Word: mckinleyism
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...sprinkled gold dust on his carriage horses. William Jennings Bryan, when he saw Tabor's daughter, said her laugh had the ring of a silver dollar. Tabor had her christened Rosemary Silver Dollar Echo Honeymoon Tabor. When the campaign for free silver failed, Tabor was ruined. President McKinley made him postmaster of Denver in 1898. A year later Tabor died, after advising his wife never to let go his last silver mine, the Matchless...
Apocryphal. Mother Cleveland died three years before her son was first inaugurated in 1885.-ED. Allan Nevins in his Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (Dodd, Mead, 1932) quotes Cleveland as saying, after the inauguration of McKinley, "I envy him today only one thing, and that was the presence of his own mother at his inauguration. I would have given anything in the world if my mother could have been at my inauguration...
Besides Mary Ball Washington, Eliza Ballou Garfield, Nancy Allison McKinley and Sarah Delano Roosevelt, two other women lived to see their sons elected President of the U. S.: Jane Knox Polk and Hannah Simpson Grant.-ED. Letter-Writer...
...Texas where he got his start as a grocery clerk and smalltown banker and to Illinois where he reached, with dignity and without greed, the front rank of his vocation. A precedent in his favor: Lyman Judson Gage stepped out of the presidency of the First National to become McKinley's Secretary of the Treasury...
...active part in that campaign. I have always been confident that the estimate of one million Democratic votes cast for Mr. McKinley, in consequence of that Democratic protest against the soc dollar, was not exaggerated. I have never doubted that the defeat of Mr. Bryan was due to the presentation by Democrats of the incalculable loss to Labor from an unstable and unsound currency. The relation of such a shift of values in wages, as well as savings and investments, was readily appreciated by the industrial masses, so many of whom were continually remitting to their families in Europe...