The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-27

/ pacity for self-governInent- Both sections
share equally in that crown of glory They
| portance and had fought it out with equal
energy. a conclusion had been reache s9
| both sides that they each knew when the
war was hd over ana T2e n0ar OF hast 1
desperate daring of others who prefer
81 nnmnnn sanse ana y; en-
| like Grant and Lee. who knew when they
had fought enough, for honor and for
80 LAID DOWN HIS SWORD
million of men, gladly laid down his sword
Quickly made up the time i lost in Soldier
| ing He attacked his Blackstone as he
finding the range of a country law library
! too narrow, he went to the Albany law
with brilliant success: was admitted TO the
bar and settled down to praetice-a bre-
| Canton. now and henceforth forever
| famous as the scene of his life and his
awaited him: high repute, professional
success, and a domestic affection so pure,
| so devoted and stainless that future poets,
| seeking an ideal of Christian marriage
Will hnd IN II theme worthy OF tne e
songs This is subject 70 which the
itshtest aIiqslon seems Pr3dTlan4ii d n nnt
L Is impossible TO speak OF Mult am NC NC
/ truer, tenderer knight TO his chosen lady
spirits of the just made perfect IS per
/ mitted the consciousness of earthly things.
We may os sure tnat ms laIHLuA s9 ff =
| who counts the long hours in their shat
| tered home in the desolate spIendor of his
fame.
| A man possessing the qualities with
which nature had endowed Mckinley
/ growing plant seeks light and air
making friends and keeping. them; a. faith.
which may be called religious. IN ms
| country and its institutions; and, flowing
| from this, a belief that a man could do
| no nobler work than to serve such c9un-
/ acter that drew him irresistibiV into pub
! lie life. He had from the beginning re-
/ lar grace and charm: voice of ringing
| quality and great carrying power-vast as
/ he reached their utmost fringe without APP
I parent effort. He had an extraordinary
| nif1cant facts, 50 as to bring CONVICTION to
the average mind His range Of reading
was not wide: he read only what he might
some day-fnd useful, and what he read
| his memory held like brass Those who
never forget the conSummate skill and
power with which he would select few
hammer them into the attention of great
asSep6lagss IN h Ohio as as 5ael dT3se sne
tain He not often impassioned; he
NOR: yet I never saw his equal in con-
trolling and convincing popular audi,
ence by sheer appeal to their reason and
Intelligence He did not flatter or eajole
them, but there was an implied eomph-
which he addressed them He seemed one
OF them: in heart and in feeling he was
/ one of them Each artisan in a great
crowd might say: This is the sort of man
L would like to be, and under more favor
ing, circumstances might have been He
| though given only to the elect, makes all
iA'e'' His His PPoLITICAL CAREER.
So it came naturally about that in 1876
the beginning of the second century of the
republic-he began. by an election TO con-
gress, his political career. Thereafter for
use the word advisediy. Nowhere in the
world he SO in harmony with his en-
mind work with such full consciousness of
its powers The air of debate was native
to him: here ne drank de5ignt OF pa1tie
with his peers In after days, when ne
drove by this stately pile; or when on
rare occasions his duty called MN mere
he greeted his old haunts with the affec-
all the last ten years OF his lie, Iiled as
they were with activity and glory. he
When he came TO the presidency. there
was not a day when his congresslonaI ser
vice was not of use to him. Probably no
other president has been IN such 1ull and
cordial communion with congress, If We
may except Lincoln alone Mckinley knew
the legislative BODY thoroqghIy,. ITS com
position, its methOds,its habits of thought
thority and an fnfiexibIe belief in the ulti-
mate rectitude of its purposes. Our his
disaster and ruin by assuming attitude
of hostility or distrust to the IegisIa ture;
and sincere trust and confidence in con-
gress were repaid by prompt and loyal
support and cO-opera ton. During his en-
tire term of office this mutual trust and
regard-so essential TO the public welfare
was never Swallowed by a single cloud
He was q Republican He could not be
anything else. A union soldier grated
in the American system''-in protection
to home industries; i'll strong aggressive
nationality: in a liberal construction of
,s+io7, 1,1isbf yiyFtf,4IIZ- do he faif this
nation had power TO do. if required by the
common welfare and not prohibited by our
written charter
E-OIloxrirer ba natural banf of n mind
he devoted himself to questions Of finance
and revenue; TO the essentials Of the ma
in the house from the beginning. His
sfIbiect he handled the bright and arniabie
light he shed about him. and above all the
which he treated friend and foe alike-one
of the surest signatures of a nature born
to great destinies-made his service in the
house a pathway of unbroken success and
brought him at last to the aI-1mportant
post Of chairman of ways and means and
revenue act which, in that capacity, he
not my purpose here and to speak
The emberS of the controversy IN the
midst of which that law had its troubled
being are yet too warm to be handled on
never was sufficiently tested to prove the
praises of its friends or the criticism of its
opponents After brief existence 1t pass
ed away. for time, in the storm that
swept the Republicans out of power. Nc
Kfnley also passed through brief zone of
shadow: his congressional district having
been rearranged for that purpose by a hos
tile legislature.
Someone has said it is easy to love our
enemies: they help much more than
our friends The people whose malevolent
skill had turned Mckinley out of congress
deserved well of him and Of the republic
Never was Nemesis more swift and ener-
getic- The Republicans of Ohio were saved
the trouble of choosing a governor-the
other side had chosen one for them. A
year after Mckinley left congress he was
made governor of Ohio and two years
later he was reelected. each time. by ma
jorities unhoped for and overwhel ming
He came to fill a space in the public eve
which obscured a great portion of the field
of vision. In two national conventions.
the presidency seemed within his reach
But he had gone there in the interest of
others and his honor forbade any daliance
with temptation. So his nay was nay-de- /
Iivered with a tone and gesture there was