From photograph (24 x 30 inches) sent to Miss Craig from Ireland, for the President. Coleraine Market Place, where McKinley's Great-Granduncle was shot, June 7, 1798.

It arrived the day the fatal shot was fired.

later, Judge Glidden entered his office and handed him $25. McKinley demurred at taking it.

"It is too much for one day's work," he said.

"Don't let that worry you,' replied Glidden, goodnaturedly, "I charged them $100 for the case, and I can well afford to give a quarter of it to you."

A year or two later McKinley found himself pitted against John McSweeney, then considered one of the

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most brilliant lawyers of the Ohio bar. The case was a suit for damages for malpractice, the plaintiff charging that a surgeon had set his broken leg in such a way as to make him bow-legged on that side. McKinley defended the surgeon. McSweeney brought his client into court and had the injured limb exposed to the view of the jury. It certainly was very crooked, and the case looked bad for the surgeon. McKinley had both his eyes wide open, however, and fixed them to good purpose upon the man's other leg. As soon as

Coleraine Market Place, where McKinley's Great-Granduncle was shot, June 7, 1798. From photograph (24 x 30 inches) sent to Miss Craig from Ireland, for the President. It arrived the day the fatal shot was fired.

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the witness was turned over to him, he asked that the other leg should also be bared. The plaintiff and McSweeney vigorously objected, but the judge ordered it done. Then it appeared that his second leg was still more crooked than that which the surgeon had set. "My client seems to have done better by this man that nature itself did," said McKinley, "and I move that the suit be dismissed, with a recommendation to the plaintiff that he have the other leg broken and then set by the surgeon who set the first one."

ELECTED DISTRICT ATTORNEY. It was almost inevitable that the rising young lawyer should sooner or later get into politics. Already he was noted as a public speaker. His first speech had been made at the close of the war, when he responded for himself and his comrades at a public reception given to them on their return to Poland. In Stark County, where he opened his office, the outlook was poor for a Republican as it was considered one of the banner Democratic counties of the state. So when McKinley was put forward by his party for district attorney the nomination was regarded as an empty honor. Perhaps that was why it was given to so young and inexperienced a man. But, however the convention and the public may have considered the matter, McKinley took it seriously. He made a vigorous canvass of the county and threw his whole heart into the work just as though he expected to be elected. And to the amazement of everybody he was elected. At the end of his two years' term he was renominated, and, though he was this time defeated, he kept his opponent's majority down to only forty-five, where the usual Democratic