Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-09
THE MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION.

THE MINNEAPOLIS EXPOSITION.
The Presidents Visit--The Closing Day of
the Fair.
little before o'clock the carriages drew
into the ring in front of the CEN
ter of the grand stand and President
and Mrs. Hayes, Governor and Mrs
Pillsbury, Attorney General Devens, General
Meyers Told probabilities), Gen. w. d. Wash
burn, and the Presidents private secretary, al
in the judges stand in the honorable company
GENTLEMEN OF THE PRESS.
After the party was comfortably located, Mayor
Rand stepped to the front and introduced his
excellency.
The President then arose. and after bowling
his acknowledges to the crowd for his en-
thu lastlc reception, spoke as follows, the
GLOBE man making a complete report of his
speech
Ny FRIENDS: Mr.. Lincoln, on some occasion
when he was required or when 1t was proper he
should address audience largely Of ladies', spoke
of his embarrassment in undertaking to do it, as he
had never been skilled in the language compliment
airy to ladies, and feel somewhat he must have
those to whom am indebted for the qualification of
being with you to-day. I am not skilled, have not
studied the language of mere acknowledgment and of
thanks upon occasions like this. It occurred to me,
coming as was to the Northwest to attend agricu-
ural and mechanical fairs to meet people who were
mainly engaged In considering their material inter-
would be interesting on that subject the prospects
of business. the return to better times, and accord
ingly gathered together few facts and few fig
ures which intended to use and repeat, at each of
the places in which was called upon to address an
assembly, leaving to the moment to say such other
things as might seem proper to say when called upon
on occasions Like this. And here let
thank the Governor Of Minnesota and the
mayor of the city Of Minneapolis and the president
and officers of this association for the very friendly
way in which they have greeted me- and thank this
whole audience for the heartiness with which they
have received sentiments some of which, doubtless,
they do not altogether agree with. 1t is of the
fortunate things an an American public life that
whatever may be said currently in the angry discus
sion of political strife that after all the American peo-
pie of all parties to have sagacity discover
ing at last what manner of man it is that they are
talking about and thinking about and though he
may make ever 30 many mistakes, if, upon the
whole, they believe that he is honest and patriotic
and means well, they will treat him you treat me.
OF course we all know everybody in the United
States that knows anything knows good deal, and
good deal that is good and pleasant about the city of
[Applause.l We know of your energy,
OF your rapid growth OF your prospects, Of what you
are doing. To-day, passing around your city, view
Ing your beautiful homes, viewing also it's wonderful
establishments establishments 30
extensive, SO we'll fitted to take hold of the raw ma
terial which we have seen growing In the
colossal wheat fields of the Northwest-passing
through these cav and realized how it is that one
column Of the figures that have repeated-and
propose to repeat until get back to Washington
how 1t s that that column of figures stands favor
ably to the United States as it does. [Appause.l
refer as you will naturally conjecture TO the com.
parison between what we send abroad and what we
receive from abroad, and that column of figures tells
US that these last four years. and especially in this
ducts, of breadstuffs of provisions, largely more
than ever before and the opposite fact is equally en-
couraging. and that is that my wife and your wife,
and your boys have been seized with fit of economy
and are buying less of the nonsense they make
abroad than ever before, Cloud applause) and the
result is that Ia this period of hard times when we
need encouragement, we are having state of trade
more favorable than ever known.
The remainder of the Presidents speech was
a repetition of the statistics, ETC., which he re-
cited In his st. Paul speech on Thursday, and
which has already been printed in the GLOBE
ED. GLOBE.
FOLLOWING THE PRESIDENT.
"Old Probabilities" whose other name is Gen.
Myers, head of the weather bureau, was called
for and responded in brief speech. He said
he had been promised by his assistants in
Washington a fair day" and was happy the
boys words had been verified though it look
ed somewhat uncertain in the morning. laugh
ter.) He had come from the far East to what
he had been taught to consider the far West,
and had come to see the magnificent farming
lands Of this wonderful country, and he had
also come to see that class of men which his
bureau had been :, created to
gratifed, and hoped to live to see his work APP
proved and appreciated by that class all over
this great land.
Then came
GENERAL DEvENs,
attorney general of the nation, who endorsed
the Presidents financial policy, (of course) and
everything else his excellency had uttered, (of
course-for this are we cabinet oficers) told
one or two pleasant stories, stuck on Latin
quotation from Seneca, and rendered it
English, about the blessed thing it was to be an
agriculturist, forgetting to mention, with
wheat ten bushels to the acre. grading No. 4
and selling for so cents bushel, and
the Presidents policy" retiring the peoples
bankers. An d then he sat down.
AT THIS STAGE
Brown, who is running SO successfully the re-
lief tent for the yellow fever sufferers, came
into the stand with a handsome Morocco-cov-
cred bible, handing it to the President with
whispered instructions. The President imme-
SsASsSAJ ASoSS
stated that a former soldier of the federal
army desired to do something for the
confederates whom he had fought during the
war, and who were now stricken by the scourge.
He had no money but had donated the Bible.
and desired that some one would purchase it /,
that the proceeds might go to the
SOUTHERN SUFFERERS.
Mayor Rand stepped forward as auction Ger
Glow much will you give?'' Five dollarsv'
from the crowd; Ten dollarsr' from General
Devens, on the stand. THANK you, gentle
men," said the mayor, .'for your kindly in
tentions, but it is not that kind of a Biblev'
Haughterl nov VII will give fifty dollars for
this book thus donated?" Apause-'I willv'
from the grand stand. What name?" from
the Mayor. &c. G. Gilman was the answer
Fifty. fifty, fifty, f-i-f-t-yLwho offers seven
ty-fve" 'seventy-fve'' from the grand
stand. what name?" "Mrs. j. I. Casep'
(cheers) THANK you, Mrs. Case-who gives
eighty?' Eighty dollars!-K. F. Jonesp'-
Zones, the fish man-thank you, Mr.. Jones-
now who offers another raise.
ZONE HUNDRED DOLLARS!
from Mrs. ]. I. Casep' THANK you, Mrs.
Case-thank you, and sold to
MRS. J. I. CASE
for 300 of our fathers and mothers. daughter,
and three rousing cheers for Mrs. Case.)
Mrs, Case is the wife of the great manufactu-
rer of threshing machines, and would have tax.
en- that bible heme if she had been compelled
to run Jones and her other competitors through
one of her husbands machine separators. It
was good hit happily made and will carry a
800 worth of blessings to our
STRICKEN BRETHREN
of Memphis and Grenada, and New Orleans,
and will never deprive the noble lady who made
the donation Of single luxury.
Immediately the bible was placed in the
hands of Mrs. Case, she took it, inscribed he,
name in it, and babe the messenger return Il
to it's former owner
WITH HER COMPLIMENTS.
And SO the yellow fever patients got thei,