Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1901-09-23

IL hio rellSlOus Delle1. Mckinley
was broad-minded and without dis
play. Early faith and home training,
under the guidance Of his noble
mother, resulted in unusual devotion
to every duty as soldier. citizen. leader
in Congress, Governor and President.
They constituted an inf1exible stand
ara, by which he determined his
course Of duty, and from the plain
pathway of duty, with him there could
be no deviation. They regulated all
his private and public acts. and crown
ed the closing minutes of his life.
They alone enabled him, with his
last conscious utterance, to say: 1T
is Gods Way. His WILL not ours, be
done This sublime faith that was
with him in the Valley of the Shadow
Is the only real aptidote after all, to
the Anarchy that struck him down;
and his example. like that of Wash
ington, Lincoln, Grant and Garfield
must remain forever an incentive to
his countrymen to be true TO God, who
has made and preserved us a nation.
His political career began as Prose
cutting Attorney of Stark county, and
was soon extended TO Congress. Step
by step he ascended the ladder of
fame, until his name became a house
hold word in every American home.
This eminence was not achieved with
out contest; in each of his seven
elections to Congress he was obliged
to contest every inch of the ground,
and at last his defeat was accom-
plished by a change in his district;
but he had become so well-known
and regarded that he was unanimously
nominated for Governor by conven.
tion Of his party, and his triumphant
election and reelection fattested the
confidence reposed in him by the peo-
pie of our state. At last, having been
called twice in succession to the high
est Office in the gift of the American
most trusted and loved presidents our
people ever had, but the most
widely known and respected public
man in the world,
Mckinley was deeply imbued with
esteem for the great men of our nation,
and his public utterances are full of
eloquent references to Washington,
Lincoln, Grant. Hayes and Garfield.
At the dedication of the Grant monu
ment in New York, he said: "A great
life never dies. Great deeds are inn
perishable; great names immortal
In an address at Springfield, Illinois
he referred to Lincoln in the following
language: 4 am glad to be at the
home of the martyred President. His
name is an inspiration and holy one
to all lovers of liberty the world |
over. His fame, his work, his life,
are not only an inspiration to every |
American boy and girl, but TO all man.
kind. And what an encouragement |
his life work has been to all his sue
cessors in the Presidential Office. If |
any of them, at any times has felt |
that his burden was heavy, he had but
to reflect upon the greater burdens of
Abraham Lincoln, to make his own
seem light
Having modelled himself after these
great examples. he also had the bene-
fit of personal association and friend
ship with Rutherford b. Hayes and
James A. Garfield, the latter having
begun his political career as State SEN
ator from this district
ITO the examples that William Nc
Kinley so often, so eloquently and with
so much earnestness held up before
the world for its encouragement and
emulation, shall now be added his own
equally nlustrious service to mankind.
AS he modelled after the great men
who had gone before, how many will
find in what he accomplished, and
even more in the way he succeeded, a
stimulus to do the best that is In ;
them, and to do 1t is the best way.
mckinley was steady and unre-
enting advocate OF protection to
American industries This was the
natural result of his lifelong exper.
ence among the toilers of the region
where he lived. To secure the adopt
on of policies which he believed would
improve the condition OF the laboring
nan seems to have been controlling
tmbition Of his life, and no better eyi-
ience OF this is afforded than his own