Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 209, 26 August 1906 — Page 8

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SORROWFULLY a bnsy nation approacbea the anniversary of the death of Its martyred son. Mnc-li aa the parent with trembling ; footsteps draws near the grave of some favored child, the great American people, with bated breath and hushed voice, prepare to gather at the tomb of WUllam McKJnley. In the late afternoon of September C 1001, he was shot by an anarchistic : M at the Temple of Music on the Pan-American Exposition grounds In Ruffalo. On Septemler 14 he died at the home of John G. Milburn, formerly of BuJTaJo, but now of New York. Mr. MILburn was the president of the ill-fated Pan-American Exposition Company and Mr. McKinley was bla guest during the time of hia stay in Buffalo, to which city he had gone at the InTltatiou of the exposition company. Those were history-making days In America. Hardly had the late President passed away, whispering "God willed it so," before bis successor, the present executive head of the nation, was sworn in at the home of Ansley Wilcox, of Buffalo, carrying on the solemn occasion a Bilk hat, the property of another Buffalonian. Mr. Roosevelt. In order to give confidence to the country and impress npon the manipnlators of stock, the fact that he reaily believed that McKinley would recover, had gone away from civlllKrtion on a hXmting trip, and wne the relapse came be had hurried to Buffalo, mncU as he had left the wild woods bunting shack with a wardrobe hardly suitable for so Important a ceremony as the taking of the oath of obedience for the retest offloe in the gift of the greatest country In the world. An ot&cial list of the borrowed garments he wore, aside from tbe hat, was never given to the prastt. And now, after five years, the cation realties more than rt ever did the greatness of the man who haaone. In different parts of the country people are bringing trlbnte to his life aid with money contributed by the masaes are erecting monumvots in hta memory. The principal monument., of course, hi that beins erected by the natloual eomulskm at Canton. 0, aJKl next in Importance is the Teat marble shaft which has been reared In Btrffa'o by the State of New York. Pure and white Is rixea in Niagara qcajrt. Its tall obelisk spire pointing as did the life and example of McKinley ever upward. At Its base, majestic in their repose. He monster marble lions, typical of the uoWe nature of the man whom the monument commemorates. The McKinley Mannment stands In a historic sxt. before the borne of the late Pri-si-3eot Fillmore, who. with G rover Cleveland, are the only presidents given to the nation by Buffalo. It cost 3100,000, and the money was saved from the New York Ian-Araerica'n appropriation by the wise and economical administration of the Hon. Daniel Newton Lockwood. lately deoveBed. wbo, curiously enough, was a former law partner of the lion. Grover Cleveland and the man who nominated him for sbertrr of Erie county, mayor of BuiTalo, governor of the State of New York and for president cf the United States three times. At the close of the Pnn-Amerlcaa Exposition ftie money he bad raised by an act of letrfshitnre, instead of beitur turned back Into the treasury was diverted to the erection of a monument at BmTalo. the city glvlnir the site, establishing the crraud1n$s and maintaining the statue. The keeping of the grave green la a pretty ccstom that has come down to us through the ages, and the placing of a wreath upon the silent mound, with the ever-recurring anniversary of the death, makes the loss of child or friend Iei3 hard to bear, llappily for the reputation of the nation and the preservation of sentiment, this custom la being followed in a broader sense with the grave of William McKinley. lie lies buried, not only in ""mi narrow boat that contains his remains;

