The sun., 1903-01-28

s.dsnt MSEnlsy ri:s idd.o e ssssSniss: SssSis:
ersss there. was a steady inceass alike In
% s " y hs fpas
life and by the public itself Session aiter
session his influence In the House grew greater:
him with constantly increasing respect: his
party friends With constanty ipcreaNha
s s%S a4 hsn was ssiGrs
considered Presidential possibility, -Four
years before he was nominated only his own
mad made a forH.d able competitor Of the chief
upon whom p, the choice OF the convention '"'n
In lsss he was chosen because the great
mass OF his party knew him and believed u
him and regarded him as symbolizing their
des .Ss foncss brought
value that devoted personal friendship " which M
degree aMong the able st and most influential
leaders This leadership was OF immense con-
sequence in bringing about the result; pu,,
and and DEVOTION eve 70 hun ieit by the great mas: mas:
OF men who had come to accept him az, a. tnein
n,,sno In Of rrea party
carried into effect In good faith the deliberate
Judgment Of that party as to who its can
But Bur even as a candidate President Mckinley
was far more than the candidate OF q parry.
and ss Prssdsnt he wa. IN The bTPsdes T Al tnss sfnss
to to him him because Of the qualities he had shown
The X a"S WhidS by word and deed I'M
presses itself as virile force Tor good upon
the people Mt large. and which mas notninR
ton
SOUND MONEY CHAMPION
But in 1896 the Issue wa, fairly Joined:
chiefly upon a question which a. party
question WAS entirely new. 80 that the OLD
lines of political clsSvsse wsse s ~ 'srge Par. .
pea,snSc when SSpared WITH the
need OF keeping our financial system on the
high and honorable plane imperatively, dc,
power power" As the champion Of such a, prinoi-
pie. President MIG Kinney received the SUD
@ not %ny o, bis party Gm, Q" hSn bad
been politically opposed lie triunphed.
and he made good With scrupulous ndelity
the promises upon which the campaign was
We were at the time in a period Of great
industrial deRressioh and II wss pr9hse1 h.s car, s
elected our financial system should not only
be preserved unharmed but improved; and
VIII with sf those theories Which have always MARKED
promises were kept, and following their keep
f M tsne tsas Wss ns pfor.told ecncepnns the we
being WHICH would follow, the election OF
Mckinley has been ia.,ned BY the sysns Sis,a,v
the President was forced TO face quest ions
other than those at issue at the time OF ne
had become literally intolersble. President
Mckinley had fought too well in MS youth:
he knew too we'll at first hand what war really
was lightly to enter into struggle. lie
sought by every honorable means 10 pre-.
scrve peace. to avert war. He made every
b brius Sss' about an ami"ahe he settle msnt OF the
Cuban difficulty. Then. when Il became
evident tha, these efforts wsr. useless that ns
he devoted his strength 10 making the var
"A short and ss decisive as possible y "
Il 10 say that rarely indeed in history has a
contest 80 far-reaching in the Importance
OF its outcome been achieved with such ease.
orr COLONIAL POLICY.
There followed a harder task. As a result
Of the war we came into possession OF Cuba.
Porto Rico and the Philippines. In each
island the conditions were suon that we had
or group Of islands the problems differed
aqSay a PSato RICO rS ha sHess The SLANG
could not be- independent BECAME in all
ess.ntials q part Of the Union i has has been 3
financial IMAM al system, @ F lis ,Hhs sbitaHts have been
given the hiRhest individual liberty. while
s1 nFs Of a 20 we'll chosen that the
island can be appealed 10 IA aifordins model
for ali such experiments in tn. future; and
hs ehoce of nn %cRnsy
when he selected the governing officials.
In cuba. where We pledged to a. give tns the
a not merely In letter but In spirit II would
have been betrayal Of our duty 70 have
dent Mckinley. with his usual singular
ti:s:$'y ns Lts%s5d %ssd .:S %:s
through it's uncertain reriod OF prepata-
tion, for Independence. and the result OF his
wisdom was .ho"n when last May LAY 'he ,h,IH is,snIa
for It started with better equiplnent and
under more favorable conditions than had
ever prev iously been the case with any span
ish-American commonwealth.
THE PHILIPPINES TASK.
Finally. in the Philippines. the problem
was one OF great compleyity. There was
ssnt Az tntSs the people Of The islands and putting
forth their claim with certain specious-
ness which deceived no small number fssd Of ss
party spirit against the President OF course,
Would Would have been both absurd and Wicked
70 abandon the Philippine AArchlpelag9, ,ss and
Christian STAGE " apS Pssan rS
Asiastic barbari.m-.turn the island, into
wser Of bo1ds .sya.E .iionI w'n nowsr sss
But though now il il easy enough TO see that
down ' nt the insurrection BY force Of arms. and
then to establish freedom Riving civil gov
ernment, II needed genuine statesmanehtp To
see this and TO act accordingly at the time Of
the first revolt.
weaker and le.s far..iehtcd man than
President Mckinley would have r shrunk from
a task very dif1cult in itself and certain TO
furnish occasion for attack and misrepreeen-
tation no lcss than for honest nisunder-
standing But President Mckinley never
fnched He refused 10 consider the thought
NJ abandoning our duty in our new possess IONS.
While sedulouslv endeavorin ing to act with the
utmost humanity toward the urrectionista,
he never faltered in the determination to
put them down by force of arms. alike for
the sake OF our own interests and honor
and for the sake Of the interest OF the Islanders
and particularly Of the great number OF
friendly natives, including those most highly
civilized. for whom abandonment by us would
have meant ruin and death Again his
policy was most amply vindicated, Peace has
come to the islands, together with greater
measure Of individual liberty and sclf-sov-
An the tasks set us az n result of the war
with Spain have 40 far been well and honor
ably accomplished. and "A result this ma tion
stands higher than ever before among the
nations OF mankind
President Mckinleys. second campaign
was fought mainly on the issue Of APPROX
ing what ne had done in his first adninis-
tration and specifically what he had done
"a regards these problems spripCing out Of
the war with Snsin The result was that
the popular verdict in his favor was more
overwhelming than it had been before.
THE AssAssIN's BILLET
No other President in our history has seen
bivh and honorable effort crowned with