Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1901 — A True Estimate. [ARTICLE]

A True Estimate.

Perhaps no truer estimate of President’s McKinley’s hold on the American people was uttered, among the thousands of tributes that have been paid to his memory since bis tragic death, than is cpntainedjn these words addressed to the students of Princeton University by ex-President Cleveland: “He was not deficient in education, but with all you will hear of his grand career and his services to his country and his fellow citizens you will not hear that the high plane that he reached or what he accomplished was due entirely to his education. You will instead constantly hear as accounting for his great success that he was obedient and affectionate as a son, patriotic and faithful as a soldier, honest and upright as a citizen, tender and devoted as a husband, and truthful, generous, unselfish, moral and clean in every relation of life. He never thought any of those things too weak for his manliness. Make no mistake. Here was a distinguished man, a great man, a useful man, who became distinguished, great and useful because he had and retained unimpaired qualities of heart which I fear university students sometimes feel like keeping in the background or abandoning.”