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his burial place is the country and the monrners are the nation. And right "well are they keeping green the grave. The anniversary of his death this year marks the completion of New York State's monument at Buffalo, and next year the month of September will see the completion of the national monument at Canton. May the nation, somewhere in some place, complete a monument to bis memory each year, until not a town or hamlet in this broad land of ours shall stand without a memorial (be it ever so humble) dedicated to the third of the country's martyred presidents. Already Reading, Fa., has a beautiful statute to the departed president, and Mr. Edward L. Pausch, the well-known Buffalo sculptor, who made the death mask after McKinley's assassination. Is at work on others to be erected at various places about the country, all to stand as a reminder of his last sad and fatal visit to BnEalo. Anecdote of (he I.iutt Day. The Buffalo newspaper boys who covered that visit (now grown historic because of the tragic happening there) tell many little anecdotes of the occasion. On man relates bow, on the day of McKinley's first visit to the Pan-American Exposition grounds, he repaired to the Milburn Ilouse in Delaware avenue, "early and waited the start of the President. His orders had been to follow the presidential party all day long, not only to cover the Interesting features of the trip, bnt also to be on band in case of any catastrophe, such as did follow two days later. Wheu the start was made for the grounds he in some way became crowded out of the newspaper carriages and jumped into the rear axle piece of the president's conveyaace. One of the Secret Service men roughly ordered him off. "Let him stay." said McKinley, with that pleasant smile all who knew tilm learned to love so weil. "Let him stay; the carriage looks strong." Anotner story which was told right after Mr. McKinley's death, but never vailfied, bad to do with a Buffalo newsboy, wbo rushed up to the presidential carriage as it drove toward the FanAmerican entrance and threw a copy of a Buffalo morning paper into the carriage. The president ordered his carriage stopped and, calling the boy. offered him a dollar. "I don't want no money," said the lad. "Dat paper's my treat." It Is said that the late president afterward referred to the paper as one of the most valued mementoes of Lis trip to Buffalo, and probably would have preserved it many years bad not the untimely bullet put an end to his life. The scenes and Incidents in Buffalo during the time immediately preceding and closely following the shooting of the late president were seen by many eyes and viewed from a different perspective by almost every pair, recorded many strange and varied figures on the sensitive retina of the memory. I myself, then as now a newspaper man. was employed at the news bureau established by Buffalo papers at the Pan-American Exposition, and bad been given an early afternoon off by the manager. It was shortly after 6 o'clock when a newsboy, rushed madly thromjh the great side street where I was visiting, shooting: "Extra! Extra All aboot the Presided is shot!" IUs papers went like hot cakes on a cold day. or, perhaps, to use a stronger simile. Eke firecrackers on a Forrrth of July. I got one of the last of them and read there the meagre, and, as afterward developed, not entirely accurate acconnt of the cowardly assassination by the ignorat tool of still more despicable beings, who extended the hand of friendship and .fired the fatal bcllet.

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"When It is understood that the first Buffalo paper was on the street 14 minutes after the history-making shot rang out in the Temple of Music it Is not surprising that some errors crept In, nor Is It altogether strange that one paper had the president stabbed instead of Bhot. "PeoFie stood as If stunned after reading the news, and as the fact slowly forced Itself upon them wept wljh bitter shame at the disgrace of Buffalo. Hurrying toward the exposition grounds, I saw everywhere about me grimy men just from the day's toil, hurrying home and fall of the awfuj news. Some went along the streets with big, salty tears coursing down their" cheeks and making farrows in the !irt accumulated at an honest day's work. Others were stony eyed and pale. Men sat in street cars, convulsed with sobs, arid one woman, w-ho particularly cam -uudoT my notice, deliberately lifted her black silk dress axul blew her nose in her petticoat- Grief had made her insensible of ail surroundings. Perfect strangers conversed with each other ami all soeteJ dlstioetSons were wiped out. As man communed with man expressions of hatred for the then unknown wretch who had done the deed crept into the conversation. Skrwly the riot spirit grew, and from teilfag what ought to be done to the despicable atom men began to tell what they had a good mind to do, and then, with a tightening of lips, what they would do. Many a sapper was hurriedly eaten that night and many an ordinary peace-loving dtisen got down town as fast as" he could to be In at the death to Irave a part la stamping not the life of the anarchistic vermin. Happily for the good name of this fair country, the police authorities bad anticipated the mob spirit, and. under the command of Police Captain Regan now the chief of Buffalo's department had massed every man that cocld be spared aroo&d police headquarters, where It was generally believed the assassin had been tak ea. Perhaps he w&s there; perhaps not. The mob never knew. The police nevr told. The mob thought he was there, boo-ever, and time and time again started down the various streets leading to the old brick building, determined to storm the stronghold or die In the attempt, only to be met by the wall of braeconxs &fid the- coppers on horseback, who need tbs (bits of thetr hands, bat

