Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1900-10-26
Why Should Republicans Support
Mr.. McKiniey2

Is il not a fact that this weak
agent of stronger AMI more brutal
men has forfeited the confidence
AMI respect of every member of his
own partyG
Th' re- have been more scandals
in the Administration of Mckinley
t"au he country has KIN .wn under
any other president. He has made
the White House the headquarters
of the corrupt trust lobby. He has
made the White House the strong
bold of Tariff jobbery. 1t is notori-
Gus that he has mortgaged and sold
the highest office in his gift. He
has protected the men who robbed
the War Department during our
war with Span. He has grossly
deceived the public about the mis- .
MANAGED war in the Philippines,
and has cIosed all channels of in
vestigation into the Wholesale army
frauds. He has even allowed his
own brother to be the go-between
for army contractors aud the Gov
ernment-a service rendered for
cash. His whole administration
is tainted with fraud and incapa-
city
1t is not only that Mr.. Mckinley
has established colonies under the
American flag, that he has substi-
tuted military force for moral
force IN our national life, thal he
has spat on tee Declaration of In
dependedce and trampled on the
Constitution, that he has allowed
the British flag to be hoisted over
American territory in Alaska, that
he has sought to revive the Clayton.
Bulwer treaty and compromise our
control of the Nicaraguan Canal
that he has treated the dying
South African Republic with brutal
indifference to please his flatterers
in England, that he has supported,
and protected trusts in their at
tempt TO destroy competition and
take away hope from the youth of
the nation-it is not these things
alone which stamps Mckinley as a
man beyond the pale of confidence.
Mr.. McKinley's entire record
condemns him. AS Governor of
Ohio he signed his name to blank
promisory notes for The Youngs-
Town tin plate works. When the
tin plate works failed Mr.. Mckinley
owed S11S,000 which he could not
pay. He was Governor of Ohio.
and the people of that State were
shocked when they learned that
the Governors WORTHLESS notes had
been hawked about from bank to
bank until they were placed.
a man with fine sense of hon
or would have resigned his office
and begun to work for his creditors
as Mark Twain did in hi> old age.
Did Mr.. Mckinley resignG No.
Did he attempt to earn money to
pay his debts? No. He made a
technical assignment of his own
and his wife's property for the ben.
eft of his creditors, and then ap-
pealed to his friends to save him.
Mark Hanna, Myron T. Herrick,
Herman Kolsaat and several other
Republicans went about begging
money for the payment of McKin~
Iey's debts. They.even took q, 900
from John r. Mclean, a political
opponent.
LII thls Illuminating way. Govern
Or McKinley's debt of S11S,OOOwas
paid. Then Mr.. Mckinley receiv.
sd his property back again from
he assignee Judge Day, after
wards Secretary of State) wlthou
paying one dollar himself. Since
hat time Mr.. Mckinley has earned
$4,000 year, yet he has not
offered to pay any part of the $751;
100. Whyf Because most of the
men who helped to pay Mr.. Nc
Ninley's uebt have pro flied in other
rays by their mortgage on him.
Why should any pa triotic Re-
ublican vote to keep Nc. McKIn.
~ in the high Office he has per.
erted and dishonored? 1t is a |,
aaSODabIe QueStIon and 6aSarvas