Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 March 1902 — HONOR SLAIN CHIEF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HONOR SLAIN CHIEF.

THE SENATE AND HOUSE HEAR EULOGY ON M’KINLEY. Congress Sets Day Aside in Memory of the Late President—Tribute by His Pre m iar—President and Prince Henry Attend Exercises.

Official Washington paid formal tribute Thursday to the memory of William McKinley. John Hay, premier of Mr. McKinley’s "Cabinet, pronounced the eulogy on his dead chief. It was one of the most impressive assemblages ever seen in the great Hall of Representatives. Presideht Roosevelt, Prince Henry of Brassin, the members of the cabinet, the justices of the Supreme Court, the general of the army and officers of the army and navy who have received the thanks of Congress, the ambassadors and other , diplomatic representatives of foreign countries, Senators and Representatives in Congress and a large number of distinguished guests were present. Four times in the history of the country similar services have been held for Presidents who have died in office. It was the third commemoration of a chief

magistrate fallen by the hand of an assassin, George Bancroft, the historian, eulogized Lincoln, and to Blaine fell the duty of speaking of Garfield. It was eminently fitting that the last public ceremonial of sorrow for the lamented McKinley should take place in the forum which had echoed his voice, in the arena where he won his spurs. Anniversary of Garfield Service. By a strange coincidence Thursday was the twentieth anniversary of the day 07 which Blaine in the same hall delivered his eulogy of the martyred Garfield, and Mr. McKinley was the chairman of the committee that bad charge of the arrangements on that occasion. Only one year before, less five days, at the head of an imposing civic and military procession, McKinley passed along Pennsylvania avenue for his second inauguration. Six months later the tragedy occurred at Buffalo, and another but different procession tenderly bore his body through the streets to the rotunda of the capitol, where the brief funeral oration was delivered over his coffin and the tributes of the nations of the earth about his bier bespoke universal sorrow.

If the exercises oFThursday possessed more impressiveness than those for Lincoln and Garfield it was doubtless due to the startling sameness in all three of the crimes, the-utter uselessness of the acts, and the problems presented by them that the people's representatives feel it their bounden duty to solve. This, at least, was the burden of the address presented l>y Secretary Hay, the orator of the occasion. Mr. Hay referred In his introductory remarks to the blameless life led by each of the martyred Presidents, to the obscurity of their assassins, and particularly to the strength of this well-ordered republic, which had seen three chief executives fall without feeling the slightest tremor of fear for the nation's safety. He spoke of the crime of revolutionary anarchy that had only done injury to itself in striking at the nation’s head, of thq dark and intricate problem which this pcrrrttnr form of criminalitynprcsonted,. and "he expressed his confidence that it ought to be within the compass of democratic government to gnard against the aberrations of anarchists, “to take away from them the

hope of escape, the long luxury of scan l dalous days ip court and the unwboletome sympathy of hysterical degenerates, and so by degrees to make the crime not worth committing, even to these Jbnormal and distorted souls.*’

Then came an eloquent and glowing tribute to William McKinley, who was "from his birth to his death typically American.** His probity, piety and patriotism were pre-eminent. In the day of unfolding, in the time of youth, be prepared himself for what life might bring, and when the time came to act he was ready. Secretary Hay spoke feelingly*as friend dues of. friend, and hi,s words fell upon sympathetic ears. What he said the nation indorses. And the institutions which did not tremble when McKinley fell, which bore that even greater stress of Lincoln's death, surely will prove strong enough to render of little effect the elpments of- disorder and violence which gave occasion to the memorable day.

The opera house block in Carl Junction, Mo., was burned, causing n loss of f40,Mark Enos, a miner, was capght by falling walla ami fatally injured.

THE LATE PRESIDENT

SECRETARY HAY.