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by Robert W. Merry


  education of, 16–18

  family background of, 13–14

  farmwork done by, 15

  first legal case of, 37

  Foraker’s run for governor supported by, 51–52

  as forgotten, 484

  funeral of, 483–84

  in Hayes’s governor campaign, 38

  and Ida’s demanding ways, 71–72, 343–44

  and Ida’s epilepsy, 44, 195

  Ida’s first meeting with, 41

  and Ida’s health problems, 5, 43–44, 49–50, 71–73, 96–97, 159, 194–99, 246–47, 451–52, 453

  idealism, 340

  intellect of, 16–17

  in law school, 35–36

  letter to Hanna from, 147–48

  as loving husband, 72–73, 87–88

  miners represented in court by, 45–46

  and mother’s death, 232–33

  oratory of, 17, 37

  presidency desired by, 73–74, 85, 94, 97

  protectionism of, 85, 134

  religious views of, 16, 22, 159, 200

  rising legal career of, 38–39

  slavery opposed by, 17, 33, 47, 201

  as teacher, 18

  temper of, 298–99

  wedding of, 42–43

  McKinley, William, as congressman:

  Blaine supported by, 59

  as chair of House Ways and Means Committee, 7, 58–59, 75, 78–81

  as chairman of Resolutions Committee, 60

  considered for 1888 Republican nomination, 66–67

  election of, 45–46, 74

  Hayes’s encouraging of presidential ambition in, 74

  Hayes’s political advice to, 70

  leadership style of, 75

  leave of absence from, 73

  in Ohio GOP rift, 67

  as protectionist, 7, 45, 58–59, 70–71, 78–82, 83, 84, 107

  Reed vs., 75, 111

  Repository editorial on protectionsism of, 83, 84

  at Republican convention of 1888, 65–66, 68–69

  Sherman supported by, 66

  start of friendship with Hanna, 68, 74

  and supposed promise not to run in 1882, 48–49

  tariff bill of, 1, 78–81, 82, 83, 85, 125, 166–67, 170, 174, 189

  McKinley, William, 1896 campaign of:

  Bland as likely opponent of, 130–31

  Bryan’s divisive politics disdained by, 141–42

  at convention, 126–29

  currency issue in, 106–7, 113, 115, 117, 119–21, 122, 123, 124, 125, 131, 134, 135, 141

  Dawes accounting methods in, 135–36

  doubtful states in, 144

  “Front Porch” campaign in, 139–41, 158, 171

  fundraising in, 136, 137, 138–39, 146

  Hanna hired for, 100–101

  Hanna’s confidence in, 144

  Hanna’s meeting with New York GOP bosses in, 98–100

  Hanna’s strategy for, 105, 107–9, 111, 113, 145–46

  New York bosses vs., 113–14

  protectionism in, 141, 144

  spending by, 136–37

  victory in, 145–46, 486

  WM’s shrewdness in, 103–4

  McKinley, William, as Ohio governor:

  daily rituals of, 88

  in election of 1891, 84–86, 87

  major initiatives of, 87

  militia troops deployed against strikes by, 95

  at Republican National Convention of 1892, 88–89

  speeches in 1894 election by, 95–96

  McKinley, William, as president:

