The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-20

of age-replied: s.Colonel, I will brine
those colors back or I will report to Coo
the reason why (Applause) And the
next day he went into battle. and wher
they found him later, cold and lifeless
/ the flag that he loved was wrapped
around him and he had reported to Goo
the reason why. Oh, the tenderness and
I love of William Mckinley And then he
I closed with these words
So nigh to grandeur is our dust,
So near is God to man,
When duty whispers, Lo, thou muSt'
1 The youth replies, 81 can"
d. w. LAWYERS TRIBUTE.
Day of Sorrow Not Wholly Wrapped
Up in Gloom.
The quartette sang s'The Old Brigade. /"
after which the last speaker, Hon. Dam
lei LAWYER, delivered his address, which
was thrilling in every line The audi
ence mad by this time become somewhat
shaken out of. its melancholy and over
and over again wild cheers greeted Mr..
, LAWYERS remarks, especially when he
pleaded for a gentler criticism of po-
lltical opponents, and observed that the
president was not the president of a par
ty, but the president of the whole Amer
lean people, and urged every person pres
ent to pledge his heartiest support as
citizen 20 Theodore Roosevelt, your
president and mine.'' Mr.. Lawler SAID:
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen:
This day is not entirely wrapped in
gloom, True it is that over land and
sea at half mast floats the ensign of the
republic, and from feet and fortress
boom out the guns of the republic in
solemn requiem. Seventy millions Of
American freemen bow before the affairs
of God and mourn their leader as RAJ
chel mourned her beloved From all
me NATIONS come words of sympathy and
GRIEF. But high above the solemn dirge
In Which humanity bewails the fate of
him who lately walked on earth, a
m1ght1er than king, we hear the Sti aims
Of that triumphant chant in which the
genius OF this land welcomes the stricken
president to the companionship OF tn 1se
whose names the world will not let die.
In the ranks of the immortals William
Mckinley has taken his high place for
ever and far beyond the. reach of. hate
and envy, of bullet and assassin; he
stands beatified with Lincoln in the
memory of his countrymen and garland-
ed with the laurel wreath of victory
whose leaves can never fade And in all
the coming years, whenever orator or
poet, sage or statesman, philosopher or
euloglst, shall seek a name, to fire the
truth that real greatness springs from
virtue, loyalty and love, he will turn
away from crowned kings and throned
monarchs, from dusty archives and fallen
whose memory we bless today.
WILL LIVE IN. HISTORY.
More splendid than Grecian hero or
Roman tribune or steel-clad knight of the
Crusades, will loom on history,s immor-
tai plain the simple, earnest, honest,
kindly man whose life has ebbed away
The children of Amer ca viii love m
IN all the coming time because when
boyhood's down was yet upon his cheek
he hearkened to his scountry's call and
rob L, 1
musket in his hand, that human beings
might be free. The Statesman of Amer
lea will emulate him because in all his
pubic walk he wore the white flower
breathed upon him. His countrymen will
ever bless his name and memory because
to them will be. sent down the story of
his life to tell how worthily he lived.
now manfully he -died-brave and gentle
in his health and strength, brave and
gentle on his bed of DEATH forgiying to
his enemy, loving to his friends, trusting
in his God.
LOVED IN OTHER LANDS.
And in other lands than ours, wherever
virtue shall be loved, until the tale of
lofty thought and high endeavor shall
cease to .captivate the mind and heart of
man, the lover of his kind will turn for
inspiration to that great magistrate who
Worth1ly and well administered the high
Office of Washington and Jefferson. May
we then not truly say that this day is
not entirely one of gloom, and rather
that it is a hallowed and glorious day
because above these somber scenes of
Woe and lamentation stands forth in
beauty and subliInity another mighty fig
ure to teach the nations for all time the
glory of the American character and the
possibilities of American citizenship.
1T is not for me to point the lessons
of the day, for that has been done and
will be done by wise and eloquent
tongues But is there not lesson in
1 h0 Nf til
nounced? No harsh note breaks the har-
mony of good acclaim with which a
united people halls the name of its de-
parted ruler. We now appreciate in all
its significance the grandeur of his char
acter, the nobility of his soul We are
prouder of our country and our citizen
ship because William Mckinley was our
president. 1t is a mournful truth that
the great and good are generally fully
appreciated only when the earth has
closed above them, and when the kindly
word of former antagonist falls upon an
unhearing ear. Less than any other
Civil war was Mr.. Mckinley made the
| target of personal attack or misrepre-
Sc NATION, and yet there are many hon
est and manly citizens today who would
unsay, if they had the power, their ex-
pressions concerning him, uttered during
his lifetime 1t is always easy to speak
gently. of the dead but should we not
learn by this example that charity can
be practiced only towards the living, and
that the dead need it not? Should we not
here and now resolve for a more careful
Judgment and more temperate sentence
concerning our political opponent, indulg-
ing the presumption that he is as honest
! and as patriotic as we are, and that he
is equally solicitous for the honor and
! prosperity of our common country? Cap
plause)
HEART OF NATION THROBBED.
my fellow citizens, when the red hand
of murder struck the president from his
place, the heart of the nation thrObbed
| with unutterable grief for the victim,
but the machinery of government moved
on without jar or interruption. No other
country on the face of the earth could
parallel the spectacle. With hardly a
! furry even on the stock exchange, the
greatest of earthly offices, the chief mag
| istracy of the mightiest republic of all
history, in obedience to the mandate of
| its own constitution, devolved upon a
! worthy successor I much mistake the
| temper of this vast concourse if the holt
est lesson to be taught today is not a
| lesson of unselfish patriotism. Standing
| by the grave of our martyred leader, let
! us, with hands high raised before God
/ and man, regardless of political lines of
! denarkation, and regarding only the
! sacred obligations of our citizenship,
| pledge to Theodore Roosevelt, our presi-
| dent your president and mine, the preSi-
| dent of 70. COG, 900 of American citizens, our
/ generous and ,lnWavering support in the