The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-24
CTORIES ABOUT
- MCKINLEY.


listener and possessed a keen sense of
humor. Stories now going the rounds
illustrate these characteristics in Of
fetal and private life. Previous to
his first Inauguration his acquaintance
with the members of his cabinet was
I slight one. only Mr.. sherman being
at all intimate with the chief execu-
tive The getting acquainted was
rather of slow process, as all were
engrossed in their new and intricate
duties.
In the satisfactory end SO completely
accomplished the formal cabinet din
ners were no inconziderable factor. or.
to be more exact, the informal talks
following the dinner proper. after the
cabinet women had sought a place to
/ spin social chat and permitted the men
to smoke and swap ideas.
One evening the conversation
CHANGED to turn upon the youthful am
billions of the members. Each related
his early plans for the future. and
when Secretary Wilson's turn came the
genial Iowan said:
My ambition has not yet been real
| lied l wanted to be worth 81 600 900
and have two good pairs of suspenders
at the same time. AS yet 1 have
| neither"
The cabinet unoficiaIly laughed at
/ this frank confession, and Secretary
/ Gage, after minute. confessed that
/ ne had never simultaneously possessed
| two pairs of dependable suspenders
! Secretary Long remarked that when he
I graduated from Harvard he had two
pairs of new trousers. each with good
new "gallusses, but that the expert
ence had never responded to an en-
core.
Others made similar confessions. and
finally Secretary Bliss, the wealthiest
man present, said. with laugh. This
seems to be a strange coincidence. Last
Saturday evening Mrs. Bliss came into
my study and said; Papa, are you
going out at all this evenings? 1 re-
piled that 1 did not so intend and
asked the reason of her question.
oh, nothing she replied. Only.
/ II you are not, Ed, our son. wants to
use your only good suspenders.' -
As a sort of final course to this tale
Mr. Mckinley tells that Secretary Will
1 son related this conversation at the
/ breakfast table the morning following
/ Three of his children were present 1t
/ was in the early holiday season Each
/ of the children sat interested and cb-
| serving. Christmas came, and in the
/ hgurative stocking Of the secretary of
I agriculture were found three dozen
/ pairs of suspenders of high degree
I of excellence
/ The children had remembered the
/ story. All then that Secretary Wilson
/ needed to realize his boyish ambition
was the million dollars. On the same
/ Christmas it rs said that President Nc
klnley presented each member of his
| official family with two pairs of sus-
penders.
Oberlin, o., in the center of the Con-
| necticut western reserve. is probably
the most Puritanic spot in the entire
United States A large university gives
! the town its being. and so jealousy
| have the college fathers guarded the
/ meals OF their young people that not
only is the sale of liquor prohibited in
the village limits and for miles around,
rnh1
| chewing or snuffing. is unknown in the
| stores, while playing cards are even
/ scarcer than the proverbial hens teeth.
| one Mr. Monroe, formerly a congress
man from the Oberiin district. was the
/ leading Republican OF the village, and
1 usually entertained political orators
OF the party when they visited the
city During Mr. McKinley's first
gubernatorial campaign. Professor
Monroe had the pleasure Of entertain
ing the candidate. After dinner on the
evening preceding the address, Mr.. Nc
| hlnley took a cigar from his pocket
and casually remarked: You don't
lnlnd II L smoke, do you, professor
Mr. Monroe was aghast. He didn't
wish to appear inhospitable, yet dread
ed the almost certain social ostracism
due to follow the discovery of a smoker
on his piazza, even be he the pros
pective governor of the. great state
he compromised by conducting Mr.
! Mckinley to the second floor, through
a long hall to a back balcony where
safely screened from public view the
edrled upward, instinctively Mckinley
I looked about him for cuspidor
There isn't such a thing in town."
said Professor Monroe. A coal bucket
/ was finally impressed into service as a
compromise
Two days after the Oberlin meeting
Mr.. Mckinley spoke in East Liverpool
I the great pottery center. CHANGING to
hn -rs1fr IL
! friend. Colonel John N Taylor. the
proprietor of one Of the big potteries,
| he said:
BY the way Taylor. just for joke.
senq a gross OF your china spittoons
/ to Professor Monroe. Don't tell him
| where they came from or he will sus-
pect that I had hand in it,
Following the suggestion, Colonel
Taylor Grated up an assortment of
really beautiful chinaware and sent if
on to Oberlin. A year later Mr.. Nc
kinney again was Mr.. MOnroe's guest.
( Forewarned and consequently fore
/ armed with a liberal supply of good
Havanas, he again sought the secluded
and vine-draped balcony. Lighting his
cigar he SAID with a twinkle of his
You haven't a cuspidor in town vet.
have you. Monroe2''
ITS mighty funny" was the re-
spouse, but a few days after you were
! a
crate Of those things. OF course /
hadn't any use for them and they were
such nice china and so prettily paint
ed that my wife used them ali for
flower pots. There isn't one about the
house not in use
. q o
Stark county, in which Canton is To-
Gated. Prides itself upon being the
home of other great men and having
sent into the world several embryonic
statesmen with the impetus which
made them powers in the political
world. Massillon. a thriving rival of
4 Canton on the west. claims the dis
tinction of once having as. an humble
citizen Thomas c.. Platt of New York.
The senator was then but IS years of
age and worked IN a drug store for So
per week, sleeping nights on the pre-
scription counter so as to get an early
start sweeping out the next morning.
At least the Oldest MassilIonian re-
lates this romance, and Mr. PIatt has
never denied the soft impeachment OF
the hard bed. But that is another
story. TO wax kiplfngesque In any
event, before Mr. Mckinley became a
national figure MassiIlon was quite
jealous of Canton and declined to ac-
( of he