Arizona republican., 1901-10-15
MEMORIAL
In Honor of tile Late Presi-
 dent Wm. Mckinley E
Official Mourning Closed With Fit ting Tributes to the Life and Character of the Orders Most Distinguished Member.


 mourning for the late president. Will jam Mckinley. and the event was marked in this city by a fitting mem orial service in Pythian hall last night, conducted by Phoenix lodge No. 9 K. of P, the murdered president being an honored member of that fraternal or sanization.
 The hall was only comfortably filleC. the attendance was limited to mem bers of the lodge and their invited guests. The officers chairs and sta tions were appropriately draped with mourning emblems. and on the wall in the rear of the chancellor commander, over the national coiors was suspende1 in a gilt frame a handsome picture of the lamentei president. a gift to the lodge by MT. B. F. Porter. In the center of the room and well toward the front was a vacant chair by the chap lain's pedestal. both arrayed in black and white, surmounted by beautiful wreath of flowers and the sword of a true knight.
 At the appointed hour the soothing notes of Nearer My God to Thee" specially arranged for an instrumental, piece. came from the piano In response to the Gencate touch of Mrs. w K.
 
 form rank marched in with drawn swords. arrayed in their splendid ap parel. and forming around the vacant chair in a triangle representing ths motto of the order. Friendship. Char ity, Benevolencs, saluted the chan cellor commander. MT. S. L. E,asterling. That officer declared the memorial convocation duly opened and proceed ed with a short and well-worded speech, defining the purpose of the special meeting. the honoring of the memory of their most distinguished brother knight. H
 Rev Imri ZumwaIt offered prayer and "Americai' was sung by a guar tette consisting of Mrs. Gilland. Miss Parker. MT. l.. C. Masten and MT. IT. wing Andrews.
 Chief Justice Street who is also a member of the lodge. was introduced as the first speaker He referred to the closing hours of the official mourn ing and to the fact that nothing new could be said in eulogy of the dead president. of whom one mans thoug,at and tribute was as pure and exprel sive as another's Nor was the occa- sion for the display of language. His central thought was that almost every age has it's typical man. and as all the virtues of the revolutionary per led concentered in Washington, so the virtues of the present age concen- tered in him who is mourned today. As a national character. as a husband, as a man of duty, he was the typical man of the age. As the thousands who met him in public gatherings. shook his hand and gave them a last finger ing look and passed along. he filled them and thrilled them with something of themselves. He said that while Pythians cannot claim to have made him all that he was, true that the teachings of the order of which he was so fond. had contributed to that achievement. He called attention to the universality of the mourning for Mir. Mckinley, and said that it had often occurred to him that if the whole world would stop and bow in acknowl- edgment of God as humbly and as earnestly and conscienciously as America mouIned the dead president the millennium would be close at hand. In closing he used the beautiful quo- tation:
 Green grows the turf above thee, Friend of my better days:
 None knew thee but to love thee. None knew thee but to praise.'
 MT L. c. Masten sang most impress sively the tenor solo ''The Great Be yond." after which Rev. C. V. Cowan was introduced.
 He said, in part. that in former times it was said that the voice of the peo- pie was the voice of God, but the his tory of the centuries has shown the old maxim to be erroneous. He then il- lustrated his statement by the story of the exaltation of William Henry Har- rison. Zachary Taylor. Lincoln and f,ft ( I1aa nation as the result of the voice of the people expressed in the American way, and followed by showing how each public idol hac been removed by death, either through sickness or the bullet of the assassin. Then he referred touchingly to the latest great similar illustration and drew from it the les son that Gods way is the right way. regardless of mans inability to under stand Gods purpose. In answer to the question that some might ask why God should thus ordain. he pointed to the three great incidents in history, which seemed too awful to contemplate. but which taught the world such great lessons. They were the selling of Joseph into slavery, Calvary and the tragedy al Buffalo.
 In closing. he unfurled from his i pocket a silken flag, and said: 'He who shot our president shot the Amer ican flag, and he who shot the Ameri- can flag shot at the heart of every loyal citizen" He hoped that justice would prevail, and that to prevent the bones of the murderer becoming q shrine of anarchy, the remains should be burned and the ashes scattered on the high seas.
 Abide With S,e'' was sung by MT. Irving Andrews. and Judge McCor- mick followed with a short speech. in | which he called attention to Mckinley 1 the Man" He directed attention to | three things: his devotion to his wife his unselfishness in his thought for the welfare of the exposition. and last, his i request that no man should harm his