  administrative mind of, 4

  African Americans’ relationships with, 391–92

  Alger’s resignation demanded by, 357–58

  and Americans in Cuban prisons, 215

  annexation of Cuba disdained by, 375

  Annual Message on economy by, 394, 395–98

  Annual Message on unity by, 229–32

  assassination of, 9, 478–82

  attention to Ida during, 5

  and battle of San Juan Hill, 302

  bimetallism and, 201–4

  Boston speech on colonial responsibilities of, 362–65

  and Boxer Rebellion, 425, 426, 427, 456

  Cabinet and government put together by, 149–59

  Cabinet meeting behavior of, 181–82

  at Cabinet meeting on acquiring Philippines, 310–11

  as calculating politician, 180–81

  Cambon’s conversation on Philippines with, 312

  Camp Wikoff visited by, 321–22

  as caught between congressional agitation and Spanish intransigence, 269–70

  Central American canal desired by, 8, 214, 231, 251–52, 372, 408, 461, 476–77

  Chinese landgrab refused by, 428–30

  and choice for vice president in 1900, 441–42

  civilian efforts in Philippines desired by, 460–61

  Civil Service policy reformed by, 375–76

  congressional relations of, 182

  contemporary criticisms of, 3

  and Cuban debt question, 337–38

  Cullom’s dispute with, 179–80

  in decision to occupy Philippines, 333–34, 340–41, 347, 553

  declaration of war against Spain sought by, 276

  in departure to Washington, 159–61

  desire for Spain to give up Cuba, 263, 265–67, 270, 310, 311

  Dewey sent to Asia by, 278–79

  discussion of renomination of, 377–79, 387, 394–95

  distancing from Hanna, 437

  Doles reception given by, 250–51

  Dupuy’s insult to, 255–57

  in election of 1900, 445–48, 449–50

  final cross-country trip of, 470–82

  free trade with Puerto Rico pushed by, 405, 406, 407–8

  geography of Philippines studied by, 291

  gold standard praised by, 247–48

  and Hanna’s desire for second senatorial term, 233–34, 238–39

  Hawaiian annexation and, 176, 189, 201, 204–11, 212–13, 214, 230–31, 248, 249, 318, 319–20, 486

  historians’ views of, 484–88

  Hobart’s death and, 393

  inauguration of, 161, 162–65, 178, 187–88, 189

  kindness of, 3–4

  leadership style of, 306–7, 487–88

  leaking of statement on Cuban rebellion by, 222–23

  leisure activity of, 199–200

  and looming Philippines crisis, 338–39

  and Maine explosion, 259, 261

  Maine sent to Cuba by, 253–54

  message on Maine by, 268–69

  military reorganized by, 371

  minister to Spain chosen by, 219–20

  money for Americans in Cuba appropriated by, 218

  neutral intervention in Cuba desired by, 273–74

  nomination in 1900, 443–44

  offices of, 184–85

  at Pan-American Exposition, 1, 3, 5–8, 479–82

  peace proposals to, 272–73

  Philippines commission created by, 349

  Philippine War and reelection campaign of, 438–39

  popularity of, 3, 6

  as protectionist, 5, 153, 164, 188–89, 471

  relationship with press, 182–83

  Root made Secretary of War, 358

  second inauguration of, 465–68

  and Shafter’s inability to move troops, 315, 316

  and Spain’s offer of peace terms, 309–10, 316–17

  speeches on accomplishments of, 454–56

  State position chosen by, 150–51

  strategy in war with Spain, 277, 280–81

  Taft instructed on Philippines job by, 400–401

  tariff pushed by, 188–89, 190–93, 205, 396

  taxes passed by, 462–63

  on territory captured in Spanish-American War, 307–8

  third term renounced by, 474–75

  travel by, 183, 200–201

  troops sent to Ph
ilippines by, 332

  trusts vs., 390–91, 433–34, 456, 470–71, 477–78, 487

  at Twenty-third Ohio reunion, 228–29

  ultimatum against Spain by, 275–76

  U.S. citizens in Cuba investigated by, 218

  vacation of, 379

  volunteer commissions of, 183–84

  White House socializing by, 344

  as worried about civic anger in Cuba, 458–59

  as worried about Cuban rebellion, 172, 189, 213–14, 218–19, 221–23, 226–27, 230, 263, 265–67

  McKinley, William, Sr., 14, 15, 18, 39, 232

  McKisson, Robert, 234, 240, 384–85

  McLean, John R., 131, 386, 387

  Mahan, Alfred Thayer, 8, 176–77, 178, 208, 210, 248, 280, 307, 341

  Maine:

