Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-09-15
IN MEMORlAM.
Services for Late Pres. Nc
KinIey All Over Land.
Touching Tributes Paid to Memory Of
the Martyed President.
First Anniversary Of HIS Death Is
FittingIy Observed.

Canton. Ohio. Sept. l4.-There was
general observance of Mckinley Me-
mortal Sunday in the city which
claimed the martyred President as its
own. From almost every pulpit there
We're references in prayer or in address
to him and his work. His favorite
hymns were sung.
The address that attracted most at
tention was given by Judge VIM. r.
Day. former secretary of state and a
friend ard adviser of Mckinley for
many years. The address was deliv-
cred in the First NJ. Z. church of which
Mr.. Mckinley was member and
where the public funeral was held,
Sept. IA.
Ii the Catholic churches of the city
special mass was said. Tribute was
also paid by some of the priests to the
memory of Mr.. Mckinley.
Although deeply conscious of the fact
that it was just one year ago that her
beloved husband died. Mrs. Mckinley
did not vary the program followed by
her for several months. All days to
her have been memoria days. Her us
ual trip to Westlawn cemetery was
taken. this forenoon, and she laid loves
offerings of flowers on the casket that
contains the remains of the nations
martyred chief.
Mrs. Garrett A, Hobart, who is her
guest. went with her into the McKin-
ley tomb and also laid bouquet on the
coffin. The subsequent drive took them
to the family Mckinley burial lot,
where the daily bouquets were laid by
Mrs. McKinley's direction. The after
noon and evening We're spent at the
Mckinley home. During the day there
were many visitors at the Mckinley
vault.
Judge Days tribute to his martyred
chief was in part as follows:
This tragedy which fills our hearts
with grief has a lesson for the living
and calls upon lawmakers 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.
Referring to the Spanish American
war, Judge Day said:
He determined to do all
within the range of his Official
duties to better the conditions on the
Cuban, to lower the strain on our coun-
try and if possible to achieve these
ends without an appeal to arms. The
purpose are the cry to his Cuban policy
steadily pursued. with much accom-
plshed when the unlocked for hap
pened in the treacherous anchoring of
the Maine where she became the easy
prey Of malicious persons bent upon
her destruction. The President real
lied that he could no longer hone for
peaceable settlement which did not
include the withdrawal of Spain from
the American continent, and he
promptly advised our minister at Ma
drid that only such a settlement would
be satisfactory and that no assistance
could be affected to further plans OF
so called autonomy under Spanish rule.
William Mckinley never consciously
wronged fellow being" said Judge
Day.
1T was his rule not only to refrain
from infiicting pain but to scatter joy
wherever he could. Steadfast in his
friendship he would not swerve from
loyalty for the glittering prize of the
prey. Enduring the burdens which
came before, during and after the war.
no word Of Impotence ever scaped
him. and he met the people with
smile of welcome and a word of en-
couragement. Resentment he had
none. Al
Sensitive to criticism, no one ever
heard him utter an unkind word of
another He met calumny with silence
and unfair criticism with charity. His
was the gospel of cheerfulness. His
presence was sunshine. never gloom:
his encouraging word dispelled doubt
and nerved others to their duty
In conclusion the speaker said:
IF the youth of the country learn
from his life that the surest foun-
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