The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1902-03-05
HONOR TO The DEAD.
Secretary H3y Eu:os zcs tie Laie
President Mckinley.
IMPRESSIVE SCENE ~ THH ROUSE.
President Roosevelt, Prince Henry,
Foreign Ambassadors aud Ofiicial
Washington Present = Incl
dents cfthe Occasion.

sentatiyes, in the presence OF Presi-
dent Roosevelt, Prince Henry OF Prus-
sia, brother OF the German emperor.
the members of the cabinet. the JUS
tees OF the supreme court. the gem
eral OF the army and officers OF the
army. and navy, who have received
the thanks of congress, the ambassa-
doris and other diplomatic represent
tatiyes in congress and large num-
her OF distinguished guests. the Hon.
John Hay, hcKinley's premier, pro-
nouneed an. eulogy upon his dead
chief. Four times before, national
memorial services for presidents who
have died in office have been held in
this hall, two of them like this, in
commemoration of chief magistrates
who have fallen by the hand of as
sassins. George Bancroft, the histor-
ian, pronounced the eulogy on Lin
coin. and Blaine was Garfield's orator
It was eminently fitting that the last
public ceremonial OF sorrow for the
Iamented Mckinley should take place
in the forum which had echoed his
voice in the arena where he won his
spurs. BY a strange coincidence the
day was the goth anniversary OF that
on which the peerless Blaine in the
same hall delivered his eulogy upon
the martyred Garfield, and stranger
still the subject of the days memorial
was the chairman of the committee
that had charge of the arrangements
on that occasion. Who then could
have dreamed that man who escorted
the then president of the United
States and the orator of the day TO
their places was destined to be hon
ored like Garfield with the highest
place in the gift of his country, was TO
meet his sad fate and was himself to
be the next martyred president above
whose open grave the nation would
bow It's head? Only one little year
ago, less Eve days, at the head Of an
imposing civic and military procession
Mckinley passed triumphantly along
Pennsylvania avenue for his second
inaugural. Six months later, the trag-
edy occurred at Buffalo and another
but different sort of procession tender
" bore his body through the streets to
the rotunda of the capitol, where the
brief funeral Grafton was delivered
over his coffin and the tributes of the
nations OF the earth about his bier be-
spoke the universal sorrow.
The only pageant was the gathering
troop of cavalry escorting Prince
Henry and his party to the capitol and
carriages here and there conveying
officers in uniform or diplomats in
court costume to the place where the
eulogy was to be delivered. That was
the extent of the outward spectacle.
In the area in front of the speakers
rostrum heavy leather-upholstered
fauteuils had been placed for the &C
commodation OF the president, Prince
Henry, the cabinet, the general Of the
army and justices of the supreme
court.
Secretary Hays EuIosy.
Secretary of State Hay, at the out
set of his eulogy, said that the stupid
usslessness of such an infamy as the
assassination Of president affronted
the common sense Of the world In q
weIl-ordered republic like ours the
ruler may fall, but the state feels no
tremor. The life of William McKin-
ley was from his birth to his death
| typicaIly American. Mckinley was
neither rich nor poor. neither proud
nor humble. He was wholesome, hon
est and self-respecting. Al the age
OF II, William Mckinley heard the
summons OF his country. He left the
army with field rank when the civil
war ended, breyetted by President
Lincoln for gallantry in battle. When
he put down his sword he betook hira-
self to his books. His was q whole
some ambition, and he had faith in HE
| country and its institutions. For
fourteen years Mckinley served In
congress, wGs twice elected governor
of Ohio and twice chosen CHIEF mag
istrate OF the nation. Mckinley never
embarrassed his friends and never Of
Tended his opponents. He has Justly
been called the 'Augmenter OF the
State" Under his administration has
come 10 Us Hawaii, Tutuila, Porto
Rioo and the Philippines. The state
is augmented. but no nation Is threat
ened. The possibility OF those regions
coming under our nag being damaged
by such change of circumstances
was in the view of Mckinley a thing
unthinkabIe.
Secretary Hay reviewed President
McKinley's part in the suppression Of
the Chinese troubles. his stand for
the open door in the Orient, the COM
mercial prosperity of the country, the
late presidents appeal for reciprocity
made in his last public utteranee at
Buffalo. and concluded: There Is
not one Of us but feels prouder OF his
native land because the august figure
OF Washington presided over it's be-
ginnings; no one but vows It a tender
er love because Lincoln poured out
his blood for 1t; no one but must feel
his devotion for his country renewed
and kindled when he remembers how
Mckinley loved, revered, and served
II, showed in his life how . cttiEen
should live, and In his last hour
taught Us how a gentleman could die"
Should Be More Teachers.
Washington, Feb. 81 Governor
Taft continued his statement before
the insular committee of the house.
He said there should be 1000 more
American teachers in the island. In
explaining the question of the friar