The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1902-03-11
THE MCKINLEY MEMORIAL EXERCISES
AND THE VISIT OF PRINCE HENRY.

We pause to let the reader whose
time is very valuable, pass on. For
this article is NOS a weighty or i'm
portant one, but only some inconse-
quentiaI notes suggested by the sab.
jecta mentioned in the heading. We
confess, too, that these notes are not
so fresh as they should be, for we
returned from Washington City Just
too late TO get them into last weeks
paper. This much said, we begin.
We went to Washington City
chiefly to attend the Mckinley Memo,
rial Exercises held in the hall of the
House of Representatives Thursday,
February 9Th. Hon. John Hay,
Secretary of State, was the orator OF
the day, and it was a notable audi
ence before whom he appeared.
The House and the Senate being in
joint session, nearly every member
of the law-making branch of the
government was present President
Roosevelt occupied the seat of honor
almost directly in front of the
speaker, and by the Presidents side
sat the nations guest, ellis Royal
Highness, Prince Henry of Prussia
All the members of the Cabinet, ex-
cept Secretaries Shaw and Wilson,
attended, and the Respondent mill
tary trappings of Gen. Nelson A.
Miles, Commander of the Army,
added lustre to the Sssemblage. OPP
posite the President, Prince Henry
and the Cabinet members, sat the
judges of the Supreme Court of the
United States, all except Judge Gray,
recently stricken with paralysis, be-
ing present. Back of them sat the
official representatives of foreign
nations, headed by Lord Psunoefote,
of England. The inimitable. WI
Tng-fsng, of the Celestial Kingdom,
discarded for the time his smile so
''child like and bland" and gave
serious attention to Mr.. Hays speech.
Wu's gown of purple silk was even
more conspicuous than the crimson
fey of the Turkish minister. Over
in the executive gallery sat Mrs.
Roosevelt and the Presidents oldest
daughter, Miss Alice, who two days
before in New York City ohristened
the German Emperor's yacht-whioh
ceremony Prince Henry, as the off
DIAL representative of she German
came over to 10
Secretary Hays address was a
review of the life of the
man TO whose memory his hearers
had assembled to do honor-a eulogy
we'll prepared and broad and states
Like in tone. 1t would fill two
pages of THE PROGRESSIVE FARMER,
and we oan give only a brief sum.
mary of it.
"The life of William Mckinley
was, from his birth till his death,
typioallY American" said Mr.. Hay.
Born of intelligent, G~od-fearing, we'll
TODD parents, he knew neither the
enervating ease of luxury o the
privations of want. Entering the
Union Army as private at seventeen,
the end of the war found him with
field rank, brevetted by Presidents
Lincoln for gallantry in battle. Ad-
mittod TO the bar at twenty. four, he
settled down to practice in the little
town of Canton. He married, and
"no truer, tenderer knight to his
chosen lady eve lived among mortal
As an orator, without trick
sham, he won his audiences by
''sheer appeal TO their reason and in
telligence." His first election to
Congress was in 1875. Thereafter for
fourteen years this chamber was his
home" said MI. Hay. nowhere
else was. he SO in harmony with his
environment as here. The air of
debate was native to him; here he
drank delight of battle with his
peers" Twice elected Governor of
Ohio, his fame grew. In two national
conventions, the Republican nomina-
ton seemed within his reach. But
pledged TO other men, he was true TO
&boro HE hOur oo-o - OO9 o~5