The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-12-01
REMITTANCES;
THURSDAY. DEC. /. 1904.
The M,KINLEY MONUMENT

THE M'KINLEY MONUMENT.
Americans without regard to party,
will be glad of the completion of the
fund of 5000, 900 for the erection of a
national monument TO William Nc
kinley. OF this fund New York con-
tributed $15O,OOO, Ohio, McKinley's
native state, 100000, and Illinois
$4,000, the remainder coming from
all parts of the Union. Not the least
gratifying feature in regard to the
contributions is that in the main they
were in small amounts, coming from
the people all over the country. who
have thus shown their love and re-
spect for, perhaps, the most popular
of American Presidents since 1.-The era
of good feeling" in Monroe's time.
While the doctrines promulgated
at the Chicago convention in 1896 and
at Kansas City in 1900 were, of course,
chiefly responsible for McKinley's two
great triumphs at the polls, no small
part of the second battle, tnat of 1900.
was won by the personal popularity
of a President who bore himself so
graciously and wisely and with such
commanding ability in statecraft as
to win the esteem and admiration of
his political opponents and the love of
his own party. Circumstances aided
in making his administration conspic-
uOusly successful, but history has
justly given to President Mckinley
the greater part of the credit due for
carrying the nation safely and wisely
through the stress of unsafe political
agitation and through a war which
has changed the map of the world
and given new hope and promise of
future triumph to Republican princi-
pies. Moreover, it was almost wholly
due to the political sagacity of Will
lam Mckinley and his loyable person
ality that Democrats of the older
school, forced to leave their party in
1896 by its departure from the ancient
landmarks, remained with the Repub-
lican party III 1900 proud of their
leader and of the results they had
helped to accomplish. As shown by
therecent and unprecedented triumph
of President Roosevelt at the polls.
these same Democrats are still true to
their new allegiance, and, in addition,
have been joined by battalions more
who have been equally repealed by the
vagaries of recent Democracy and at
tracted by the strong, resolute person
atty Of the President who has so
faithfully and admirably carried out
the policies of the beloved predeces-
sor and in addition has added achiev-
Inepts Of his own which will link his
fame still closer with that of William
Mckinley.
At time when the completion of
the Mckinley monument is assured,
and it is foreseen that hereafter Can
ton will have to all patriotic Ameri-
cans an interest similar to that of
Springfield, ILL.,, where the remains of
the Great Emancipation now repose
underline restored Lincoln monument,
it is we'll to recall the fact that no one
has more justly and fittingly COM
nemora5ed Mckinley's great services
to the American Republic than the
man who was associated with him in
the executive office and who is now
his worthy successor. President
Roosevelt, in his speech two years
ago at the Mckinley memorial ban
quet given in Canton, paid this high
tribute to the memory of a President
the American people delight to hon
or: at was given to President Nc
kinlev to take the foremost place in
eur political life at time when our
country was brought face to face with
problems more momentous than any
whose solution we have ever attempt
ed, save only in the Revolution and in
the Civil War, and it was under his
leadership that the nation solved
these mighty problems Alright.
Therefore he shall stand in the eyes
of history not merely as the first man
of his generation, but as among the
greatest figures in our national life,
coming second only to the men of the
two great crises in which the Union
was founded and preserved