The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-09-17
PROCLAMATION OF
THE GOVERNOR.
In MemOriam.

To the People Of Oklahoma;
A great national calamity has come
upon us, the president of the United
States has been stricken down by the
~traltorosu hand OF n foul assassin,
the people of the nation are bowed in
grief at the loss of their beloved
PRECEDENT, friend and benefactor, Will
lam Mckinley
His death comes as a personal
calamity to every American house
hold. Every act and impulse of Presi-
dent Mckinley has been so marked by
evidences of sympathy with the
masses that people feel his IN
timely death more as that Of a per
sonal friend or a member of the
household than as simply the chief
executive of the nation.
The presidents entire life furnishes
us the highest type OF American citi-
zenship. When measured by all the
tests by which Ne measure a Chris
tian citizen, statesman, president and
friend, he measures up to the full
stature of a great man. His loss to
his friends and to his country can not
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 baptized 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 citi-
zenship, let our hearts go out In sym
pathY to the stricken wife and family
OF our beloved PRECEDENT, and while
his body lies in state at the national
capitol and the last offlcialt oere-
monies are in progress upon Tuesday
and Wednesday, the seventeenth and
eighteenth of September, let us as a
people refrain from worldly display
or acts of amusement or frivolity, Civ
ing thought in our homes and other
places to the great grief hat has come
upon us, and in compliance with the
proclamation Of the president of the
United States let Thursday. Sep
TENDER nineteenth, the day of the last
sad rites over him we loved so well,
be set apart and dedicated as a day of
special mourning and prayer through
out the territory; let the whole PEG
pie 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 as
sembie together ia 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 wen that though the
blow OF the assassin was directed at
our government and our institutions
they stand unabaken and will still 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
ourselves and teach the youth
around us, that this great government
Of ours, baptized again in martyrs
blood, must be perpetuated and made
Imperishable, and that treason must
no longer be countenanoed, whether
il be by sword or pen. action or ut
t%eranee.
In witness whereof I have h%ereunto
my hand and caused the great seal
Of the territory Of Oklahoma 10 be af-
fixed this sixteenth day OF September.
A. d, nineteen hundred and one,
SEAL
VIM. NJ. jenkins,
by the Governor; Governor.
Nm. Grimes,
Secretary of the Territory.