Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1903-01-31
Mckinley DAY.
Good Addresses Made by Veterans
Edwards and Slower.
PATRIOTIC TALKS.

The Citizen publishes the following
speeches Of Veterans Edwards and
Slower, delivered at the Mckinley day
exercises held at Mr.. and Mrs. A.
Harsch's residence, on South First
street, Thursday evening:
Edwards Speech.
Ladies of G. X. Warren Corps, Com
rades Of the Grand Army and Our Hon.
ored Friends: 1t will hardly be worth
while for me to attempt to ~eulogize
the n for whom we have gathered
here this evening to pay tribute of re-
spect to in celebrating his birthday,
but will add my mite.
William Mckinley, Jr., was born In
Niles, Trumbull county. Ohio, Janu-
uary go, 1S43-just seven months and
sever days older than your humble
servant. His father was of German
descent; his mother of Scotch descent.
william was the third son. When 5
years old ne attended the village
school at Niles. When about 16 years
of age, he was sent to Allegheny col
lcge at Meadville, Pa, but fell i'll and
returned home. After he regained his
health he began teaching school, re-
ceiying a salary of $25 per month.
Boarding around, he was thus engag-
ed when Fort Sumpter was fred upon.
Instantly the pale faced, grey eyed stu
dent and teacher flung aside rod and
books and enlisted as a private soldier.
He vas mustered in at Columbus,
Ohio, in June, 1861, by John c. FIRE.
mont, who looked him over, thumped
his breast and said to him, You'll do"
Comrades and friends, what did he
enlist for? Vas it for money, as the
enemies of the soldiers say we did.
He threw up his school at $25 a month
and board at $5.25, and very poor
board. Had the boys at that time stop
ped for wages, what would have been
the result in this country. No, COM
rades, you and all those zone before,
fought that war to a finish and made it
possible for such men as Lincoln,
Grant, Garfield and William Mckinley
to make this the most prosperous coun-
try of the earth. And now hundreds
Of our comrades manned and diseased
for life are denied a small pension.
Mckinley was a member of the
Twenty-third Ohio infantry, and re-
NAMED with it to the close of the war.
He was On the staff of Brigadier Cen
eral r. B. Hayes, also on General
Crooks and General Hagen's STATS.
He was in all the engagements in which
his regiment took part. He was pro.
NOTED first lieutenant in February,
1863, and captain in July, 1864; he was
made major for gallant service by
President Lincoln at Fisher hill. Thus
he was a fire tried veteran, before he
was 20 years old. After the war he
settled at Canton. Ohio. He studied
law and struggled along. At 33 years
of g he was elected to congress and
was reelected several times to the
F~orty-ffth, F~orty-sixth, Forty-seventh,
Forty-eighth, Forty-ninth and Fifty
first congresses, serving fourteen years
in all. In 1892 he was elected COVER
nor OF Ohio and again in 1896. While
in congress he framed the famous Me.
kinley bill, which afterwards became
a law and bears his name.
He was q quiet, d.gnified. modest
soldier and citizen. Always consider
ate to others he won friends from all
Iarts. ever mindful of the long serv-
ices of the veteran. Thus he went on,
upward and onward until elected two
different times to the presidency of
the country he helped to save But alas
before he had served his second term
the hand Of the assassin had struck
him down in the heighth of all his an
ticipations and glory, and when the
country was in the midst of the most
prosperous period in the history of the
government.
Gov. stover's Speech.
Past Post Commander Slower in part
said:
Ladies of the Woman's Relief Corps
and Comrades of the Grand Army of
the Republic:-We have always been
under obligations to the Woman's Re
lief Corps since It organization; new
er more than tonight when invited
here as guests to participate with the
ladies OF the corps in paying tribute
to the memory of William Mckinley.
America has produced many great
and worthy sons, but when the UMPIRE
JUDGED history of our country shall be
written, few, IL any, will occupy a
more conspicuous place than our Illus
trioue pnmrade William McKinley. AS