The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-06-08
PRESIDENTS HEALTH GOOD.
REPORTS OF HIS BAD PHYSICAL
CONDITION ARE UNTRUE.
Has Naturally Felt the Great Bur
dens Laid Upon Him and VIII En-
Joy n Rest. hut Is Otherwise Well
How Medley Was Appointed.

Special Dispatch 10 the Post-Intelligencer
WASHINGTON. June Reports that
President Mckinley is IN IN health nave
no foundation whatever in fact These
reports have been revived with pcrsts-
tency 10 discussing various available can
diiates for the vice presidency, and % has
been urged that some good. strong man
should be placed on the ticket IN order
20 prepare for the unfortunate contingency
OF the presidents death or physical in
capacity. These reports are annoying,
and to those who know the presidents
real condition they are ridiculous, Save
for the WEAKNESS naturally TO be expected
because OF the long and intense strain TO
which the president has been subjected,
he Is in better physical condition than he
has been Tor long time.
That case OF tobacco heart" which
some papers have exploited sensstloaaily.
likewise is without foundation in fact
President Mckinley hns good. Kind
heart which beats healthily and regularly
and as Vet displays no indication that
he ever need have fear % that organ be-
coming diseased The president, while
fond OF good tobacco. never was 80 heavy
a smoker as are many public men, lie
is smoking less at present than he did
when governor OF Ohio. but that Is not
because OF any Fear that his heart was
becoming affected. The president has been
subjected 20 strain more intense and
other president since President Lincoln
has been compelled 10 undergo.
He needs the rest which a comparatively
quiet summer I'm his old home In Canton
will give him This IS true about the
PRESIDENTS physical condition. Mrs. Ne
kinley also Is In much better health than
she has shared some OF her husbands
anSietics and sympatni,ed with him when
cares OF state sat heavily. IL has not af-
fected her health. Her old Ohio friends.
when they see her this summer will De
gratiled to note the bloom ~ vitality and
happiness which adorn. her checks
How Medley Was Appointed.
In Justice to Perry s Heath. first as
sistant postmaster general, a few plain
truths should be told about the Influences
Leading to the appointment OF Medley.
Since the discovery Of Neeley's emneEyle-
inent there mas been a disposition 10 lay
the whole blame 81 his appointment upon
Mr. Heath. while in reality the RESPONSE
biliy belongs elsewhere. For many years
Medley was tne leader Of a faction that
was distinctly hostile To Heath IN tho poll
tics Of the Eighth Indiana congregational
district Of which tho now far-famed town
y Muncle is TIE political center The
Hon George Washington Cromer. who
| now represents that district IN congress.
| has been the head Of one faction and the
Heaths-Perry and hts nrothers--have
headed the other faction Neeley was one
| ~ Cromer's chief strikers for years before
| either Crumer came TO congress or Perry
Heath attracted the favorable attention
/ OF Mr. Hanna
BY trustworthy gentlemer who are sup
posed TO be intimately acquainted with
the case. II is stated that ~ was upon
the urgent insistcnce Of Representative
Cromer that Medley was appointed 10 the
cuban postal service II may he that
the record shows his appointment was
recommended by Heath but this can be
very easily accounted for on the we'll
established principle of political rect
procity. which dictates in the Interests
OF party harmony, the pscn,ing of fac
tional enemies. II ia Coutended that but
for MIR Cromers strong demands. Neeley
would not have been selected for any
Hence. ~ any blame II To- be placed upon
anybody s shoulders for Neeley. oppor-
tuntty 10 loot tho Cuban postal revenues
Mr.. Heath's friends say II should fan
upon Representative cromerr. In the
circumstances Mr.. Heath IA unable 20 de-
iend himself
The RED AppI. Man"
one - tho most persistent lobbyists
before me house committee on claims iB
the Rcd Apple Man Almost since the
present session began he has been "a cone
slant visitor az the committee room
Wandering with apparent aimlcssness
mediate for time, and then. reaching
into the capaoious tail packets 81 his
long Prince Albert he will extract a
large red, luscious looking apple Care
fuliy and with dcliuerati0n ho viii rub
Il up and down upon tho lex ~ hts ,roa-
sers until he has polished 81 20 = brilliant
rarmlne Then. Nth tho grace and hos
pitslity ~ resident ~ ,he old pomin.
Ion. he presents the apple To- some COM
mitteFrnRu
AN 20 this ia u daily performance. and
years ago the aged claimant came 70 he
known aA the Red Aupio Man and his
! diuruai appearance expected hy hungry
c0mmirtcemsn With pleased anticipation
Tn" other lay ihv aged claimant walked
tu AS usual eith customary elaboration.
/ and looked profound hut he dld not PRO.
auce the customary red apple. Among
fhf q there