Word: mckinleyism
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Both Dartmouth and Yale snowed the visitors under, 40 and 20 to 0, respectively, while Springfield defeated Tufts 7-0 and Fort McKinley...
Lincoln died because the abnormal mind of J. Wilkes Booth was persuaded he was a tyrant. McKinley was stretched on his bier because Czolgosz believed what yellow journalists told him. Clemenceau is on a bed of pain because a man was stimulated into action by poison distilled from the false charge that the great peacemaker was an imperialistic friend...
After serving as Civil Service Commissioner and Police Commissioner of New York City, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and Governor of New York, he was in 1900 elected Vice-President. When McKinley died he became President, and on November 4, 1904, he was returned to that office by the largest vote any candidate for President had received. At this expiration of his term of office, March 4, 1909, he ended his career as public office-holder and went to Africa on a hunting expedition...
Under President McKinley in 1900 he was enrolled in the diplomatic service as ambassador to Italy. During President Roosevelt's administration he filled the post of ambassador to Italy. During President Roosevelt's administration he filled the post of ambassador to Russia, with conspicuous credit. His service in this capacity was especially noteworthy as coming at the time of the Russo-Japanese war, when St. Petersburg was one of the most important posts in the diplomatic service owing to the delicate condition of international relations and domestic unrest in Russia...
...more interesting career than Bryan's in the history of American politics. When he was 31 years old he entered Congress, and since then he has been continually before the public. At 36 years of age he was nominated as the Democratic candidate for President, but was defeated by McKinley...