The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-05-13
!: M'kINL EY AS SEEN BY GATH.
Keen and Comprehensive Reading Of the Character of the
President by Well Known Journalist :

70 eSeeseSSS Ssseeeesebese
ever olected--neither Blaine. Sherman nor
| Harrison. In each case he was their steer
ing man. but they all fell overheard.
At last he had a convention of his own.
Repeated theatrieals, Gethsemane sor-
rows, walls OF 1et this cup pass from
me" finally demonstrated that one kind o.
man Lincoln thought to be impossible who
could fool all the people.al the time"
Garfield was killed in few months,
and his successor. Arthur. is said at
Washington to have been Mr.. McKinley's
admiration. Arthur, also, was weeper.
The protective tariff is the inherited as
well as the original bias OF Americans,
since Hamilton, from patriotism, Inter
preted It; Jefferson became convert TO II,
Clay made 1t his shibboleth and repeatedly
ran for president upon It; Greeley left hi,
only permanent fame with IT, and Blame
revived It and had his imitators. This is
not doctrine, but a patriotism, and until
! II Is outrageousy abused, as in the case
OF Puerto Rico, 1t will periodically prevail,
or whenever prosperity needs a stimulus.
BLAINE on M'KINLEY'S TARIFF.
The kind OF tariff Mckinley made was
described by Blaine, McKlnley's avowed
war with reciprocity, an extravagant sub
sidy, and Blaine wrote to Mckinley April
| 10, 1890: IT is a great mistake to take
I'hidee from the free list, where they have
been 80 many years. IL Is slap in the
face to the South Americans. with whom
we are trying to enlarge our trade. 1t
Will benefit the farmer by adding 8 10 s
per cent to the price OF his chldrens
shoes. 1t will yield profit to the butch
err only. The movement is injudcious
from beginning to end--in every form and
phase. Pray stop 1t before 1t sees the
light"
Blaine was for the open door"as John
Hay, his successor in the state depart
ment, is.
}, Mckinley Is an imltator in protection
President Cleveland had listened to Me
free trade extremists. Some protestator,
some ELUSIVE anti economist, some Phae-
ton driving the chariot OF the sun, was
In succession. "Our plain duty is to
abolish all tariffs and give her products
free access to our markets" was McKin-
ley's lapse of patent-right ten years after
Blaine adjured him
But he had no discriminating fortitude,
though ever a palliator Of his interested
makeshlfts.
He swallowed the rebuke like shylocS
his spit, and invited Blaine to come and
help him return to congress, and Blaine
came. like the long procession of men
who pltied Mckinley and revived him.
Mckinley has the humility Of a Fran
ciscan monk. When he was fearful over
the Spanish war and congressman told
him he would be repudiated by our war
like people no reached his hand out, 1t Is
/ said, and exclaimed: And ! am very
much obliged to you!"
Fourteen years (seven terms) he was In
{ congress. from 1877 TO 1891 In 1882 h,
claimed his election by only eight votes
{ William X. Morrison relates how McKin
NJ III
disputed election. II did so, says Nor
, rlson but when my election was dis
puted Mckinley did not vote for me-
& MADE HIMSELF A TAILQR'S ADVER
o 'rGSEMENT
, He brought bundle containing a 81
y sun of clothes into congress and took tn
clothes out in that august body and rea,
3 the bill for them from member, He
d brew clothier of Boston. Leopold Morse
= The advertisement was forwarded II
], Morse
mckinley deliberately led Morse int
}. a trap says Porter, the blographer
l. Quite 80, The slop- chop argument ais
, illustrated McKinleys humility. which I
II his gaberdine.
The future president doing the oil
, clothes trick in parliament seems nov
!, peculiar. But hucRsters of patronage
y, trade every day in the White House TIL
levee to the office seekers there is White
chapel old-cothes mart on Sunda
- morning, and n senator seeing McKlnle
playing the cailpha seat OF iustcelat tn
:, gate called 1t Christ healing the slick,
a adding, 'and the slickest is His'm."
J \ debating society was McKinley's oul
alma mater, and fond o. dIalectlcs he con
= tinued after the war schoolhouse tours G
9. debate through the Canton district, wher
L he was a stranger till 1861. He egotisl
of arguing case is the least conceale
r, OF his passions. He borrowed from Blain
5 the elusive dash In congress CT convcn
90 tons 1t Is observed that he speaks fro;
J. the rear, and his favorite moral posltio
I'd is to straddle, always provided that hi
10 side be awarded the debate. Now, Ism
o. that the fair way" WAS one OF his argu
ments--to seem to sit on the pivot and ad
e. dress both ends OF the seesaw. This
A. the place Of peace maker. saves takin
IN sides and draws out of the slot a beat
cd tude.
l. HOBART DID FOR HIM HIS ONT.
On DEED
t. A we'll known Ohio ornithologlst, d
Howard Jones of Circlevlle. says
US watched a crow steal seven eggs from
M hen, a trip for each egg without the he
,ir seeing IL. This is the way Sherma
~ quay, BNSnnell, NOfdhef ana AlbST nd'
nd lost eggs Professor OF the Divinity OF u
As Moral Evasive Mckinley has written c
g Garrett Hobart's tomb, we fear, his lea
r representative act-the freezing of Alg
IN out OF the cabinet All that Is vivid
that vice presidency is Hobart astounl
ing Alger by the statement that the pres
dent wanted him to go. Yet Alger was
to the president every day. rs though he vi
e. the ST. John of that holy family. II WI
. another trip OF the crow to the nest Al
" Mckinley had been a fellow soldier,
lis Hobart was not. Hobart died soon att
e. this "He should have died hereafter, T"
," Gary. the first postmaster general, WI
=. also frozen out OF the cabinet as is we
y, known in Baltimore, He Is too respec
=" able to expose H. for Mckinley general
greases the hinges before he spills frler
ne down the stairs, and the dull thud Is ON
nu solloQuy. John Addison Porter, the pres
y dents secretary also knows what liQu
p air Is. He was doomed after he failed
y carry Connecticut for governor and SO
ne his newspaper. Failures are not to Il
up liking of timid princes We think 4
I'm sherman. Alger, Gary and OF tho fro2t
AN silent with the poetieai thought
IT.
yet ALAS for those who never sing
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