Show 0 fa 63 4 M t 3 V M k V w arse M alle L I 1 by ELMO SCOTT WATSON N JANUARY 29 carnations will adorn ilie buttonholes of thousands of americans who will ihus be carrying on a unique tradition in n honoring the memory of a ry y 1 rf president preside of the united states february 12 and february 22 are set aside in our patriotic calendar for reverent tribute to the names of lincoln and washington october 27 Roosevel ts birthday Is often observed as navy day thus recalling his part jn in building up our first line of defense but january 29 Is a date tor for remembering not so much those alementa ele menta n ta of statesmanship which twice made mn de ahn chief of hla his country as it Is for remembering the simple kindly soul that was the man named william mckinley therefore this simple tribute of wearing his bis favorite flower on his birthday Is hingul singularly a aly appropriate so swiftly has the world moved tn in the last quarter century that to the present generation generational at least the name of the twenty fourth president Is comparatively ively unknown his ella fame Is greatly overshadowed by the dominating personality of his immediate successor the strenuous american and by a still later strong personality of quite another sort whose fortune it was to lead us in the greatest war this country tins lias ever known but to those of a previous generation the name of mckinley has avery a very definite meaning its mention recalls to them that september day in 1001 when the word was vas lashed flushed all over oer the country that an anarchist had shot the president as he be stood in music hall at the pan american exposition in buffalo N Y greeting tile the long line of his fellow citizens who filed past him to shake his liand they remember too how for the next week the whole nation watched his valiant fight for life how lie he accepted the inevitable with the historic wolds thy will not ours be done and how when the en end d come came on september 14 his favorite favorit e hymn nearer my aly god to was the requiem of sorrow of sands who mourned the loss of wll wil lam mckinley the president bu but merw more the file passing of william hemn ley t lie man whose perfect devotion deot lon to hla his invalid wife had ex exulted elfed versal ersal admiration so america added a third name to make Us its trinity of martyred marty red Preside presidents lits and its as it did so 0 little realized ti that bat it 11 J was definitely writing finis to an I 1 pra tn ill american history little wonder tant alint tile the pre present ent generation has almost forgotten him film and his times 1 for lit in at least one important respect tile the daly of Wili william larn mckenley Is as remote from aroi it the present as Is the day of abraham lincoln or even of andrew jackson the y sear ea r 19 1000 wa was 8 more thin than the turn of the century for the united st ates for years yeara america had been concerned with its own internal affairs with the lems of forral forming ng a union out of a group of jealous and nd wrung wrangling ling c colonies pi s lately freed from european Kuro penn domination of conquering a wilderness and expanding westward until use the land hunger of its people was ans satisfied of pr preserving the nation from disunion and healing the he wounds of civil strife but when on the of april congress emi gres passed a reso nearer my god to thiel thee nearer nay my god to theo the nearer to thee neel I 1 ven co though it be a era cro that ralpth mag m 9 SUO SO all my song shall be nearer N aber my god to thee nee nearer my godt god to thee nearer to thee nest Though lAe like the wanderer th no tun sun gone down darkness be ba over ever too in my ret rest a stone yet in ny my dreams id be ba ner nearer e r my god bothee to thee W nearer r er ray my god cod to thee nearer to thee I 1 there let itt the way appear steps step unto beaten t all AH that oat thou adt to ta we oe in mercy divent lent angels anfel to lo beckon me nearer my god to thee nearer my god to lo thee nes nearer tj aneel then with my waking thoughts thou fht bright with thy pre iralu out of my tony bethel ill ral ragaei so by my woe to be nearer my god to thee nearer mccod to thee nearer to thee I 1 or it if on joyful wine wi cleaving the sky sun mo moon onland and tn stars forget upwards upward I 1 fly still ku hll roy ray song oaf hall be nearer my god to thee nearer my god to th the nearer to nee MRS SARAH F ADAMS lution declaring war between the united states of america and the kingdom of pahn it marked the end of americas splendid isolation the beginning of its concern with external jiff affairs airs and its assumption of a place of importance in the congress of na ians so the historical importance of willlam william mckinley la 6 that lie he was as a guld ing force in turning the american ship of state from tile sometime troubled waters of nationalism into the eve e or r turbulent waters of internationalism in which it seems s destined to sail henceforth what was the historic background of the man cast for this role and am his preparation for ids his task not in tile the least the kind that a prophet would have called appropriate for the result to be attained but it was apparently tile the kind that only a democracy suca bucl as aa ours could produce for the man whom rate fate had selected to be leader of the nation at this turning point ui in the relation of tile united states to the outside world wab an ohio school teacher and lawyer who had find served faithful ly but with no especial brilliance in the civil vat var and who rho had risen by the su successive steps of prosecuting attorney con congressman tressman and governor to the presidency emphatically not a lender leader writes carl art russell Ki issell fish in ida hid volume tile the path of empire in the lie yale university press chron leles of america an and d contin nesi ile he was however sunsui passed in his dayas da als a render reade of public opinion and he helle veLI is function to be that of interpreting 04 rint national ional mind nor did lie he yield his opinion in a grudge ing manner ile he grasped krasper broadly the consequences of each now naw position tinn blikh the public assumed and he ha was a master of securing harmonious harmon lous coo operation cooperation co o p e r aaion for a desire d e end n d of him another biographer has written president course during the many exciting events of his administration was marked by it a degree gree of tact fact prudence and foresight which surprised even hla his friends ue ile surrounded himself with able advisers maintained cordial relations with con gress and steadily grew in popularity with the lie country at large lie he possessed to an unusual degree the faculty of forecasting public sentiment in the light of these estimates it would appear that mckinley mckinie y even though he did not have that training in statecraft which might be considered essential to a situation involving international relations was wag apparent ly an ideal leader for a people once 1 they had entered upon a war which was to be so momentous in their history it wash was iwar which lie was op jw posed to and during all the negotiations with spain that preceded the tha actual outbreak of war he rep repeatedly counseled patience anc restraint even after the destruction of the maine when the country was wai in a white heat of indignation against spain lie he held fast to his purpose of securing a pace peaceful fill settlement of the dispute between the two countries over the cuban problem F finally convinced that spain would not accept americas proposals and assured of the deeps deep S seated ganv conviction feulou of ae the 1 american people regarding their duty 1 to the cubans cubana the president reluctantly took the decisive step not only did the spanish american war atie highlight of M mckinless McKIn ackin leys Q administration result in americas coming inginio into possession of colonies in the far east which brought the country into tile the realm of international poll tics bics but during that administration were taken also the other steps which in furthering her Inie interests rests in worldwide world wide affairs it was 5 icken leys secretary of state john hay flay whose copen open door policy in regard to china made the united states an active factor in I 1 the ll 11 future of thil the orient and it was mckinley himself whose proposal in 1809 for a pon pan american congress who made the first overtures for a better understanding ji among the american republics north and south it was to popularize tile the ilan american idea that the tion where the president received his death wound was waa arranged ard and ardit it was wr s just after lie he had set forth lib his views on the ties which should bind the two continents that lie he was shot today a magnificent memorial stands in his home city of canton ohio as the tribute of that state and the nation as well to a beloved leader jeader historians of cefie the future may point to his administration as the most significant turning point in all american history and as time gives a better perspective for evaluation of his fits importance president william me kinley may loom larger and larger in tile gallery of A american notables dut but for the american people whom he understood aa few presidents have the best tribute hint they can pay him 4 az la Is the simple tribute on january 29 20 int ench eacle year of hon wring his met memory ory with a simple thing lils favorite it dower |