Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-16
I'd EDITION.
--latest T1lGglqnS to Th8 Star.
GOV. HILL HITS GROVER.
In His Atlanta Speech He Says He Left
His Encyclopedias Behind.

ATLANTA, Oct. 16.-The reception to Gov.
Hill at the Piedmont exposition today was only
equaled by that given President Cleveland two
years ago. hundred thousand people are on
the grounds. At pm, Gov. Hill and party
arrived and are making tour of the buildings,
after which they will dine at the club house.
Gov. Hill spoke at pm. His speech was sub
stantially as follows:
Ladies and gentlemen-In behalf Of the
great state of which am proud to be the rep
resentatiye, and for which this kind expression
of esteem and hospitality is Intended, l wish to
thank you most cordially. The empire state of
the north sends warm greeting to the empire
state of the south. She is proud of your
progress-as she is Of her own.
The north has not forgotten the message
which your eloquent Grady brought to the
sons of New England two years ago. He
touched, as no orator in the generation since
the war has touched, chord of sympathy and
charity whose sound vibrated from Maine to
California.
am glad that you have given me this OPP
portunity to see the south under its new con-
ditions-to see for myself what you have &C
complished in this struggle Of twenty-five
years-to feel the spirit Of progress which has
been breathed into this new land Of liberty
and to carry back perhaps, a broader idea of
our common interests. / am glad that in this
exposition, wherein are collected the best
states. am able in the brief time that am to
be with you to get a comprehensive idea OF
what the whole south is doing.
When Sherman's persistent army marched
into the old Atlanta, he sent this message to
the north, stirring every heart which read it
with the glad feeling of patriotism and giving
assurance that the terrible war was near
ing its emo: "Atlantas is ours. and fairly won."
What better word can you send to your coun-
trymen in the north, citizens Of Georgia, in this
twenty-ffth year Of your new metropolis than
this message OF encouragement which Sherman
wrote: Atlanta is ours, and fairly won!'-won
by your indomitable perseverance, and by the
exhibition OF qualities which have challenged
the admiration of the world!
The south's prosperity Is an allurlng theme.
In the last ten years the assessed valuation of
real and personal property in twelve southern
states-Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Rorth Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and
Nrginia-has increased nearly 63 per cent.
l could give you figures equally startling
about the growth of industries which make up
this increased wealth. | could tell you story
of the development of cotton manufacturing
which Is as interesting as any romance. But
these things l know by reading and hearsay.
You know them by actual observation and by
careful study and shall not weary you by re-
peating dry figures which by this time you
must know by rote. Besides, left my ency-
clopedias at home.
Great problems will have to be grappled
with, and the north is watching to see how You
will solve acknowledging, perhaps, with
little too much OF the Pharisee's conceit, but
watching, nevertheless, with patriotic anxiety.
You have within your borders vast numbers of
an unfortunate and long oppressed race-left
suddenly by the result of war to their own re-
sources, untutored superstitious and helpless,
but patient, docile and ambitious: it is your
interest, as it is your duty, to hit them out of
the estate in which fate has placed them and
help them to assume the responsibilities Of
citizenship.
1t is sometimes said in the north that the
south is solid So it is-solid for good govern
ment. solid for the welfare of its people, solid
for integrity in private and official life solid in
Its opposition to a paternal administration of
public affairs, solid against congressional ex-
travagance, solid in its remuneration of the
errors Of the past solid for American ideas,
solid in its devotion to the new nation, solid
IN its aspirations for higher civilization and
solid for all that would make US a prosperous
and powerful republic. OF such sondity am
not afraid. see no dangers IN such unity as
springs from the ncblest motives and subseryes
the most exalted patr:Otism