never their clubs, and so checked the crowd without angering it. The mob lacked a leader, and each time It dashed Itself against the police formation and eddied away again. Captain Regan advanced his lines a little further until he was holding the crowd safe, fully two blocks away from the point of attack. It was a .wild night a never-to-be-forgotten night with the chief executive of the nation lying mortally wounded In the PanAmerican Exposition Hospital at one end of the town and the maddened hordes angrily clamoring for the Ufebiood of his assassin at the other. Immediately after the Bhootlng the entrance gates at the exposition were closed to all except those who had business on the grounds, and the pleasureseekers who passed the exits found that they could not get back. Only very few left, however. The Pan-American Hospital, to which the wounded president had been conveyed, was guarded by United States marines, city police and exposition guards. The 6hades of evening fell and the beautiful city of the night took form, traced In lines of electric light, and still the crowd lingered on, talking In whispers and treading softly. In startling contrast to the howling mob which tn another part of the city was clamoring for the llfeblood of the man who had struck at the heart of the nation. As each hurrying newspaper man or dignified orderly left the hospital he would be besieged by hundreds, who would anxiously ask "How Is he?" and with bated breath would await the answer. A hearty '"Thank God! would greet the answer, and through the throng wouW go the words, "he still lives," their passage In a whispered sound wave over the Immense sea of humanity being followed by many more "thank Gods." After Dr. Mann bad performed the first operation Mr. McKtnley was removed to the Milborn home. A little knot of half a dozen newspaper men and one or two spectators were the only people before the boose when the ambulance drove up to the door. Then followed the anxious ' days of waiting, with the seat of the gorernment removed to Buffalo, the j military camped about the tome In j

which the president lived, the hurry and bustle of the hundreds of newspaper men who poured Into the city from every point of the compass, the alternating hope and fear, the gathering of notables from all parts of the world to offer condolences and tbe final great throb of grief that shook city and nation when the end came. It all seems like some hideous dream to the Bnffalonlans who went through it. Some of the Monuments. It Is but meet and proper that Buffalo, the scene of the assassination, should be the site for one of the most imposing monuments erected In his memory, and It Is also fitting that Buffalo should take some active part in the erection of all other monuments. Mr. Edward L. Pausch, the Buffalo sculptor mentioned earlier, and the man who made the McKinley death mask, has been the designer of a marble best of McKinley for the Philadelphia PostoGlee. This bust was paid for out of funds raised among the Philadelphia letter-carriers, and has the distinction of being the first monument to the late lamented president that was dedicated. Buffaio, through the work of Mr. Pansch, is also the source of other monuments now pointing skyward la silent commemoration of him who was struck down by a dastard's hand. The greatest McKlaley monument, the national monument, If it may be so celled, will be erected at Canton, O., McKinley's home town, and wiU be paid for by funds gathered from every state in the Union and almost every hamlet in every state. Here, too, Baffaio. In a minor way, takes an active part in the erection of the monument, the granite for the work being sapplied by a Bison city contractor. - Pictures on this page show the-5 work on the Canton monument as It stands today, and also the mausoleum, as It will look when completed. No satisfactory picture of the finished design. Including environments, have yet been made. The McKinley National Memorial Association's pject Involves the raising of a fund of 500,000 to pay for the Canton memorial, and an additional 100,000, to be converted Into an endowment fund, from the earnings of which the magnLS-

cent marble memorial will be maintained and kept In repair. The money to cover the cost of the memorial has been raised and is in hand. Tbe endowment fund is not complete, and efforts are now being made to raise the balance probably about 30,000. Work on the Canton monument Is progressing favorably. The exterior work on the mausoleum, the grading and treeplanting, and all but the interior finishing will be completed during the present year of grace 1006. The Interior work. Including marble and glass effects, will

