The Sunday globe., 1901-06-16
SUNDAY, JUNE l6, 1901
REMARKABLE SYMPATHETIC CO.
INCIDENCE.

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REMARKABLE SYMPATHETIC CO.
INCIDENCEs.
1t has been noticed and commented
on by millions of his countrymen that
whenever the President is in an en-
barrassing corner Mrs. Mckinley be-
comes exceedingly i'll. This misfor-
tune comes on the President just at a
time wheeH all his faculties are en-
ployed in a hard tussle with ,-e prob
lem on hand. But no sooner is the
problem solved, sidetracked, or lodged
than Mrs. Mckinley is reported i'm
proving by the physicians, and as the
atmosphere grows clearer she is pro
nounced entirely out of danger" and
when the normal conditions OF state af-
fairs prevail the announcement is
made that the much-suffering lady is
"well again These sympathetic CO.
medicines attracted attention wneH
Congressman Mckinley was under fire
with his tariff legislation. Subse.
quently when he contested ms district
with the late Ex-Governor Warwick,
and lost it, the people of Ohio first be-
came aware Of the precarious condi-
ton Of Mrs. McRinley's health. In
deed the writer has probably linked
enough whbe paper to belt the entire
earth on this subject bo,h as a hired
hand and publisher.
For over twenty years we have been
steadily recording the serious illness
OF Mrs Mckinley, and during that pc.
riod We have had the melancholy duty
Of writing the obituaries of an idolized
mother three manly and gallant broth
ers two of whom served their country
in the field, an only sister, several un-
cles, aunts, and innumerable minor re.
latives, besides a father-in-law and an
esteemed mother-iB-law, OF whom We
still retain the most affectionate re-
membrance All Of these relatives and
hnfolk of ours who have crossed the
divide mourned in their time over
Mrs McKinley's illness, read the buue-
tin boards and oar articles on the
subject, anxiously awaited the coming
morning to read the first newspaper
issued, and retired to their eouches at
night in nervous anticipation Of Mrs.
McKinley's demise.
She is still alive and almost well,
thank God and uue President has
turned the corner on that third term"
which was making him walk the floor
at night with a copy Of Mr.. Bryans
CoRmoner in his hand. All through
the four years of the Presidents term
as governor OF Ohio tens OF thousands
OF his sympathetic fellow-citizehs
mourned with him whom Mrs MeFSin-
ley's illness was serious and rejoiQed
when the physicians pronounced her
out Of danger. Great numbers Of these
loyal and patriotic men and women
have passed to their reward. Not
since this rspublic was discovered has
there been a parallel case OF such de-
votion on the part Of a husband and
such life Of suffering borne by a
Christian woman. Not only america,
but Europe itself, has showered its
sympathy on this stricken and disdn-
guished couple, whose exalted posi-
tions merits and receives The atten-
tive homage Of Christian nen ana wo-
men in every cline.
That all through this thirty years
Of alternate and almost fatal illness
and miraculous recovsriss experienced
and endured by Mrs. Mckinley, her no
Bile husband could find time W serve
his constituents in Congress, his state
in the guberEatorial chair, and the ma
tion in the White House IL one Of the
marVels OF tne age AM is even more
miraculous than Mrs. McKinley's many
recoveries, for which We again fer
vently thank . Divine Providence
Let rs hope that for the remainder
of the Presidential torn Ar Mckinley
may be spared from encountering
those problems or difficulties which
seem 70 come coiBciden,.y with the re-
lapses or illness of ms faithful wife,
80 that she may enjoy the hesHh
which we are informed by her phya.
clans bulletins she now enjoys.
May she live many years to sheer
her illustrious husband, whose strug
giles as politician have been no doubt
intensified and made mora sihcult Oh
conquest by her many relapses, vhich
generally occurred at tho crucial pc
riods Of his long and distinE EuisheJ
public career.
The xRPathetlc nature Of Mrs
Mckinley, hsr lovely Christian char
scter, and ker great arr abiding loyal
~ and love for her distingW shec
spouse makes her peculiarly suscspti
bIe 10 every outward manifestation oi
public opinSn as it affected md affects
his career. Highly nervous and finely
sensitive in her nature, she feels in
stinstively the crisis or climax Of pend
ing events and the strain Of awaiting