Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-04
In A MARTYRS MEMORY.


dedicated to-day with imposing ceremo-
MES, i'm the presence of the President of
the United States, members of his cabinet
and distinguished men from all parts of
the country. The memorial is colossal
structure, towering 165 feet above an emil
nence in the cemetery, which overlooks
the city and surrounding country. The
edifice cost S15O.O00, of which amount one
half was contributed by the people of
Cleveland; the remainder coming from
every state and territory in the Union and
from many foreign friends. The exer-
'cises to-day began with parade of civic
societies, the procession forming in the
center of the city and moving to the Gem
etery, a distance of five miles.
The city is filed with strangers, and
thousands of PEOPLE lined Euclid Ave-
nue., and fiocked in from 1ntersecting
streets, long before the hour for the pro-
the line of march, and all over the city
for that matter, were the finest ever seen
here. The procession moved at / p. M.
Gen. James Barnett was the chief mar
shall, and Gen. Ed. S. Meyer adjutant gen
generals: Col. A. McAlllster, Col. E. M.
Hays, U. S. A., Maj. w. T. Goodspeed,
Maj NJ. B. Gary, Maj. w. j. Gleason.
The divisions were composed as follows:
First Division-Society of the Forty second
Regiment, o. V. l. (Gartield's regimenD. Col.
Don A. Pardee commanding; Grand Army of
the Republic, nineteen posts and battalons;
Union Veterans Union. eleven commands; Sons
of Veterans, nine camps.
Pugh Cadets, Columbus: Euclid Light Infantry,
Cleveland; Third Regiment, West Virginia.
Washington Infantry, Pittsburg Sheridan sa-
bers, Pittsburg: Hibernian Guards: Knights of
Temperance; Jackson Rifles, Jackson, Mich.
Calling Gun Battery, Cleveland; Brooks Battal-
ion, Cleveland: Cleveland Grays; Battery A,
Eirct Tiuhf Info unit Gov pho11 of
Ohio, and staff, mounted.
Third Division-First Cleveland Troop Caval-
ry; detachment of sailors and marines from U.
S. S. Michigan; the President and vice-pres-
1dent mem bers of the abinet Gen. Schofeld,
of the army; senators and representatives in
Congress, the orator of the day and other distin-
guished guests in carriages.
Fourth Division-Knights Templar thirteen
comma nderies. representing Cincinnati, Pitts
Ohio, together with the officers of the grand
encampment and of the grand commandery of
Ohio, with their personal stats.
Fifth Observation-Disclosures of Pythiss in uni
form, thirteen brigades, regiments and divis-
ions.
Sixth observation-disclosures rank Odd-Fellows,
six Cautions.
Seventh Division-Knights of ST. John, thir-
teen assemblies; Knights of st. Matthew, and
uniformed letter carriers.
Eighth Division German Warriors Associa-
ton; First Prussen Verein, and out. of-town as
SOciations.
Ninth Observation-Disclosures Church Societies,
five in all
Tenth Division-seven Hungarian Civic So
cieties.
Eleventh Dlvision-Fourteen miscellaneous
civic societies.
Twelfth Division-Citizens on foot and in
carriages.
A vast con course of people had pre-
ceded the procession to the cemetery. and
when the exercises began there were
thousands congregated about the great
stand that had been erected and in which
were seated the distinguished guests. Ex-
President Hayes. the president of the Me-
mortal Association, presided, and after
"Amerlca" had been sung by the memo
rial chorus he spoke as follows:
FELLOW CITIZENS: James Abram Garfield, a
native of Ohio, brave and patriotic Union SOL
der, q statesman and scholar and President of
the United States, having died in the path of
duty, his countrymen of all the states and terri
tories and of the District of Columbia-and es-
pecially his friends and ncighbors of the city of
Cleveland and cf the Western Reserve-aided by
many good people in other lands, have erected
this memorial and enduring structure to per-
petuate his memory to future genera tons. This
noble purpose has been fifty embodied by the
eminent architect, George Keller, in the memo
rial structure " hich Will be dedicated in
the presence of this uncounted multitude of
witnesses. Upon these ceremonies the Divine
blessing will be invoked by the Right Reverend
Bishop Leonard.
At the conclusion of Bishop Leonard's
prayer. eX~Gov. Jacob ID. Cox, of Cincin-
matt, delivered the Grafton of the day. In
the course of bis remarks he said:
My FELLOW CITIZENS: We have come here to
dedicate this memorial to one of our country's
worthless. Our task is not he mournful one
which filled the streets of our cities with tuner-
al pageants nine years ago. If thoughts
take tinge of so1emnity from the memory of
the Tragedy which brought the life of Garfield
to an untimely end, and shocked the whole ma
ton by the causeless enormlty of the crime, it
will only make our retrospect the sober and
thoughtful thing it ought to be- Time heals all
is priyi To nj of he
departed statesman who was once
friend and neighbor as of a character
career with quiet pulse, not tortured by grief
too poignant, and recalling his great qualities
and his big hearted human sympathies in rem
iniscences full of real, If sober, pleasure. The
massive structure which crowns this hill meets
the eye of the way farer as he comes to fair
Cleveland from Hiram, the place Of Gartield's
he labored as a teacher of the young, himself
called to that public life which made him the
property Of the nation. From this tower, as
from a watch tower. one may almost look into
the rural quiet of Chagrin Falls, where his |
was spent andtinto Mentor, the home
decline of life, when struggle and turmoil might
be looked back upon as from snug harbor his
work well Gone. his fame solidiy established,
and the good will of all his countrymen sure
possession.
1t is well that this memorial should be built
here. in the capital city Of the western Re- |
roads lead to all the counties ofthe old district he
served for nearly twenty years. Himself a type |
of the Western Reserve boy, his mar pla effigy |
under this dome is a sort of apotheosis of West
ern Reserve manhood. 1t is the emblem of the |
heroic qualities developed out of the New En-
gland character in the pioneer life of the West |
1t typifes the courage of man and of woman, |
which planted new homes where savages still |
roamed; the physical vigor of body and limb |
which felled the forest and subdued it to the |
plough; the tireless industry and thrift, which |
would be content with nothing short of the |
highest civilization and tho broadcast en-,
Will which made it possible for
every farmers boy to aim at the highest flights /
in literature. in science, and in craftsmanship. /
Standing in the presence of the Garfield statue, |
many young SOUL conscious of kinsbip in self /
dependence in longing for cultivation and for
noble career, and possibly also in capacity
and Will, may form aspirations and purposes as
noble as this sculpturcd FORM and pure as
the marble in which it is chiseled 1t Will be |
the rightful privilege of such an one to idealize
the character which serves as his model and |
stimulates his best ambitions. But there is a
sense in which idealization is more truthful than
much which nowadays passes for realism in
and in art. A bad fashion has come
more or less vogue of seeking out the coarse
hor 11oY ir,o oil md