Show FIVE MINUTE CHATS ABOUT OUR presidents by JAMES MORGAN WAITED HIS TURN 1843 january 29 william me kinley born at nile niles 0 1861 65 in the civil war 1867 became a lawyer in canton 0 1869 71 prosecuting attorney of his county 1871 married ida saxton 1877 91 member of congress 1892 96 governor of ohio 1896 june mckinley nominated for president by the republican national convention at st louis november elected ti ILLIAM mckinley challenged W WILLIAM and disproved the old saying that the presidency casts its shadow on no man but once and that it the chance be missed then it will never come again twice the republican nomination seemed to be within mc mo Kin leys reach in the national conventions vent ions lons of 1888 and 1892 each time he put it away content to wait hia his proper turn when be he did not have to shake the tree to bring down the ripened fruit of hia his patience Me mckonley hinley was beaten for or the speak ershie by thomas B heed reed in 1889 1880 and he left washington a defeated con gressman only six years before he returned as president elect had he been s shaker aker and instead of reed in burred the title of czar or had he not been turned out of congress had he lie won those smaller honors he well might never have won the highest honor A disappointment manfully borne enlists the popular sympathy and the author of the mckinley bill entered the contest tor for the X 6 IJ william mckinley val nomination in 1890 as one who bad had suffered martyrdom in the cause of the protective tariff after teaching school a term or so mckinley mas called in the civil war that hard university aich graduated the in men en who were mere to lead the nation through four decades having gone into the army as a private in the regiment of another president tobe to be rutherford 13 hayes he lie came out at twenty two a captain with the brevet title of major becoming a lawyer at canton 0 again he found himself in the midst of industries in their struggling infancy A and d for 14 years lie was the spokesman man in congress ot of that industrial district the young major when he came to canton was mas a clean cut standing upstanding up figure genial in his nature but with a sober dignity ills readiness of speech when on his feet came from his practice of the art in the debating societies of his school days ills habits also had been properly formed in his boy hood when lie joined the methodist church at ten denand band grew grow up a youth who was as cageful to keep his tongue as ills his collar clean all doors in the little town natural ly swung open with a welcome to such a nice young man and a ma jor to boot although he was yet poor when uben ida saxton the bankers daughter who had been to school in new york city and who had just come back from europe smiled yea yes to him while they were taking a buggy ride the bunker banker smiled too and made them a wedding gift of one of the best houses in canton it was from the front porch of that honeymoon dwell ing that mckinley made his campaign tor for the presidency in 1890 1800 McKin mckinless leys Is one of the best and one of the roost most pathetic love stories in the domestic records of the prest dency inith the birth of her second child the wife was left nn an the death of both of her children with in five years ot of her wedding day utterly overwhelmed her nervous organization and tier ber shattered health remained thenceforth the constant object of her husbands tender care although he neer could know from minute to minute when she would pass into a swoon he made mada her his companion on his travels once when he hurried home from congress and the physicians had given up hope of saving her his own onn ministrations and his prayers through a long night at her bedside recalled her to life WILLIAM mckinley 1897 march 4 william mckin ley inaugurated president aged fifty four 1898 feb 15 the battleship maine blown up in havana harbor april 21 war declared against spain july 7 hawaii annexed aug 14 city of manila captured dec 10 treaty of peace signed in paris 1899 feb 4 the philippine war began 1900 aug 15 the allied elpe to pekin 1901 sept 6 mckinley shot by leon czolgosz sept 14 died aged fifty eight VENTS make sport of the scheme EVENTS beof of mice and men mckinley entered the race for the presidency on the tariff issue was elected on the money issue and the greatest problems that confronted him in the white house were the fate of a chain of islands oft off the coast of asia and the destiny of china chinal 1 spain had been engaged for two years in a desolating struggle to hold in subjection the revolting island of cuba and tto happenings pushed mckinley into the conflict in spite of himself in a private letter the span ish minister at NN washington ashington at the president as a castro in plain american I 1 a peanut poll and plainly intimated that the fair promises which the spaniards were mere giving him were only a trick to tool foot the administration and the amer lean ican people within a week of that exposure the battleship maine was blown up in ganana harbor with the loss of american lives after NIth withstanding standing for nearly two months the popular outcry of remember the maine the president yielded and war was declared in tea ten days dewey had smashed the enemy squadron in manila bay in ten weeks another squadron was sunk or captured off santiago in three months and a half poor old spain threw up the sponge it took twice as long to make peace as to make war the tie philippines caused all the trouble As we had not captured the islands in the war many believed that we should let them alone but mckinley decided to demand from spain the surrender of the philippines without waiting for ratification the president dispatched a military expedition to take over the philippines proclaiming to the revolting filipinos the policy of benevolent assimilation the resulting war dragged its unpleasant length for two years before the inhabitants unwillingly bowed to their new master it was the strange fortune of a president whose entire public life had been given exclusively to domestic questions to plant the flag in the distant philippines and to send it to fo the pink walls of the forbidden city of china in the march on peking for the rescue of the forgeon legations from the siege of the boxers or chinese revolutionists the united states joined other powers for the first time in a military expedition under the high statesmanship of john hay ilay the secretary of state the tho united states had already before the boxer rebellion laid a restraining hand upon the nations that were looting chinese territory and had drawn from them pledges to keep an open door to trade in the ports they were seizing at the point of the gun the open door has remained ever since the chart of our course in the tha east it if we ue will only continue to follow it and should succeed in inducing others to follow it a while longer until the tho giant of the tile orient awaken awakens from his long blumber slumber and shakes oft hl bl foreign despoilers desp an clillie will III be the Impo imposing slim monument of if atea IS by IY |