Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1907-09-30
ROOSEVELT AT
M'KINLEY'S TOMB
President Delivers EulOgy
on Life Of Martyred
+ ExecutiyeI

CANTON, O.. Sept. 30.--Before a
mass of people extending as far as the
- could see, President Roosevelt to-
a., delivered the address uNon the oc-
aston of the dedication of the memo
r,a1 to the late President Mckinley.
Mr. Roosevelt said:
We have gathered together today to
nav our need of respect and affection
n the memory of William Mckinley,
who as president won a place in the
hearts of the American people such
as but three or four of all the presi
dents of this country have ever won.
Ne was of singular uprightness and
nuritv of character alike in public and
n private life; a citizen who loved
neace, he did his duty faithfully and
wall for four years of war when the
honor of the national called him to
arms. AS congressman, as governor of
bis state, and finally as president, he
rose to the foremost place among our
statesmen. reaching position which
would satisfy the keenest ambition;
hut he never lost that simple and
thoughtful kindness toward every III
man 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
meeting every demand of statesman
ship, he continued to live a beautiful
and touching family 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 it
could be to any other human being,
lies beside him here in the same sepul-
cher
There is a 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 it:
On the presidents trip to the Pacific
slope in the spring of 1901 President
Wheeler of the University of Califor-
MIA conferred the degree of IL. D.
upon him in words so we'll chosen that
they struck the fastidious taste of
John Hay, then secretary of state, who
wrote and asked for COPY of them
from President Wheeler On the re-
ceipt of this copy he sent the following
letter to President Mckinley. letter
which now seems filled with strange
and unconscious prescience:
Dear Mr.. President-President Wheel
er sent me the inclosed at my request.
You will have the words in more per-
manent shape. They seem to me re-
markably well chosen, and stately and
ogni1ed enough to serve-long hence,
please God-as your epitaph. Yours
faithfully. JOHNr HA-y
University of California, Office of the
President
BY authority vested in me by the
regents of the University of California,
! confer the degree of Doctor of Laws
upon William Mckinley. president of
tne United States, a statesman singu-
iariy gifted to unite the discordant !
iorees of the government and mold !
'ne diverse purposes of men toward
progressive and salutary action.
magistrate whose poise OF Judgment
mas oeen tested and vindfcated in a !
succession of national emergencies;
5000 citizen, brave soldier. wise execu- !
i've helper and leader of men, exem-
par to his people of the virtues that
ou'ld and conserve the state, society
and the home.
berkeley May Is, 1901"
~ would be hard to imagine an epi-
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