Evening journal., 1901-09-20
DEMOCRATS LAUD
DEAD PRENIDBNT
Meeting Attended by Many
Mourning Citizens
McSSrS. ROSSOll and Marvel the
Speakers at Democratic League
Gathering Last Evening

night and the entire session devoted 90
addresses upon the death OF Former
President William Mckinley.
The speakers Of the evening were John
S. Rossell and Josiah Marvel, each Of
whom paid fitting tributes to the life and
works of the dead President. Mr.. Ros-
sells eulogy was touching one. He
spoke in part as follows;
I'm this mournful hour, when sorrow
fills the land, and every true heart feels
the saddening touch of great tragedy,
we realize that we are one people bound
together by the tenderest ties OF a ma
tional brotherhood. This is the land
which the Lord our God has given us,
and which, by the most sacred obliga-
lions, we are bound TO defend and pre-
serve for our posterity. Here we have
established our political institutions for
the better regulation Of intercourse
among ourselves; here we have pro-
claimed the equality Of all men before
the law; and here every man, of high OF
low estate. is admitted TO full member
ship ia our national association, and ac-
corded the privilege Of an unrestricted
citizenship.
Against this established order cow
ardly, crucl and morciloss blow has been
struck The victim was well selected for
he represented IN his.exalted Office the
whole people, and combined in his person
the most perfect development Of Ameri-
can manhood. He was the pride Of the
nation, and when he fell the people stood
aghast at the enormity Of the crime. Has
liberty, founded upon law, failed TO sat
isfy the yearnings o. the human heart?
Has government controlled by universal
suffrage, ceased to offer the opportunities
for freedom Of action that rational men
would desire? mol But there has been
introduced into this country system of
social life that has Tor its object the de-
struction Of all government and the over
throw of law and order as they now exist.
A9ainst this we must be resolute, and
with consciences awakened by the awful
calamity that has overtaken ue, we must
raise ourselves 20 higher, purer and
more vigorous national life that WILL I'M
der God, sustain us against attacks from
within or from without.
william Mckinley was pre-eminently
one Of the people. Follow him from his
humble birth; see how he struggles long
against the universities Of his position, but
with courage undamted, keeping ever be-
fore him as a sure guide 20 a successful
life the principles Of morality, and with
abiding confidence in the people, wins vic
tory after victory.
And moving up from high 10 higher
Becomes on Fortunes Growing slope,
The pillar of the peoples hope,
The centre OF o worlds desire.
His private lafe was most exemplary.
As son he was dutiful and affectionate,
and we can contemplate with what de-
light Mother Mckinley saw her boy as
cendmg gradually but surely the pathway
Of fame and finally reaching the highest
position in the gift 90 the nation; and we
can admire with tender emotion the de-
votedness he always showed toward her
who had been his strong support In the
days of his childhood. But, If possible,
IL was as a faithful and loving husband,
that he showed more conspicuously those
noble traits of self-sacrihce and unswerv-
ing fidelity. Manifold and distracting as
were his public duties, he never for mo-
ment forgot the woman to whom he had
pledged his hearts best love.
But let us think OF him now as our
President Uppermost in his great mind
was the welfare of the whole nation. No
narrow policy satisfied his strong desire
TO round out his public life in achieve
ments that would bring lasting benefits to
his country and to those who had claim
to his country's protection and assistance;
and so he has left us what we have long
needed-a nation policy-founded upon
the principle Of amity and good will to-
ward all the peoples and powers Of the
earth 1t remains for another, a worthy
successor, 20 carry out this policy. He
has promised TO do so; and those who
know Theodore Roosevelt know that this
promise will be faithfully observed.
Life was dear to William Mckinley as
It is TO us ALL and we may suppose that it
was with some natural reluctance that he
I faced the inevitable. He longed to 20
back to his old home, around which clus-
tered so many pleasant memories, and to
be once again surrounded by his old
friends and neighbors. He looked for the
last time out into the sunlight and all
nature seemed most beautiful to him. In
the near future he saw the vast work, vet
only begun, that he would have lived Ia
carry to its full fruition. But the sum
mons had come. There was but one an
swer 10 make, and he made IL bravely
/ Gods will, not ours, be done!
Following Mr.. Rosselrs address Josiah
Marvel spoke highly on the death Of the
| President. He called attention TO the
fact that this was the third occasion in
which the nation had been called upon to
bow its head in mourning for a martyred
President. In this case, said Mr.. Mar.
vel, the people had followed Mr.. MeKin-
ley's career through life and waited with
anxiety the result Of the assassin's bullet
Y I'm our feeling toward him as a man,
I continued Mr.. Marvel. Eve first regard
his loss as a husband. and our hearts are
filed with sorrow for the widow who
, mourns today beside the grave OF her hus
band like Rachel mourning for her chill
4 dren, and refuses to be comforted be
; cause he is not. Upon this l cannot say
more. There are no words fitted to por
tray the grief of a human heart. w,
!, then look upon his loss as man and hi
: nearness to the people makes their griei
heavy"
At the close Of Mr.. Marveps address
the following resolution was unanimously
adopted:
Resolved, That the Democratic Leagu,
learns with profound sorrow OF the dealt
LOT William Mckinley, President of thi
United States. and while bowling oui
heads in humble submission to Gods vii