Mckinley
Mckinley
candidate for President, and Theodore Roosevelt
of New York received 929 votes for the candi-
dacy for Vice-President, the single vote missing
being the delegate vote of Theodore Roosevelt.
In the election of Nov. 6, 1900, President Mc-
Kinley was re-elected by the largest popular
majority ever given to any presidential candidate,
the Republican electors receiving 7,206,677 p)op-
ular votes to 6,374,397 for the Bryan and Ste-
venson electors, and the popular votes for the
minority candidates standing as follows : Wool-
ley and Metcalf, Prohibition, 208,555 ; Barker
and Donnelly, Anti-Fusion People's, 50,337 ;
Debs and Harriman, Social Democrat, 84,003 ;
Malloney and Remmel, Social Labor, 39,537 ;
Leonard and Woolley, United Christian, 1,060,
and Ellis and Nicholas, Union Reform, 5,698.
Tiie electoral vote stood 292 for McKinley and
Roosevelt and 155 for Bryan and Stevenson. The
successful Republican candidates were inaugu-
rated March 4, 1901, and the President made no
changes in his cabinet. He visited California
with his wife and members of his cabinet in the
spring of 1901, making numerous speeches and
receiving enthusiastic welcome from the cit-
izens of the southern and southwestern states
through which he passed, and he intended to
make the tour extend to the principal cities of
the northwest, but the serious illness of Mrs.
McKinley forced him to return to Washington
after reaching San Francisco. The management
of the Pan-American exposition at Buffalo, N.Y.,
invited the President to visit that city, which he
did, accompanied by Mrs. McKinley and his
official family, including part of his cabinet. On
September 6, while in the midst of a throng of
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expectant citizens assembled in the Temple of Music anxious to familiarly greet their Presi- dent, he took the hand of one of the men in line in friendly confidence, when with the other hand the assassin, wlio proved to be an avowed anar- chist of foreign birth, shot the President twice, VII. — 12
producing a mortal wound. He was conveyed
to the home of John G. Milburn, president of the
exposition, whose guests Mr. and Mrs. McKinley
were, and lingered till the early morning of Sept.
14, 1901, when at 2.15 he died. Shortly before
his death he said, " Good-bye, all ; good-bye. It
is God's way. His will be done, not ours." His
last words, spoken to his wife, were '• ' Nearer,
my God, to Thee, e'en though it be a cross,' has
been my constant prayer." He was a member
of the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union
Veteran Legion, and other military organiza-
tions. He received the honorary degree of LL. D.
from Western Reserve university and McKendree
college in 1897, from the University of Chicago
and Yale university in 1898 ; from Smith college
in 1899 (being the second person and the first
man to receive an honorary degree from that
institution) and from the University of California
in 1901 ; and that of D.C.L. from Mt. Holyoke in
1899. He was invited to visit Harvard university
in June, 1901, and the corporation voted him the
honorary degree of LL.D., to be bestowed on the
occasion, but the serious illness of Mrs. McKinley
prevented his presence. The notable speeches
delivered by Mr. McKinley and not already men-
tioned include : the address in Canton, Ohio,
before the Ohio state grange Dec. 13, 1887, on
" The American Farmer," in which he opposed
the holding of American lands by aliens, and
urged the farmers to be true to the principles of
protection ; the address at the Home Market
club in Boston, Feb. 9, 1898, in which he per-
suaded the New England representatives to
abandon the policy of allowing the introduction
of raw material duty free ; the speech at the
Lincoln banquet in Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 12, 1891,
in which he answered President Cleveland's
address on ** American Citizenship," delivered
on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary
of the birthday of Allen G. Thurman at Colum-
bus, Ohio; Nov. 13, 1890 ; the oration delivered
on Feb. 22, 1894, before the Union League club,
Chicago, 111., on the life and public services of
George Washington, and his last speech, at the
Pan American exposition, Buffalo, Sept. 5, 1901,
the day before his assassination, in which he
outlined the policy of the administration in its
efforts to give greater security to the commercial
and industrial life of the republic, in the following
words : " Our capacity to produce has devel-
oped so enormously and our products have so
multiplied that the problem of more markets re-
quires our urgent and immediate attention.
Only a broad and enlightened policy will keep
what we have. No other policy will get more.
In these times of marvellous business energy and
gain we ought to be looking to the future,
strengthening the weak places in our industrial
