The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-09-17
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PRAYER
ORDERED
Governor Jenkins Issues Proc
lamation of Mourning
ON GREAT CALAMITY
Asks 0klahomanS TO Refrain
From lrivoIties.

Guthrie. o. T.. Sept. 1s.-Governor W.
NJ. Jenkins issued the following procla-
nation relative to the great national cal
amity-the death Of President William
McKinley-this afternoon:
IN MEMORIAM.
To the People Of Oklahoma:
4 great national calamity has come
upon US, the President of the United
States has been stricken down BY the
traitorous hand Of a foul assassin, and
the people Of the natiea are bowed in
grief at the loss of their beloved presi-
dent, friend and benefactor. William Nc
Kfnley.
Ills death comes as personal calamity
10 every American household. Every act
and impulse of President Mckinley has
been so marked by evidences of sympathy
with the masses that our people feel his
untimely death more as that of personal
friend or member Of the household than
as simply the chief executive of the na-
ton. The presidents entire life furnish
es US the highest type OF American citi-
zenship. When measured by all the tests
by which we measure a Christian citizen,
statesman. president and friend, he meas
ures up to the full stature of a great man.
His loss TO his friends and 70 his country
cannot be estimated, and we pray God to
temper the blow and that by passing
through this great trial our people who
are in sympathy and who are now bap-
tized in suffering, may be brought closer
together and in the future move forward
the better and wiser for having thus
suffered.
Therefore as we bow together in the
common grief of loyal. Christian citizen
ship, let our hearts go out in sympathy
to the stricken wife and family OF our
beloved president. and while his body
lies in state at the national capitol and
the last Official ceremonies are in progress
upon Tuesday and Wednesday. the 18th
and 18th of September. let US as a people
refrain from wildly display or acts of
amusement or frfvolity, giving thought
in our homes and other places to the great
grief that has, come upon US, and in COM
plance with the proclamation OF the Pres
ident of the United States, let Thursday,
September 18th. the day o the last sad
rites over him we loved so wen, be set
apart and dedicated as a day Of special
mourning and praper throughout the ter
ritory; let the whole people of Oklahoma
entirely refrain throughout that day from
following their usual avocations; let the
schools be dismissed and all public Offices
and places of business be closed and IN
every community the people assemble toI
gether in memorial services sacred TO the
memory of our departed chief. and while
we mourn together for the calamity that
has come let US give thanks as well that
though the blow Of the assassin was d.
rected at our government and our insti-
tutions they stand mistaken and viii stfll
go forward as grandly as they did under
the guiding hand OF the one whose life
was sacrificed in their behalf Let Us as
patriotic, loyal citizens resolve within
ourselves and teach the youth around US.
that this great government OF ours. hap
tized again in martyrs blood, must be
perpetUated and made inperishable. and
that treason must no longer be counte-
nanced. whether 1t be by sword or pen.
action or utterauce.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set
my hand and caused the great seal Of the
Territory OF Oklahoma to be-affixed this
sixteenth day of September a. D.. 1901.
(SeaD VIM. n. JENKINS, Governor.
BY the Governor: WM. GRIMES.
Secretary of the Territory