The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-10-08
RESOLUTIONS BY {. s.MeLlKlRlH
SPEECH BY THOMAS FITCH AND
AN IMPRESSIVE ADDRESS
BY THE COURT.
Mr.. Mechanism Leads on With intro
duetoy Remarks and Resolutions
Senator Brown TaIks-An Eng
Iishman Pays Tribute.

The opening of the regular term OF
the Supreme Court yesterday morning
was Of an entirely memorial character
for the death OF President William
Mckinley. Associates Justices Gal
braith and Perry on the bench. The
motion OF Acknowledgement Cathcart
that the court be adjourned for the
day in respect to the memory OF the
martyrej president, made with a brief
address appropriate to the motion.
was seconded by Attorney E. B. Nc
Clanahan, who spoke eloQuently of the
life of President Mckinley and the
worldwide grief and sorrow with
which the news of his death was
heard, Yesterdays session of the
Supreme Court was the first held
since the news of the national tragedy
reached Hawaii. and at the conclusion
Of his address Mr.. Mechanism pre-
scented a set of resolutions, which
were adopted after fitting comment
and discussion by the members of the
bench and bar present Mr.. McClan-
ahan spoke, in part. as follows:
MIR. Mcclanahan's Address.
IF your honor please there has now
been written for the third time in the
history of the American nation. the
same kind of an assault-hrst. a Lincoln
then Garfield. and now a Mckinley
and the civilized world tenders to us its
sympathy.
at seems not so much the loss of the
individual that an entire nation mourns
and the civilized nations of the world
bears a badge of sorrow for: some one
has said that on rare occasions the sym
patty of the nations touches a tenderer
feeling of the individual, and it seems to
me that this is such an occasion. 1t is
not so much for the individual that there
is in this universal sorrow. but it is
that the leader of a great people. has in
this horrible manner quilted a leadership
so high and honorable
THE shot was not fired at William
Mckinley, the man, but at William Nc
Kinney rile President. CZolgoScz did
not think to work the death of William
Mckinley. so much as he did intend to
assassinate Republican institutions. and
little did he or any of his abominable
kind. imagine. for one moment. that the
act to be done would be a vindication of
those institutions which we love so WELL
The Resolutions.
The resolution presented by the
speaker was as follows:
Whereas, William Mckinney. Presi-
dent of the United States. was. on the
9Th day of September. A. D. 1901. cruel
~ assassinated and murdered in the city
of Buffalo and.
Whereas. This opening day of the
October. 1901. term of the Supreme
Court of the Territory of Hawaii seems
an appropriate occasion on which to rec
ord public expression of our sorrow over
this national calamity: therefore. be it
Resolved. BY the members of the Bar
of the Supreme Court of the Territory
of Hawaii that as citizens of the Unit
ed States. we herewith publicly express
our real and heartfelt sorrow over the
untimely death of our honored President.
THAT. As citizens of a wider civiliza-
ton. we proclaim our adherence of the
awful act which has both robbed Us of a
beneficent ruler and the world of a good
man;
''That eve tender TO Mrs Mckinley
for the loss of a beloved husband. a SYM
patty as profound as the civilized world
extends to us for the loss of an honcred
Chief Magistrate"
Judge Titles Address.
Judge Gilbert F. Little. after the
reading of this resolution arose and
spoke as follows:
IF the court please. we are stunned
as if staggering from the repelent force
of a VIOLENT physical blow when we real
ize that the hand which recently signed
the bill creating this Territory. this court
and these judges now lies pulseless and
cold; that the lips from which have so
often and so eloquently fallen words of
wisdom and patriotism for the guidance
of his people are palsied by the chilling
touch of deaths relentless and inexora-
BILE messenger.
-
is over The funeral cortege has passed (:
have died away on the distant shores.
The voice of artillery which Numbered
sentiments OF respect IN every civilized
land IS no longer reverberant-
IAN that is mortal Of our late Presi-
dent William Mckinley now lies sleeping
quietly in the shadows of the moonlit
valley. at the confluence of those mighty
and mysterious streams of time and eter-
nifty. where his last resting place will
be warmed by Gods beautiful sunlight
and watched over in the silent vigil of the
midnight hour by the quiet stars until
the last trumpet of Gabriel shall sum-
mon mankind to judgment. Yet a sor-
rowing people linger at the grave side
which contains their sacred dust. with
bowed and uncovered heads almost un-
willing to leave them without their keep
ing.
yet he sleeps. rejoicing in the tri-
umph of victory won where gentle hands
have laid him. Where the winged winds
shall sing for hirn an eternal requiem
where Natures divine tear irons shall
water his iowiy mound from which shall
spring IN Respondent beauty d luxuri-
ant growth Of the pansies Of thought and
the rosemary OF remembrance. not enly
for the education of his fellow ccnntry-
men but as well for the generations
which are 10 follow
But his pure spirit has taken is
fight into the summer land OF song. BE-
vond the peariy gates. there TO dwell II
perennial beanty and glory for ever
more
Thomas Fitch Speaks.
Attorney Thomas Fitch followed
Judge Little with a feeling address
which was as follows.