What is the use of being elected or re-elected unless you stand for something?
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
Under our scheme of government the waste of public money is a crime against the citizen.
It is said that the quality of recent immigration is undesirable. The time is quite within recent memory when the same thing was said of immigrants who, with their descendants, are now numbered among our best citizens.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
William McKinley has left us a priceless gift in the example of a useful and pure life, in his fidelity to public trusts and in his demonstration of the value of kindly virtues that not only ennoble but lead to success.