The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1877-09-18
The President and Company
on the Way to Louisville.
The Make Up Of The Train and the
Order Of Procedure.
The Arrangements at Jacksonville
THE ARRIVAL AT LOUISVILLE
Mayor Jacobs Address OfWeIoOmI
A Happy Speech by The President

A Happy Speech by The President.
He Introduces Mr.. EVarts, Cows.
Hampton and Vanzandt.
CISCINSATI, September l7.-President
Hayes and party were escorted by the
military and large number OF promi.
nent citizens to the Ohio 4 Mississippi
depot, where they took special train for
Louisville at I o'clock this morning. The
train consists Of handsomely decorated
engine, directors car Of the Louisville &
Nashville Railroad, directors car of the
Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad, Pullman
palace car and baggage car. In addition
to the President and his immediate fami.
| ly, the party consisted Of the Secretary Of
State, Miss Bette Evarts, Mr.. Prescott.
Evarts and Charles II. Russell, Private
Secretary; Secretary OF the Iuterior Carl
Schurz, Postmaster General d. NJ. Key,
Secretary McCrary and Mrg. McCrary;
Gov. Nanzandt, Of Rhode Island; Gov
Mathews and wife, Of West Virginia;
Gov. Young, Of Ohio; E. V. Smalley, Of
the New York Tribune; L. c. Washington,
OF the Louisville CJurisr.JOur7ldi' W. D..
\ Bickham, Of the Dayton Journal, and the
committee OF reception from Louisville
At Jacksonville, Indiana, the order Of.
the cars composing the train will be re.
versed, the locomotive placed in the rear
and the Presidents car in front, that the
President may have better opportunity
to observe the splendid decorations on the
bridge and along the railroad TO the de-
pot, and the people better opportunity
to see him.
LOUISVILLE AWAITING THE DISTINGUISH
Ed ARRIVALS.
LOUISVILLE, September 1.-The com.
ing OF President Hayes and his Cabinet,
the Governors and other distinguished
guests causes an entire suspension Of
business, and an assemblage about tie
depot where the party will arrive and
along the streets to be followed in the
route to the hotel such as was perhaps
never previously seen in Louisville. The
great bridge leading into Louisville over
the Ohio ut this point is elegantly deco
rated with national and patriotic notices
Of rich and beautiful decigus. Housesci
all kinds along the route ot the proces-
sion are also handsomely covered with
eyergreens and colors combined into pop
u!ar sentiments, etc. The people greet
joyouslY the arrival OF the President and
are prepared to extend to him welcome
in Kentucky in the best and most hospi.
table manner.
ARRIVAL OF THE PRESIDENT.
LOUISVILLE, September 1.-THE Presi.
dent and party arrived at lI:j3, in charge
OF the Committee OF Reception aud es.
cort. President Hayes stood on the plat.
form Of the car with his left arm by his
side and his right on his breast. To his
right was Mrs. Hayes, Miss Evarts and
others; on the left W. n. Haldeman,
Gen. Harlan and others. Gen. L. II.
Murray introduced Mayor Jacob, who
spoke as follows:
MAYOR JACOBS WELCOME.
Nr. President:-The people of Louis.
vile, the Metropolis OF Kentucky, proud
OF their grand ,Statesman, old Harry Of
the West, who uttered one Of the noblest
sentiments that ever fell from the lips ot
mortal man. al would rather be right
than to be President" greet ioyousIy
his disciple, that President Of the United
States who al 4 critical period in the his.
tory Of affairs, had the courage to say
Ale serves his party best who serves his
country best, irrespective OF party, race
or sect" We welcome your Excel!ency
gladly to our home, and bid you God.
speed in your labor Of love, recoEciia'
ton and reform.
President Hayes did not reply, except
to announce through Mayor Jacob that he
would address the people later in the day.
PRESIDENT HAYEs' SPEECH.
When the applause subsided which
greeted him, President Hayes on arising
to address the people spoke as follows,
the cheers which interrupted him at times
being always loud and prolonged:
FellOg. Citizens Of LouiIritE-I thank you
for this Kentucky welcome. The people
Of Kentucky and the people Of Ohio are
old AcCuaintances. The early history Of
the two States is so blended that you can't
write the early history Of Ohio without
having more than half its pages filed
about you. Talk Of Kentucky? Zap
plauae And suspect you cannot write
the history OF Kentucky without occa-
siOnally mentioning Ohio. Three cheers
for 0hio.1 Eight years ago had occa-
sion to join In a welcome to the members
OF the Legislature and other distinguish.
ed men OF Kentucky. can't undertake
to repeat the remarks then made, but il
seems to me not inappropriate to pursue
the same general course OF remarks with
which welcomed the Kentuckians eigh.
years ago.
My earliest recolleclions, my earliest
knowledge OF Kentucky is associated
indelibly with the conversations and
speeches Of that favorite and most elo.
quent Governor OF Ohio aud native Of
Kentucky, Governor Corwin. He was
fond, in his eloquent speeches and still
more eloquent conversation, oi talking Of
Kentucky and Kentuckians. He used To
say, With that habit Of his OF drawing
illustrations from the Scriptures, that Il
any people since the desperation on the
plains OF Shinar were literally Graded in
war it was the people Of Kentucky. In
childhood and in youth they fought the
savages in blockhouse aud stOckade. by
the side OF their mothers and sisters, and
in manhood pursued the hostile savages
and British invaders from Ohio and In
diana. The common observation was that
Kentucky was the 14th State and the
most populons in early times and by far
the most powerful. Ii was always ready
to help Ohio when she needed help. In
every moment and on every occasion Of
apprehension Ohio always appealed TO
Kentucky and never appealed in vain,
The bones Of Eentucky's sons whitened
on every battlefield in the North and
West, and when the savage invasion Oc.
CURED no longer and peace smiled over
both these States, cordial and friendly re.
latiOns between them continued on and
on. Ia 1924 Ohio rtjoiced to cast her
vote for Kentucky's favOrite son, Henry
Clay, and twenty years afterwards | am
glad and proud to be able to say that,
. with the majority Of the people Of Ohio,
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