The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1901-09-26
Gree Crowd Of People Gather at the Rhod: Opea House
Pay T .'bG.e Of Respect 10 the
Dead President.
Henry Scott Robe
Rev Mallory While Grief Stricken People
Voice Sentiments in Religious Song.
Dead Presi.1 Tent.

Belle HeadGsinging "Abide With Me-
in manner that brought tears to many
eyes in the audience.
| At the close of the song Bishop Fa1-
! lows of Chicago delivered the Memorial
address. The address was one of the
most wonderful pieces of oratory ever
| heard in Kcnosha and the thoughts
which were expressed will live long in
the hearts of the people of the city.
| BishopsFa11ows spoke in part as fol
lows:
"Never before in the history of the
world was there such a funeral as to-
/ day. Eighty million American people
in spirit are about the grave in Can
| ton, while four hundred million people
of the civilized world stand interested.
Never before did every wheel of in
dustry stop-never before did every
/ railway train stop on its journey as
| the one in which [ came to you this
| afternoon.
| And why? Not simply because the
| President of the United States has
been so wicked1y taken away, but be-
cause of the man who was the Pres1-
dent of the United States.
The royal Psa1mist, in one of his
beautiful psalms, said: "Thy gentle
ness hath made me great" and quaint
| George Herbert caught the meaning
when he said that Christ was the first
true gentleman that ever lived. Be-
cause he was a faithful follower of
Christ William Mckinley was a per-
feet gentleman. With the dew of
youth upon his brow William McKin-
ley received the forgiveness OF his
sins and ever through life he lived the
Christian life he had learned.
There is proba bly, but one definition
of the word gentleman, yet there are
many ways of expressing that defni-
ton. Thackeray gives perhaps the
most direct and pleasing expression of
the word in the following: "To be a
gentleman is to be honest, to be gen
tie, to be generous, to be brave, to be
wise, and possessing all these quail
ties, to use them in the most graceful
outward manner" A perfect descrip-
ton of this perfect gentleman = found
in the description of our departed
President. President Mckinley had
the supreme qualifications of gentle
man"
At this point Bishop Fallows took
UP discussion of Mckinley as a sol
der, as a STRIPPING entering the war
at the age of nineteen, of his appoint
ment to be a lieutenant, of his ad-
vancement for bravery to CaptainCy,
and lastly, after having fought on
many bloody fields, to the rank of
major.
In his political life Bishop Fallows
found that Mckinley was the model
for the American nation. His entire
life in the political world was charac-
terized by his honesty, purity, fidelity
and bravery. Continuing Bishop Fal-
lows said:
"Mr. Hanna has told the story of his
relations with Mr.. Mckinley. At the
beginning of the first campaign Mr..
Mckinley said to him, My Friend, L
| trust you with my FUTURE but he
added, Mark, there are some things
which I will not do to be President o.
the United States. leave my honor
in your hands, And again he EN-
phatica11y said, Il will not stult1fy my
character for any reward on earth -
At the close of the campaign Mr.
Hanna went to him at Canton and said
to Mr.. Mckinley, 81 have not forgot
ten the trust, and | bring it back with
out a blot and0without a single prom
Use to redeem" and Mr.. Hanna further
remarked in the story he told, 81 think
I have a right to feel proud, because IN
the succession of administrations from
Lipcoln's time to the present era, no
man ever enjoyed that privilege
In the contest with Spain no war
| with such results was ever fought with
so little loss of life. ''In the struggle
which rescued Cuba from the grasp OF
| the oppressor, and in the addition OF
Porto Rico to the United States fewer
lives were lost on a battle field than
were lost in the United States, during
the peaceful celebration of the "Fourth
of July" 1899. The origin and conse
quences of the war and his own policy
have been set forth more clearly anC
most conclusively in his speech in Bos
ton, in February 1899. Mckinley sait
in part:
81 do not know why, in the year
1899, this republic has unexpectedly
had placed before it mighty problems
which it must face and meet. They
have come and are here and they coulC
not be kept away. Many who were
impatient for the conflict year ago
apparently needless of its larger re
suits, are the first to cry out agains
the far-reaching consequences of thei
own acts. Those of us who dreaded
the war most, and whose every eIor
was directed TO prevent it, rad fears O
new and grave problems which nigh
follow its Inauguration. The evo1u
ton of events which no man coul'
control, has brought these problem
upon us. Certain it is that they hav
, not come through any fault on orr owl
) part, but as a high obligation, and w
A. 81 CnvaSrsonNA n.