The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-18
COURT ADJOURNS
FOR The FUNERAL
Motion Made by Attorney
General.
HIS ELOQUENT TRIBUTE
And the Response Was Made by the
Chief Justice.
NO SESSION OF COURT HELD YESTERDAY
Proceedings in Regard to Adjournment Out Of
Respect to Memory Of the Dead Presi-
dent Ordered Spread Upon
the Minutes.
the Minutes.

dent Urdere0 Spreau upon
the Minutes.
The Supreme court of North Carolina
adjourned yesterday in respect to the
memory of President Mckinley
When the court convened at 10 O'Clock
Attorney General Gilmer arose and said:
MAY it please your Honors: AS this
is the first session Of the court since
the death of William Mckinley, Presi-
dent of the United States, rise now for
the purpose of conveying to Your Honors
official information of that lamentable
event which occurred in the city OF
Buffalo on Saturday morning, the 14th
instant or the third time the bullet
of an assassin has added a tragic chap
ter to our country's history, and today
our nation mourns. AS death levels all
ranks and lays the shepherds crook be-
side the sceptre,' so all the American
= people at this hour, standing in the
shadows of a common grief, lose sight
of the passions engendered by political
strife as they melt into tender senti-
ments OF universal sorrow.
"It is fitting that this Honorable court
should pause in its deliberations, and with
those who minister at these sacred al
tars, consecrated to law and order, at
this hour enroll upon our records some
memorial of our dead President.
Il need not pause to tell the story of
his life 1t is now the common heritage
of all. He was born So years ago in
oh Tvic
In 1867 he was admitted to the bar in
Canton, where he resided until his death.
He was, for fifteen years, member of
the Congress of the United States, twice
Governor of his native State, and in
1896 was elected President OF the United
States and again in 1900.
During his ,long journey from the
office of a country lawyer to the White
House, his pathway was beset with many
difficulties. Here the vale bedecked
with flowers opened before him. and
yonder rose the mountain peak, but be-
yond all, in the distance, he caught the
glimmer of the stars, and whether
crossing valley or mountain. with
strong courage pressed on to the end.
His life was marked by faithful and con-
scientious discharge of duty, and guided
and directed By the religion " the
Bible
Ion September 9Th he stood in the
Temple of Music in the Pan American
city. Thousands gathered around eager
to do him honor In the long line of ad-
miring hosts stcalthily crept one, an
alien not in birth, but in spirit and
sentiment to the commonwealth OF free
America carrying concealed beneath the
false and lying bandage, the weapon or
death.
I'm the pain-racked moments which
followed the firing of the fatal shot, the
true character of William Mckinley ex-
hibited itself His thoughts were not of
himself, but OF his wife upon whom he
had showered the wealth of tender
affection He was borne to the home OF
a friend and the clouds gathered. Soon
there was rift, and the dark shadow
that fell across the hearthstone of the
homes of seventy millions of people
vanished, only to return darker and dem
ser than before.
1.-THE inevitable was the inevitable.
The decree had gone forth, and from it
there was no appeal. The President
must die. At eventide he looked through
the open window upon the trees whose
branches were waving in the September
breeze. Let me look upon them. They
are so beautiful exclaimed the dying
President. Then slowly crept on the
shadows of night and of death. The
hope comes to us, born of his steadfast
faith, that, when the morning came, ne
had found rest beneath the fronoed
palms of the Eternal City.
"a friend stood at the couch OF the
dying Lincoln, and as his life ebbed away,
he exclaimed: He belongs now to the
ages The same may be said OF Will
liam Mckinley. Histories are the pyra-
mids of nations. They entomb in active
tradition the virtues of the great and
the good. Upon these shafts in imperish-
able characters, the record of his life is
written.
% In the annals of the ages he who had
not thought of fame
Keeping. on the path ofsduty, caring not
for praise or blame,
Close beside the deathless Lincoln, writ
in light, will shine his name
Il move that this court do now ad-
journ.' M o,g -sf8n,s.
The motion was now seconded by ex-
Chief Justice James E. Shepherd, after
which Chief Justice Furches said: sa
civilian Mckinley was a remarkable
man-soldier, lawyer, politician, leader
of men, a statesman and patriot.
These qualities, together with his high
personal character enabled him to be-
come President of the United States, to
which high and honorable position lie
was twice elected by the SURFACES of the
people In his style and habits he was as
simple as child, and in his feelings as
kind and sympathetic as woman. But
with all this he possessed the courage OF
noble manhood. He managed the affairs
of his high office with such ability and
fairness as to impress himself upon his
people and to gain their respect and con-