Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-27
HAYES TRAMP.
AT HUTCHINSON, KAs.

HAYES TRAMP.
AT HUTCHINSON, KAs.
HUTCHINSON. Kas., Sept 26.-The Presidential
party left Dodge Centre at o'clock this morn
ing on their road to Topeka, and were greeted
along the road at various stations by crowds
of people. At Larntd station the train halted
long enough to enable the party to visit the
county fair in carrisge provided for the oc-
casion by citizens. At the train Capt. Henry
Booth made few welcome remarks A plat
form had been erected the fair grounds,
quarter of . I:aile from the station from which
the President and Gen. Sherman made brief
remarks.
President Hayes said: Fellow citizens of Kan
.as; am very glad to meet you here to-day.
Audiences appear before me in all sorts of
places, land greetings and welcomes are given
under oil sorts Of circumstances. It is the mode
OF exhibiting attachment to free government,
and is not particularly = personal compliment
to anybody. It belongs to your loyalty, your
patriotism and your attachment to the flag of
the republic and its great history. Therefore
can talk about it as looker-on. 1t does not
mean simply the individual man. It means
respect and hope for the institutions under
which we live. With this general view of it
must add. perhaps, one other It is which
| l have occasionally mentioned since I have
been in Kansas-that is this American idea of
business or pleasure, to do some
good advertising. Gaughter.) suspect that
the President OF the. United States.
especially if he differs little with his best
friends, comes to be about the best advertised
man in the United States. Cheers and laugh
ter he is advertised by what he has said, by
what is said in his behalf. and by what he has
said against him. don't know which adver-
| tisement is the most valuable.
| 80 my friends, we are here to have a few mo-
ment's conversation together. As said before,
we are meeting large assemblies of people like
this on our journey, but will assure you
have met no assemblages in my travels more
interesting to me than this, in view of all the
circumstances. The gentleman who addressed
me at the cars said that this was but five
year old settlement, that this county and t,wn
is but five years old. As look around me up
on the surface of things !
to be more than years old. daughter and
checn:) Here you are settled in this new
country and beginning your settlement at the
right place. If all new settlements in the
! world were built on the same cornerstone that
you built the structure of your society upon,
the future of settlements would be far more
them are. (Cheers.) Isee what is your cor
ner stone. 1t is popular education; it is free
schools. The first institution that You have to
exhibit to stranger is your popular system of
! free schools education. This is the proper
american method of building up. communities
lit for self-government. fit for posterity
proud of, and assure you that
the people Of the older States of the country,
and those connected with the government in ali
capacities are all emphatically impressed by
the shsraetsr Of the settlemsnts made the
They are full of hope, glory and encourage
ment, and Of the general increasing prosperity
throughout the country. (Cheers.)
Upon concluding. the President introduced
Gen. Sherman, who was received with three
! cheers, to which he responded. Hesaid After
the civil war was over was in command of al
this Is military officer, and went out to Dem
yer and came along down here into Kansas. I
visited q little fort up here called Larned, sit
| uated between Bentzfort and Fort Leaven-
worth. When got to Fort Harmed there was
small garrison there, think three or four COM
panies, living in dug. outs (laughter), and one
or two kinds of tents built up the sides with
sod and tent roof. These were the great and
beautiful palaces then of the inhabitants of
this State. Laughter.)
My friends, Mr.. Kicking Bird of Black
Kettle, and Little Raven, were encamped just
here about where we now stand. They sent
me word they wanted to pay me visit so as to
them word to come ahead. (Laughter). told
them what was going to happen and that they
had better prepare to leave. They would not
believe nae. The next year war came up and
they had to go. On that occasion Of their
visit they came with their war paint on and
pistols by their sides, and they had prepared
themselves to look like DEVILS as they were.
We had what they called talk and it was
pretty plain talk, too. on my side. They did not
like it exactly. They did not believe it when
said the white man was coming here
They didn't believe the white man
would ever want to live here. The next year
we had a war which resulted in the killing of
Black Kettle down in the Indian country. At
that time they came to me and begged for meat.
Although there was plenty Of antelope in this
country and some elk, they wanted some pork.
We gave them pork and bareback, but we
wouldn't give them bit of whisky because
We were temperance men in those days.
daughter. We gave each fellow q hat-one
| of those soldier hats with feather in it-and
they were the proudest Indians you ever saw.
l am very glad to see they are gone now (more
they arc gone to. Great laughter.) Some OF
these Indians are still left in The Indian conn
try about Fl. Sell. Little Raven has
pretty good farm down there,
and he has raised crop OF
wheat TINS year and he il going to
keepit for better prices. (More laughter. )
Kicking Bird was good Indian, If you can
imagine such thing as good Indian, and be-
cause he was good Indian they sent him to
the good hunting ground little sooner than
his appointed time. by poison. Black Kettle
was killed by Custer. and in looking over the
country here can barely recognize the out
lines of those hills. We came down into the
town Of Black Kettle and seemed to have been
between this point and where your town now
stands, otherwise cannot see one particle of
the old landscape.
am delighted to see many people greet
the President and his party, because it shows
you keep in your hearts the love Of country,
which is needed for developing country Of
this kind, and should always be deeply planted
/ in the hearts of the foldiers who fought
through the struggle of 1861, and am sure
that the feeling will grow stronger until you
lind that this country, new and undeveloped,
i is the very center of the wealth md civiliza-
tion OF the country.
At the conclusion of Gen. Sherman's remarks
Mrs. Hayes was called for and she was pre-.
sented to the crowd by Gen. Sherman as the
best part of his speech. She was greeted in an
enthusiastic manner and made mother happy
BY taking her baby in her arms, which she
handed on the platform as specimen Of juven.
lie western humanity.
GENERAL GRANT.