The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-10-01
RoosEvELT's ADDRESS.
Pays Highest Tribute to Martyred
President, William Mckinley.

President. William Mckinley.
We have gathered together today Il
H pay our need OF respect and affection
ID the memory Of William Mckinley
1 who as president won q place In thu
hearts OF the American people such MI
1 but three ur four of NIL the presidents
OF this country have ever won. Hf
was of singular uprightness and pur
Iity of character alike In public and IN
lprivate life; a citizen who loved
peace, he did his duty faithfully and
wen for four years Of war when the
honor of the nation called him to
arms. As congressman, as governor
lof his state and finally as president,
be rose to the foremost place among
cur statesmen. reaching position
which would satisfy the keenest ambi
Itinn: but he never lost that simple
and Thoughtful kindness toward every
human being, great or small. lofty
o. humble, with whom he was
brought In cantact, which so endeared
him To our people. He had to grapple
with more serious and complex prob.
lens than any president since Lin
coin, aud yet while meeting every de
mand Of statemanship. he continued
to live d beautiful and touching fam
|ily life a life very healthy for this
nation to see In its foremost citizen;
and now the woman who walked In
the shadow ever after his death, the
wife to whom his loss was calamity
more crushing than II could be To
any other human being. lies beside
him here In the same sepulcher.
There Ii singular appropriateness
in the inscription on his monument.
Mr.. cortelyou, whose relations with
him were Of such close intimacy.
gives me the following information
about 1t: On the presidents trip to
the Pacific slope in the spring OF
1861 President Wheeler. Of the Uni
degree Of LII. d. upon him in words
so well chosen that they struck the
taste Of John Hay, then
secretary Of state, who wrote and
asked for a copy of them from Presi |
dent Wheeler On the receipt Of this
copy he sent the following letter t.
President Mckinley. letter which |
now seems filled with strange and |
prescienee:
Dear Nr. President:
President Wheeler sent mo the In
closed at my request You will have |
the words in more permanent shape |
They seem to me remarkably wei |
chosen. and stately and dignife
enough to serve---long hence, please
God-as your epitaph
Yours, faithfully,
JOHN HAY.
University of California.
Office of the President.
BY authority vested in me by the |
regents of the University of Caiifor
MIA. confer the degree Of Doctor II
Laws upon William Mckinley, presi
lent of the United States, a states
nan singularly gifted TO unite the dis
,ordant forces of the government and
mold the diverse purposes of men
coward progressive and salutary ac
ion. a magistrate whose poise Of
Judgment has been tested and vindi
Gated in a succession OF national
good citizen, brave sol.
iier. wise executive, helper and leader
If men, exemplar to HIS people of the
virtues that build and conserve the
state. society, and the home.
Berkeley. May Is. 1901
IT would be hard TO imagine an
pitaph which a good citizen would
be more anxious to deserve or one
which would more happily describe
The qualities Of that great and good
citizen whose life We here commem
crate. He possessed to very ex.
.raordinary degree the gift Of uniting
liseordant forces and securing from
them a harmonious action which told
or good government. From purposes
not merely diverse. but bitterly con-
ifcting. he was able to secure health
al action for the good of the state.
IN both poise and judgment he rose
evei to the several emergencies he
had to meet as leader of the nation.
snd like all men with the root of true
Greatness in them he grew to steadily
larger stature under the stress oil
heavy responsibilities. He was a good
i'izen and a brave solder ? chief
axecutive whose wisdom entitled him
10 the trust which he received
throughout the nation He was nj