, 1907-09-30
IMPOSING STATUE TO MEMORY
OF MARTYRED PRESIDENT
UNVEILED AT HIS HOME
TOWN IN OHIO.
Roosevelt and Many No.
abIes Present, Veil Being With.
drawn by Sister of Dead States
man and chief Executive-Address
BY President Roosevelt Following
Imposing Civic and Military Parade

Canton, o., Sept. 30.-Weather con-
ditions today were favorable for the
dedication Of the Mckinley memorial.
All days yesterday thousands of people
poured into the city, and by night ev-
cry available space in the hotels,
boarding houses and private residences
was taken and many walked the streets
all night.
Many NotabIes Present.
Among the prominent citizens here
to witness the ceremonies were Secre-
tary of the Treasury Cortelyou, Cor
nelius N. Bliss, chairman of the ma
tional republican committee; former
Governor Murphy of New Jersey, Gov
ernor Harris Of Ohio, who was presi.
dent of the day; former Governor Her.
rick of Ohio, John G. Milburn OF Buff
falo, at whose home Mckinley died
six years ago, and Lieutenant James,
representing the British embassy.
Sister Unveiled Statue.
Miss Helen Mckinley of Cleveland,
sister Of the martyred president, un-
yelled the statue. James Whitcomb
Riley read a poem written for the &C.
casion. The dedication commenced at
LAS this afternoon.
President Reviews Parade. ,
President Roosevelt and party ar
rived at 1915 this morning and were
driven to the reviewing stand, where
they reviewed a parade lasting an hour
and a half. The president said:
The Presidents Address.
We have gathered together today =
pay our need of respect and affection
to the memory of William Mckinley,
who as president won a place in the
hearts of the American people such
as but three or our of all the presi-
dents OF this country have ever won.
He vas Of singular uprightness and
purity of character, alike in public and
in private life; q citizen who loved
peace, he did his duty faithfully and
well for four years of war when the
honor of the nation called him to arms.
Rose to Foremost Place.
AS congressman, as governor Of his
state, n finally as president, he rose
TO the foremost place among our states,
men, reaching a position which would
satisfy the keeenst 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, whicl
so endeared him to u people.
Many Serious Problems.
He had to gIapple with more serious
and complex problems than any presl
dent since Lincoln, II yet, while
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 a calamity more crushing than il
could be to any other human being
lies beside his here in the same Sc
pulcher.
Appropriateness of Inscription.
There is a singular appropriateness.
in the inscription on his monument
Mr.. Cortelyou, whose relations with
him we're of such close intimacy, give
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 Caller
mia, conferred the degree Of LII. d. upon
him in words so well chosen that they
struck the fastidious taste Of John
HAY, then secretary OF state, who
wrote and asked for a copy of then
from President Wheeler. On the re
ceipt of this copy he sent the follow
ing letter to President Mckinley, I
letter which now seems filled with
strange and unconscious prescience;
Mr.. Hays Letter.
Dear Mr.. President:-Presiden
Wheeler sent me the inclosed at my
request. You will nave the words il
more permanent shape. They seen
to me remarkably well chosen, I'M
stately and dignified enough to serve
long hence, please God-as your cpl
taph. Yours, faithfully,
JOHN HAY"
The Wheeler Letter.
university Of California,
"Ofice of the President.
by authority vested in me by thu
regents of the University of Californi;
confar the depree of Doctor of Law