Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-01-28
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tagonists grew to look upon him with
constantly increasing respect. his
party friends with constantly increas-
| ing faith ana admiration Eight
| years before he was nominated for
president he WAS already considered a
fiffesfdenRtiaf possibility. -Four years
FFibi esfof9 1lie, |Was. nominated only his own
fhiigli sense oil honor prevented his be-
ing made formidable competitor of
the chief unon whom the choice OF
| the conventtrst fasnFactdally fell. IN
$50 ne was ehnSea4 because the great
mass OF his party ,kpeW MIN ana be-
| lieVed III hlm ard regarded nm rs
| symboiizing their Ideals, as repre-
sehtihS their aspirations. In estimat-
| ing me lofees which brought ABOUT MS
| nomination and election | do not uil-
defValue that devoted personal irlenu-
snip winch he had the faculty to m
splle IN so marked degree among
the abiest ana most influential lead
cfs; this leadership was of immense
consequence lrf bringing about The
result; but. after all, the prime factor
was the trust IN and devotion to him
let by the great mass of men who
y
nized spokesman. In his nominal
ton the national convention of a great
party carried INTO effect in good faith
the deliberate judgment of that party
as TO who ITS candidate should be.
but even as candidate President
MtAlnieN was lar more than the cam
dloate OF a party, and as President he
was III the broadcast and fullest sense
the President of all ther people OF all
sections OF the country.
His frs, nomination cana RI him
because of the qualities he had shown
in healthy and omen nolitical3 leader
ship. the leadership which hv word
and deed impressss itself as > virita
force for good mon th,e neon,a at: Ia pe
and which has nothing in common win
mere intrigue o., maninnlation Rnt in
1896 rho .ssue was fairly ioined cbie}iv.
,,non a Question which &c =. ,arty,
question yas entirely now en- thar tha
old lives of no,iticai cleayaaa y.aare ~
largo mart abs ,,e,oned An otbar ;ss,ias
sank in Importance when compared
With the vital need of keeping our
financial system on the high and
honorable plane imperatively demand
ed by our position as great civilized
power AS the champion of such &
principles President Mckinley received
the support not only of his own party
but of hundreds of thousands of those
TO whom he had been politically op-
posed. He triumphed. and he made
good with scrupulous fidelity the protli~
ises upon which the campaign was
won. We We're at The time in a period of
-.
promised for and on behalf of McKi,.-
ley that if he were elected our financial
system should not only be preserved
unframed but improved and our
economic system shaped in accordance
with those theories which have always
marked our periods of greatest pros
pority. The promises were kept ara
following their Keeping came the
prosperity which we row enjoy. All
that was foretold concerning the wen-
lleing which would follow the election
of Mckinley has been justified by the
event.
put ne ca often, banna,. in am. hie-
tory tbo President wig forced 70 fac,.
o,astione otbar tha,, tboea ~ ;sc,o AZ
the time of his election Within a ,.oo,.
the Situation in C,,ha had bacome lit
era,Iv ;ntolerobla President N1cKinlav
mad fouoht foo Won in HE vo,,tb -.
tnav- foo ,vall ~ frs+ r,nd 1vbo, ~,
,eallv vas lightly "a entar into
strrpr]e He songbt nv eva,., horor-
abIo means to nreeerve neaca to avarr
Nar He made every effort consistent
With no nation,l honor. to hiring ,bo,,t
nm amicahla settlement of tba C,uha,,
difficulty Their whom II haca,ne evi.
aent that these Efforts vere uea,eY,
that neace could not be honorabIv on.
tertained he devoted his strength, ia
making thc war rs shout ana as do
eisive as possible. IT is needless to tell
tho result in detail suffice If IN cav
that rarely indeed in history has a con
test So far-reaehing in The Importance
Of it's outcome been achieved with such
ease. 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 condi-
lions were such that we had to face
problems entirely new to our national
and, moreover, in each
island or group OF islands the problems
differed radically from those presented
in the others. In Porto Rico the task
was simple. The island could not be