The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-02-10
Large Audience Attends serv-
ices Held by City IN Com
memoration Of Dead
Statesman.
i MEMORABLE GRAFTON
Music and Deep Sense Of Ap-
nreciation Shown in Serious
Testimonial, Make Exer-
cises Historic.

The Roosevelt memorial services Wy
which the city of Keokuk paid tribute
n the dead ex-presideut We're entlreV
adeouate to the importance OF the oc
casion and the close connection pc
tween this city and the statesman
who visited it. twice while president
and approved the industrial develop
ment that made KeOkalk famous.
The Grand theatre was filled with an
.ttentiye, serious audience when the
annointed hour for the memorial ex.
ercises arrived. 1t was an audence ol
all Keckul, and every walk IN lie ap.
reared in the rows OF people that filled
the house from the orchestra pit to the
ton Of the high gallery.
The mayor of keolluk presided; the
Grafton was one of the best ever heard
here where most of the famous ora
tors OF America have spoken at one
time or another: the music by the big
band had all the dignity of the OBJ
seouies of an American statesman; one
OF the leading cities OF the dominant
middle west was in. entire harmony
with the spirit Of the times exempli-
fled by Theodore Roosevelt, az de-
scribed by the orator OF the day.
Audience Encores the Orator.
The people applaMded several times
while J. r. Perkins was speaking. ana
it was always applause for the thought
rather than the rhetoric or flowers OF
the orator. The applause wns for the
condemnation Of bolsheyildsm, the
praise Of Roosevelt's campaign for
preparation to fight the Hun and fof
the euloey of Quentin Roosevelt. The
long and loud applause at the end OF
the address sounded like an encore
and 1t was an appeal to Mr.. Perkins to
speak again to a KeolJuk audience.
He won laurels here Sunday after
noon at the Roosevelt memorial. And
It was because of the substance, rath-
er than the style and decoration OF his
Grafton There was little decoration
OF rhetoric In tits beauties were in
herent in It's structure, Of thought sim
Fly and hence strongly and wildly, ex.
pressed.
Three Pictures Of Roosevelt.
In the beginning he made the peo-
pie before him in that theatre see
Theodore Roosevelt, as he himself saw
him on three occasions.
With few sentences they visual
lied Roosevelt in the Greek threatre at
Berkeley, California, talking to ten
thousand people on the domestic
Ihases OF life.
Three minutes later, few phrases,
simple bait vivid made them feel the
tension of another time when Roose-
Welt, in political campaign conquered
a hostile audience.
Then he showed them, by a little
neft description, Roosevelt speaking
ever and over from the rear platform
Of train, his warning of the inevitable
coming Of war to hold the Hun within
bis own boundaries.
An Grafton Full Of Thought.
America is the response to the soul
urge OF the world ITSELF and Thee
dore Roosevelt was the typical Ameri-
cen. That was the keynote of the ora
ton at KeokulS's memorial to Roose-
yelt
1t was an Grafton Of deep thought,
0. the keenly analytical sort, so pre-
sented as to excite interest In the a,l-
cators and hold them, without once
S~-'"a5 ciIIcl taAuultllL. IL WdS u1C
KIND OF GRAFTON that makes the hearer
seem to think more than the speaker,
because the orator has thought 80
much more on the subject than the
nearer has thought on the sesne thing.
me delivery OF Mr.. Perkins is slow.
Quiet, with not much gesture. with re-
INVARIABLY perfect articulation, fine
voice incubation, of rich timbre- land
sometimes too much suggestion Of the
pulpiteer.
The Formal Services.
ne was introduced by Hazen ]. Saw.
yer, who said we people Of Keo,ru,i
ie@i double sadness because Roose-
III, III mad been very dear to us. He typi-
iled The best citizenship of this re-
ruolic and we looked on him as a
.uend' because OF the honor he showed
81 was exactly 8 O'Clock to the sec
~. .liu Wren Mayor Ed s. Lotion called
u,e meeting to, order, and asked the
gpaulence to sing the Star Spangled
Hqaner. The Keokuk Concert band,
MI m,lich mad been playing while the peo-
~. .ae assembled, played the national an.
m sae with fine spirit, but the singing
.iu not amount TO much. After the IN.
o.dtlon. the band played The Rosary.
~ilo AT the end OF the sser~yir,es # inlay.