Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1907-10-10
To an EiOnored Statesman, Wise Executive, Brave
Soldier and Good Citizen.
l'NNLEY MONUMENT At CANTON DEDICATED|
President Roosevelt Delivers an Address EuOgstC of the
Man Who Preceded Him in Office

prayer Gov Harris then delivered
the opening address.
Justice Day was greeted in silent re-
Spect when he arose to tell the his
tory of the building of the magnifi-
cent mausoleum which arose majestic
ally in the background. After the
singing of THE Star Spangled Ban
ner" by the assemblage, Justice Day
spoke.
During his speech Justice Day when
mentioning the name of II. Van Buren,
Magonigle, the architect of the monu-
ment, and of Charles Niehaus, the
sculptor, asked those addressed to
arise, which they did and were greet
ed with applause.
At the close of Justice Days speech
Gov Harris asked the audience to rise
while Miss Helen Mckinley, only sis
ter of the late president drew aside
the flag disclosing the bronze figure
of Mckinley in the attitude of deliver
ing his last speech on the day of his
assassination at Buffalo, September G.
1901. The flag was removed slowly
and impressively. This was followed
by the reading of the poem entitled
william Mckinley" by James Whit
comb Riley.
President Harris then introduced
the president of the United States.
President Roosevelt stepped brisklv
to the front of the platform and was
greeted with applause. The president
spoke deliberately and very distinct.
He spoke as follows:
We have gathered together to-day
to pay our need of respect and affec-
tion to the memory of William McKin-
ley, who as president won a place in
the hearts of the American people
such as but three or four of all the
presidents of this country have ever
won. He was of singular uprightness
and purity of character, alike in pub
lie and in private life; a 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. AS congressman, as governor
of his state, and finally as president,
he rose to the foremost place among
our statesmen, reaching position
which would satisfy the keenest ambi-
ton; 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, Wnlcn so endeared MIN 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 states
manship, he continued to live a beau
tiful and touching family life, a life
very healthy for this nation to see in
it's foremost citizen; and now the wo-
man who walked in the shadow ever
after his death, the wife to whom his
loss was Il calamity more crushing
than it could be to any other human
being, lies beside him here in the
same sepulcher.
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 A.:
| On the presidents trip to the Pacific
slope III the spring of 1901 President
/ Wheeler, of the University OF Calfor.
MIA, conferred the degree of L. d.
upon him in words so well chosen that
they struck the fastidious taste OF
John Hay, then secretary of state