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...device for laying the centuries end to end-so that they will reach from the pearly minarets of wicked Constantinople to the awesome depths of the profoundest ocean abyss yet plumbed by man ! Editorially the Journals were equally exciting. They flayed Tammany and the Trusts, boomed Bryan, whanged McKinley, eagle-screamed at Spain until they brought on war. Hearst. getting himself commissioned an ensign, leaped pantless from his launch at the battle of Santiago, rounded up 26 dripping Spaniards on the beach, herded them at pistol's point into his chartered steamer and delivered them in person to Admiral...
...dancing as well as lavish parties. His newspaper formula added Money, Sex and Patriotism to the old imperial adage about Bread and Circuses. In 1896 he plumped for Bryan and free silver. After the Spanish war he discovered he had gone too far in his formulistic excoriation of President McKinley as a tool of the Plutocracy. McKinley's assassination was blamed on the Journal's incendiary editorials. Hearst changed the morning Journal's name to American...
Turning from engineering to painting in 1894, Col. Todd did portraits of Theodore Roosevelt, Cardinal Newman, Mary Baker Eddy, William McKinley, Frances E. Willard. For years he thought of painting a Christ, but he did not succeed until last year, when in seven hours he finished The Nazarene, or Christ Triumphant, a virile, blond, blue-eyed, silky-haired, silky-bearded Savior (see cut). The Newhouse Galleries in Manhattan and St. Louis held showings of the canvas, in a room by itself. Col. Todd sent reproductions to the Pope, to Albert, King of the Belgians, and to Rt. Rev. Albert Augustus...
...borne this out amply. In 1846 President Polk found it easy enough; troops were sent into the disputed area, American blood was promptly and profusely shed, the flag was fired upon, and the national honor placed in joopardy. War was a foregone conclusion. Showing a little more finesse, President McKinley affected the same result. Afraid that the Democrats would capture the election on a war platform, he sent a message to Congress which advocated armed interference and tucked into one short paragraph the fact that Spain had just that morning acceded to every demand made by the United States...
Jock Whitney's mother is an important factor in this. Daughter of the McKinley-Roosevelt Secretary of State John Hay, she was always as keen about horses as Payne Whitney, has personally kept the dossiers of all the Greentree horses for many years...