Word: mckinleyism
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...19th century, many presidential candidates thought it unseemly to do actual campaigning for the office. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Ill., and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. This is a tradition that cries out for reinstatement. Let Al Gore and George W. Bush go home and remain there in decorous silence until November...
When I was a U.S. Senate page boy years ago, we took particular delight when Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois rose to speak. He was one of the last great American orators, given to decanting recondite vocabulary from his quivering basset's jowls. Fustian emerged in a sepulchral purr...
...office, the thought being that to do so would be not only immodest but also a kind of irrelevant intrusion upon the public's deliberations. Besides, the party was taking care of business. Thus Ulysses S. Grant in 1868 retired to Galena, Illinois, and demurely waited for November. William McKinley withdrew to his front porch in Ohio and ran the race in a rocking chair. The practice was popular with many of the whiskered forgettables nominated for the office between Abraham Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt...
...Dadaist Max 2. William McKinley's First Lady 3. Massachusetts is applying strict consumer regulations to these 4. Hero's antithesis 5. One with an "Esq." tag 6. Business-card abbr. 7. Poet's preposition 8. '70s lottery org. 9. Bring to ruin 10. Clinton called Giuliani "a tool of the right-wing __ machine" 11. Make public 12. Help a checker 15. Is afflicted with 17. Islamic title 19. Apt. feature, in classifieds 20. Billionaire Broad, who has donated $1 million to the Democratic National Convention committee 21. Either Griffey 23. Luau offering 25. Sound...
...truth, trains were used for political moments from their start. But in the early days, presidential candidates did not storm the country seeking votes. William Henry Harrison actually campaigned on a train in 1836. Not until the turn of the century did modern rail campaigning begin, with William McKinley and candidate William Jennings Bryan. Theodore Roosevelt devised the full campaign train, a rolling complex with living and office cars...