William McKinley, like all the other Presidents who inspired great popular affection, was thoroughly and intensely American. Like Lincoln and Grant and Garfield, he was a splendid example of the possibilities held out by American politics even to those who are not born to material fortune. He was a typical son of the free republic, whose lot was cast and whose race was run with many others of similar surroundings and like advantages. The processes of his development are thoroughly representative of political achievement in this country in the last half century.
McKinley's early education was not secured without some sacrifices. His college course was cut short for lack of funds. His first public service was rendered as a teacher of a country school. He left the school room to enter the Union army of the Civil war. He participated in many battles and rose to the rank of major. The war over he began the study of law. In time he was elected Prosecuting Attorney. He was sent to Congress. He was appointed to important committee work. He was re-elected for seven terms and then defeated through the operations of a gerrymander of his district. This single defeat made him candidate for Governor of Ohio. He was elected and at the end of his term re-elected by a tremendous majority. In the meantime he had been "mentioned" in two Republican national conventions. In 1896 his nomination had become so logical that the action of the St. Louis convention was a foregone conclusion.
How characteristic of American possibilities and records these various stages are! Most of the statesmen who have achieved great distinction in the last fifty years have risen by similar steps. But in one respect the life of President McKinley differed from all others. That was in the early manifestations of great ambition and in the careful planning of his life career. Intimates of the late President say that the hope of becoming the head of the republic entered the heart of young McKinley before he left his native town of Niles, and that his private thought and public policy were constantly centered on this ambition- It is true that good fortune attended him, but no man knew better than he how to take advantage of propitious circumstances. He was in no
sense the product of accident. There is probably not another great career in American history so largely the result of self-help and unswerving purpose.
In the main, ambition is closely allied with selfishness. It is possible, however, to harmonize public good and personal ambition. McKinley believed that his own interest would be best promoted by the best possible public service. Early in life he was impressed with the importance of industrial development. His native town and neighboring cities were alive with mills. He studied the relations of these creative agencies to the production of raw material in his own agricultural state. He became a firm believer in the theory that prosperity could be compelled by legislation. There is no reason to discredit McKinley's absolute honesty in espousing the cause of protection. He was a natural product of his surroundings. It was on this theory of legislative prosperity that he laid out his career, and he adhered to it and won.
President McKinley studied the people more closely than any other politician of his time. He always took his soundings through the Republican party, to be sure, but he sincerely and honestly tried to obey the will of the majority. He was a skillful conciliator. He could be admirable firm, in spite of his seeming indecision at times. His forbearance under political criticism was almost sublime. He not only refused to make personal answer, not even to misrepresentations, but he had such control of his mind and heart that he could be happy always so long as he was successful. No man ever bore the burdens of great responsibilities with finer equanimity or more cheerfulness. His personal characteristics were magnetic to a degree.
Fortune smiled on President McKinley at many times in his public life, notably in the reaction that followed the depression preceding his first administration. The coincidence between his coming into office and the revival of industries made him an invincible candidate for a second term. But no man without great ability, both as a politician and as a statesman could mould such a career, even if most favored by conditions and circumstances. —K. C. Star.
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The first of the Junior forensic lectures will be given at 4 o'clock Thursday, Sept. 6 in Room 14. This course is open to all Juniors who have not had Advanced English Composition and are not now taking it. Attendance at all the lectures excuses the student from the first Junior forensic. Bring your note books. R. D. O'LEARY.
The first Soph, Assembly will be held at 4 o'clock Thursday, Sept. 26, in the Snow Hall lecture room. Attendance at the sessions of this Assembly throughout the year excuses the student from the last sophomore theme of the year.
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have enrolled as Junior laws.
The Junior laws will be called upon to elect an associate editor for the Lawyer, soon who will it be?
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Sam Jackman of Minneapolis spent Thursday with his Phi Delt brothers.
The Junior laws will take up the biology as a study as soon as they can be paired off. This is a full course one night in the week.
Miss Eleanor T. Miller was on the hill Friday.
The Middlers have about all returned and are busy with Crim. law and Torts. Among the late arrivals are Cassity, Louthan, Doolittle and Prey.
Each year quite a number of the Law students desire to do extra work in the Art school, but owing to conflict of class hours in the two schools the number of laws doing Art work is necessarily limited.
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The pattern is so cut as to make sagging impossible, so that the skirts hang evenly. We shall be pleased to have you call and examine these skirts. Especially adapted for wearing on THE HILL.
The Senior laws will demonstrate on the foot ball field this fall, that they are as proficient in the rules of the "pig skin" as they are in the technicalities of the "sheep skin."
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Down south when the papers announce the appearance of an "Uncle Tom's Cabin" Co., they usually preface the announcement with something like this: "That Libel of the South," or something equally effective, for the southerner does not like to see himself so distorted and abused as to be unrecognizable.
"On the Suwanee River," which made such a successful tour last season, is offering at the Bowersock Opera House Sept. 23. As may be inferred from the title, it is a story of life in the southland, but it is promised that this presentation has not so distorted and erased the true southerner as to make him unrecognizable.
With the instinct of genuine dramatic genius; the author of the play, FOR HER SAKE, the new Russo-Siberian melodrama which is to be presented at the Bowersock Opera House Sept. 23. appears to have drawn from the uttermost extremes of society for the characters whom he purposed to involve in intrigue. The hero of the play is a Russian nobleman and army officer; the heroine is a Russian serf girl. With these for the central figures, the
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