The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-30
IN HONOR OF M'KINLEY
BIRTHDAY OF THE OHIO STATES.
 MAN OBSERVED.
In Chicago Judge Day Was the Prin- cipal Speaker-Virtues of the Dead President Extolled
 by His Friend.

Chicago. Jan. 29.-Chicagoans of all rankssand stations honored the name of William Mckinley today, the anniversary of his birth. Flags throughout the city were at half mast and memorial services were held in many churches, schools and Grand Army of the Republic Posts. All were closed for the day The services culminated in meeting at Studebaker Hall tonight under the auspices of the Hamilton Club, where Judge William R.
 Federal Judge Peter s. Grosscup pre- sided. Judge Day was received with hearty applause and spoke as follows:
 We commemorate today, the birth of company of our immortals. not born to die.
 For the third time, within single generation the American people mourn an assassin. These blows have been struck at tho kindliest of our chief mag istrates, men illustrating each in his own person and character the possibilities of tune or powerful friends. to rise to the highest station in the gift of the Amer ican people. The last or these dastardly attacks was made upon one whose char actcr had commended him to the love of all people. and made political adversaries among his warmest admirers and friends In the fullness of life, with message 'of good will and kindness vet fresh from
 
 ed to testify that affection and appreci- ation which was his highest reward for faithful and unremitting service, he was felled t0 the earth for no other offence than tEat in his rerson he represented the head of the nation and stood for lib- erty, regulated by law, and not for that unbridled license which knows no re- spect for the laws of God or man. This tragedy which fills our hearts with grief has lesson for the living and calls upon law makers and law enforcers for all that legislation and courts can do for the suppression and punishment of those who teach or practice the dreadful tenets of this code of lawlessness and ruin. Above all. it demands the culti- vation of that public sentiment which gives due respect to those in authority. charge of public duty and gives no en- commencement to vile attacks upon men who are devoting their lives to the ser vice of the public. The aroused public conscience should never rest until we have done all that can be done to make this calamity impossible of repetition.
 William M Kinley, boy and man. was type of the best possibilities of Amer ican life He was devoted to his coun- try and its institutions. He did not con- cur in the Napoleolic theory that a man in power should undertake to shape events to his own selfish purpose. He believed the sober sense of the people of republic was the ultimate appeal of the statesman. To every question of public policy he gave the most earnest and careful thought and sought to guide which he considered to be the hest for the general good. His career was a steady growth from hls entrance into public life to his last speech. at Buffalo which comes to us with the force of the last words of wisdom and the tender beauties of benadiction. The first of protectionists he lived to see this coun- try develop until it led the manufactur- iou of hn yuhon markets must be sought for our pro- ducts, and he boldly declared for an en- frightened policy which should seek the reciprocal trade of the vor.d without A"oricqn production and wages.
 "'ro promote the restoration of cordial feelings between the sections Of oui country which had been in deadly dit- ference. was a purpose close to his heart. When he lay upon his bed of sutrering no messages could exceed in sympathy and love those which came from the Southland. Had there been room to re- ceive them his funeral cortege would haN e numbered thJusandS who had borne arms against the Union.
 ''No matter to what heights of success he arose, coming home. William McKin- ley was ever the same to the neighbors and friends of his early manhood. To others he may have been the ruler of the first of nations-entrusted with power to make or mar a peoples destiny. Al
 
 and friend of those who knowing him best loved him most. His ideal of home was one of peace and comfort. not eX- travagance and display. The American home, he declared where honesty, so- briety and truth presides, and simple everyday virtue. without pomp and osten- tation is practiced. Is the nursery of all true education. It Is in homes such as this that the people bereft of one of their own. mourn his departure. It was in the upbuiding of such homes that William Mckinley found the highest duty of constructive statesmanship and the true safeguard of republican institutions.
 Who shall speak adequately of the gentleness and Kindness of this strong man? Cardinal Newman has said: It is almost a definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never infl:ts pain If that be the test, he was indeed one who wore without reproach the grand old name of gentleman. William McKin- ley never consciously wronged a fellow being. He would turn from the most inn portant affairs of state to give a flower to little child. or to say kindly word to some visitor for whom he could do no more. Resentments he had none. He be- lieVed life was too short tO give any of his time to cherishing animosity. Sensi- tive to criticism, no one ever heard him utter an unkind word of another. He met calunnnv with silence and unfair criticism with charity. His was the gospel of cheerfulness. His presence was sunshine, never gloom; his encouraging word dis pelled doubt and neryed others to their duty.
 So gentle. kind and true, had been this life that not even his slayer could strike at him. With thiD gentleness what mighty strength. Death meets all on equal terms The man as he Is then stands unveiled. With so much to make life dear, this gentle man did not falter when the summons came. Looking for ward to retirement in the home he loved, sure of the affection of his countrymen and the respect of the world, holding the hand of his loved companion whose welfare. had ever been the first purpose of his life, and whose returning strength had made his last summer one of the brightest, he entered the valley of the shadow of death with no murmur at his