Evening journal., 1913-08-06
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
A Suggestive ReminiSCenCe
Of President Mckinley
By Holland

Among other interesting remi-
niscences of President Mckinley mar
rated to me by William S. Hawk,
president of the Ohio Society Of New
York and from childhood a friend of
Mckinley, was one which seemed 10
suggest that possibly some Fremont
tion that he would not live very long
was in the Presidents mind during
his summer vacation at Canton just
before he went upon his fatal visit
to Buffalo.
81 was i'm Canton for a week or ten
days before President Mckinley went
TO Buffalo and / saw him every day"
said Mr. Hawk Some DAYS I was
with him for several hours. We rarely
talked about politics, our conversation
being confined 10 such topics as those
who had been of long and intimate ac-
quaintance find congenial.
Almost every day President Nc
kinley would ask me TO take a drive
with him over the country roads out
side of Canton lie was very fond Of
these drives One morning our drive
took ms in the direction of a beautiful
cemetery i'm Canton Mckinley direct
ed the driver to 90 on very slowly so
that We might have a good oppormni-
~ TO look at the cemetery.
For some time we looked in silence
al this beautiful city of the dead At
last the president said TO me. I
think our cemetery has been greatly
improved ! do not know of any city
of the dead elsewhere that is as
beautiful as this one.
"I told President Mckinley that at
that time I was having a monument
/ built for my own home lot at Canton.
| for I expected that my resting place
and that of those near TO me would
he there The president said to me
/ That reminds me. ought to sec
about our own monument. have
had the matter in mind for some time.
! I presume I might have done some
thing before this. but have hesitatod
about discussing the subject with
! Mrs. Mckinley
81 said in reply that it deemed to
me that IL was the better part TO
make selection of a monument dur
inc ones life time and I thought fur
/ ther that IL was peculiarly apprOpri-
ate that a man and his wife should,
I while living. make choice of designs
/ for the monument under which they
would rest after they had passed
away
subsequently I spoke to Mrs. Nc
kinley about this conservation and
she told me that she could not un-
derstand why the major,-she al
ways spoke of her husband as the
major should feel any delicacy about
] Ali
He knows perfectly well that
should agree with anything he said
II has been one of the happiest Of my
thoughts that the major and | have
agreed upon every subject
"I repeated this conversation Ia
the President and he seemed pleased
that | had done so. for after a mo-
ment's silence he said. 4 will tell
you now what my own idea for a
monument for our lot is The de.
sign should be something low. mas
sive, dignified, but not at all preten-
tious.'
when President Mckinley said this
10 me / could not help from replying
with a thought which came TO me al
the moment I said Mr. President
after all you do not need to be I'm a
p
sign for a monument for ! am abso-
lutely certain that the day viii com,
when the American people will design
and place I'm an appropriate situation
here upon your own home lot a monu
mont which will commemorate al
which you have done and IL will be-
sure TO he as imposing and as ap
pirate a memorial shaft as has beer
set up anywhere i'm the United States.
THE President did not make any
reply to this remark. although I saw
that he WAS not displeascd. And Il
was only ten days after / had So
spoken that all that was mortal o
William Mckinley was taken to th,
tomb IN West Lawn, the name of tn,
Canton cemetery"
Copyright, 1913 by E. J. Edwards
All rights reserved.)
Tomorrow Mr. Edwards will tel
How Russia Befriended Us in th'
Civil War Days