Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1901-09-18
FEELINGS OF REGRET AND SORROW
Are Expressed by Citizens Of WilImar
at Public Meeting at the Opera
House Last Saturday Might,

of the people anent the death of the
president. The meeting was held in
the opera house Saturday evening.
The attendance was not very large as
the meeting had been so poorly ad-
vertised that most of ths people knew
nothing about it. A. E. Rice acted as
chairman of the meeting. The meet
ing was opened with prayer by Rev.
G. Harmon Johnson, On motion a
committee of five was appointed to
draft resolutions. The chair ap-
pointed as such committee L. o.
Thorpe, Alton Crosby, A. o. Fors-
berg, T. H. Noodle and G. W. Lonn.
DR.. Christian johnson was the prin-
cipal speaker of the evening. He paid
a glowing tribute to the dead presi-
dent as the ''apostle of prosperity,
he scored the league of anarchists
with all the fiery invectives at his
command; he referred to the bitter de-
nunciations often INDUCED in during
political campaigns and declared that
such thing must be stopped. It was
strong speech, but tinged too much
with partisanship for an occasion
joined in by all citizens without re-
gard to party affiliations.
Judge A. F. Nordin was the next
speaker. He delivered a short but
eloquent eulogy of Mckinley, which
delivered in his impressive way made
deep impression on the audience.
Hon. L. o. Thorpe came forward to
read the resolutions. He prefaced
his reading with few remarks con-
corning the great character of the
martyred dead, and expressing the
abhorence felt for the league of MUIR
derers.
The associate editor of the TRIBUNE
was called on nex* to show that the
opponents of the late presidents
policy shared with his adherents the
feeling of sorrow. He responded with
brief speech.
Rev. G. Harmon Johnson was the
last speaker. FIe spoke of Mckinley
as a Christian and man, especially
dwelling upon the deep religious. con-
victions and Christian resignation
displayed by the president during the
last week of his life.
The resolutions adopted were as
follows: -. r: ..-s d.
Whereas, Our nation has this day
been subjected to public sorrow be-
yond expression, to an unutterable
grief and to one of the greatest cal
antilles in the history by the death of
its chief executive, its grandest char
acter, It's most magnificent type of
American manhood, and,
Whereas, The bullet of an assas-
sin has perpetrated the blacklist page
in the history of the country and ex-
tinguished q life replete with useful
ness, with distinguished service to. it's
country, with good deeds to it's fellow
men and life unsullied by single
misdeed,. unblemished by an act I'M
manly or unworthy of an American
citizen; and,
Whereas, The nation could suffer
no greater loss than the death of this
grand American President Mckinley,
could be submitted to no more flag
rant, 'anmitigable atrocity than the as
sassination of this great, good man
by q monster indescribable, inspired
by the teachings of this menace to our
homes, our institutions and to the
lives of our public men, modern an
archism, and,
Whereas, The citizens of willmar,
in common with the people of the ma
ton at large; feel the profoundest
grief, the keenest sorrow at the death
of the best and wisest ruler of the
present time
Resolved, That they express for
that magnificent American woman,
Mrs. Mckinley, that patient sufferer
whose sorrow today lis beyond ex-
preston and whose whole life has
been golden labor of devotion to her
husband and upon whom the hand of
Death now rests SO severely, their
profoundest, their sincerest sympathy
and their most earnest hope that she
may out live the indescribable grief
that has been visited upon her by the
death of her martyred husband, and
further, be it -- ~ -
| resolved, Ihat the citizens OF
Willmar hereby publicly express con-
dolence to their countrymen through
out the, length and breadth of the
land who now mourn as they have not
since the death of the immortal Abra-
ham Lincoln, and also .,.. -
Be 1t Resolved, That they de-
nounce the teachings of present day
anarchists as an insult to the freed ON
OF our institutions and as presump-
ton upon the broad and liberal prin-
cipals upon which our government is
! founded and as q doctrine which
should hereafter have@no place among
the political creeds OF the country,
and express themselves as Being in
favor Of the enactment of laws which
will provide adequate punishment for
the PRONUNCIATION OF anarchistic doct-
rines in the United States, which can
not be too severe In view of the awful
lesson which has just been taught the
country ii the attempted assassination
and consequent death Of President Nc
IKinley; and be Il further III 4
! Resolved, That the CITY council be
asked to take such steps as shall be
necessary to correctly express the sor-
row now extantN in this. city at the
death Of President Mckinley and to
.lbefttfngly evidence the sacred esteem
IN which the memory of the nations
last martyr Is held. 3..