  explosion on, 258–62

  inquiry into, 260, 261, 264–65, 267–68, 282

  sent to Cuba, 254

  WM’s message to Congress on, 268–69

  malaria, 285, 313, 314

  Manchester, C. E., 233

  Manchuria, 416

  Manderson, Charles, 104, 109

  Mangrove, 264

  Manila, 290–91, 294, 310–11, 327, 328, 341, 347

  Aguinaldo’s attack on U.S. in, 349–50, 362

  Aguinaldo’s capture of, 330

  Spanish surrender of, 332–33

  Manley, Joseph H., 99, 123–24, 129, 449, 450

  Mann, Matthew, 480

  manufacturing, 82, 84, 232, 324–25

  Maria Cristina of Austria, 220–21, 223, 224, 226, 242–43, 244

  and Maine explosion, 261

  peace proposals and, 272–73, 340

  Mariel, Cuba, 295

  Mason, William, 261, 433

  Masters, Edgar Lee, 361

  Matthews, Stanley, 21

  Medical Department, U.S., 353

  Medill, Joseph, 40, 152, 336–37

  Merchant Marine, U.S., 7–8

  Merriam, William, 107, 122

  Merritt, Wesley, 290–91, 332, 333, 334, 345

  Mexico, 167, 168

  Michigan, 135, 144, 145

  Midwest, 135, 144, 145, 157

  Milburn, John, 5–6, 479

  Miles, Nelson A., 199–200, 282, 290–91, 296, 298, 332

  accusation against Eagan by, 353, 354–55

  Alger disdained by, 353–54

  and Schacter’s plan for Santiago, 306

  Miller, Marcus, 346–47

  Mills, Ellis, 206

  Mills, Ogden, 156

  Mills, Roger Q., 77, 78, 79–80

  Mindanao islands, 380–81

  mining, 82, 84, 95

  Minnesota, 109, 144, 145

  Mississippi, 108, 392

  monopolies, 164

  Monroe Doctrine, 172, 214, 230, 458

  Montgomery, Benjamin, 283

  Moore, John Bassett, 284–85

  Moore, Opha, 104

  Moret y Prendergast, Segismundo, 224, 242, 243–44, 255, 257, 265–66

  and Maine explosion, 261–62

  Morgan, H. Wayne, 488

  Morgan, John Hunt, 28, 214–15, 269, 373, 409

  Morgan, J. P., 477

  Moros, 381

  Morrill, Justin, 55, 76–77, 248–49

  Morton, Levi, 104, 107, 123, 129

  Nanjing, Treaty of, 415

  Nash, George, 235, 385, 386–87, 468

  Nation, 116, 118, 134, 141, 167, 186, 207, 231, 248, 257, 264, 341, 389, 397, 406, 411, 433

  National Association of Manufacturers, 247

  National Association of Wool Manufacturers, 191

  National Cash Register Company, 52

  National Silver Party, 142

  Navy, British, 423–24

  Navy, U.S., 231, 408

  rise of, 2, 280–82, 341

  Navy Department, U.S., 155, 157, 206

  Neal, Lawrence, 94

  Nebraska, 109, 135, 447, 448

  Negros, 328, 380, 388

  Nelson, Henry Loomis, 406

  Nevada, 126, 441

  New England, 135, 145, 157

  New Hampshire, 105, 111

  New Jersey, 66, 135

  Newlands, Francis G., 317–18

  New Panama Canal Company, 373

  Newton, C. H., 258

  New York, 108, 109, 135, 157, 387

  New York, USS, 281, 304

  New York Evening Post, 77, 322, 417–18

  New York Herald, 255, 301, 439

  New York Journal, 148, 186, 216, 222–23, 255–56, 260, 262, 352, 409

  New York Junta, 170–71, 215, 243, 244, 252–53, 255–56

  New York Mail and Express, 241, 433

  New York Press, 240, 408–9

  New York Sun, 349

  New York Times, 3, 6, 58, 162, 163, 165, 233, 246, 247, 269, 274, 277, 287, 304–5, 315–16, 321, 322, 348, 350, 356, 357, 379, 381–82, 387, 392, 400, 401, 402, 403, 405, 406, 407, 411, 413–14, 416, 424, 426, 427, 428, 429, 431, 435, 438, 444, 448, 459, 461, 465, 471, 477

