The Sunday globe., 1901-06-30
CAPITAL GRIMES.
The Suppressed News From Wash
ingtOn City
BY ONE OF THE SUPPRESSORS.
Continuation Of The Correspondence Which Was
Suppressed BY White House Influence and
tho Blue Pencil Of the Associated Press
and Kindred AgenOIes-SOme interesting
Reading for The Globes Army Patrons.

and Kindred AgenOIes-SOme Interesting
Reading for The Globe $ ArmyOf Patrons,
The continuation Of the suppressed
news from Washington makes mighty
interesting reading This week the
Globe, for want Of space, can only re.
produce a short chapter, but sufficient
of itself to show our readers the oil.
garchy residents of this District are
living under. Every correspondent is
controlled by one influence or another
from sending his paper, Democratic or
Republican, the fragrant scandal, nepo
| tism in office, and the absolute dishon-
esty of Department officials The cor.
| respondent, If not under control at this
/ end of the line, is speedily admonished
| by his paper to confine his able efforts
| to surface news and colOrless current
| happenings in the Departments. Then,
again, many Of the correspondents have
| been obligated by the appointments of
| friends and relatives, so that it is al
most impossible for the public at large
to acquire, through reading Washing
ton correspondence, any accurate
knowledge of the real state Of AFFAIRS
in the governmental departments.
This chapter gives mere bird's-eye
view of the methods by which Abner,
the brother Of President Mckinley,
blossomed into a millionaire from a
broken-dowA lawyer, or rather, COM
mercial traveller, living from hand to
mouth.
Before Col Tom Ochiltree sailed for
Europe he bid fervent goodby to Alb
ner Mckinley. They were fellow
boarders at the Windsor Hotel in New
York City With joyous uproar as he
shook Abner with one of his hands and
beat him upon the back with the other,
| Ochiltree shouted:
with this war coming on and your
brother in the White House, if you're
not worth a million when | get back
from Europe | shall despise you as a
fool who couldn't see how to work a
| chance
"Abner will have the million unless
| Ochiltree makes a hurry run home. He
is in a fair way to get even more, 1t
is unfortunate for the President that
he has such an acquisitive brother as
this relative of his. Abner has done
more to give the Administration a
| black eye than even Mark HanAa or
Stephen Elkins IL may be that | shall
be criticised ioc devoling so much
space to Abner Mckinley in the discus
sion Of Washington scandals. 1t is a
calamitous fact that no scandal is the
real thing until Abner mingles with It.
| The steals and robberies never amount
to anything respectable until the Presi-
dents brother is invited in to split up
the profits.
"The Administration was scarcely a
month old when Abner began his mon
ey-getJing efforts. He became a broker,
a stock broker, and also an office
broker Business thrived, and Abner,
from a commercial traveler-he was
once a lawyer, but did not like the pro
fession-who had met with Indifferent
success, bcame the greatst gatherer Of
percentages on Government claims that
was ever knewn in the history Of
Washington. 1t can not be said that
his executive brother was in the deal
with him. although have never heard
that the old Canton firm Of Mckinley
"Abner rented an Office on Fifteenth
street, near G, opposite the Treasury
Building, and decided to hang out his
sign as dealer in stocks The New
York Sun, which had in its new Rcpub.
licanism become filled with a notion
that it should ride as guardian Of the
Presidential morals and the White
House virtue, protested. 1t did even
better 1t sent its political correspond
ent, Mr. Ed Riggs, to Washington, and
Mr. Riggs presently produced the most
readable page of personal information
concerning Abner Mckinley, his trades
and his percentages, that ever failed to
find it's way into print.
"The article was taken to the Presi-
dent, and he was permitted to read It.
OF course, a large shivering scare
grew up in the executive soul. Abner
worries him considerably, for Abner is
not at all fine in his practices. He
lacks the polish of the experienced
cracksman. The President asked If IL
were possible to have the biographical
sketch of his relative suppressed. 1t
was, but on one condition-that is,
that Abner select some other city as a
place of residence and throw up his
lease on the brokers' Office. This was
agreed to, and the troublesome relative
went to New York, where he entered
into business relations with John G..
Carlisle, the attorney for the Sugar
Trust
They have offices down near Wall
Street The former Secretary of
Cleveland and the brother of Mckinley
syndicated their respective pulls.
Let me give an instance Of the
value of Abner Mckinley as an attOr.
ney / will not advert to the difficulty
the Hawaiian annexation resolution
found in getting past the barriers. All
the blocks in its way were placed there
by Abner Mckinley and John G.. Car
Isle. The President wanted the reso-
luton to pass, but it was not permitted
to do so until the Presidents brother
and some of the Presidents Senatorial
friends had exhausted the possibilities
that existed in its obstruction. | viii
say nothing of this, for il is a past
affair. 1t is the successful collecting
done by Abner that ! wish to advertise.
"Abner Mckinley, Secretary Bliss
and one or two others also thought IL
would facilitate Spdnish.American re.
lations in Cuba If the soldiers and sail.
ors were paid in Spanish silver. Gen
eral Stanton, PaymasteT General of the
Army, had 100000 in United States
gold aboard a transport in New York
IL was ready to sail for Cuba to pay
of the men. Orders came from Alger
to unload It and take IL back to the
sub-Treasury. stanton refused. The