The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-20
|. @. 0. F. MEMORIAL.

grand sire, ana coming forward spoke OF
the dead President in words Of eloquence
and pathos as follows:
Grand Sire. Ladies and Gentlemen:
With Understandable sorrow we stand to-day
beside the bier OF our beloved and mar
tyred President. and with bowed heads
Join reverently repeating his last words,
1T is Gods way, His will be done He
j. no longer with us. but the sacred mem
DRY OF his noble Christian character will
abide with the American people forever.
The three links OF martyrdOm and glory
are completed at a sacrifice so awful that
We are sometimes skeptical as 10 the per
petuity OF the Republic. Lincoln, Garfield
and MCkinley-all offered up on the altar
of the assassin. SGt Mckinley untimeiy
and cruel death is the only one directly
attributable 10 anarchy. to the fury and
hatred Of a product, / am glad 10 say,
not American. His name is now linked
with those Of Washington and Lincoln,
and his fame as a statesman and lover of
his country and fellOw-men will be as en-
during as theirs.
There is no language adequate to ex-
i'ress our grief, there is no punishment
adequate to the crime. Our loss is not only
national, but personal, anu sorrow mex
pressible tugs at the heart Of every Ameri-
can. Tears and sObs choke our utterances.
We loved and admired him. His character
and manly virtues viii be 10 Us and to all
the generations TO come a priceless herit-
age. On this day and morning, this day
never 10 be forgotten, let Us dedicate our
selves anew TO the work of fostering order
y liberty under the Constitution and laws
of our country. Let US resolve that this
Republic shall endure forever. that it shall
- Hhn rio
less treasure Of free government for all
peoples and all nationalities worthy of
freedom.
we believe as William Mckinley be-
lieved, that this Republic Will endure for
ever. Let us take warning from the cruel
and uncalled-fOr death of William McKin-
ley and highly resolve that anarchy can
no longer flourish within the confines Of
America. Let us teach such detested and
dastardly creatures as Emma Goldman
that the gates of Castle Garden swing OUT
ward as well as inward
GREETED WITH APPLAUSE.
The sentiment thus expressed by Mr..
Gowdy struck his hearers with such force
that they forgot the solemn meeting and
its sacred character and broke into a
storm OF applause. When the evidences of
approval had subsidized Grand Sire Gable
administered a mild rebuke 10 the audience.
saying: 1T seems to me that no approval
is greater than silence" Mr.. Gowdy re-
sumed his address as follows:
Let us Danish from our shore every red
handed. cowardly Anarchist. If the death
OF our beloved President arOuses our peo-
pie TO the dangers of anarchy, he will not
have lived and died in vain.
our patient, patriotic. kind friend has
gone, and if he were TO be remembered
for nothing else he would be it
seems TO me. forever by not only the gen
e%rations of the North but the generations
of the South for having done more to re-
unite the North and South than probably
any other man who ever presided over
the d~estinies of the Republic. We will re-
member. following the blowing up of the
Maine. when war was inevitable. when he
called for volunteers, that the men of the
North and South fairly tumbled over each
other in making their response To his call
10 arms. We will remember. when he Sc
lected the chieftains to lead the gallant
troops ON i'm battle, he did not cOnfine hiLl-
self TO the North nor to the blue. We re-
call that he selected gallant Joe Wheeler,
OF Alabama, that he named Fitzhugh Lee.
eft Virginia, and among them and with
them stood at San Juan Hill the gallant
and noble Lawton, of the North, and of the
blue. We remember that as the troops
rushed up San Juan Hill the present sue
cessor of William Mckinley was there US
one of the selections of that noble COM
mander-in-chief OF the American army.
I'VE recall that lac was the President. not
of the North or of the South alone, but of
both. of all the people. the high and the
low. the rich and the poor. and if you will
bear with me I want TO read one sentence
OF the tribute paid this splendid memory 10y
a Southern manly Henry Watterson, of
the Louisville Courier-Journal 1t is so far
above anything that 1 might utter. it ox-
presses the feeling OF my heart to-day be-
ter than any anguage that 1 could utter
that I beg To submit it to you. lie sale IN
concluding an editorial. Standing by tLe
dead body OF William Mckinley the man,
the simple. gentle. generous man. our chief
tain. yet our GclIOw-citizen, We can only
mourn mourn for our country and our
selves that ne is gone, mourn for the evil
that has come upon us BY his cruel and un-
natural murder. mourning above all for that
stricken one. that bosom friend, that wil;ed
Hover cruelty struck down by the hand of
the assassin never TO hope again until the
angels shall open their wings and take her
where they have taken him
God have mercy upon us to-day as a
nation and as "a people. Ii is too dreadful
a. contemplate. May it make us better
men and women now and forcvermore.
TALK BY y CANADIAN.
When Past Grand Sire Campbell. of Cam
ada. arose TO speak of this Nations loss a
wave OF approval uncousciously swept over
the audience. which felt the appropriateness
OF "A representative of a sister country shar-
ing his grief with them. Mr.. Campbell
spoke as follows;
Grand Sire and Representative-Speak
ing to-day under considerable physical dis
ability. silence would have under ordinary
circumstances been followed ~ me were il
not for the factthat as the oldest Cauadian
member Of the Sovereign Grand Lodge IL
seems TO me that + am justly called upon
10 speak ON behalf. not simply of the Cana
dian representative in this body. but on
behalf of the 65.e0 loyal odd Fellows Who
dwell under the British flag. whether i'm the
northern Dominion Of Canada or in the
southern commonwealth of Australia. and
TO say 10 you. Odd Fellows of the Unite!
States and people of this great Republic,
that upon the day of YOUR national grief
and sorrow the hearts of your neighbors
bear the burden that you bear.
1T would be but afectation ON my part
10 say that the sorrow and grief that Ne