Arizona republican., 1901-12-04

Washington, D. C.. Nov. 3.-The fol- lowing is d copy of the Presidents message presented to the congress to- day:
 To the Senate and House of Represen-
 tatives:
 The congress assemblies this year un- der the shadow of a great calamity. On the sixth of September. President Mo Kinley was shot by an anarchist while attending the Fan- American EXposi- tion at Buffalo. and died in that city on the fourteenth of that month.
 Of the last seven presidents, he is the third who has been murdered, and the bare recital of this fact is sufficient to justify grave alarm among all loyal American citizens. Moreover, the cir cumstances of this, the third assassin ation of an American president. have peculiarly sinister significance. Both President Lincoln and President Gar field were killed by assassins of types unfortuna tely not uncommon in his- tory; President Lincoln falling a vic tim to the terrible passions aroused by four years of civil war, and President Garfield to the revengeful vanity of 5 disappointed office seeker. President Mckinley was killed by an utterly de- prayed criminal belonging to that body or criminals who object to all govern ments, good and bad alike, who are against any form of popular liberty ii it is guaranteed by even the most just and liberal laws. and who are hostile to the upright exponent of a free peo- ple's sober will as to the tyrannical and irresponsible despot.
 PRESIDENT M'KINLEY.
 It is not too much to say that at the time of President McKinley's death he was the most widely loved man in all the United States: while we have never had any public man of his posi- ton who has been SO wholly free from the bitter animosities incident to pub lie life. His political opponents were the first to bear the heartiest and most generous tribute to the broad kindli- ness of nature. the sweetness and gen tlaless of character which so endear- ed him to his close associates. To standard of lofty integrity in public life he united the tender affections and home virtues which are all-importart il the makeup of national character. gallant soldier in the great war for the union, he also shone as an example to all our people because of his conduct in the most sacred and intimate home relations. There could be no personal hatred of him. for he never acted with aught but consideration for the welfare of others. No one could fail to respect him who knew him in public or private life. The defenders of those nurderous criminals who seek to excuse their criminality by asserting that it is ex- ercised for political ends. inveigh against wealth and irresponsible power. But for this assassination even this base apology cannot be urged.
 President Mckinley was man of moderate means, a man whose stock sprang from the sturdy tillers of the soil. who had himself belonged among the wage workers, who had entered the army as a private soldier. Wealth was not struck at when the president was assassinated, but the honest toll which is content with moderate gains after a lifetime of unreraitting labor. largely in the service Of the public. Still less was power struck at in the sense that power is irresponsible or centered in the hands of any one individual. The blow was not aimed at tyranny or wealth. It was aimed at one of the strongest champions the wage-worker has ever had; at one of the most faith ful representatives of the system of public rights and representative gov ernment who has ever risen to pubic office. President Mckinley filled that political office for which the entire peo- pIe vote. and no president-not even Lincoln himself-was ever more ear estly anxious to represent the well thought-out wishes of the people: his one anxiety in every crisis was to keep in closest touch with the people-to tird out what they thought and to endeaVor to give expression to their thought. afr ter having endeavored to guide that thought right. He had just been re- elected to- the presidency because tho majority of our citizens, the majority of our farmers and wage-worl5ers. be- lieved that he had faithfully upheld their interests for four years They felt themselves in close and intimate touch with him. They felt that he represented so well and so honorably all their ideals and aspirations that they wished him to contine for another four years to represent them.
 And this was the man at whom the assassin struck, That there might be nothing lacking to complete the Judas like infamy of his act, he took advant age of an occasion when the president