The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-03-27
,EBBnNGS OF GOOD W7LL
Expressed by the Mexican Re-
public for This County.
RAILROAD REPRESENTATIVES
Welcomed Cordially by tho Prcsi-
dent In the Name or Ills PcopIc.
Notable Gathering nj the Cap.
ital-Prcsidcnt's Speech.

| Cry or MEXICO, March o6.-In speak
ingat the reception given to the Genera
Passenger Agents Association by Presi
dent Diaz last night, Mr.. Charlton, o
the Chicago & Alton road, after express
Ing cordial thinks for the distinction
shown to tho Association by the Presi
dent and the friendly and marked at
tention its members had received irom
Mexicans generally, hc said:
"Wc came here 10 attend the meeting
OF our Association, and held it in this
city SO Tint we might have an opportuu.
ity OF making ourselves acquainted Will,
the Republic OF Mexico. Wo are glad
VIC have done 50, and arc delighted will,
our trip. We brought here only feelings
OF good will to the Republic Of Mexico,
and VIC will 60 away with these feelings
intensified. We rejoice that Mex leo is n
sister Republic and hope That it will
aways remain Eepublic, free from MI
foreign dictatiou and interference. We
recognize in your Exccllency Il wise
ruler, who saved Mexico from revolf-
tion and gave it an able government and
enabled it to enter on an era OF inter-
national improvement, and, We hope,
sure and sale progress. That you have
given it railways, is not the least in our
eyes, OF all the good yon have done for
it. We thank you for this reception. and
We hope for you, in the interest OF your
country, health, long lie and n contin.
ued prosperous career, and we hope all
good for Mexico. Long live His Excel.
lency, Poriirio Diaz, President OF the
Republic ol Mexico, and long live the
Republic OF Mexico" [Grcat appluse.
TIE PRESIDENTS REPLY.
President Diaz, in addressing the 1850
citation, spoke as follows:
lam happy, gentlemen and ladies', 10
avail myself Of this occasion to welcome
You most cordially 10 Mexico, und TO
thank you in the name OF our people,
for your visit. have followed with a
great deal Of attention what you have
said in the name Of your association aud
thank you heartily for the words spoken.
1t is especially gratifying to me that the
and hopes which you have
expressed emanate from group OF busi-
ness men 50 well calculated to Judge OF
all that constitutes the progress Of civil
izatlon, and / am more than gratitied
that you find in Mexico civilization, q
progress, commercial energy that
pleases you. The interest with which l
have followed your remarks has been
deepened by the fact TINT YOU represent
an organization whose purposes it is to
increase the mercantile and business
relations between the two coun.
tries, and in partnership with these
commercial relations, to increase social
intercourse. This interest is also fur
tber deepened by the fact that tho in.
terests you represent are located in a
country whereby its wonderful progress
and civilization is bound to be, and is to
be. the model for your sister Republic
Of Mexico. [Applause. s!he system
OF arteries and nerves in man are the
most important factors Of his organiza-
ton in life, in the same degree are the
railways and telegraph lines in every
country the most important factors OF
its advancement and civilization. Ad-
mitting this statement, as l am sure you
will, you will not regard it us I'll cxaggcr-
alton when say you gentlemen repre-
sent the very heart and soul Of the
country from which you came. Ap.
plause.l 1t is with sincere pleasure,
therefore, that in the name OF our
people grasp you one and all by the
hand, welcome you as representing that
country which is tho friend and the
neighbor OF Mexico.