The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-18
M'KINLEY MEMO
rial At TOLEDO, 0.
1t Was Unveiled With Due Cere-
mony In the Presence of a
Large Audience.
SENATOR FAIRBANKS, OF IN
DIANA, DELIVERED GRAFTON.
Second Anniversary of the Death of
the Late President Not Observed
with any Set Programme at Cam
ton, O.-FJOraI Tokens From
Friends and Strangers.

Toledo, Sept. 14.-Toledo was en- fete
Monday over the unwilling of the Nc
Kinley statue, the first memorial to the
| late president erected in Ohio. After
| a naval parade on the river, Including
| the United States gunboat Michigan
and the training ships Yantic and
Hawk, and procession led by bat
talon of United States infantry, the
statue which stands fronting the court
house, was unveiled by Miss Dorothy
Bonner Gel J. c. Bonner, president
Of the Memorial association, in brief
address, presented the monument tC
the county, and Henry Conrad, presi-
dent of the board OF county commits
siOners, accepted the trust on the part
of the county. Senator NJ. A. Hanna
was then introduced as honorary presi-
dent of the day, and made brief ex-
by Theodore McManus was read by the
author and the orator Of the day, Sen
ator Charles w. Fairbanks, of Indiana
was introduced. The senator said:
Senator Fairbanks Address.
THE place of VIM. Mckinley in his
tory is secure. We are not too near
the events of which he was a part, cor
rectly to measure his proportions, nor
do we look with too partial eyes upon
what he did. We know the great share
he bore in the significant events
through which he passed, and we have
faith to believe that the Judgment of
his contemporaries will be confirmed
by history, when with impartial hand
she shall record the deeds of men.
You honor yourselves in hOnoring
him. You make the future your debtor
by erecting this statue in cOmmemora-
ton of his life and services, for, like
his immortal prototype, Abraham Lin
coin, he belongs to the ages" Hither
the lovers of America institutions will
come in the unnumbered years before
US and derive new hope and new in
spiration. Similar monuments will
rise in other lands to which peoples
not of our race will pay their homage.
The people of Cuba, whose liberty was
secured through his genius and states
manship, will erect monuments in his
honor. So also the people of Porto
Rico and the far-off Philippines will
raise enduring memorials to perpetu-
ate TO the furthest ages the memory OF
the president who carried to them the
blessings of republican government. 1t
seems but yesterday that William Nc
Kinley stood among us, at the very
zenith of his power He possessed in
full degree the affections and conf
dence of his countrymen, and his name
was benefcent influence throughout
the world. Without warning, the
cruel blow fell. We stood speechless in
the midst of the uncommon sorrow.
Our great and beloved leader, by some
mysterious providence, fell in the
plentitude of his strength.
Upon the day of his sepulture rulers
and people of many lands held memOri-
al services, and all nations were in
mourning. Throughout the great re-
public busy trade stood still, the tele-
graph was silent, and as by some COM
mon impulse, steamships and railroad
trains stopped, and the people uncov-
cred in the streets or knelt in the ,sanct-
uarieS. Who knows but that the di-
vine Master, through this unspeakable
tragedy, sought to imprint forever up
On human heart how splendidly the
Just and brave can live. and how beau
tifully they can die. Against the dark
background of two years ago stand in
sharper outline than were otherwise
possible, the higher and noble achieve
ments and the majestic personality of
one of the greatest of Americans.
After the singing of America" by
the audience, Rev. A. M. Hyde pro- !
nounced the benediction, which closed |
the services