Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1901-09-20
MEMORIAL SERVICES.

mass meeting was held in the Opera
House Sunday afternoon at $50 O'clock
for the purpose of conducting a me-
mortal service in memory of the lste
President VIM. Mckinley. There was
a hearty response to the call and the
Opera House was crowded, even the
standing room in the aisles and about
the doors was all occupied. On the
stage were members of the city coun-
Gil, ministers of the Gospel, members
OF the bar, and press, and other promi
nent citizens. The StonewaIl Brigade
Band was in attendance and discoursed
sacred and solemn music.
After calling the meeting to order
Judge Henry W. Holt nominated Mayor
Landes as chairman ofthe meeting and
he was chosen by reclamation, men,
bers of the city press, who were pres
ent acted as secretaries.
! Doxology by the people, and led by
the Band was heartily given, after
which DIR. A. M. Fraser lead in prayer.
! A committee on resolutions was ap-
pointed composed of Maj. Thos. c.
Elder, chairman, Maj. s. M. Yost, r.
2. Bell, Hon. Edward Echos and Col.
s. Brown Allen.
LEAD Kindly Light" by the Band
and chorus, was generally participated
in. Then the resolution committee
through its Chairman Maj. Elder re-
ported the following resolutions:
| William Mckinley, until q few brief
hours since the honored and illustri-
Gus President of the United States, is
no more. He came to bis death by the
dastardly act of a cold-b looded assassin,
for which there was no shadow of justi.
tication or excuse in the judgment of
the normal masses of mankind any,
where in the civilized world. Stricken
down in robust health, at time of life
when years had added wisdom to his
craftsmanship, without impairing the
Vigor or efficiency of it's exercise, and
whilst in the performance of one of |
those public functions of his Office
which he was won't to discharge with |
so much credit to himself and satisfac-
ton to the Country, the people all over
this land were shocked and appalled, at
the enormity of the crime committed. |
alike as to It's consequences to the
great and good man upon whom it was !
perpetrated and as to the immense loss
thereby occasioned to the Country at
large.
The people of this City of Staunton,
In the State of Virglnia-all the people
irrespective of party lines. race or call
ing in life-desiring to give some ex-
preston of their estimate of him who
was 80 recently our beloved and most
excellent President, and of the great
loss to his Country, and indeed to the
world at large, occasioned by his death,
and of their horror of the wickedness
by which it was accomplished, do here
by, in public meeting assembled, adopt
the following resolutions. l.
Resolved, First. That we lament and
deeply deplOre the great, almost irrep- ;
arabic, loss sustained by the Country
In the sad and untimely death of Will
liam Mckinley, late President of the
United States. President Mckinley
was above all things a patriot. His
patriotism was deep, broad and ardent. S
He loved his Country and whole Coun. q
'ry, and whilst he occupied the Chief c
Executive Office of the land his best I
efforts were directed to the promotion ]
If the welfare of every portion of it. s
But few men have labored more ear v
testify or with greater success than be z
lid to reconcile the arrangements be- S
ween the sections of the Country re- S
ulting from the late war between the
states. c
His natural parts were of a very high 0
rider, and had been improved to the g
Utmost by assiduous cultivation and a
ong experience in public life Amongst a
hose who have filled the Presidential t,
,ffice in The Country. he occupies an a
position, and be will live in "
istory. b
Resolved, Secondly. That the high fl
loral qualities displayed by President R
lcKinley, both in public and in pri- CT
ate life, are worthy of the highest
raise.
His moral character is rich legacy
it by him to bis Country. His pri- A,
ate life was stainless and pure, The \.
omestic relations of his life were char =,
'terized by those refined virtues which n,
re the admiration of all pure and high -
inded people, and which of themselves q,
i'll enshrine his name and memory in M
ousands OF the homes of his country ~
en-. And withal, he had a faith In -
cd, deep-rooted and devout, which 10,
yer deserted him, continuing even to
e very end.
Resolved, Thirdly. That in common
til the overwhelming majority of our ST
and indeed of civilized Z
d virtuous people the world over, we he
ndemn and denounce the act of in F.
pressible atrocity by which Presi- th'
ut Mckinley was removed from his t al.
untry and people in the midst of his LA
efulness; and we express the earnest tar
pc that the Federal Government and OF
Yernments of the several States will g
ze such decided steps, within their in 1
limits, as are best CAL ber
ated to prevent the future of such r.
mes as the one before which the =
1erican people now stand appalled,. Ha
resolved, Fourthly. That copies of ~ 6
8 memorial minute and of these III u
olutlons be sent by the Secretary of s.
& mpntin tO tl,o Sooratorr or c,x.. n