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WILLIAM MCKINLEY AUTOGRAPHED LETTER DATED JULY 29, 1896
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WILLIAM MCKINLEY SIGNED LETTER DATED 49 DAYS AFTER WINNING THE 1896 REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION . NICE BIG SIGNATURE ! THE LETTER HAS POLITICAL CONTENT : I am very much obliged for drawing my attention to your newspaper article. The suggestion is made that you place yourself in direct communication with Mr. Perry S. Heath, National Republican Headquarters, the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, Ills. In addition to the letter the bid includes three additional items : 1. Autograph of Perry Heath dated February 20, 1904. Heath is the person McKinley mentions in the letter. Perry Heath was appointed 1st Assistant Postmaster General by President McKinley. Heath served in that capacity from 1897-99. He bought the Salt Lake Tribune in 1901 and later sold it. 2. First Day Issue postmarked Dec. 2, 1938. 3. Unused postcard with portraits of President McKinley and his wife with the Temple of Music in between them. The Temple is w President McKinley was shot. 4. Used postcard of President McKinley with his last words before he died. God's will, not ours, be done. The card is postmarked May 24, 1910. NO INTERNATIONAL BUYERSWILLIAM MCKINLEY At the 1896 Republican Convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his friend William McKinley as "the advance agent of prosperity." The Democrats, advocating the "free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold"--which would have mildly inflated the currency--nominated William Jennings Bryan.While Hanna used large contributions from eastern Republicans frightened by Bryan's views on silver, McKinley met delegations on his front porch in Canton, Ohio. He won by the largest majority of popular votes since 1872.Born in Niles, Ohio, in 1843, McKinley briefly attended Allegheny College, and was teaching in a country school when the Civil War broke out. Enlisting as a private in the Union Army, he was mustered out at the end of the war as a brevet major of volunteers. He studied law, opened an office in Canton, Ohio, and married Ida Saxton, daughter of a local banker.At 34, McKinley won a seat in Congress. His attractive personality, exemplary character, and quick intelligence enabled him to rise rapidly. He was appointed to the powerful Ways and Means Committee. Robert M. La Follette, Sr., who served with him, recalled that he generally "represented the newer view," and "on the great new questions .. was generally on the side of the public and against private interests."During his 14 years in the House, he became the leading Republican tariff expert, giving his name to the measure enacted in 1890. The next year he was elected Governor of Ohio, serving two terms.When McKinley became President, the depression of 1893 had almost run its course and with it the extreme agitation over silver. Deferring action on the money question, he called Congress into special session to enact the highest tariff in history.In the friendly atmosp of the McKinley Administration, industrial combinations developed at an unprecedented pace. Newspapers caricatured McKinley as a little boy led around by "Nursie" Hanna, the representative of the trusts. However, McKinley was not dominated by Hanna; he condemned the trusts as "dangerous conspiracies against the public good."Not prosperity, but foreign policy, dominated McKinley's Administration. Reporting the stalemate between Spanish forces and revolutionaries in Cuba, newspapers screamed that a quarter of the population was dead and the rest suffering acutely. Public indignation brought pressure upon the President for war. Unable to restrain Congress or the American people, McKinley delivered his message of neutral intervention in April 1898. Congress tupon voted three resolutions tantamount to a declaration of war for the liberation and independence of Cuba.In the 100-day war, the United States destroyed the Spanish fleet outside Santiago harbor in ...
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