Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1901-09-27
LEADER
BORNE TENDERLV
TO HIS LAST REST

remains of President Mckinley are at
rest. For six days and through hun.
dreds of miles Borrowing nation has
followed his bier Now the last looks
have been taken, the last farcwells
have been said. The last salute to a
dead President has echoed above his
head. His body lies for the moment
In the little cemetery of Canton, quart.
ed by soldiers Of the flag he loved 50
we'll until 1t shall be placed beside
the mother and uear ones, who passed
out before him. There the people who
loved and honored him will raise a
monument to mis- name anu make his
gave a shrine.
But his highest monument must ever
remain in the hearts Of his country
men. a mourning people raises its
head from the dust and goes forward
encouraged and guided BY the life ne
lived.
There is one heart that knows no
surcease of sorrow. His widow lies
PROSTATE. Tributes Of city. State and
Nation. incense burned to his memory
by the millions who mourn. but &C.
centuates her plight. He was so
much. he was all hers. and he IS
gone. Because of broken health she
was denied the widows last and most
sacred privilege of following her dear
one to the grave.
In the little house whittier the Amer.
lean people were wont to throng. bear.
ing garlands of admiration and conf
dence and heaping honors upon him,
she sits alone and fights with her
grief. Ten times ten thousand hava
cGme and gone this day in sympathetic
expression between her and them. To.
morrow they will resume their accus.
toned duties and the world will go
on, its load lightened by new interests.
The President was; another President
is. But the husband who has gone
cannot be replaced.
The dead President went to his
grave attended by all the tributes tina,
love and honor could bestow. At Buf
ialo and Washington and through
/ hundreds of miles Of mountains and
valleys between the people of his
country had been given their oppor
tunity to participate in his last march
This day in Canton was reserved 70,
his family and friends. But It could
not be so. The people of this whole
city and State and Of the Nation. too
were his friends and they would no.
be denied.
No more impressive cortege evel
escorted King or Emperor to the las,
hCme than that one which followe.
William McKinley's body to the tomb
No great historic father of a peoDl,
was ever surrounded by more evi
dences of devotion.
The flag of his country was his pail
The Nation was chief mourner Me,
who have won the highest prizes If,
can give In varied walks were glad :,
walk in his funeral train. And Will
them walked the men and women VIII
toll with hardened hands for thcl
daily bread and cease neither nigh
nor morning to thank God for havin'
given them William Mckinley. Tn
new President was near the head ..
the funeral line and with him the rep
resentatives of the highest depar,
ments of the Government. The Arm,
and Navy. representing the Nation
strength. walked beside the bier. Gov
errors OF dozen States took thci
places as citizens in the funeral pa
rade. Ministers of all denomination,
laid aside their credal differences u
sit beside the catafalque and unite /.
n last religious service for one who's,
religion was truth and love for MI
fellows.
From ocean to ocean came men anf
women bringing the choicest flower,
OF luxury and the common ornament.
OF cottage gardens to decorate hi,
long home. From every corner of tn,
state which gave him to the Nation
thousands and tens of thousands came
from shop and farm and factory tc
beg and pray and even fight for a last
look at his face and then to stanu II
patient silence while HIS body was car
ried by them.
And all was in honor of William Nc
I Kinley. the man. without whose yir
tues William Mckinley. the President
would have been impossible.
! And when the last notes of the dea,
march died away, and the curtain was
drawn on the earthly career of VII
liam Mckinley, the bugle sang Taps
In good-by to the soldier wno ha
lCugnr the good fight.
Inc fnal scenes at the First Meth
odist Church, where the funeral ser
vice was held, and at the beautiful
Westlawn Cemetery, where the bod,
was consigned to vault, were simpl,
and impressive. The service at the
church consisted OF a brief Grafton
prayers by the ministers OF three de
nominations and singing by quartet
The body was then taken to West
levin Cemetery and placed in recely
ing vault. pending the time when !,
VIII be finally laid to rest beside tn,
dead children who were buried years
ago. The funeral procession was yer,
Imposing, and included not only IN,
representatives of the Army and Nav,
OF the United States, but the entir,
military strength of the State OF Ohio
and hundreds OF civic fraternal an,
other organizations. II was two mile.
long.
The people lined the streets in dens,
masses and every window along tn,
route framed sad faces. while house
tops and fences were crowded wit!
mourners. The people waited iron
before noon till nearly night to pa,
their last token Of respect to the dead
II was a fitting farewell to a man VIII,
spent his life in the peoples service.