Sunday morning globe., 1901-09-22

aseting the interview and
ona han were frowning disgust
elI,l lt tu ars, as they no doubt as
cr.bcd them to- a begging appeal for
s3me 0mc ,avor
for s nunkey with the military
lrc ae 5od rooted in the doorway
ufn ualement. and we were forced
mt1 move him to one side In or
der to secure egress from the room
The "Shattuc' referred to by the
President is Gen w. B ShattuC Mem
Der Of Congress from the first district
Of Ohio (Cincinnat), a gallant soldier
in the Civil War and a noted railroad
man. The general, like the late Presi.
dent, Is one Of the most sympathetic
Of men, and being one Of natures
noblemen, he never learned the art of
dropping a friend or an acquaintance
whom the vicissItudes of fortune had
stranded He had, in a talk with the
President, mentioned our name and
was much pleased at the sympathetic
manner in which Mr.. Mckinley spoke
Of his recollections Of us, using iden-
tically the same language above quoted
and in addition some very compliment
airy reference to our service in the tar.
iff campaigns made in Ohio, and the
fact that in his company we had been
his travelling companion with ex-State
Treasurer Cope and the late William
Monahan, paymaster U. s. A.
Readers of The Globe will be able to
gauge the generosity the nobleness of
character, and the broad-minded, for
giving spirit Of the lamented dead
when we state that through an unso-
licited letter from Private Secretary
Cortelyou we we're promoted clerk in
the Twelfth census and that despite
our Democracy and opposition to his
Administration, the President charita.
bly, held us i'm his remembrance as the
soldier boy he first knew more than
30 years ago, in that State which now
holds all that is mortal of AIS remains
and whose noblest cairn the people of
Ohio will in due time erect to enshrine
his hallowed dust
In those days, away back in Ohio
when Major Mckinley travelled in the
smoking car of the regular railroad
trains and before the great men Of this
or other lands monopolized his time
and society, we have helped TO sur
round his seat i'm the car and discuss
the small nOthings which helps to kill
time, riding from one political meeting
| to another. Necessarily. in such par
ties and especially among not over nice
| politicians, there were characters some
times whose masculinity could only be
| demonstrated through coarse jest and
rsque tales with decidedly suggestive
| trimmings These people speedily
| learned not to recite any such stories
i'm the presence Of the Major. When
| they must retail them they were accus
toned to gather by themselves a few
seats distant from the seat where he
was quietly smoking and where Mona
/ han, Cope and the writer would en-
deavOr to entertain him and break the
! tediousness Of travel and the monotOny
OF campaigning with our recitals oi
scenes and incidents along the route
or occurrences which took place at oul
! last stand. The dead President was
as pure in thought and speech, in wi
and story as a clustered nun, HO
was the most charming, instructive
| and companiOnable of all the cam
paigners we have ever Travelled with Of
! known I'm Ohio since the war-and We
knew the leaders on both sides, as w
served under both flags, having left the
Republican party (of which our sons
are still adherents) on principles We
| have endeavored from time to time, in
the columns Of The Globe to emphasize
with a sincerity of expression fol
which even our friends, the enemy
will give us credit.
We have many endearing recollec
/ tions of our immortal and martyreC
President, which, when the poignancl
Of our sorrow at his untimely deatl
shall have been assuaged, will be re
produced in these columns For the
present, we only feel justified in pub
fishing the foregoing as the tribute o.
one whom he knew to be an uncom
promising Democrat but whom he
nevertheless, aided, fOrgave, and W,
believe, had the most kindly and sym
pathetic feelings for the friend anC
humble travelling companion Of lonl
ago.