Newport weekly independent., 1903-09-18
1t Was Unveiled With Due Cere- mony In the Presence of a
 Large Audience.
SENATOR FAIRBANKS, OF lN-
 DIANA, DELIVERED GRAFTON.
Second Anniversary of the Death of the Late President Not Observed With any Set Programme at Cam ton, O.-FIoral Tokens From Friends and Strangers.

Toledo, Sept. 15.-Toleda was en fete Monday over the unveiling of the Me 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 a procession led by bat talion of United States infantry, the statue which stands fronting the court house, was unveiled by Miss Dorothy Bonner. Col. J. c. Bonner, president of the Memorial association, in brief address, presented the monument to the county, and Henry Conrad, presi- dent of the board of county commis- sioners, accepted the trust on the part of the county. Senator M. A. Hanna was then introduced as honorary presi- dent of the day, and made brief ex- tempore address A dedicatory poem by Theodore McManus was read by the author and the orator of the day, Sen ator Charles w. Fairbanks, of Indaina, was introduced. The senator said:
 Senator Fairbanks' Address.
 "The place of Wm Mckinley in his tory is secure. We are not too near the events of which he was 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- tion 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. It seems but yesterday that William Me Kinley stood among us, at the very zenith of his power. He possessed iI full degree the affections and conf- ~.FI I. ,y,l !, ,sc was a beneficent influence throughout the world. Without warning, the cruel blow fell We stood speeches. 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 splendidiy the just and brave can live, and how beau tifully they can die. Against the dark background of two years ago stand il sharper outline than were otherwise possible, the higher and noble achieve ments and the majestic personality of ona of the oraateSt of Americans
 After the singing of America" by the audience, Rev. A. M. Hyde pro- nounced the benediction, which closed the services.