Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-09-25
MOURN THE NATIONS Loss.
Maryland Republican Clubs Tribut
to William, MCKINLEY


to William Mckinley.
At a meeting of the executive committee
OF the Maryland Republican Club, the
evening of the oath. instant, Captain C. NJ.
Forrest, president, in the chair, Mr.. Will
liam A Meloy, vice president, offered the
Following minute and resolution on the
death Of President Mckinley, which were
unanimously approved and adopted:
Eighty millions of American people
mourn their chief magistrate, who was
foully stricken down and slain by an assas-
sins hand. AS the electric flash across con-
tlnents and under seas, in the twinkling CT
an eye, has borne the sad tidings from
land to land and from nation to nation, all
the civilized world has turned to bow down
with us at his bier and give us fullest
measure of sympathy.
And with their sympathy for us as a.
bereaved nation, and for that afflicted wife.
the light of whose eyes and the pride CT
whose life has been quenched forever, they
have mingled the spontaneous expression
Of their admiration of our dead of his
achievements for the benefit of mankind at
large, and the expansion and glory of his
country, and Of the Christian heroism Of
his death. Amid this universal mourning
and eulogy of the illustrious dead the re-
publfcans of Maryland whose public or
private duties call them from their homes
lay their offering on the grave of their
loved and honored dead.
William McKinley's life from his cradle
to his grave presents the most flawless
type and pattern of patriotic American
citizenship and Christian manhood the
world has seen. In the freshness Of his
boyhood, at the call of patriotic duty, he
rushed to the defense Of the flag and the
Union, freely offering his life on the firing
line of many a battlefield
'When peace came again he turned at
once to the arduous task of fitting himself
for the forum and for legislative halls
and distinguished by his powers of mind,
his supreme devotion to duty, his wise and
liberal minded judgment as we'll as even
temper toward all, his fellow citizens of
his country, state and nation have called
him, step by STEP to their highest honors
both legislative and executive, and In eli
the honors and carried his country to a
pitch of prosperity, power, influence and re-
nown beyond a parallel.
And all this he did. not for any paltry
personal ambition, not for glory, but for
the good of his country and of his fellow
men in obedience to the call of duty, which
was to him, as a true and humble Chris
tian, the call of God.
Therefore be 1t resolved, That we de-
plore the loss of one who graced every sta
ton open to American manhood with the
highest honor, and we commend his life and
character, whether private, domestic or
political, for the youth of America to fol-
low"
1t was ordered that the president of the
club transmit copy of the minute and
resolution to Mrs. Mckinley with the as
surance of the associations profound SYM
pathy with her in her bereavement,
The minute was attested by c. M. For
rest president; VIM. A. Meloy, vice presi-
dent; ]. w. Pearson, secretary: H. R. Tap
pan, J. B. Smering, ]. c. Cross, VIM M
Potter and Fred. T. Myers, executive COM
mittee.