From Dr. W. R. Harper, President of the University of

Chicago.

"The death of President McKinley is terrible. He has shown the highest ability in statesmanship. He has carried the country through one of its greatest crises and the history of his administration will be known hereafter from the fact that under him the United States has taken its place in the world at large. As a man he was simple, strong and lovable. He was a man of high culture and high ideals, a man whose interest in all that was good was manifest. He was a friend of education in every form, from the lowest to the highest."

From Dr. James B. Angell, President of the University of Michigan.

"The title that is most likely to come to our martyred President," said Dr. Angell, "is that of 'The well-beloved.' Washington had a dignified severity that left a space between himself and the people. Lincoln was loved by only half the nation when he died. The old animosities between the North and South had not expired when Garfield passed away. But since McKinley came into office the blue and the gray have been united. He won the hearts of the Southern people and cemented a nation.

"His was the average American life in a glorified form. He was pure, simple, genial and kind. So long as he dominated our affairs he could be dealt with by foreign powers with sincerity, and this is the secret of the great influence of this nation in the administration of foreign affairs."

From Governor Dockery, of Missouri.

"The President always maintained his convictions with courtesy and courage unfailing. In Congress he was a ready debater and a resourceful legislator. It mattered not how sharp and keen the contest may have been along partisan lines, he was always a courteous gentleman. His private life was pure and stainless.

"The devotion to his invalid wife was so constant and so gentle that it won the esteem of all who had knowledge of his domestic relations. This beautiful trait of his well-poised character was the occasion of much favorable comment at Washington long before his name was mentioned in connection with the Presidency.

"As President he has been broad-minded, patriotic and considerate of the opinions of those who differed with him. It should be remembered that Mr. McKinley was the most potent personality in destroying the last lingering embers of sectional hatred. His conduct during the Spanish-American war disarmed opposition, and he won the affection of the South when, out of a heart abundant in love, he declared that Southern cemeteries, where lie the ashes of the Confederate dead, should hereafter receive the same generous care from the National government as the cemeteries in which rests the sleeping dust of the Union dead.

"In my opinion President McKinley accomplished more to entomb sectionalism than any President who has been elected by the Republican party, since the days of Abraham Lincoln.

"It was a cruel, wanton shot which struck him down,

but he passes to the other shore, amid the sobs and the sighs and the tears of the whole people, and in no part of the Republic is grief more sincere than among the people of the South.

"The President proved to be a great leader of his party. He was honest, able, resourceful, and exhibited consummate tact in harmonizing and unifying the powerful forces of that great organization.'

From Governor La Follette, of Wisconsin.

"The attack upon the life of President McKinley appears to have been one of those crimes by which madmen, or by whatever name they may be called, shock civilization throughout the world. It is significant, in emphasis of the necessity of teaching and compelling a higher and more universal respect for established law.

"In the midst of domestic peace and tranquillity, no political excitement prevailing in the country, no foreboding of evil or premonition of trouble anywhere-the dastardly hand of the assassin is raised against this man, who has braved every peril of battle, passed through all the vicissitudes of exacting public life, and so borne himself in his great office as to win the confidence of the American people and the respect and admiration of the foremost living statesmen.

"Every patriotic home is darkened, every heart is anxious, and the hopes and prayers of the American people will be with the President and his frail wife in this awful trial."

From Archbishop Corrigan.

"It is sad to realize that in our beloved country, where the people choose their own rulers, such a crime

could have been possible, and that, too, in a season of almost unexampled prosperity, saddest of all to feel the hand of an assassin has been raised against a Chief Magistrate whose personal and civic virtues and whose most amiable character not only endeared him to all with whom he came in contact, but made him, as these last few days have revealed, almost the idol of the nation."

From Ex-Vice-President Adlai E. Stevenson.

"The report of the attempted assassination of President McKinley is indeed appalling. It is too horrible for belief. The tidings will bring grief unspeakable to the hearts of all his countrymen. I have known President McKinley for many years; served with him in Congress twenty-five years ago. He is a man of the kindliest feeling, and could have enemy. The assassin is probably a crank or madman. "All hearts are touched; all deplore the terrible calamity that has befallen us."

had no personal

From U. S. Senator J. L. McLaurin, of South Carolina. "The President said to me: 'Senator, by the help of God, I propose to be the President of the whole country, the South as well as the North, and before the end of my term the South will understand this.'

"No wonder, as a true Southern man, I loved and trusted President McKinley. I stood by him in the Senate and elsewhere, and I thank God that I did.

"Patriotic in purpose and pure in heart, his noble soul is now with Him whom the hate of men nailed to

the cross. Like Lincoln, who saved the country, McKinley, who reunited it, dies a martyr to envy and hate."

From U. S. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts.

"The voice of love and sorrow to-day is not that which cometh from the lips. Since the tidings came from the dwelling at whose door all mankind were listening, silence, the inward prayer, the quivering lips, the tears of women and of bearded men have been the token of an. affection which no other man left alive has inspired.

"This is the third time within the memory of men not yet old that the head of the republic has been stricken down in his high place by the hand of an assassin. Each of them was a man of the people."

From William Jennings Bryan.

"His life was remarkable, and his personal character above reproach. His personal qualities were such that he had no enemies."

From Bishop Potter.

"In the face of this great loss no one can say that he was not a great man; that his was not a blameless, gracious life; that his was not a beautiful and spotless character; that his aims were not noble. Few countries have ever known a ruler whose conduct and life have been more exalted and have deserved greater praise."

From Governor Heard, of Louisiana.

"The South has lost a friend and the country a great and good man. No President since the Civil war has done more to destroy the feeling resulting from that strife and to firmly unite the two sections in cordial friendship than President McKinley."