  New York Tribune, 40, 116, 218, 241, 329

  New York World, 142, 260, 262, 383–84, 406

  New Zealand, 390

  Nicaragua, 208, 251, 372, 409, 461

  Niles, Ohio, 14–16

  Norman, Henry, 307–8

  North Dakota, 135, 441

  Northern Pacific Railroad, 477

  Northwestern Gas Light and Coke Company, 110

  nullification crisis, 76

  Ochs, Adolph, 444

  O’Donnell y Abreu, Carlos Manuel, duke of Tetuan, 221, 222

  Ohio, 65, 144, 145, 228–29

  canals in, 87

  in Civil War, 13

  governor’s race of 1899 in, 384, 385–87

  growth of, 11–12

  growth of population in, 52–53

  manufacturing in, 52

  miner strike in, 95

  politics of, 12, 53–59

  population groups in, 12–13

  railroad strike in, 95

  taxes in, 87

  Ohio Guards, 19

  Ohio National Guard, 163

  Ohio Repository, 38, 40, 43, 160

  WM’s editorial on protectionism in, 83, 84

  Ohio Republican Convention (1884), 59–60

  oil, 137

  Okuma Shigenobu, 206, 208, 209

  Olcott, Charles Sumner, 307

  Olney, Richard, 171

  Omaha World Herald, 130, 132

  Opequon Creek, Battle of, 30–31

  Opium War, 415

  Osborne, William McKinley, 18, 120, 149, 341, 356, 379, 451, 455

  army joined by, 19, 20

  and Hanna’s political ambition, 150–51

  Otis, Elwell S., 368, 369, 388

  Aguinaldo and counterattack against, 345–46, 365–66, 389

  negotiations with rebels opposed by, 370

  Tagalogs vs., 381–82

  on victories in Luzon, 397–98

  Otis, Harrison Gray, 97, 154

  Pago Pago, 389, 390

  Paine, Charles J., 201

  Pall Mall Gazette, 231–32

  Palmer, John M., 142–43

  Panama, 461

  Panama Canal, 373–74

  Pan-American Exposition, 1–3, 5–8, 470, 478–82

  Panay Island, 328, 346, 380, 460

  Panic of 1819, 117

  Panic of 1837, 117, 118

  Panic of 1893, 106, 165, 191

  patronage, 231, 237, 241, 245–46

  Pauncefote, Julian, 211, 408, 409, 411, 462, 477

  Payne, Henry C., 120, 158, 406, 449

  Pendleton Act (1883), 231

  Pennsylvania, 65, 108, 109, 387

  miners strike in, 95

  People’s Party, 142, 444

  Pershing, John, 302

  Peterson, Frederick, 452–53

  Pettigrew, Richard, 248–49, 401–2, 447, 448, 463–64

  Philadelphia Inquirer, 232

  Philippines, 169, 319, 322, 363, 411, 412, 431, 455, 456–57, 476, 484, 486

  Aguin
aldo’s proclamation of government on, 331–32

  civilian authority in, 4660–61

  Dewey’s sailing to, 287–88

  Greene’s desire for acquisition of, 326, 327–29, 336

  insurgency against Spain in, 327, 329–30, 332

  native sentiment on U.S. occupation in, 380–81

  population of, 328

  resources of, 327

  Taft put in charge of, 398–400

  U.S. acquisition of, 2, 4, 336–40

  U.S. promise of independence to, 331

  in U.S.-Spanish peace talks, 310–12, 316, 335–37

  WM’s decision to occupy, 333–35

  WM’s instructions to Taft on, 400–401

  Philippines War, 453

  Aguinaldo’s attack on U.S. in Manila in, 349–50, 362

  Aguinaldo’s counterattack in, 365–66

  casualties of, 362

  insurgent negotiators of, 369–70

  opposed at Democratic Convention of 1900, 444

  Otis’s attacks in, 388, 397–98

  Schurman’s desire to negotiate an end to, 368–69

  U.S. troop numbers in, 368, 370

  and WM’s reelection campaign, 438–39

  Phillips, Kevin, 484

  pig iron, 168

  Pingree, Hazen, 356

  Platt, Orville H., 405, 457–58

  Platt, Thomas, 143, 220, 324, 358

  anger at WM, 104

  at 1896 Convention, 121, 122, 123, 124, 129

  in election of 1896, 107, 108, 109, 486

  Hanna’s meeting with, 98, 99–100

  McCook recommmended for Justice by, 155

  on McKinley’s GOP lead in South, 103

  and nominations for Cabinet, 149–50, 156, 157

  Theodore Roosevelt disdained by, 436, 440–41

  Treasury secretary position sought by, 99–100

  Platt Amendment, 457–58, 459, 475

  Poland Seminary, 16–17, 18, 216

  Polk, James, 75, 76

  Pollock, John, 49

  Polo de Bernabé, Luis, 273, 275

  Populists, 142

  Hawaiian annexation and, 249

  Port Arthur, 416

  Porter, Horace, 203

  Porter, J. Addison, 164, 183, 185–86, 192, 297

  Porter, Robert P., 375

  Pratt, E. Spencer, 330, 331

  Primo de Rivera, Fernando, 330

  Proctor, Redfield, 111, 120, 387

  Alger endorsed for War Department by, 154

  Cuba toured by, 265

  and Dewey’s mission in Asia, 278–79, 290

  Prussian Revolution, 212

  Puerto Rico, 2, 9, 169, 324, 352, 363, 371, 411, 431, 456, 476, 486

  conquering of, 306, 353

  plan to capture, 295

  Spain’s relinquishing of, 310, 311, 312, 316–17, 340

  U.S. trade with, 403–8, 433, 457

  Pulitzer, Joseph, 383

  Pullman, George, 93

  Quay, Matthew, 98–99, 107–8, 109, 113, 114, 123, 128, 129, 486

  Quigg, Lemuel Ely, 208, 210, 358

  Ragsdale, J. W., 425

  railroads, 87, 105, 106, 110, 132, 137, 477

 

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