The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-08-23
INDIANA SOLDIERS.
The Corner Stone OF Their Monu-
ment Laid.
PRESIDENT RARRIsoN'S SPEECH.
Some Good and Patriotic Things-Terrible Ae-
cident to the First Cumberland Gap
Railroad-A Premature Beast.

ISDIANAPoLIs, Aug. a. - The corner
stone of the indianapolis Soldiers and Sail
ors' monument was laid this afternoon with
imposing ceremoniesin the presence of the
President Of the United States, and thous-
ands of veterans, soldiers and sailors were
present. All day yesterday and this morn
ing the trains brought thousands of stran-
gers to the city. The city was beautifully
decorated in honor of the occasion. The
exercises of the day began at 2 o'clock
when the parade formed and began its
march through the principal street. 1t was
made up of various posts of the Grand
Army of the Republic throughout the
state, and state militia and local civic orga-
nizations. 1t was estimated there were
eight thousand in line.
In the second division, Immediately in the
rear of the military, was the escort to
President Harrison, hundred strong, all
mounted. The President rode in flag
draped carriage, and Mayor Denny and
Governor Hovey with him. other guests
of prominence followed All the streets
surrounding the monument were packed
with people, and as the President assembled
the steps he was greeted with cheers, which
he acknowledged.
The crowd watched in silence the laying
of the conversion Documents were con-
signed to their resting place and then the
stone was placed in position in accordance
with the ritual of the Grand Army of the
Republic. When the stone had been placed
in position. the national flag was raised and
the Star Spangled Banner was sung by
Mrs. Zelda Seguin Wallace. The ceremony
ended with the firing of a salute. Follow
ing this, Governor Hovey, as presiding Of
feer of the occasion, made brief address
and was followed by General Manson and
General COburn. At the conclusion of the
latter's address, President Harrison was
introduced, and after the applause which
greeted him had ended, he said, i'll part:
MIR President and fellow citizens The
suggestion that monument should be built
to commemorate the valor and heroism of
those soldiers of Indiana who gave their
lives for the flag attracted my interest from
the beginning. Five years ago last Janu-
airy, when the people assembled in that
house yonder to unveil the statue which
had been worthily set up to the great war
governor, ventured to express the hope
that near by it, as a twin expression
of the great sentiment, there might
be built noble shaft, not to
any man, not to bear on any
of its majestic faces the name of any
man, but monument about which the sons
of veterans, the mothers of our dead. the
widows that are yet with us, might gather,
and pointing to the stately shaft-say,
There is his monument The hope eX-
pressed that day is realized now. TCries of
thank God and cheers
81 congratulate the people of Indiana
that cur legislature has generously met the
expectation of our patriotic people. Leon
graduate the commission having this great
work-in charge that they have secured a
design that will not suffer under the criti-
cism of the best artists of the world. My
countrymen, 100000 have never passed,
and will never pass. from the treasury of
Indiana that will give better return than
the expenditure for the erection of this
monument.
''As l have witnessed these ceremonies
and listened to these patriotic hymns, l
read in the faces Of the men who stood
about me, that lifting up of the soul, that
kindling of patriotic fire, that has made me
realize that ON such occasions the nation is
lying deep and strongi in its future security.
This is the monument of Indiana to
Indiana's soldiers. But I beg your con-
sideration that they were only the soldiers
of Indiana until the enlistment oath was
taken; that from that hour until they came
back to the generous state that had sent
them forth, they were soldiers of the union
great applause), so that it seemed 70 me
not inappropriate that l should bring to
you to-day the sympathy and cheer of the
loyal people of all the states. No American
citizen need avoid it or pass it with unsym-
pathetic eyes, for, my countrymen, it does
not commemorate a war of subiugation.
There is not in the United States to-day
a man who, if he realizes what has oc-
Cured since the war and has opened his
soul to the right which is to come, who will
not feel that it is good for all our victory
crowned cause which this moment com
memorates. GCries of "amen" and ap-
plause.l do seriously believe that if we
can measure among the states the benefits
resulting from the preservation of the
union, that the rebeilious states have had
the larger share. 1t opened the way for
commercial life that, if they will only
embrace it and face the light, means to
them a development that shall rival the
best attachments of the greatest OF our
states.
''And now, let me thank you for your
pleasant greeting. IGreat and prolonged
applausel
There were loud calls for Genral Rusk..at
the conclusion of the Presidents remarks
He responded as follows. General Rusk
said:
"Mr President and Comrades: l will
not detain you with any remarks. l am
here with the President to witness these
great ceremonies. 1 met Indiana soldiers
in the war, and they never failed to sup
pert US, and 1 am here to-day to say to
you that will never fail to stand yyou.''
Attorney General Miller spoke briefly,
saying he was not prepared to say anything
of interest, and did not think man bad a
right to mar such exercises as to-day's by
an unconsidered extemporaneous address.
This ended the exercises, and amid the
booming of cannon and the cheers of thou
sands, the throng dispersed.
The President at Indianapolis.
INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 22.-About the Deni-
son hotel the headnnarters of President