Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1903 — HONORS TO M'KINLEY. [ARTICLE]

HONORS TO M'KINLEY.

President Roosevelt and Other Distinpuished Guests Attend Banquet. William McKinley's birthday was celebrated at Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, by tile most distinguished gathering of visitors that the city has ever seen. President Roosevelt was the chief sjauiker nt the banquet held in the evening, and Judge William R. Day, who was President McKinley's Secretary of State, and whose selection for the United States Supreme Court has just been announced by President Roosevelt, acted as toastmaster. President Roosevelt arrived from Washington in a special train at 2 p. m„ and was driven to the McKinley home, in North Market street, where he paid bis respects to Mi's. McKinley. Then his party proceeded to Westlawn Cemetery, where they paid a silent tribute of respect to the illustrious dead. Preceding the banquet the President held.a reception at the Hotel McKinley. The guests at the banquet, which was held in the Grand Opera House, numbered 450. Among those at the speakers' table were: Secretary Roqji, Private Secretary Cortelyou, General S. B. M. Young, General Leonard Wood. General Luke E. Wright, Vice Governor of the Philippines; Surgeon General Rixey, Captain NV. S. Cowles, the President’s naval aid; Colonel Theodore A. Bingham, his military aid; Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Brigham, Representative W. B. Tayler. James W. Grant, Colonel Myron T. Herrick of Cleveland. J. G. Schmidlnpp, H. H. Kohlsaat of Chicago, Charles Emory Smith, Judge Harter, Judge Smyser and Alfred C. Eynon. President Roosevelt's speech opened with an analysis of the circumstances in which the great men of American politi-ca-kjiistory had been developed. Continuinglie said: "It was given to President McKinley to take the foremost place in our political life at a time when our country was brought face to face with problems more momentous than any whose solution we have ever attempted, save only in the Revolution and in the Civil War; and it was under his leadership that the nation solved these mighty problems aright. Therefore he shall stand in the eyes of history not merely us the first man of his generation, but ns among the greatest figures in our national life, coming second only to the men of the two great crises in which the Union was founded and preserved.” The long steady rise to fame and power of Mr. McKinley was sketched by President Roosevelt and the former's remarkable popularity was declared to be due to the confidence of the plain people in him.