The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1907-06-08

COur1er,JOurnal- IL was headed Ida"
and was as follows:
IF ever a star fell from heaven il
to the arms of man-if ever a flower
grew into a woman-that star and
that flower was Ida Saxton McKin-
ley. There was an aroma of sweet
ness and grace in the very name. Her
husband never addressed her, never
referred to her, except at Ida" By
an interposition little short of divine
the full knowledge of h supreme
tragedy which descended into a life
yet in its noon, was spared her; the
angels drew a veil as of tears between
her and it's full realization.
God had given it to Ida Saxton to
be fifty mated. There were many
| beauties and virtues in the character
of William Mckinley: his career was
abundantly fulfilled. and the crown of
glory he wore with such consuming
modesty was studded with jewels
both rich and radiant; the soldier,
the civilian, the man of affairs and
the party leader; but the rarest of
all tina sAone in that priceless dia-
dem was his devotion-simple, con-
slant. unerring-to Ida"
1T seem a strange, a most mystic
rious, inexplicable decree of ProviJ
deace that ordained the death by the
assassin > 0auu VI lhItS SuCu hlCA as
Lincoln, Garfield and Mckinley, each
so unoffending, so filled with the love
of human kind, SO gracious n gen
erous.
"Of the three, Mckinley was least
aggressive. Lincoln lived in deadly
times, and Garfield's very intellectu-
atty raised up both enemies and en-
mites. Garfield, lovable as he vas
had a rough side to him, and Lincoln.
big IF heart and of brain, was out
wardly, wen as a gnarled oak. Nc
Kinley lived a primitive Christian
man. He emulated st. Paul in the de
sire to be all things to all men. 1t
gave him pleasure to give pleasure
it caused him pain to infiict pain. No
man ever gre as fast as he in the
Executive ONCE, both in menta stat
ure and in breadth.
H came to power during moving
times. Immense responsibilities de
scended upon him. War, which he had
religiously opposed, and for which the
country was i~ll-prepared. was sud.
denly thrust upon him. The White
House became an armed camp. There
was not an hour of the day, or night,
which the President could call mis-
own. But, night or day, there came
never a moment when that sweet
voice might not summon him to the
side of the wife whose peculiar af-
fiction had imposed upon him the
care of a nurse for a child-none 9th
er nurse than ne. 1t was the knowl
edge of this in those who personally
knew a1d loved them which gave to
the awful finality at Buffalo an added
and inexpressible poignancy of grief.
The people OF the South especially
will eve hold the memory of William
Mckinley deep in the heart of their
hearts. He it was to whom 1T was
given to complete the sublime inten-
ton of Lincoln with respect to the
disunited sections of h Union. He
was quick to see the meaning and the
opportunity OF ne Spanish War. The
last. eternal treaty of peace between
the North and the South was written
by the pen hat signed the commits
sions as Generals in the Army of the
United States OF Joseph Wheeler and
Fitzhugh Lee and John Breckenridge
Castleman. and never did statesman
and patriot perform an act greater in
reach and more benign in effect than
did William Mckinley wnen he reStor-
ed those Confederate soldiers to he
service of a nee more united coun-
try, literally turning graz into blue,
and giving to generations of Southern
men yet unborn the sign-manual.
along with the deathless assurance
of complete moral emancipation.
Let the winged spirit take its way
to the immortal spirit waiting for its
mate. Much shortened is the distance
to Heaven from Earth between these
two. Around the seraphs stand in
robes of light. The gates are flung
open wide. But, be sure a single voice
will alone be heard, just only the n
word, Ida"