Morning journal and courier., 1889-08-23
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 FROM ALL QUARTERS. INDIANA's MONUMENT. The Corner Stone Laid With
 Imposing Ceremonies. PRESIDENT HARR|S0N'S ADDRESS. High Officials Killed in a
 Wreck Near Knoxville. MRS. MAVERICK WILL NOT HANG. Gen. Malone Nominated for
 Governor of Virginia.
MRS. MAVERICK WILL NOT HANG.
uNDuANA,s MONUMENT

Laying of the Corner stone or the
 Soldiers and SaiIors' Monument
 Imposing Ceremonies - President
 Harrlscn,s Address Enthusiastically
 Received.
 INDIAkAPoL1s, Aug. 22.-The corner stone of the Indianapolis soldiers and sailors mon- ument was laid this afternoon with imposing ceremonies in the presence of the President. Many men of prominence and thousands of veteran soldiers and sailors were present. The weather was all that could have been asked. All day yesterday and the early morning trains to-day brought thou sands of strangers to the city and by noon there were not less than forty thousand on the streets. The city was aAame with color in honor or the occasion.
 The exercises of the day began at 3 o'clock when the parade formed and began it's march through the principal streets. It is estimat- ed that eight thousand men were in line. In the second division, immediately in the rear of the military, the escort of President Har~ rison, one hundred strong. Between the sec- tions of the escort rode the President in flag -draped carriage, Mayor Denny and Governor Hovey with hin. The Presi- dent acknowledged the compliments of the crowd by repeatedly lifting his hat. It was nearly o'clock when the head of the pro- csssion reached the monument. AS the President was recognized on the stand he was greeted with cheer. The crowd watched in silence the laying of the corner stone by Charles M. Travis, deputy commander of the Indiana department. When the stone had been placed in position the national flag was raised and the ''Star Spangled Banner" sung by Mrs. Seguin Wallace. Governor Hovey made brief address snd was followed by General Manson and General John Coburn of Indianapolis. President Harrison was then introduced to the assemblage. He spoke as follows: s'I did not expect to make any ad- dress on the occasion. It would have been pleasant if I could have found leisure to make suitable preparations to have accepted the invitation of the committee having these exercises | in charge to deliver an oration. l would have felt 1t an honor to associate my name | with an occasion so great as this. (Cheers.. Public duty, however, prevented the accept ! ance of the invitation and could only prom ! ise to be present with you. There have beer | few occasions in the history of our State SC | full of interest, SO magnificent, so inspiring as that which we now witness. (Cheers.) Tn, | suggestion that monument should be buildet to commemorate the valor and heroism O those soldiers of Indiana who gave their live for the flag, attracted my interest from tn
 beginning. Five years ago last January whel | the people assembled in the opera house yon der to nnvail the statue which had been SC up to our great war governor l ventured t. | express the hope that near by 1t, as twil expression of one great sentiment, there nigh ! be builded a noble shaft, not to an
 man, not to bear on any ot it's majesty face the name of a man, but 8 monument abou
 which the sons of veterans, the mothers o
 our dead, the widows that are yet with us
 might gather and pointing to the statel
 shaft say: "There is his monument. l(Oheers.) The hope expressed that day i
 realized now. (Cries of "Thank God" an
 cheers.)
 Continuing the President said: This Is
 monument of Indiana to Indiana soldiers
 But 1 beg you to remember that they wer I only soldiers of Indiana until the enlistmen
 oath was taken. From that hour until the
 returned to the generous State that had ser | them forth, they were soldiers of tn
 Union. (Great applause.) Be that
 seemed to me not inappropriat
 that l should bring to your mind te
 day the sympathy of the loyal people of a
 the states. Applause and great cheering
 No American citizen need avoid 1t or pass
 with unsympathetic eyes, for, my country I men, it does not commemorate war of sub jugation. It seems to me that our spirits hay
 been borne up to meet those of the dead an ] gIori6ed and that from this place we sha | go to our homes more resolutely set In ou
 purpose as citizens to conserve the peace an
 welfare of our neighborhoods, to hold up th
 dignity and honor of our free institution
 and to see that no harm shall come to on
 country, whether from internal dissenc,sn
 from the aggressions of foreign s1e: ldrea
 and prolonged applause. Gs-. Rusk, Attorne, l General Miller ana Mfr. Halford also spoke
 This ended the exercises of the day and amit | the booming of cannon and the cheers of tn
 thousands the throng dispersed after having
 seen Indiana's monument to it's dead heroe
 fairly started toward completion.
 The work of the convention was finishes
 after midnight by the nomination of Warre
 s. Lurty by exclamation for attorney gen
 eral. The convention then adjourned sin die