The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-26
WANTS HIS PAY.
Original Mckinley Man Sends
Bill to the President.

Chicago. June 26-The InterOcean
says: Magnus A. Hess. 1.-The original |
Mckinley man. seeing the Mckinley |
boom for which he claims all the credit. |
at its height, has sent to the president |
bill of the expense incurred by him,
Hess, in starting that boom and keep |
ing it going. The BILL which is as well |
itemized as a commercial travellers ex-
pense account. calls for the payment of |
the modest sum Of $6.115.O9. Why Mag |
nus did not make it even money Is a /
matter between him and his book
keeper.
Hess for some time has been looking
with reproachful eye on the man in
Washington, whom he was wont to call
Bill" or Mack" The former Chicago
patdot is now of the opinion, to use
the language Of his own Original Nc
Kinlev club that the president has
''thrun him down.
Writing letters to Major Mckinley,
expressing his pain and dismay at not
receiving a commission for one of the
plun-like Jobs in the public pudding,
has exhausted Magnus' patience Mr.
Hess expected that commission March
5, 1897, but it did not arrive. For three
years he watched the mails daily for it.
Then he began bombarding the presi-
dent with requests for various positions
from government printer to night
|
AS a. last despaiTing argument for the
payment of the $1,000 Hess appends
this plaintive note;
Where was King Marcus Hanna.
| Dawes, Platt, and that bunch when
started the Mckinley movement?
only want what is honest and fair-my
money back
The bill, as Hess wrote it on one of
| his own letterheads of the style that is
/ thought fancy in country printing Of
/ fees, follows:
ITO William Mckinley, President of
| the United States. Cuba, Philippines,
and Hawaii Bill for expenditures to
start the Mckinley movement" from
October 20, 1892, until the election,
1886:
Charter Original Mckinley
club" s.; notary's fees, 5oci
10000 paper and muslin badges.
for Knights of Labor picnic,
July 4, 1895, Sharpshooters'
park NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 5000
Engraving wood cuts for Major
Mckinley, all sizes. about 5000
Rent for small club room, 1876
year at S25.... ................ 10000
Lumber to fix platform and
seats, also decorations 49,. $500
Memberships cards, meeting
announcements, etc, for three
years ............ ............. s5O.49
Wagon load of envelopes, with
Major McKinley's face printed
on them 49,. .............. 444.s6
About two tons of paper for
literature. etc ............... 1900. 90
PresswoTk, composition, folding,
postage stamps, expressing
etc ........... ..................1 ,555. 4s
Mckinley electrotypes, sent to
Mckinley clubs all over the
United States .......... -. S74.SS
Posters. invitations, Autographs,
buttons, etc -. -. $3.50
Rent for large clubroom, at $50
per month, about two years :. 10000
Wet and dry goods, ''Anheuser-
Milwaukee" and Smoke Up
to keep the boys in line for
McK. ....-... $500. d.. hS1S
Printing, advertising, etc, 10 or
ganize the Business Mems Nc
Kinley club .......- .......... $500
To organize the Workingmen's
Mckinley Leagueu OF
Illinois, in almost every pre-
cinct of Chicago. including
printing, electrotypes, etc,
ETC., about .......-.... ........ 10000
Total amount 1900. $50, 115.O 9
ePlease be so kind and send check
for the above amount Youu have gone
back on your best friends, that helped
: you in the presidential chair, and now
you have only affiliated yourself with
combines, trusts, millionaireS Syndi-
Gates, etc You won't be a second Lin
coin. A poor mechanic like me has nc
show. Where was King Marcus Han
l ma, Dawes, Platt, and that bunch when
I started the Mckinley movement? ]
only want what is honest and fair, my
money back Respectfully,
MAGNUS A. HESS"
Mr.. Hess has elucidated some of the
! items in his bill The two tons OF
paper for literature, he says, were en-
ployed for the dissemination of his own
thoughts. The pictures of President
: Mckinley on the envelopes were print
| ed in seventeen colors and blazed like
an electric sign. The postage stamp bill
of 1,500 was incurred trying to reach
= all the Mckinley clubs in the country
/ The item of wet ana dry goods, he says
!, | he kept down to the minimum because
he felt that no one should be converted
by the use of liquor.