be continued during the coming winter, and the contracts call for a finished structure by September 1, 1907. Though the time is yet too far advanced to admit of perfect plans. It Is the hope of the trustees to be able to dedicate the McKinley monument at Canton sometime during September of next year, the date to be chosen being as nearly as possible that of the anniversary of McKinley's death September 14. The mausoleum proper is being constructed entirely of Miiford granite a light pink material, quarried at Miiford, Mass. The interior will be finished with Knoxville marble, and the general aspect, it is said, will be far more pleasing .and handsome than either that of the Garfield monument in Cleveland or the Grant tomb, on the banks of the Hudson, in New York state. The general contract for the erection of this magnificent memorial Is held by the Harrison Granite Company, of New York, while the contract for granite proper Is In the bands of George W. Maltby & Sons, of Buffalo, N. Y. " H. Van Buren Magonigle. of New Y'ork, is the architect. Tbe McKinley National Memorial Association numbers among Its honorary members the President of the United States and the governors of every state and territory la the Union. Its trustees and officers are ail men worthy of the highest confidence and esteem. They are: William R. Day, president; Myroa T. nerrick, treasurer; Ryerson Ritchie, secretary; Frederic S. HartaelL assistant secretary. Trustees William R. Day, Cornelius N. Bliss, W. Murray Crane, Charles W. Fairbanks, George B. Cortelyou, William A. Lynch, William McConway, Robert J. Lowry, Franklin Mnrpby, James A. Gary. Horace H. Lurton, Myron T. Uerrlck, Thomas Dolan, Alexander 11. Revell, Henry M. Duffield, Ell Torrance, John G. Milburn, David R- Francis, Henry T. Scott. E. W. Bloomlngdale. Charles G. Dawes. The late Marcus A. Hanna. President McKinley's confidential adviser and best friend, was up until the time of bis death the vice president of tbe McKinley National Memorial Association. It was Mr. Hanna who, on the day after Mr. McKinley's death, said of him; "He was one of the most adroit handlers of men I ever saw, and those who accused him of being led about by me were mistaken. His tact was perfect, and his manner so gracious that he brought all those who came into contact with him to his own way cf thinking. He was led by nobody he was the leader of others." Frank A. Munsey, la what be termed an appreciation, added to these wordj of Mr. Hanra the following tribute: "In William McKinley there was the most perfect blending of pure democracy and splendid dignity possible to man. His democracy was so pure and true as the best example this country has ever produced, whether on the farm. In the professions or in the affairs of business, and his dlsaltywaa-of th Cnejr kind- Jhat sprang from his own soul rather than that reflected from exalted station. He was always William McKinley, alike la the Army as a common soldier, In Congress and In the White House as the chief magistrate of a great nation always the man and never the ofilcis'. ' Genius In : art. In science. In statesmanship, fascinates us. We admire It and bow down before It, but w: love where there is love a heart that responds to cur hearts, warm and tender and true."

