The Plymouth Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1878-1901, 1901-09-26

bell ceased its mournful tolling at ?
O'Clock the room was we'll filled and
many were seated on the stage. 1t
was a quiet and sober assemblage and
the audience sat silent and attentive
as though in the presence of the dead.
1t was part of the greatest funeral
il the worlds history, participated in
by eighty million mourners. Wherev-
er the American flag floated that day
there was McKinley's funeral and all
thoughts were centered at the grave
side i'm Canton.
A selected choir of thirty voices
under the direction of X. F. Brooke
opened the service with the hymn,
"Jesus, Lover of my Soul" and Rev.
w. w. Raymond pronounced an APP
propriate invocation, beginning with
the Lord S Prayer. in which the stand
ing audience joined. The Presidents
proclamation appointing the day as
one of mourning and prayer, read by
Jacob Martin, was followed by the
resolutions prepared by the committee
and presented by its chairman, Judge
Hess. The preamble, reciting the
personal and official virtues of McKin-
lev, is too long to be printed: the for
NAL resolution is as follows:
Therefore, Be 1t Resolved, That in
the death of William Mckinley the
nation has lost a soldier and patriot, a
lover of mankind, an exemplary christ
ian, an eminent statesman and a
great and beloved chief magistrate,
whose administration will ever stand
out as one of the most eventful and
illustrious in American history. And
with our countrymen we unite in pro-
found sorrow for the untimely death
of President Mckinley. as well as in
admiration of his spotless character
as man and his great public services,
which have brought so much honor,
power and greatness to our great re-
public. And to the widowed wife to
whom the President gave lifelong
devotion as pure as it was beautiful
we offer our deepest heartfelt SYM
pathy."
When the choir had rendered Card
inal Newman S beautiful hymn, Lead,
Kindly Light" Mayor Jones, the
chairman of the meeting, introduced
Rev. O.S. Thornberry, of the Presby-
terrain church, the first speaker of the
day. Rev. Thornberry painted dig
nified but terrible picture of the great
crime, comparing the good man who
was stricken down with the cowardly
brute who did the deed, and then pro-
ceeded to consideration of the re-
medy for anarchy. Mere punishment
he rejected because of its inadequacy
except in the way of necessary regula-
ton. Right, eternal truth, intelli-
gently understood and universally dis
seminated, must be the starting point
for any remedy.
Freedom of speech is blessing to
any people," continued the speaker:
''but when freedom of speech is taken
to mean the right to distort and abuse,
to execrate and lampoon, to hold up
to contempt and ridicule, then it is
that the divine idea has been miscon.
ceived and prostituted to an unholy
and illegilimate use. And it will GER
tainly bear fruit after its kind" Mr..
Thornberry deprecated the powerful
tendency to denounce principles and
question motives where honest dis
agreements arise and said: Hence
hold it to be safe teaching that no one
has morally the right either from the
stump, or the platform, or the pulpit,
or through the press, or anywhere, tC
pour contempt and ridicule upon the
well-meant ideas and achievements OF
his fellow. 1t will be sad day fol-
the cause of right and truth and sacred
honor-but a most glorious day indeed
for anarchy and its kindred doct-
rineS- if the time should ever come
when we shall regard other men as be.
ing as great humbugs as we feel our.
selves to be, and their motives ind en-.
deavors as insincere and unpraisewor.
thy as our own"
The speaker suggested that if mer
will control their hysterical tendency
to berate and belittle, to rant an6
fume, aw-breakers and assaSsins would
be less melted to commit their das
tardly crimes.
Ex-senator Drummond was next in
troduced and spoke eloquently as fol
lows;
1--WE meet today with bowed
heads and aching hearts in the
presence Of mighty Death. We come
not as partisans, for in death all mer
are brothers; we come as Ameri
can citizens whose servant has beer
murdered at his post of duty. He
stood ripe in worldly honors, strong
in health and intellect, heroic in his
devotion to frail and faithful