The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1901-10-25
ADDRESS OF
JUDGE WARNOCK
As Chairman Of the Repub=
liCan Meeting at Della
ware, Last Saturday.

opening of the Republican State cam f
,aign here today, spoke as follows on t
opening the meeting: Il
1t is a distinguished honor to be a
,alled upon to preside at the opening
meeting of the Republican campaign ,
in the State of Ohio. For this honor, $
thus conferred upon me, I desire to re- s
turn my sincere thanks.
1t is especially gratifying to me to
preside over this meeting, because it is
held in Delaware, for it was here 1
pent some OF the happiest years of my
life as student in the Ohio Wesleyan
University. Many years ago 1 went
from these halls, taking with me
diploma signed by Frederick Merrick,
L. d. McCabe, w. G. Williams and |
others, and during all the intervening
years I have ever turned toward the
Ohio Wesleyan University with the
greatest affection and the most tender
recollection.
1t is also great pleasure for me to |
preside over this meeting because of
the distinguished gentlemen who are
to speak on this occasion. For we are
to have the pleasure Of listening today
to that able, genial and accomplished
gentleman from Cincinnati, who will
preside SO gracefully over the Ohio
Senate next winter, the Honorable, the
next Lieutenant Governor of Ohio,
Carl Nippert.
We are also to have the pleasure of
listening to that man of sterling COM
mon sense, of unwaveriug fidelity, of
splendid courage, who could not do an
unworthy act if he tried to, the Hon.
Geo. X. Nash, Governor of Ohio.
We are also to have the pleasure of
| listening to that gentleman from the
northern part Of the State, but who be-
longs to all the State, and is claimed
by all the United States, that man of
unparalleled political sagacity, of sur
passing executive ability, who did
more to bring Republican victory out
of defeat than any other man, who
knows his entire business, the junior
Senator from Ohio, the Hon. M. A.
Hanna.
| We are also to have the pleasure of
listening to another gentleman, who
has been near and dear to the hearts
of the people of Ohio for many years.
AS boy, he entered tbs service of his
country in the hour of its deadly peril,
and won his commission and the recog-
milton of his General before he was 81.
AS man, he has been a conspicuous
figure in our National life for nearly
twenty years. AS Governor he per-
mitted no rebel flags to leave the State.
AS Senator, he has shown himself to
be one of the most able, brilliant and
accomplished statesman OF this, the
most important aud interesting period
in the history of the country-the
senior Senator from Ohio, J. B. Fora
ker.
SAD AND PATHETIC CIRCUMSTANCES.
We are met today under peculiarly
sad and pathetic circumstances. Our
great President is dead. The one who
was the great leader in our councils
and one of the ablest expounders of our
principles is no more, but, thank God,
the principles of justice, of liberty, of
humanity which William Mckinley
represented, will live forever. Assas-
lsination.may destroy despotism, assas-
sination may change dynasty, but as
assassination can not destroy or change a
Government conceived in liberty and
dedicated to the proposition that all
men are created equal.
/. Abraham Lincoln, standing on the
battle field of Gettysburg, at the dedi-
cation of the National Cemetery, sur
rounded by the graves of the fallen
from twenty-seven States, said, in that
immortal Grafton of five minutes,
among other things: '.The world will
little note, nor will it long remember
what we say here, but it can never for
get what they did here. Let us conse-
crate ourselves to their unfinished
work. Let US highly resolve that, un-
der God, this Government of the peo-
pie, and by the people, and for the peo.
pile, shall not perish from the face of
the earth"
And so today, in this magnificent
presence, and in the full enjoyment of
the marvellous prosperity that has ever
come to any people in any age-a pros
perity that was prophetically foretold
in 1896, and realized before the wonder
full administration of VIM. Mckinley
had passed into history. In such pres
ence and under such circumstances let
US consecrate ourselves to the unfinish-
ed work of William Mckinley. Let us
highly resolve, under God, that this
Government of the people, and by the
people, and for the people, shall not
perish from the face of the earth.
Let US never forget our heritage:
| "God of our fathers, known to all.
Lord of our far flung battle line,
Beneath whose awful hand we hold
| Dominion over palm and pine.
| Lord God of hosts. be with us yet
Lest we forget, Lest we forget"
Gold Excitement at Pueblo.