The Sunday globe., 1901-08-04
AN EPITOME
On the Weakness Of the Mckinley
Administration.
COULD NOT GOVERN OHIO

Less the Greatest Nation On Eahh-A Truth
fuI and Unenggeraed Review Of The Repub-
IlCan President Since His Induction into
Ofue--What More Could the People ErpsCt1
In a former article in this paper we
called attention to the weakness Of
McKinley's administration as COVER
nor of Ohio when James Boyle was
the governor in fact. If Mckinley did
not have the slightest nerve when he
was governor, and did not dare to say
that his "soul was his own" he has
less aptitude and less nerve ia admin
| istering the affairs Of the nation as
| Chief Executive If he has ever assert
ed himself, or had a well.dehned pol
| icy, we have failed to find the time
or place"
To begin with, we must compare the
President Of this great republic with
his brother Abner. We have shown
up this character in our columns sew
eral times, and the general and gener-
| GUS public have become familiar with
| his character and his methods. a man
| who has known both Abner and Will
| lam since their boyhood says, The
only appreciable difference between
! these two men is in dress and man
ners." They are both pOsers, and seek
| to attract attention by their positions
! deftly taken in places where they can
! be observed. William posed himself
into Congress, into the goyernorship,
and at last into the White House,
which will go to show that posing, If
properly conducted, is a paying atti-
tude.'
William always dressed well; he al
ways shaved every morning; he always
dressed neatly, and be it said, always
conducted himself as a clean man
| should. He studied one question and
became familiar with it, and could
write and deliver a fairly good speech
! on the tariff. He studied grace and
delivery, and his oily speech and man
ners made him the equal Of any con-
fidence man in the country. He early
won the confidence of men of the cali
ber of Mark Hanna, and that class Of
men who come pretty close to the
middle class Of society and 1T is, Of
course, due to their manipulations that
he was at last nominated and elected
to the Presidency. The statesmen Of
the Republican party never had any
use for Mckinley, knowing his vanity
and his weaknesses. No man in that
party had his measure better than Ben
iamin Harrison. When some gentle
man asked Harrison to put Mckinley
in the Cabinet he replied, mo, sir, Nc
Kinley is a warbler and is one Of the
vainest yet weakest men in public life
i'm this country" That was the esti-
mate placed upon him by all the really
great men Of the party,
That mental giant, Tom Reed, said
and says to-day, Mckinley is a shell
fish; mentally weak and morally a
hypocrite." The late grand old John
sherman could use stronger language
han either Harrison or Reed, He said,
1T takes active brain force to be a
good confidence man, and one descrip-
tion of a confidence man is one who
gains the confidence Of other men for
his own advantage" William McKin'
lev is superior i'm brain power to Alb
ner in the fact that he has been able
by and through his dupes to gain the
higher position in which to ply his
arts. Abner sought, through the in
| lutlltt VI Ills L lN6lhNAN W NNAANA1
gain the confidence Of the big men OF
New York, but signallY failed, because
his aims and objeUts were too appa
rent. Then he became an office
broker" and then Ego between" for
men having cases with the Depart
ments that needed influence to touch
the proper channels. An abject fail
ure in Ohio he made enough in New
| "a IA
maintain respectable Offices.
One of the men in New York that he
has had on the string for ten months
says of him: "Abner is the biggest
liarsin the world" Having shown up
that side of his character which every
body knows i'm our former articles we
only allude to it again for comparis
son. Are the brothers alike in charac
ter? is the burning question. We an.
swer, Yes. Having known them all
our lives, we answer emphatically
yes" The only difference Is one
dare not, owing to his imperialistic po-
sition, stoop TO be the thing that the
other is.
If he, the President, William Nc
Kinley, is as weak a creation as his
brother Abner is, then why was he
elected for a second term? The lead
ers of the Republican party must have
discovered in four years his weak,
cringing. yascillating nature, and why
didn't they turn him down as they did
Harrison, who had given such an ad-
mirable proof of his statesmanship?
Well, the case is different. The an
swer is this, we think. The great
mass Of the voters, those controlled by
capital. nad confidence in Cleveland,
and they didn't have confidence in the
theories of Bryan. The leaders Of the
Republican party quietly submitted at
Philadelphia to the dictation of Hanna,
Platt g. Co. At Philadelphia there was
no enthusiasm, and in the campaign
there was none whatever for the can
Iaidate." Had the Democrats nomi-
mated David B. Hill on a platform sim
liar to that upon which Mr.. Cleveland
was nominated Mr. Mckinley would
have been buried deeper than Harri'
son in 1892. The leaders accepted Nc.
Kinley because they had to for har'
mony's sake, and again they wanted
Mckinley to settle some very grave
question into which he had drifted the
Government.
To get at the bottom facts of Nc
' hinleys real character, let us begin
- with his first Administration. II
James Boyle, Joe Smith, and Captain
Heistand dictated what Mckinley was
| to saw from thp front DOTch at Canton