The Sunday globe., 1901-05-05
TWO OHIO MEN
Whom the Writer Has Known in
their Native Lair.
VIM. MKINLEY AND WILKINS.
The Element Of Luck and Native Ability as
Contributing Factors 10 Success Some
Hitherto Unpublished Facts which
Accounts for the PreSi-
dents Change af
Views.

Whata iresco the pictorial history OF the
human hotsan and jetsam of this, the
capital of seventy millions of citi-
zens, subjects and wards of the nation" !"
would make Tor the high altar OF the
Temple of Fortune! Washington has
lascinations for the derelicts of the ocean
Of life as it has alluring and pleasant
anchorage for the acknowledging craft,
successful over adverse storms and cap
Hcious gales and in the peaceful enjoy
ment of the conquered favors of that
most tickle jade, dame fortune.
TO one who has kept touch with this
city from the days of Lincoln to McKin-
ley, what historical record Of men and
events photographs itself in the brain OF
the philosophical and thoughtful student
of mankind. 1t astOunds the reflective
faculties OF the ordinary intellect to
note, retrospectively, as it were, the vi
cissitudes five and twenty years have
accomplished in the lives aud fortunes
of the many prominent characters who
have enacted their parts, in conformity
to the p)9t's cJl:sI.iDa Of hInan ex-
istence:
This worlds a stage" etc.,
or who still live on, their roles incom-
pleted, and perhaps new and unlocked
for assignments awaiting them on the
stage of life,
Combining this excerpt to Il few con-
spicuous or selected ones from the great
army whose achievements and failures
would make a human Mosaic OF the
most variagated shades of good and i'll
fortune-a composite whole which aptly
illustrates POpe's immortal admonition
that the greatest study OF mankind is
mani summon for illustration rather
than exploitation, at the risk of incur
ring the penalty OF les majesty, William
Mckinley, President of the United
States, for Mr.. Mckinley offers the stu
dent of human affairs the most gor-
geously striking example of lack ~
as the factor in the making of greatness.
Mr.. Mckinley, too, interests mankind
in general, from the fact that he is the
first President OF the great American
Republic who has departed from the
traditions, precedents, and policies OF
his illustriOus predecessors in launching
the ship OF state upon the unknown and
dangerous seas of empire and OF domi-
nation.
TO digress moment: subject and for
eign peoples are now ruled by sword,
girted representatives. OF the Republic;
territories and suhjeCated islands of the
seas in both hemispheres are conspicu-
Gus gifts to victorious generals or scions
of distinguished families; after the man
ner Of ancient Rome, when Julius and
his son Octavius Caezar became success
lively sole dispensers, as Mckinley is
now, of provinces and kingdoms less
distant even from Rome than some OF
the countries our President sends his
pro consuls, patricians, and satraps to
rule aud govern.
1t is but little over a decade since this
mig khty President rode with the writer in
the plebian smoking car Of b. ~ O.
train (thankt tul To have a pass) from
Mansfield to Newark, Ohio. In the party
we're Captain Cope, eX-state treasurer;
the late captain and paymaster, WIN.
Ionahan; Major" Mckinley, and the
writer
The future President, but then repu-
dated congressional candidate, dis
cussed the mutability of human affairs,
and especially the disappointments and
unsatisfactory careerof IA politician.
This was before NJ. 4. Hanna fully
adopted him as the saviour of the Re-
publ c." The Major" for it was 10y
Nucu lltlt MS hlu lueuuS lhtnlllafly
addressed him, expstiated on the in
gratitude OF the people for the ser
wants who served them with hon
esty and fidelity. lie spoke to SYM
pathetic auditors, and the writer particu-
larry coudoled with him over his defeat
by eX- Lieutenant Governor Warwick,
who was " free trader - and the anthi-
tetis Of the major on the then great ques-
ton of the day-the tariff The Major
was cheered by the Information an Eu-
ropeon trip had enabled me to lay before
him, viz, that he was best hated man in
England, and that all Englishmen were
agreed that he, the major, was nothing
more nor less than "a pot house pOliti-
clan, '"a demagogue,' 'and "a disguised
Fenian"l
II is one of the most distinct impress
sions Of my life, the satisfaction which
was expressed 10y the major over the
hatred OF the English, and II his Lam
guage and bearing were indicative Of
his real feelings, this hatred was returned
ten fold by the now secret ally of Lord
Salisbury.