Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-20
FATHER SLOCUM 1T HIS BEST
Address In City Hall Yesterday
 Touched His Hearers.

He EuIogized The Dead President and
 Placed Him Beside Lincoln and
 washington-He Denounced Law
 Iessness, Anarchy and Yellow Jour
 naIIsm-His Remarks Elicited Ire
 mendous Applause.
 The committee in charge of the Nc Kinley memorial day exercises deserve great credit for the manner in which they performed the work assigned to them, especially in the selection or speakers. The addresses delivered by Dr Parry, John O'NeiII and Dr Ander- son have been published. but Father Slocum's masterly effort was not heard outside the city hall building although it was the topic of discussion all over town yesterday afternoon and last night. He was the, last speaker and one would think that after all that had been said on the dead president he would find it difficult to hit upon any LuAuE lndL MOulN AAAS eAhAANAS~. But this was not so. He picked out new material and electrified his hear CTS so that they forgot they were mourners at a funeral service and shouted and cheered the speakers with all their might. Father Slocum laid particular stress upon the life of the dead president as a husband and drew q touching picture of the executive on his death bed holding his wife's hand in his, where it had been placed several years before. He wished that pie ture of this death hed scene could be struck and placed in a conspicuous place in every homo ill the country. The speakers also reviewed the life of Mckinley as a lawyer. politician and statesman and stated that one of the secrets of his wonderful success was that no matter what position he occu- pied he always remembered that he was a man.
 Father SIocum said that while we may oppose each other on election day when the result is announced and the choice of the people for president made known he becomes president over. the whole United States and that anyone who with his pen, pencil or tongue caricatures the chief executive or aims to subject him to ridicule should be branded as a traitor and that every public official in the country should feel m duty bound to arrest such offend CTS and even go farther if necessary to put stop to such business.
 This was the climax and the people could no longer control their feelings. 4 shout of approval re-echOed through the hall and from this moment until the speaker took his seat he was ire quently interrupted by bursts of ap- plause.
 Father SlOcum devoted some time to explaining the sacrifices the Ameri- can people made for the liberty we en- joy to-day, reviewing in a brief way the carnage and slaughter that took place during the civil war when hun dreds of thousands of men gave the best blood in their hearts in defense of n principle and then asked if we are going to have this principle. per chased at such cost imperiIed. He made some very pertinent references to the kind of additions we have been re ceiving to our population during the past few years and evoked tremendous NuGH ue SlUaG OI lIt CHESS UI people who come to our shores be- cause they are forced to leave their own countries. He also referred to Washington, the father of the country. and paid a glowing tribute to the part Mckinley played in the Spanish-Amer- ican and Chinese war. From this time forward. he said. America will have three shirnes the tOnbs of Washing ton, Lincoln and Mckinney. He want ed to see three additional stars printed on the flag representing the noble. heroic trio, Washington, Lincoln and Mckinley.
 Father Slocum took his seat amid a deafening shout of applause At the close of the exercises many came for ward and congratulated Father Slo- cum on his remarks
 Colonel Burpee. who was on the pro- gram for an address. was not present. and Dr Parry was substituted ill his stead and delivered portion of the address printed herein yesterday and delivered at St Johns church by him in the forenoon. Colonel Burpee was out of town when the arrangements for the memorial service were made and had not arrived home on time for the meeting.