Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-09-21
HON. WILLIAM M. KINCAID
Delivers n Touching Tribute to the
Character of President Mckinley
and Deprecates the Foul Crime
That Laid dim Low

and Deprecates the Foul Crime
That Laid dim Low.
CAMERON, W. Va, September 10
The citizens of Cameron met to-day to
do honor to the memory of the dead
President, and to join with those near
the grave in expressing their sorrow
for his death. Hon. William M. Kin
caid was the priuncipal speaker. He
was very effective and brought tears to
many eyes. His address was as fol-
lows:
William Mckinley is dead,
To-day we bow and mourn with deep
bereavement, humiliation and sorrow
because the chief executive of this
great American, repsblic has passed
into the valley of the shadow of death
In humiliation, because the assassins
hand has stricken down the President,
the head of our glorious country;
Inundated because he has fallen vic
tim to the cruel and cowardly methods
of Anarchism, system in vogue in
monarchies, where helpless and hope
less it rears its head and is driven from
their borders, and seeks refuge in this
nation, where, under our liberal laws,
it plots destruction to all rulers In
morals, and, in the contemplation of
law, all lives stand on the same footing.
All are sacred and priceless. but under
OUR system, when 75,000000 of our
people, meet at the ballot box, and
through their suffrage select one of
their number and clothe him with the
power and authority that attaches to
the presidency. he becomes OUR rep
resentative, the head of the nation,
and a blow aimed at him is a blow
at every American citizen who stands
for our constitution, and believes in
our system OF government-We all at
once, lay aside our politics, and relig-
ious differences and stand shoulder to
shoulder as one man ready to avenge
the wrong Partnership of the inti-
vidual is laid aside, and the patriotism
of the citizen takes its place and soon
you hear songs and hosannas for lib
erty and the maintenance of our in
situations and country by law and
order and bitter odiums and dissent to
those who would trespass upon this
system, and seek to destroy our gov
eminent by taking the life of the Pres
ident, or by committing any act that
, would be treason, and have in view
the overthrow of our nation and its
institutions. This is true patriotism
and it is always active in hours of peril
and misfortune. To say the nation
gathers around the bier that bears our
noble chief-our President. at Canton
Ohio, and with bowed heads and
stricken hearts we follow to his last
! resting place the head of our nation
| the one selected and inaugurated on
| the 4th day of last March TO serve our
| people for four years as THEIR chief
magistrate. A little over six months
of that time has passed and this great
and noble man is before us-cold in
death. Struck down by the hand of a
vile, crazy anarchist. The nation
mourns, and we are all Inundated. Is
| it possible that our public servants
those whom we elect to Office, chosen to
serve us by the people for a limited
time by our system of doing so, are
they, in this great free land, in this
| country we call republic, to live in
constant dread of assassination? Here,
| where men are free to act and move
| as they please. is there to be no differ
/ ence between OUR constitutional gov
eminent and those governments where
monarchs and tyrants rule, those
| despotic governments. which rest not
upon the consent of the governed, but
rule by brute force. Pause. if YOU will,
and think for one moment Of the
gravity of the situation. This shot
from the pistol of CzolgOsz. fired into
the vitals of President Mckinley. was
TO kill him and thus destroy our ma
tion-a shot fred at our constitution :;
and at our Declaration of 1ndepend-
ence-a shot to place the doctrines of
Anarchism in their stead. a system of
government without foundation or
! priucipal-a return to the days of
fuedilism, when the head OF the family
was his own ruler, and was not govern
ed by law or the mandates and teacn-
ings of the Great Ruler Of the Uni
verse There is no place for Anarchy
in the United States. There is no
place in this nation for men and wo-
men who congregate in some howell, or
garnet, or in some secluded place 10
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