The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-09-17
MEET TO DO HONOR
TO HIS MEMORY
Memorial Services in Towns
of the State.
RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET.
Demands Made for Legislation Against
Anarchists
RESOLUTIONS OF REGRET.
a GREAT MASS MEETING AT GOLDSBORO.
Memorial Services at the University. Mass
citing at Oxford To Represent The
State at the Funeral. Servic.
at Lexington.


Godsboro, N c., September 16.-In
obedience to the proclamation of the
mayor, some 1900 of Goldsboro's citi-
zens assembled at the opera house yes
memory of our late President. The as
sociated choirs of the city churches rem
dered most touchingly patriotic and
sacred selections. On assembling the
choir sang America" which was fol-
lowed by an invocation by Rev. G. p.
Sommerville, of st. Stephens church.
Other selections in their order were.
Lead Kindly Light" 81 Heard the
Voice OF Jesus Say" Miss Helen Privett
and Mr.. Robert Shaw alternating the
verses. the choir joining in the chorus;
THY Will be done,'' Nearer My God
to Thee" Judge w. S. OBJ. Robinson
presided over the meeting. Mayor Geo.
E. Hood in calling the meeting made
short speech, in course of which, he
said:
II believe we should enact stricter
laws. laws that would prevent the land
ing upon our peaceful shores these GRIM
mails. We should exterminate all fol-
native born. ] shall not undertake at
this time to dwell upon the magnificent
character of our dead President, because
the gentlemen who follow me will be
qualified to do so. Those who have fol-
lowed his life, and learned to admire
his answering devotion to that invalid
wife, his love and fidelity to his mother
and to admire his genuine character
cannot but love the memory of this
noble man, a martyr to anarchy and
nihilism. Although he differed from us
in politics, he was our President and
when. our flag is insulted, it matters
not under what party banner our Pres
ident and Ruler has marched we are
ready to shoulder our guns and buckle
on our swords, and defend our country.
$50 it is, my fellow citizens. he was our
President. A President of a united
government. and we assemble to do hon
er to his memory
Judge Robinson on taking the chair
spoke briefly, but tenderly of the dead
chieftain, naming w. r. Allen, e. b.
Borden. Henry Well F. w. FAIRIES j.
f. Dobson, G.. A. Norwood, Jr., C. J.
Rivenbark, Jos. E. Robinson a commit
tee on resolutions. During the ntcrmin
of the committees retirement patriotic
roe and Col. A. G. Davis. Following is
the committees report which was adopt
ed by rising vote
THE President of the United States is
dead at the hands of an assassin in broad
daylight, in a public place, in the midst
of great gathering of American citi-
zens doing him glad honor as the below
ed head of their free government chosen
by them and doing their will in his APP
pointed sphere as it was given him to
see their will and conscientiously admin
lister it under the precept of our estab-
lished Institutions.
I'm all the annals of history since the
world began, covering a period of well
nigh six thousand years. there is not
to be found form of government COM
parable 10 ours or people that have
ever fostered and prospered their gov
eminent as have the American people
this republic.
Indeed, it would seem that God in His
inscrutable providence had withheld
this great western hemisphere from the
knowledge and occupancy of the inter-
coursing peoples of the earth through all
the lapsing centuries and cycles until
such time as there should come men who
were capable of forming system of
equal justice to all and special privi-
leges to none, and then, and not till
then did He reveal America for this
purpose. And here was established by
the fathers that system of government
which we enjoy, the grandest in all the
world
I'VE love it for what it is, and will
cherish and defend it for its priceless
privileges to us and for what it prom
Uses to posterity; therefore be it
Resolved by the citizens of
Goldsboro in mass meeting assembled,
to do honor to the memory
of our murdered President that we
recognize in him a martyr to the
principles of free government at the
hands of anarchy that has no place save
in damp, Clark dungeons, where vipers
orecp and lie in wait to strike
Resolved, That it is he sense of this
meeting, in common with all patriotic
American citizens, that Congress adj
dress itself at the earliest possible mo-
ment to the enactment of such Iegisla-
tior shall speedily rid and forever af-
ter hold free this country of the pres
ence of anarchists. be they imported or
native born.
Resolved. That in the death of Pres
ident Mckinley the country is deprived
not only of a respected ruler, but of a
citizen brave intelligent, patriotic and
liberal God fearing and observing,
exemplary in every sphere of service
and of citizenship, one who approached
alongside the standard of the full meas
ured ideal man, knowing no section but
to be considered and loved as the Presi-
dent of the whole people.
Resolved, That to his bereaved in
valid wife, who was his dearest care
through all their welded life, in adver-