, 1901-09-21
SENATOR'S TRIBUTE
AT THE MEMORIAL OF A MAN
WHOM HE LOVED so
TENDERLY.
Senator Warren's Address Before the
Citizens Of Cheyenne at the Me-
mortal Services Held on Thurs
day Afternoon-MckinIey's Brave
Tribute to the Memory Of Garfield.

day afternoon. He mad spoken 10 the
children during the forenoon, and TINS
address vas delivered before rne
thousands or cltizens VIC had assem-
uied later. 1t Is a beautiful adtress
showing the deep love the senator hau
for his president:
My Friends: | can add little to the
eloquent and heartfelt tributes listen
ed to during his solemn hour appoint
ed for us, as people of the nation, to
express u abiding love and rever'
ence for the life OF President Mckin
ley, and our profound sorrow for his
untimely death.
Such sadness as envelops us here
this afternoon is being felt and ex
pressed in every city, town and village
in our broad land. The solemn duty
we are performing is being shared by
seventy millions of grief-stricken peo'
pie who mourn the iilustrious dead as
a personal friend.
Today the nation stands at the open
grave of its chief, and sorrowfully,
lovingly, tenderly, performs the last
sad offices for its distinguished dead,
The words of grief and sorrow which
fall at this hour from countless lips
are not pe%rfunctory; they come from
the heart, ever as tears flow from the
eyes of the mother who mourns the
loss of her beloved child, and VIII not
be comforted.
Death is always impressive. In its
presence we are appalled, by it's I'm
fathomable mystery. For
"Of the myriads who
Before us. passed the door of darkness
through,
Not one returns to tell us of the load
Which, to discover, we must travel
too"
Perhaps the most consoling thought
in our grief is that this great man ap.
preached the unknown way which
awaited him, with confidence and
faith, without tremor or fear. 1T is
Gods way; His way is best" he whis.
pered, and closed his eyes to the most
alluring promises of earthly success
the world has ever offered. He obeyed
the grim summons with the same COM
posture that marked him from the
throng when, as a boy of nineteen. he
served meat and coffee to his COM
rades under the fire and shot and shell
at fierce Antietam. With the mystery
and darkness closing about him; with
the stupendous change of natures fin
al act about to engulf him, there was
the same composure, the same forti-
tude with which he met and disposed
OF the momentous problems of his pub.
lie life. His house was in order. He
had no act of his busy life to repent;
no thought to recall. Faithful to his
parents, his wife, himself, his country.
mankind, and his God, he went to his
death even as n
Who wraps the drapery of his couch
about him
And lies down to pleasant dreams"
The cold, calculating, critical pen OF
the historian may hesitate in deciding
upon the place which the name OF
President Mckinley should occupy OIL
the roll of the illustrious statesmen
who have filed the highest office in
the gift of the American people; but
there will be no hesitation of the place
he will ever occupy in the affections OF
his fellow-citizens. 1t is no dtsparage'
ment of his predecessors to assert that
none 81 completely won the personal
love Of his people as he. Sympathetic,
kind and generous, his heart was in
unison with humanity, and in response
there was love for him, and the peo'
pies faith in him was fixed.
Nearly twenty years ago, when the
nation was called upon to mourn the
loss of a great national leader strick.
en- to death by tie bullet Of a coward
ly, fanatic assassin, this tribute was
paid by William Mckinley to the rem
DRY Of James A. Garfield:
I'm him we find the best representa-
tive of the possibilities Of American
life. Boy and man, he typifes Ameri
can youth and manhood, and illus
trates the benefit and glory Of our free
institutions. He did not flash forth as
a meteor; he rose with measured and
stately steps over rough paths and
through years Of rugged work. He
earned his passage to every prefer
ment; he was tried and tested at ev
cry step in his pathway of progress
he produced his passport to every
gateway to opportunity and glory. Hit
state sustained him, and at last the
nation rewarded his courage and con
sistency with the highest honors II
could bestow."
How closely, word for word, this tri
butte is true Of President Mckinley.
What portentious years have beer
those in which President McKinle.
has occupied the chair Of the chief ex
ccutive. They have formed an epoci
Ia our national life ~ distinct and ~
Important ~ the period Of the revolu
tionary wal. when the nation wal
Tened, or q the civil war. when It wa
preserved. Our only foreign war II
almost q century has served to cemen
anew the bonds Of national life;
more closely united forth and south