Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-01-30
M'K|NLEY TRIBUTE
PAID BY OH|OANS
State Society, in Annual
Meeting, Honors Nations
Former Executive.

a plea for the continued solidarity
or the United States that has been
evidenced since the Civil War was
made by former Governor of West
Virginia John J. Cornwell I'm an ad-
dress last night at the fifteenth an
nual meeting of the Ohio Society at
Rauscher's
The annual event Of the society was
also commemoration of President
McKinleys birthday. Taking as his
theme Mckinley and the South, Mr.
Cornwell, after tracing the work or
the late President in cementing the
North and South into the Union, de-
Clared: Needing that lesson and fol-
lowing that example will not permit
cleavage of the East and West upon
economic theories. BY the same
token, the attempt in some quarters
to divide the American people into
groups or hlocs Will not succeed.
Upon the other hand, we Will forever
keep in mind that while there may
he seeming conflict between the APP
parent interests of sections or groups,
we are, after all, here in the United
States one people, whose bigger and
ovrshadowing interests are identical;
that this country and Its homogeneous
people are indivisible now and for
ever. The man or politician who
seeks to divide us on sectional or
other lines should in the near future,
a i'm the past, be foredoomed to fail
ure''
Taft and Coolidge send Regrets.
Chief Justice Taft of the United
States Supreme Court. president of
the society. was unable to preside as
has been his custom. owing to
dinner at the White House to the
n1emberS OF the Supreme Court.
President Coolidge. as well as Chief
Justice Taft. sent a letter to the
meeting praising the spirit and work
Of the late President Mckinley.
Milton T. Allies. chairman of the
governing committee, presided.
President Coolidge in his letter
wrote, in part;
The plan Of the Ohio Society of
Washington TO make its annual gath
ering this year an event of national
rather than merely State significance,
has greatly interested me-" the Presi
dent wrote Your gathering Will
derive especial significance from the
fact that you are holding It on the
anniversary Of President McKinley's
birth and have taken as your theme
for the event, Mckinley and the
South
at is most fitting that the Ohio
Society should thus dedicate such an
occasion to the promotion of good
will and amity between North and
South, for the sons Of Ohio have al
ways been in the front rank of those
devoted to the complete restoration
of harmony between the sections.
1t was Grant, native of Ohio, who.
in a particularly critical hour OF
national history. gave voice to the
best sentiments of the country in his
famous exclamation, Let us have
peace." Another son of Ohio, Presi-
dent Hayes, withdrew the troops from
the Southern States, and through
n determined policy of moderation
and friendliness, contributed greatly
TO hasten the process of reconstruC-
tton. Three other Ohio Presidents.
Mckinley. Taft and Harding. have
proclaimed the gospel of re-establish
ed national unity, devoting them
selves to policies which aimed at that
complete resumption of accord which
is now so fully accomplished
Charles Trowbridge Tittman, ac-
companied by George Dickson Thomp-
son, entertained the members with
vocal solos Right Rev. John W.
Hamilton. chaplain of the society,
pronounced the invocation. Follow
ing the meeting a buffet supper was
held, which was followed by a ball.
New Members Elected.
The following were elected mem
=
liam j. Bay, Ironton; Miss Martha
Donugan, Sunbury3 Mr.. Harry L. Ed
wards, Columbus; Mr.. and Mrs Irving
T. Kemp. Toledo; Miss Dorothy
Moore, Wilmington; Capt and Mrs.
Edwin 7. Pollock Mount Gilead: Mr..
and Mrs Thomas c. Pollock, Symmes;
Mr.. Albert A. Riley, Chillicothe; DIR.
and Mrs. John r. Sharp, kenton; Mr..
and Mrs. Josiah A. Van Der1noor,
Akron; Mr. Lee r. Wilson, Dayton.
The officers of the organization
include: President, William II. Taft;
vice presidents, Frank B. Willis,
Mabel T. Boardman and ID. 4.
Crissinger: secretary, William l..
Symons; treasurer, James f. Hood;
chaplain, Right Rev. John w. Hamil-
ton; governing committee, Milton Il.
Allies. chairman; Walker $. Buel John
i. elem, George Il. Martin and Leroy
II. Vernon.
George Christian, secretary to the
late President Harding, was among
those who were present at the affair.