The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-10-19
M'KfNLEY AT A WEDDING.
Attends Marriage of His Nephew at
Youngstown

Youngstown. O., Oct 19.-President
McKinley's special train arrived here
at O'Clock last evening and the chief
executive delivered the last speech of
his tour. The train was backed into
a side track and the president and cab
met went on to a platform nearby for
q five hour stop. Apparently everybody
in town had crowded into the two
streets facing the platform and it was
with great difficulty that the president
could make himself heard. 1t was esti
mated that 10000 people were crowded
into the narrow space surrounding the
speakers stand AS the president pro
ceeded they became Quieter and en-
Enthusiastically cheered every word of
his address.
Secretary of the Navy Long and Sec
rotary of the Interior Hitchcock. also
spoke briefly.
Having taken dinner aboard the
train, the president, Mrs. Mckinley and
Mrs. Barber were driven to the resi-
deuce of DR.. Deetrick in North Phelps
street, to attend the wedding of Miss
Anna Viola Deetrick to DR.. William
Mckinley Duncan, son of Andrew K.
Duncan, and nephew of President Nc
Kinley. The parlOrs of the Duncan
home were tastefuIly decorated with
chrySanthemumS and Snilax. The we'd
ding ceremony was performed shortly
after o'clock, Rev. s. R. Fra zier Off
ciating. An hour later the president
and his cabinet entered carriages and
were driven to St. Columbia's hall,
The president greeted hundreds of his
bOyhOOd friends with a hearty shake
and a kind word. The reception lasted
until 10. At that hour the party re-
turned to the train which left immed-
lately for Pittsburg over the Pennsyl-
vania lines.
AT HIS BIRTHPLACE
Niles, O., Oct. 19.-In this town Presi-
dent Mckinley first saw the light of
day. Thousands of his boyhood friends
gathered at the railway station to
cheer him on his journey back to
Washington after a tour which COW
cred 5000 miles through the west and
northwest and during which time the
chief executive of the nation delivered
almost hundred speeches to thou
sands upon thousands of enthusiastic
citizens Only three of the cabinet
members remained in the party which
appeared to bow acknowledgements to
the warm reception which awaited
them here The president when the
lows:
L fear will not be able to make
myself heard by this great audience.
1t IS to me a matter of extreme pleas
ure to be able after so many wears of
absence to come back to the old town
IN which I was born. and need NOT
tell you that many cherished memories
crowd my mind as stand in this pres
ence- The old frame school house and
the church have disappeared and in
their places splendid structures have
builded up.
This town has had its ups and its
downs a voice. Not since you went
in, thought; no downs since thenD. /
am glad to know that it is enjoying the
upward rise at this time and that pros
perity is in your shops and factories
and happiness and content in your
homes.
I know my fellow citizens that Won
viii be certain of the high appreciation
1 feel to haves the school children of
my native town here in such vast num-
never loved that flag as we love If to-
day There never We're so many peo-
pie devoted to it, willing to sacrifice
life for it as there are in the United
states today. And where ever that flag
floats, raised by the soldiers Of the
United States, it represents Just what
it represents here. the highest priv
ileges. the broadest opportunity and
the widest liberty to the people he
meath it