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...letters and sport. J. P. Morgan Sr. walked from his home on 36th Street to sip coffee and smoke cigars in the lobby. Mark Twain, in his white suit, used its decorous billiard room; Tammany Boss Richard Croker gave small dinners behind closed doors, invariably ordering terrapin. President McKinley fell heir to the Cleveland suite; Jay Gould, Senator George Hearst and P. T. Barnum made it their headquarters...
...economy-&-reform administration of Illinois, but lost the nomination to Warren Harding as a result of a last-minute smear involving campaign expenses. Four years later, he lost the nomination to Calvin Coolidge. rejected the nomination for vice president. He had previously turned down other high Government posts: McKinley offered him the First Assistant Postmaster Generalship, Taft wanted to make him Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Harding offered him the Navy Secretaryship, Coolidge wanted him either as Secretary of Agriculture or Ambassador to Britain. In 1928 Lowden enjoyed a small corn-belt boom as independent candidate for the Presidential nomination...
Extreme protectionism, a sort of latter-day mercantilism, was McKinley's political theme song. And although he suggested reciprocal trade treaties with a Latin American Republic, he opposed wholeheartedly every attempt to realize such treaties because they were too generous...
...When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive proposition in which we gave a hard left and received the purse...
Wendell Willkie's quotation from William McKinley (TIME, Feb. 22) started me on a little political sleuthing in search of half-remembered words which I finally found in the Preface to Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Napoleon III in Italy, dated Rome...