Word: mckinleyism
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...late Winter of 1898 he took the Maine into Havana harbor. The Spanish authorities there were hostile to this country because of the demands that President McKinley was making for Cuban autonomy. The people in the city were many of them hostile to the revolution going on in the outlying districts. On a Sunday Captain Sigsbee and the American Consul General attended a bull fight to discover popular sentiment. Soldiers guarded their box. The situation was tense. On the 15th of February, after the Maine had been in port about two weeks, the Spanish authorities asked the Consul General...
...last five Republican Conventions were held in Chicago. McKinley was nominated in Philadelphia in 1900 and in St. Louis in 1896. Harrison was nominated in Minneapolis in 1892 and in Chicago in 1888. Elaine was nominated in Chicago in 1884; Garfield, in Chicago...
Died. William R. Day ("Silent Man"), Secretary of State under President McKinley, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S., 1903-1922; at Mackinac Island, Mich., of bronchitis...
...Shortridge, U. S. Senator from California: "Mrs. Miles Poindexter, writer of Washington gossip, says that Senator McKinley (Illinois) and I are much sought after by the fair sex. I am married. So is the Senator from Illinois. 'Senatorial sheiks,' the headlines called...
Died. Rear Admiral William S. Cowles, 76, U. S. N., retired, at Farmington, Conn., where he was born. He served in the navy for 45 years prior to his retirement in 1908, commanded the gunboat, Topeka in the Spanish American War, was naval aide to McKinley, was in command of the Missouri when it had a collision with the Illinois and when thirty-three men were killed in an explosion (he was cleared of responsibility in both cases) and was an official representative at the coronation of George V. He was divorced from his first wife in 1880 and fifteen...