The Wilmington daily Republican., 1901-09-25

Inc n'gncSt poeitloD 10 Inn gHt 0
, the Nation he was urged "a allow
his name to be used. 10 1883 and in
1892, but 10 both instances be stea"
lily refused. In 1891 elected Gov
ernor OF Ohio and again iu 1898 BY
a plurality vote OF 80, 995.
In 1896 he was nominated for the
, Presidency on the first ballot, re.
ceiving 66lI. votes out OF 9Ol cast,
and elected the same year. In.
augurated ir March 1897. and thir-
teen days after his inauguration
issues an appeal to Congress for
. $50. 900 to relieve the destitutlon OF
Cuba.
We all we'll remember how 10
1898 the House aud Senate voted 10
place fifty millions at the Presl-
dents disposal to be used for ma
tional defense. How in March OF
that year he sends an ultima atum to
Spain iu regard to the intolerable
condition 10 Cuba. How in April
he issued = call Tor l25, 900 volun-
teers, and a month later for $4,000
more. and how, three months later
SPANS accepts the Presidents
terms of peace, aud three months
after that. December 10, 1893. the
Treaty of Peace was signed at
PARIS between Spain and onr
country.
In 1900 he was renominatcd and
reelected to the presidency by
larger plurality vote than at his
former election served for I months
amid the growing delight OF his
friends and the increasing conf
dence Of the whole country, and
in the midst of the most pleasant
and fraternal festivities is stricken
to his death by the hand of an An.
archst This in brief 10 the his
tory of his life. 1t seems without
blemIsh. 1t is the record ot true
gre atness. Yes. az school te acher,
soldier, lawyer, husband. Cop-
gressman. Governor, patriot and
President, he was great man.
Great not because Of these Offices,
but gre at besides them.
?. He was brave man. No
man could charge him with either
moral or physics cowardice. He
was perhaps as his best as Com
rad Mckinley. l saw him aud
heard him speak to his comrades
at the G. A. X. Encampment Sept.
4. 1890. in the Academy of Music in
Philadelphia, and it was not diff
cult to see that he was the beau
ideal OF the old soldier. How they
chcered his patriotic utteranccs
and how mang ticenthe looked that
night. as, holding his hat in his
hand he bowiug to the right and
left he responded to the call OF his
Comrades. Aud how he extolled
the dear old flag. and declared it
should not, must not, bctaken down
from any opot on which it once was
planted. Thirty.nine years ago at
the Battle of Antietam, when half
famlshed soldiers were fighting from
morning until after night, without
breakfast or dinner or supper VIII.
liam Mckinley. then Commissary
Sergeant, went down TO his com.
rades under fire aud pressed in
their hands hot meat and hot coffee
though his life was in dam er at
every minute, 4
Yes, he was brave. Recall how
he smiled, as he was being carried
from the Temple of Music. like some
wounded soldier lust leaving the
field OF battle, after some valorous
deed. though while he smiled his
red blood was staining the shirt he
wore.
s. He was moreover man OF hon
or. lie belonged to the illustrious
class of those
"Who would not stoop nor lie in
wait,
For wealth or honor or for world.
ly state,
Whom these must follow, on whose
heads must fal
Like showers Of Mamma, if they
come at all. /"
lie was, we believe, Incapable Of a
mean action. Even the unfavorable
cartoons Of yellow J urna,is NJ we're
50 disproporionately gross as to awak-
en- only a shocked feeling at the ig.
norant boldness of the editor.
A story, with perhaps good founda-
tion is being circulated, coupling the
names of Mckinley and Hanna, do.
plcting their political and personal in.
timacy and giving the history Of its
beginning.
1t seems that at the Republican
Convention held at Chicago in 1884,
the party was divided in its allcgi-
ance to several candidates.
| The names Of Arthur, Blaine and
Sherman we're all mentioned. Chicago
was crowded. At the Grand Pacific
Hotel, delegates were sleeping on cots
three and four in room. Hanna
went to one of the cots and began
giving out his plan Of action for the
next day, the day of the convention,
to a supposed political friend.
! The man listened quietly for a mo
ment and then suddenly extending
his hand said Excuse me but |
think you are mistaken in your man.
| am William Mckinley of Stark
County"
Hanna had exposed his political
plans to man heartily devoted and
committed to adverse interests. Nc
kney could have made much of his
!: knowledge the next day on the floor
of the ventiun, but with scrupu-
Ious honor he stood for his own candi.
date without betraying Hanna's plan.
1t was this more tnan ary thing eisa