New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-04-16
rur ppESIDENrS JOURNEY.


- for making short, happy and instructive
80, $500 n Is an intense intellectual strain
mon oro in his position to 60 about the country
in these days Of the ubiquitous reporter 'ne
stenographio pencil and the ready telegraph
IN make seven or eight speeches DAY ior
co,,rlo of Ueeks upon subjects necessarily car
c,,r'scribed by an occasion Of simple fecltation
oo,I. rnon wealth of intellectual resource
,,hioh fo,v mon even in America possess. There
,,.,s a time when It was no confession OF mental
noucitv ia make the same speech WIN appro-
nrioto variations do for all the pubic demon
stra,ions encountered during presidential Jour
nov but the reporter and the telegraph operator
hoyo MT This era far in the past President
who now goes among the people must INVENT
at each stopping place new methou Vi eApieS'
inc even the ordinary sentiments OF oohgraouid,
tion and goodwill. lie is scarcely permlVteu
TO saw GLOW are you?" precisely as he may
have said it before
No nublic man in America is less embarrassed
INV these lately developed requirements than
president Harrison. His life has been full OF
incident and travel, and he knows the states
and their local questions almost as thoroughiS
az the National issues he has lmmediateiy 10
deal with. He possesses the art, too, OF frank
easy ucid speaking, Of suggestive ana homely
illustration. and of putting three or four peru
mont ideas tor9ther in a few harmonious SEN
fences introduced with an acknowledgment anu
closed with a cOngratulation. FROM 1heSe re-
marks there is always total absence Oh IIiNol-
itv. They are always serious lhey AWAY
contain an argument worth celebrating ana
suggestion worth considering Iher tohe Is
bicb and fine. their manner cordial, their ex-
nression graceful. gentle touch of humor
Iiqbtens them here and there, and, upon the
whole. they invariably produce pleasing I'M
pression as coming from one who Is sincere
practical and moved by patriotic impulses
The Presidents route is happily chosen Vir-
GINA. Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia, Alabama
and Texas are States to which at this time
neculiar interest attaches. They have begun
TO live new career. They have discovered
wealth of coal and mineral hitherto unsupported
in their mountain caverns, and industries nave
sprung up in mining and manufacturing tha'
have created new cities and revived OLD ones
at rate of progress that is simply amazing
The story of Spokane is not more remarkable
than the story of Middlesborough. The deVel'
| onment Of Cincinnati, St. Louis and Chicago i
beine repeated at birmingham, Chattanooga and
| Atlanta
This is what the President has gone to sec
and certainly nothing can be more entitled tC
the commitment of the Chief Magistrate per-
sonal examination. lie goes not merely &c
ascertain what the South is accomplishing, Du
TO bear to it the congratulations and goodwill
Of the North and the West He spoke truly
and fortunately when he told the people o.
Knoxville that all the rest of the Nation was
rejoicing with the South in the new glory ant
wealth she was so abundanty acquiring, anC
that il was the wish Of all with whom he asso
ciafed in political life that the streams OF pros
perity in the South might run bank-full. Inc
nolitjcal questions which still cause the South
ern people. overlooking their great industrla
interests. to present solid front in favor o.
the Democratic party do not interfere and Wi
not be allowed to interfere with the gratliica
ton which every American feels in the advance
ment of his country, and of every part OF 1t, IL
all that gives comfort and fortune to the PEG
ME. The President will spread this message
broadcast through the South receiving in return
IFS expressions of loyalty to the flag and OF con
tentment with the results of the War which ar
the necessary first steps toward wise and JUS
settlement of all remaining controversy.