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Show THI WOJIglNO OF FuTf, I ow It affeelori Ike Coroers of Me- I Ridley ! llfMMOrelt. . Pate Is peculisr. It knows bet tar L than we do whst Is best for us. It ' fixes our destiny without our know!- edge, and often against our will, aaya I l.alla's Weekly. Wllllsm MeKlaley's most vigorous bsttle waa bla on n test V lor Ihe apeuketahlp with 'I'bomaa ti. 'j Reed. In 1190. which Reed won Ac. 5 ' cording In custom, Mr. Reed made hts f distinguished opiemcni chslrmsn ef I Ihe wsys and means committee, and -J thus It was that the protective tariff I measure drafted hy that committee, 1 . largely through the Influence of Mr. ; ' . MeKlnley, came lu lie popularly knnwa ' t. as "the MeKlnley bill." Tub. made j ? MeKlnley the chiitnpton or the work- J Ing tnaesee, the candidate of hla party J fur president, and finally gave htm a j . triumphant election and re-election for . Ihe otllce of chief magistrate. At the I Republican national convention at i ' Philadelphia, a little over a year agu, '. ; the party lenders of New Yotk Instated ; that tlnvernor Roosevelt must accept the tender uf Hie vice prealdeiicy. He J riolutely declined. Insisting that ha was entitled to rc-elii-tlnn to the guv- 1 eriiorslilp. The party lesdei of New York, allied by those or IVunsylvaula and seveial other atatea, lot ced the nomination or Roosevelt, and then rouiiM'iled his reluctant acceptance. Heurcely six months have elapsed since his Inaiiaurstlou, and he la now the pieslileut or Ihe I'nlled Hlatea. with nearly a hill term to serve. This Is destiny, and who shall say that the Fates ere always unkind? |