The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1907-09-30
M'KINLEY
MEMORIAL
Nbtional Monument Unveiled
at Canton To-day
GRAFTON BY PRESIDENT
4 Hundred Thousand People There to
See and Arrangements for Only
4,ooo-Parade This
Forenoon.
GRAFTON BY PRESIDENT

Canton, Ohio, Sept. ao--An address
n President Roosevelt and poem
Kritten for the occasion and recited by
James Whitconb Riley were the feat
bres of the dedication today Of the
es40,000 Mckinley memorial monument.
he ceremonies were witnessed by
1000 who were able to get tickets To-
ghe spectators stand and by 1000 Of
Mhe multitude who cholSed the streets,
but thousands sought In vain for adj
Nnission to the grounds The crowd in
anton today is numbered at 100000
The surrounding towns are nearly de-.
hopulated The preferred 5000 had se-
cured tickets from the Mckinley mem
Mrial association and the general pub
BIC was admitted TO stand accommoda-
Ming 1000, built yesterday at one side
pf the main stand. 1t was filed hours
before the ceremony. No announcement
that the audience would be limited was
Xnade before Saturday ana thousands
were disappointed. The numbers were
Hlimited to guard the president and pro-
#tect the grounds from tranlping feet.
President Roosevelt arrived at 1911
and was driven to the square and to
khe high school building with an escort
of q. s. Cavalry. At the school 1,500
boys and girls were grouped and dress
e4 % represent the flag After they
bad sung America,
From the square theSPfesident was
Driven to the stand on The square where
be reviewed the parade.
~. ~. A. 4 L.
snonument the President and 800 Others
here served with luncheon in the audi.
&Orium down town. The President, was
Nnven to the monument and the parade
Kept marching while the ceremonies
we're in progress to keep the crowds
away from the monument while the
PRESIDENT was speaking. The Presi-
dents speech was as follows:
We have gathered together today to
ray onr need of respect and affection
IL tie memory of William Mckinley,
Who as President won place in the
carts of the American people such as
Hat three or four of all the Presidents
s this country have won. He was of
aIngular uprightness and purity Of char
aetef, alike in public and in private life
citizen who loved peace, he did his
duty faithfully and well for four years
os war when the honor OF the nation
called him TO arms. AS Congressman, as
governor Of his state, and finally as
president, be rose to the foremost place
among our statesmen. reaching d 20.
sition which would satisfy the keenest
ambition: but he never lost that simple
and thoughtful kindness toward every
human being, great or small lofty or
humble, with whom he was brought in
contact, which so endeared him TO our
people. He had to grapple with more
serious and complex problems than any
PRESIDENT since Lincoln, and yet, while
NESTING every demand Of statesmansnip
Il continued to live a beautiful and
ehing family life, life very healthy
#H this nation to see in its foremost
lien; and now the woman who walked
S the shadow ever Of his death, tne
IIe to whom his loss was q calamity
Hz6re crushing than it could be 10 any
ozaer human being, lies beside him mere
IS the same sepulcher,
There is a singular appropriateness In
tHs inscription on his monument Mr.
Tprtelyou, whose relations with him
Nnre Of such close intimacy, gives me
ne following information about It On
tne Presidents trip TO the Pacific slope
ii ne spring Of 1901 President Wheeler
"a the university of California, conferred
Ehe degree of IL. ID. upon him in words
10 well chosen that they strucy the fas-
tldious taste Of John Hay, then secre.
4arv of state, who wrote Had asked 70,
a copy Of them from President Wheeler
on receipt Of this copy he sent the fol
lowing letter TO President Mckinley
d letter which now seems filed with 0
strange ana unconscious prescience:
Dear Mr President:--
President Wheeler sent me the in
closed at my request. You viii have On,
words In more permanent shape. They
seem to me remarkably well chosen, ant
stately and dignihed enough to serve
long nence, please God-as your epitaph
Yours, faithfully,
John Hay.
eOfice of the Prtsidenlt.
by authority vested in me by tn,
regents Of the university of California
] confer fhe degree Of Doctor Of Law
upon William Mckinley. President o
tie United States, statesman singular
III gifted To unite the discordant forces
Of che government and mold the Divers
purposes ef men toward progressive an,
salutary action, magistrate who's,
p0ise 81 Judgment has been tested anc
vindieated in a succession Of nationa
omergences; coed citizen, brave soldier
wise executive, helper and leader o
men, exemplar TO his people of the vir
hies that build and conserve the state
society and home,
aBerkeloy, May Is, 1901p
It would be hard 20 imagine an epi
taph which good citizen would be NOR
anxious to deserve or one which woul
more happily describe the qualities o
that great and good citizen whose lif
We here Commemorate. lie possessed &
very extraordinary degree the gift 0
uniting discordant forces and securin
from them harmonious action whic
fold for good government. From purpose
nst merely diverse, but bitterly conflict
isn. be was able 10 secure heatlful ac
fen faf the good Of the state. IN bot
eslse END judgment be rose level to th
svs emergencies he had to meet a
das af the nation, and Ike all me
wslf ibe root 0f true greatness ia ther
IL aem 70 steadily larger stature mde