Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1901-09-20
LIFE AND WORK OF Mr.. Mckinley.
Career of the Late President--Lawyer, Sol
dler ard Statesman.

w llIldlU MCNluleg, tNSHt} -loul I'll
President of the United States, was bora
at Niles, Trumbul county, Ohio, onI
January 20, 1884,: After attending the
;rublic schools lie went to Poland Acadc-
Emy. and subsequently 10 Allegheny Coll
,lege. but before attaining his ajorityl
shad become a teacher in the public
schools. On June II. 1861, when he was.
| in his nineteenth year. he enlisted as al
private in the Twenty-third Ohio Vol
sunteers, becoming commissary sergeant
on April IS, 1862, second lieutenant on!
September % of the same year, first lieu
stenant on February 7, 1863, and captalnI
on July Is, 1864 He served successiveyl
on the stats of Gems. R. B. Hayes,
George Crook and Winfield S. Hancock.
land towards the close OF the war was de.
tailed as acting assistant adjutant general
! of the First Division, First Army Corps,
on the staff of Gen. s. S. Carroll. he
was brevetted major Of volunteers for
gallantry in battle in March, 1865. and in
July following was mustered out OF the
service.
Major Mckinley then applied himself
1 to the study of law, which he completed
{ by a course at the Albany IN. W Law
School. In 1867 he was admitted to the
5bar, and settled down at Canton, o., IN
the practice of his profession, that town
since remaining his home. In 1869 he
was elected prosecuting attorney OF Stark
acounty. but served only enc term in that
Coffee In 1867 he made his entrance upon
J the field of national politics, and was
Selccted a member of the lower house or
Congress, in which for the next "A years
She represented the congressional district
! of which his county was a part AS
chairman of the Ways and Means Com
mittee he reported the tariff law OF 1890
; in the preparation of which he took a
leading part, and it has always been
KNOWN by his name. In November on
that year Major Mckinley was defeated
flor reelection to Congress. the new ap-
3portionment of the state having been so
Sgerrymandered as to throw him into a
democratic district, but he succeeded IN
Producing the usual adverse majority
dfrom 1000 to 300. There was, however
practically no interval in his public ca
reer, for in 1891, few months after
+ he retired from the House, he was
elected governor of Ohio by a plurality
of 2I,5II over James Z. Campbell, the
Democratic incumbent of the office.
Two years later lie was reelected by a
plurality Of 8o,eo5 over Lawrence l..
Neal, Democrat, and retired from the
1 governorship at the close of 1895.
4 Major Mckinley served as delegate
+ at-large in the Republican National Con-
vention of 1884. when he supported
aBlaine for President, and as member
2of the committee on resolutions read the
4platform to the convention. In 1888 ne
4was again a delegate at-large from ONO.
1 supported John Sherman for the noml-
nation, and as chairman of the committee
on resolutions again reported the plat
form. In 1862 he appeared for the third
E time as a delegate at-large from Ono,
land served as permanent chairman OF the
q convention On that occasion Major
4 mckinley advocated the denomination
Hof President Harrison, but, notwith-
= standing his refusal to permit the use OF
his name, 1872 votes were cast tor HIM
for the Presidential nomination. At the
q national convention held at St. Louis in
a June. 1906, Major Mckinley was made
1.-THE Presidential candidate of the Repub-
Slican party, receiving o6IH votes to 04E
flor Thomas Reed. 6oH for Matthew ,.
a Ouay, IS for Levi P. Morton, 35H tor
i William B. Allison and for ]. Donald
q cameron, with "a delegates absent, the
Anumber of votes necessary tor choice
abeing 462. In November following Ma
8 ior Mckinley received 7,Io6,Io votes
Mo 6, 5o2,685 for William J. Bryan, giving
Ia plurality of 6o3,5I4, and a clear ma
q jority of the popular vote of 1888 over
aall opposition In the Electoral College
the vote stood III for Mckinley to 10
q for Bryan.
q On June FL, Icoo, the National Repub-
alican Convention at Philadelphia renom
mated Mr.. Mckinley for President lie
received o26 votes Call the votes OF the
8convention).
4 On November E, 1907. Mr. Mckinley
1 was reelected, defeating Mr.. William
at. Bryan the second time.
a During the administration of Presi-
#dent Mckinley the most important mat
q tiers that have engaged his attention have
) been the war with Spain, beginning IN
81 April, 1903, and being concluded in Au-
of the same year. the trouble with
Athe Filipinos. which followed the attac';
a on the American troops by the FllplnoS
q in February, 1900, and which still con
i tinues in dcsultory sort of fashion: thG
i passage of the Porto Rican bill, applying
Ito the Use of the inhabitants of the island
Stle duties collected; the passage of th>
81 Financial bill at the last session OF Con
{ gress by which the gold standard wa.
Z made secure; and the trouble in China
! which followed the attack of the Boxer,
= on the foreigners in China, which neces-
II r:Aa4ad sending American frnonS TO Chi.