Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1901-10-11

recognition of the Cuban government.
1893. April q. The Spanish government
sends Minister Woodford his passports.
thus beginning the war.
1898. April %. The President issues q
call for 125.OO0 volunteers.
1893. April "a. Spain, formally declares
that war exists with the United States.
1898. April %. In a message to Con.
gress the President recommends tho
passage of a joint resolution declaring
that wal exists with Spain. On the
same day both branches of Congress
pass such a declaration.
1898. May %. The President issues a
call for $4,000 additional volunteers.
1898. June %. Yale university confers
upon President Mckinley the degree Of
Ill. ID.
1898. July Z. Joint resolution of Con-
gress providing for the annexation of
Hawaii receives the approval of the
President.
1898. Aug. o. Spain formally accepts
the Presidents terms of peace.
1895. Aug. IL. The peace protocol Is
signed. An armistice is proclaimed,
and the Cuban blockade raised.
1898. Oct. II. The President receives
the degree of LII. d. from the Univer-
sity Of Chicago.
1898. Dec. 10. The treaty Of peace be-
tween Spain and the United States is
signed ut Paris.
1900. March IA. The President signs
the "gold standard act"
1900. June 81. The Republican national
convention at Philadelphia unanimously
renominates William Mckinley for the
presidency.
1900. June 81. The Presidents amnesty
proclamation to the Filipinos is pub
lished in Manila.
1900. July 10. The United States gov
eminent makes public a statement of
it's policy as to affairs in China.
1900. Sept. 10. Letter accepting the
presidential nomination and discussing
the issues of the campaign is given TIC
the public.
1900. Nov. G. In the presidential cleo
ton. William Mckinley carries twenty.
eight States, which have an aggregate
OF 292 votes in the electoral college,
his Democratic opponent. William j.
Bryan, carrying seventeen States, hav'
ing 155 electoral votes. His popular
ton of 1896.
lJUl, NlHrCu II N1llluIu NlCxAlulcy IL
auguratcd President of the United
States for his second term.
1901. July A. Civil government estab-
lished in the Philippines.
1901. Aug. 20. President issues Louis.
lana Purchase Exposition proclamation.
1901. Sept. 6. President Mckinley shot
by Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American
Exposition at Buffalo, N. Y.
1901. Sept. IA. President Mckinley dice
of wounds inflicted by Czolgosz.
s.The Major"
To Mrs. Mckinley the dead Chief
Magistrate of the nation, whom all the
world honors and mourns, is still ''the
Major'-not the Congressman, not the
Governor, not even the President (most
simple but most potential OF titles)-but
only the Major.
81 want to see the Major" is her con-
slant plaintive and most pathetic cry.
1t was Major Mckinley, the young
hero Of the war, returning home with
the modest commission bestowed upon
him by President Lincoln "for gallan-
try in BATTLE" who won her admiration,
affection and love. 1t was Major Nc
Kinley with whom she began the mar
ried life destined to be in turn so hap
py, SO sorrowful, SO pitiful, and so trag-
ical in its termination.
It was 'sthe Major" who made the
most devoted and tender and chivalric
of MISUNDERSTANDING and guarding
and sustaining her "for better, for
worse, in sickness and in health,' un.
der trials that the world knows not of,
with unfailing constancy and unreck-
oning s~elf-sacrifce.
And now "the Major" is gone, and
there is nc one l~eft-neither parent nor
child, brother nor sister. The President
is dead-long live the President! But
"the Major" is dead, and his widow sits
forever desolate and alone. with Grief
as her abiding guest and Memory and
Hope her only comforters.
"Oh, the pity of it"-New York
World.
A Difficult Part.
Although as the new executive of the
nation President Roosevelt has been
compelled to take a conspicuous part in
the o%bsequies of his lamented predeces-
sor, he has managed by consummate
tact to withdraw as much as possible
from public notice. He has made ev-
eryone' feel that at the bier of his pre-
decessor he was merely an ordinary
mourner, and not the principal figure.
He has done everything possible that
could be becomipgly and properly done
to concentrate mems minds upon the
lamented dead. and not upon the new
occupant of the Presidential chair.
President Roosevelt has borne him
self throughout the trying period which
has elapsed since he so Unexpectedly
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