Is there. an
b. the teeblest natural character, like
on mouse can illustrate the resources OF 4
sr experience by crawling along the wal
OF lying behind book and staying "still ,
d. mouse" in the cheese.
~ Had he known that Porter's biogranf
~ Of him would afford comparison OF h
as doings and self-esteems Mckinley wou
nd nave sat down upon It. as upon ever
as Interview
Q, lie was hard to be brought to bay, al
so his life Is eurbed one and he III
as gone forth with studied speeches and on
ELL conventional conversation, an actor rath
4 than character, negation with a plan
ly Humility. real Sad assumed, docllage
nd docility, with an imperial twist TO It's IA