Show That President McKinley should have been compelled to quit the bedside of his dying mother to hurry back to Washington to attend to his official duties seems hard and sad yet there was no alternative left him When he quitted his mothers bedside she was already unconscious and knew not her distinguished son Could she have spoken doubtless she would have told < < 14 him to go back to Washington where I duty called him as she had told him togo I I to-go forth to battle when duty called him I She had seen her son elevated to the I presidential chair and become the suc aessor of Washington Jefferson and Lincoln and that is the highest possible pos-sible ambitionan American woman can j have for her son and very few can i have it gratified while fewer still live i to see it realized Mother McKinley hqa seen her son honored by the whole i people and has had her fondest hopes i realized What more could a mother 1 ask n |