The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-10-10
TRIBUTE TO DEAD PRESIDENT
INCIDENTS OF M'kINLEY's CAREER
TOLD BY THE INDiANIAN.
How Free-Trnder Was ROuted-
The Martyrs Statesman ship, Pa
triotism and Courage.

presided, and the speakers were Nulam
Allen White. of Emporia, Kan. Booker 1.
Washington, Congressman c. B. Lands, OF
Indiana, and Rev. Z. L. Hopkins, OF Chi
cago. The address of Congressman Lands
was on the subject. William Mckinley,
and he paid a glowing tribute to the men,
DRY of the dead President. which was
greeted with much applause by his auditors.
He said, i'm part:
Il going to speak OF William Mckin-
ley tonight all knew hlm, because
we all did know him Those who never saw
him knew him, made his acquaintance by
observing him In the fierce light OF puDhc
inquiry, and malicious suggestion, and
wicked expectation. And the hercer the
light the more radiant his character. There
was such beauty in his daily life as swept
away ali barriers and gave mankind the
right to claim him close of kin. lie was SO
honest, he was SO earnest, he was 80 gentle,
he great, his such manifold
graces of heart, and mind, ana ambition as
10 leave a name spoken in affectiOnate
reverence alike In hut and palace.
If L were asked what associated quail
ties gave us this finished product of beautl-
full, dignified manhood and broad states
manship L would say that it was his genu-
Inc appreciation of the practical, as applied
to life, and politics and government COM
bined with sincerity, courage and caution.
In what divine proportion these elements
were mixed in himi In his early school life
the admonition of the schoolmaster, do one
lHlnS We'll, look QeeD root III MS ulutl-
standing and gave him fame. in his youth
he learned the lessons of that great policy,
with which his name must ever be as
sociated by daily contact with conditions in
the iron mills near his own home. lie traced
with mathematical accuracy the line be-
tween cause and effect, and became a pro-
tectionist, practical protectonlSt. Pre-
misses, the conclusion of which was prod
uCt manufactured at home, a market for
the farmer near his own door, good wage
and a happy home for the laborer appealed
force
of logic, and he pleaded for this
with all the ardor of an inspired
prophet. Premises, the conclusion of which
was dependence on foreign nations for the
manufactured product and enforced pow
erty and ideness here at home. impressed
him as Illustration of sinful sophistry
and he fought such premises with all the
vim and conscience of crusader The
actual cloth. spun by an American factory
located along American stream and en-
ploying American labor, looked more sub
stantial TO him than theories spun by doc
trinaires, secure IN endowed chairs IN the
universities of New England.
A FREE-TRADER SQUELCHED.
'We all remember how completely he
routed a free-trader from Massachusetts
in that historic debate in 1890. The free
trader insisted that a best suit of clothes
for a laboring man, worth in reality $40.
cost $50 here in the United States, onc-half
the purchase price representing the tariff.
rupted Mr.. Mckinley. I have the figures
TO show that it does responded the free
trader. But 1 have the suit of clothes to
show that it does not said Mr.. Mckinley,
displaying new suit of clothes, OF the
quality described, and stating that he had
purchased it that morning for $40 of a re-
taller in the city OF Washington and that
the tags on the same showed that it had
been made in the free-trader's own factory,
near Boston. That was the logic of fact.
That incident stampeded the opposition and
electrified the country Ihat was practial;
And in that memorable campaign Of 1896
every Republican and Gold Democrat did
his best, and helped win the victory, but
the heaviest projectiles, not one of which
went wide Of the mark, were thrown from
the headquarters of our COMMANDMENT
chief, in Canton, .. He never spoke without
thought, he never played the demaSOgue
and the people believed in him implicitly to
the hour he was stricken down, and mourn
him to-day because they saw the fulfill
ment of all his prophecies and the redemp-
everybody and everything. burden
seemed TO strengthen him, to make him
as a sacred trust. Responsibility seemed TO
inspire him, to lift him to the sublime
heights of every peak of human genius s as
supreme height in cdlmness and serenity,
he took his bearings.
He stood on one OF those peaks when he
prepared that last address he delivered at
Buffalo. Listen to some of these sentences:
Commercial wars are unprOhtable.' Reel
prOcity treaties are in harmony with the
spirit OF the times; measures of retaliation
are not We must build more ships and
they must be under the American flag.
We must build the isthmian canal The
construction of a Pacific cable cannot be
longer postponed Had he lived I doubt not
that all these things would have been well
on the way 10 achievement and realization
before the conclusion of his second term.
But. though we sorrow and feel grief that
time can never assuage we are not filled
with despair, for out of the East has come
1nr WI n Wi DrT "a
work The entire Republican party. loyal
and true, strenuously American, stands to-
night and will continue to stand back of
President Theodore Roosevelt. TO the end
that the sentiments expressed in that adj
dress are given the vital force and effect OF
law.
WILL REPRESS ANARCHY.
"And to this legislative duty we will add
another We will go after the red flag in
this Republic. 1 confess that 1 am not a
competitor with any man who enters the
lists as a conservative on the question of
anarchy Ny blood boils with indignation
when read that the only way to lay hands
on the wretch at Spring Valley, who sent
his congratulations to the assassin at Buff
falo, is to arrest him for publishing a lot
terry advertisement in his newspaper And
that creature without sex. VINO set the
towards brain on fire. turned loose in the
streets of Chicago and protected by the
very system to the destruction Of which
the efforts of her life dedicated, Con-
gress will convene in less than two months
and | believe that before the holidays, I'M
der suspension OF the rules, by practically
unanimous consent a bill Will be enacted
into a law that will enable the people Of
this Republic 10 crush the life out Of these
social and political reptiles.
NO sublimer exhibition of genuine cour-
age was ever given than William Mckin-
leys course Immediately preceding the
declaration of war with Spain He told me
that was the severest trial of his entire
public career. Said he: 1T seemed as if the
wrath of the country, like the waves OF an
angry sea. beat against the White House, >
and, continued he. L could never have stood
il but for my faith in and dependence on
Almighty God And when he said that
thought Of Lincoln. as he was won't 10 stand
at midnight the south portico OF the
White House and looked at the stars, and
draw inspiration from the sky and from
Him who holds planets as in the hollow Of
tian and believed in the old-fashiOned re-
| ligion. the precepts OF which he learned at
his mothers knee at a time when learned
men had something better to do than shoot
interrogation points into everything revered
by the masses. thereby shaking their faith
in the sacred acceptations and traditions
OF centuries.
mo man in public life but learned a les
son in caution from William Mckinley.
His discipline over himself was perfect
| With him caution was instinct. u made
| him safe. Sure-footed While hOsIilities We're