The age-herald., 1901-09-29
"NOb|y As He Lived So Passed the Grand Heroic
 Soul Away"
EQUAL ID THE OPPORTUNITIES
His Great Career Was About Com- pIeted and He Was Cruelty Snatched From Happy Retirement to the
 Home He Loved So We'll.

Canton, O., September 2S-The Bar As
 sociation of Stark county today adopted
 touching memorial on President Me-
 Kiniey. Among those delivering eulo-
 gies was Judge Day, who said in part:
 "Our thoughts today turn from the im-
 age of a lamented President, mourned
 of all mankind, loved of all people to for
 ever secure in the history of his coun- try's great leaders, to the young and
 buoyant presence, which came into this
 community thirty-four years ago to be-
 gin the struggle of he in his chosen
 profession. Ihe word Is filled with the
 praises of all men for his achievements,
 at the head of one of the most eventful
 administrations in our history.
 "It was Major McKinley's ambition in , his early years to become lawyer and
 the widest horizon of his hopes took in
 as the grand prize to be striven for,
 place upon the common pleas bench of
 his district. that he would have made
 a good judge, no one doubts who is fa-
 miliar with the strength and fairness of
 his mind and his intuitive sense of jus
 tice and right so essential to success
 upon the bench.
 "The war and It's four years of service
 destroying his hope of further collegiate instruction, nevertheless broadened and
 strengthened his character, taught him to submit to reverse. to be moderate in success, to be cool self-reliant, watchful and courageous; qualities to the lawyer as to the soldier.
 Malice Never Controlled. "As prosecuting attorney he never al- lowed private malice to control, and made 1t rule never to recommend an indict-
 ment unless the proof warranted the be- lief that the accused was guilty. 'In the trial of case, Major Mckinley gained the confidence of the jury by fair
 ness and courtesy
 When he went into Congress in 1877. as he often said. he found his legal ex- perience of great benefit to him. His speech on counting quorum in the Fifty-flrst Congress is the most full and complete presentation of that question made in the House.
 He ever believed legal training and discipline one of the best preparations in life. It was a common expression of his when looking for some one to execute an i'm portant task, Find me the best lawyer you can, will undertake the work Continued Growth.
 From the time he opened his office in Canton until he closed his career in his tragic death his life was one of continual growth and development With steady boise he arose, equal to every occasion, and proved himself competent to the great opportunity of his career. He had earned a place in history seldom accord ed to man. He was loved of the people, | as has been truthfully said as no other President was ever loved while in office. He had been tried sorely and his pa tience, wisdom and courage had raised | him to the highest place in the confi- dence of his countrymen. The great problems of his administration were in the way of successful solution. The home | he loved was to be his resting place and the friends of his youth the companions of his retirement. The life of his dear companion had been spared, and togeth- | CT they might hope for many years of comfort when the responsibility of office was laid aside These things and more musts have been before his failing vision when he beheld the conqueror of all men l at his bedside and he did not falter. Mo- | bly as he had lived so passed the grand, | heroic soul away"