The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-05
SMITH TELLS OF M'KINLEY EulOgy Before New York
 Legislature. GOV. oDELL PREsIDEs Former Postmaster Generals E Eloquent Address. says the Murdered Prssident xxsftsd Every Effort to Free Cuba
 without the Shedding
 of Blood.
GOV. 0DELL PRESIDES

| Albany. N. F.. March 4-The memory
 of the late President William Mckinley
 was honored by the legislature of the
 State today. The exercises were held
 in the assembly chamber and were pre-.
 sided over by Governor odeil The open
 ing prayer was delivered by the Rt. Rev. William Doane. Episcopal Bishop Of Albany. The choir of All Saints F.
 E.. Cathedral rendered the. music. Gov
 ernor odeil introduced the speaker of the evening. the Hon. Charles Emory Smith. formerly Postmaster General who spoke as follows:
 "As long as he lived he was the guidine star of a whole brave nation and when he died the little children cried in the streets.' So wrote Motley of William. the great Prince of Orange, who enlarged republic and fell under the hand of an
 assassin. So may we speak of the dead President who by q cruel fate was slain within the borders of your State and
 whose memory you are assembled to honor"
 MT. smith reviewed the birth and train ing of Mir. Mckinley and continued: He was but F when the shot of Sumter satrtled the feverish land. To this youth of conscience and patriotic fervor the call of his country was the sufficient command of duty. He enlist cd in the ranks of regiment whose muster roll answered with the names of two future presidents. one justice of the supreme court and the hero of Chicka- mauga. He earned his first promotion l by his gallant behavior on the bIoodiest of days at Antietam. Entering as q boy behind the gun, he rose to the rank of major and came out of the war with q rich and stern experience which had l knit and strengthened his whole mental
 The Mckinley Bill. After referring to McKinleyss Congress
 sional life. Mf. Smith said: "The Mc- Kinley bin passed only on the eve of the | Congressional elections; it had no adequate trial, there was no time for l correct understanding, the general politi- 1 cal sky. was darkened by untoward cir cumstances and all the threatening signs | together brought disaster. In that de- | feat Mckinley went down for the | moment. but it was only for moment and in that moment of darkness hts con- yictions and his courage biazed like an orifame. s.His trumpet blast soon rallied the broken columns. He was chosen GOV ernor of Ohio. The Mckinley law was overthrown, but depression deepened around the whole horizon. Throughout the country, the awakening people began to call for the leader.
 "He thus became the Presidential cam didate. His championship of protection nominated him. Mir. Smith noted that Mir. McKinley's
 first act was to assemble Congress in extra session "and before the first sum- mer of his administration had passed his faith and his measures had started the country on new development of activi- ty which ushered in the most splendid era of commercial growth and expansion the world has ever seen."
 Referring to the time when the Maine was blown up. Mir Smith said: NO one who did not see the President at close
 hand during those stormy and trying days could measure the greatness of his spirit or the courage of his purpose. Cool and Courageous. "of all men in the land. he was the coolest. the calmest and the most clear sighted. He did not despair of pacific and acceptable solution. In his purpose of rescuing Cuba he never faitered. In more sober understanding and aim he shared the determination of the country
 
 happy isle must cease; he had reiterated the protests of other Presidents and as the offenses grew. he had gone further in action, but he still hoped and believed that the redemption could be effected without the dread necessity of war. The country does not yet know the full extent of the effort he made to save Cuba and at the same time avert the war. But 1t was not met with the same ingenious apfr rif ho
 mighty issues hastened to their deadly
 grapple and the war was on
 Mir. Smith said that when peace came
 ''the one overmastering influence in de- ciding his course was his profound con viction of duty to the rude peoples whom the course of events had placed In our keeping. He felt that to abandon them under such circumstances would be re- creancy to sacred trust. His. then, was the authority, his the responsibility, his the decision in what was a turning point in American history and a new epoch fin the course of civilization. If there had
 been nothing else this great act alone
 was sufficient to give him sure niche in the temple of fame. It is sure that in the coming time the millions of dark yisaged and disenthralled people and their tens of millions of descendants will recognize him as the blacks of America recognize Lincoln"
 After reviewing President Mckfnley's last speech at Buffalo. Mir. Smith said
 his fate on the date following his final speech gave it a sauctity commensurate with the significance. If he was great in
 life he is sublime in death In that hour he was lifted to his full height. Would you measure his moral grandeur-dwell upon that final utterance of sublime sub mission 'it is Gods way; His will, not ours, be done"
 The closing benediction was pronounced bv the Rt Rev. T. M. A. Burke, Roman Catholic Bishop of Albany