27ic Life cf McKinley. William McKinley was named after his father. The elder William McKinley was born In 1S07. He was a pioneer In the Iron Industry in the West. He married Nancy Allison, who. like himself, was of New England Puritanical stock, and together they were a remarkable couple. Mr. Mo Klnley. Sr., lived to be 68 years of age. His wife, who bore him nine children, was nearly 80 years of age when she dlad, eight years ago. She had lived to see her third son In the White House, bat fortunately the grim reaper gathered her in his narvest before he met his untimely end. This son, the seventh child, was born at Nlles, In Trumbull county, O., in a frame house which Is still standing. He attended the public schools la tbe city of bis birth, and later was graduated from tbe Poland Seminary. As a boy he was much like other boys, active, full of life, fond of bunting, fishing and horses, but withal sober aud Industrious. He was not possessed of a remarkable sense of humor and could not always see a joke. When 10 years of age be Joined the Methodist Church, and attended It as a communicant until the day that he died in Buffalo, still strong in tbe belief of his boyhood and still passionately, fond of his church's great soug, "Lead. Kindly Light." Just after joining the chnrch be entered Allegany College, at Meudvllle, Pa but broke down, and after eutnewhat regaining his health taught a district school near Poland, O., until tbe Civil War broke out. He enlisted and for 14 months marched In tbe ranks of the Twenty third Ohio as a private in Compntrj K. In April, 18R2, he was made commissary sergeant, and at Anttetaui the bloodiest engagement of the war he distinguished himself by coming on tbe firing line, aftct the men had fought all day, and serving tbe boys with hot coffee and rolls, a they stood rapidly firing their muskea in tbe thick of battle. For this deed ol bravery be was cotumlauloned a second lieutenant. In all be was In more thaa 30 battles and skirmishes, and came out of tbe war a captain. Before being mustered out' of service he was advanced oo more peg by brevet, and to the end oi bis days his old friends knew him by that well-earned title Major McKinley. After the war young McKinley he wai then but 22 took up the study of law . in the office of Charles E. Glldden, ol Poland a Judge of ability aud learning. He graduated from the Law School at Albany, N. Y., In 1S07, was admitted tc tbe bar and opened aa office at Caotou, O., then a flourishing town of some O.OW Inhabitants. He made a considerable success at the practice4 of law, but hU growing prominence In tbe political arena soon overshadowed his legal successes. His first political distinction came with the nomination for the office of prose cuting attorney of Stark county, e reputed stronghold of the opposition. U won. Two years later, or In 1871, he was renominated and was beaten by 40 votes In a county that usually beat the candidate of his party by several hundrod. In the same year he married Miss Ida Sax ton, a woman who was destined to have a wonderful Influence opon bis Bubsequeni career. Two children were born to the pair and both died and the mother never recovered from the blow. She has been an invalid for nearly 30 years now, and the touching devotion and tenderness shown to her by the assassinated president were among tbe most beautiful things of his career. In 1S77 Major McKinley took his seat in the congressional halls of tbe nation as a representative of his old Ohio district. During his service la the House he won creat popularity in Washington, and

was frequently urged to become a candidate against Speaker Ueed for the position of presiding officer, which the latter filled with such brilliant force. At the' Republican convention In 1884 McKinley. la a short, sharp, strong speech, rallied the Blaine forces and won the nomination for the brilliant Maine statesman, who was defeated. Four years later, after he and the Ohio delegation had been Instructed for Sherman, certain delegates began voting for bim and he only prevented the convention from stampeding for him in what was, perhaps, the most remarkable speech of his career. "1 do not request I demand," be closed, "that no delegate who would not cast reflection on me shall cast a ballot for me." McKinley voted for Sherman to the end, though the Republican nomination went to Harrison that year. McKinley, during Harrison's administration, as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House, fathered the famous McKinley Tariff Bill, and, la 1SS1, aftr he had been defeated by a gerrymandered district tbe year before, was elected governor of Ohio with a plii. rallty of iO.OOO. Ia he. having iar the meantime, again declined the presidential candidate, led his party to victory, plurality of more than feO.OOO. In and again in 1900 McKinley. as the presidential candidate, led his party to victory Then, one year later, came the tragic end la Buffalo. His great speech at the PanAmerican bis last. It proved delivered two days before his assassination. Is recognized as a masterpiece of American thought : "The period of excluslveness is past," he said. "The expansion of our trade and commerce is the passing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relation will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are ia harmony with the tplrlt of the times; measures of retaliation are not. Let ns ever remember that our Interest Is In concord, and not confilct. and that our real eminence rests. la the victories of peace and not those of war. We hope that all who are represented here may be moved to higher and nobler efforts for their j own and the world's good, and that out of this city may come not only greater commerce and trade for us all, but, more essential than these, relations of mutual respect, confidence and friendship which will deepen and endure. Our earnest prayer to Goa Is that God will graciously vouchsafe prosperity, happiness and peace to all our neighbors and like blessings to all peoples and powers of the earth." -nd these words were destined ta be martyr's benediction on all mankind. SAMUEL WILLIAMS HIPPLER,