The record-union., 1891-04-26
President HarrisOn's Triumphal
Trip to the Metropolis.
DEMONSTRATIONS AT FRESNO AND
OTHER CITIES.
A Magnificent Marine Display in San
Francisco Harbor Last Night
Thousands of Cheering People on
Market Street.-The Reception at the
Mechanics Pavilion-A Grand Ova-
Special to the SUNDAY UNION.

party arose at o'clock this morning
while their train was crossing the Te-
hachapi Mountains on its way to the val
ley of the San joaquin, and they had a
splendid view of the celebrated railroad
loop at that point.
The first stopping place of the day was
at bakersfield, where the party arrived
at $50 O'clock. The train remained there
ten minutes. The President received a
cordial welcome. He was introduced to
the people by Judge A. r. Conklin, and
was about to respond when he was as
sailed by such shower of bouquets that
he was forced TO seek shelter in his car.
Seeing that the President did not fancy
this treatment the people desisted, where
upon the President again advanced to the
front of the car-platform and addressed
them as follows:
Il am very much obliged to you for
your friendly greeting and for these bou-
quets. You must excuse me if seem a
little shy of the bouquets. / received one
IN my eye the other day which gave me a
good deal of trouble. You are very kind
to meet us here so early in the morning
with this cordial demonstration. 1t has
been very long journey and has been
accompanied with some fatigue of travel,
DuG we 166l tI1lS III I01S
atlng air and this sweet sunshine, and re-
freshed with your kind greeting, as
bright and more happy than when we
left the National Capital.
lam glad to feel that here, on the west
ern edge of the continent, in this Pacific
State, there is that same enthusiastic love
Tor the flag, that same Veneration and re-
spect for American institutions, for the
one Union and the one Constitution that
is found in the heart of the country. We
are one people absolutely. We follow
not men, but institutions. We are happy
in the fact that men may live or die, come
or go, we have still that toward which the
heart of the American citizen turns with
confidence and veneration-this great
Union of States devised so happily by
our fathers. General Garfield, when Mr..
Lincoln was stricken down by the foul
hand of an assassin, and when that great
wave of dismay and grief swept over the
land, standing in a busy thoroughfare of
New York, could say, The Government
at Washington still lives. 1t is dependent
upon no man. 1t is lodged safely in the
affections of the people and having its
impregnable defense and its assured per-
petuity in their love and veneration for
law" [Cheers.l
AT TULARE.
Tulare was reached shortly after 10
o'clock, and the President and party,
ham, Ex-Governor Perkins, MIR. Stump
and Colonel Crocker, received regular
ovation. \ national salute was fired
during which the party was escorted to a
gally-decorated stand, the base of which
wasthe stump ola mammoth redwood tree.
This was surrounded by guard of honor
composed of the military and Grand
Army Posts. The President was intro
duced by Governor Markham, and was
greeted with hearty cheers. He ad-
dressed the assemblage as follows:
This seems to be a very happy and
smiling audience, and / am sure the glad
ness which is in your hearts and in your
faces does not depend at all upon the
presence of this little company of strang-
ers who tarry with you for a moment. 1t
is born of Influences and conditions that
are permanent. 1t comes of the happy
sunshine and sweet air that is over your
fields; and, still more, from contentment,
prosperity and love and peace that are in
your households. California has been
spoken Of as wonderland, and every
where we have gone something new, in
teresting and surprising has been pre-
sented To our observation. There has
been but one monotone in our journey,
and that is amonotone of a universal well
come from all our people. tCheers.]
Everything else has been new and ex-
ceptional at every stop. My own heart
kindles with gladness, my own conf
dence in American institutions is firmer
and more settled, as I mingle with the
great masses of our people.
'You are here in a great agricultural
region, a region reclaimed from desert
waste by the skill and energy of man, a
region populated by a substantial, indus
+, trious, trifty, God-fearing people, peo-
pie devoted to the institutions under
which they live, proud to be American
citizens, feeling that the American birth
right is the best heritage they can hand
down to their children; proud of the
great story of our country from the time
of the Independence to this day; devoted
to institutions that give the largest liberty
TO the individual and at the same time Sc
cure social order. Here is the firm foun-
dation upon which our hopes for future
security rest. What, but our own neg
Iect; what but our own unfaithfulness can
put in peril either our national institu-
tions or our local organizations of gov
ernment? True TO ourselves, true TO
those principles which we have embodied
in our Government, there is to the human
eye no danger that can threaten the firm
base of out institutions. l am glad to see
and meet these happy children. l feel
like kneeling 10 them as the future SOW
ereigns of this country, and feel as Ii il
were proclamation to tread upon these
sweet flowers that they have spread in my
pathway. God bless them, every one.
Keep them in the lives they are to live
from all that is evil, fill their little hearts
with sunshine and their mature lives with
grace and usefulness" [Cheers.l
The President afterward remarked to
Governor Markham that this was the
first stump speech he had made on the
entire trip. Short speeches were also
made by General Wanamaker and Secre-
tarY Rusk.
KINGSBURG.
kingsburg was the next place visited
and the President shook hands with all
the people who could get near him. He
has practically recovered the use of his
right hand and anticipates no further
trouble from that member, notwithstand-
ing the middle finger, which was injured
near Santa Barbara yesterday afternoon,
is still in bandages.
FRESNO.
The party arrived at Fresno at 1l:40,
twenty minutes ahead of time, and had a
most enthusiastic reception. The Presi-
dent spoke as follows:
''It is altogether impossible for me to
reach with my voice this vast concourse
of friends. / can only say that am pro-
foundly grateful for this enthusiastic
greeting. l receive with great satisfac-
tion the momento you have given me of
the varied products Of this most fertile
and happy valley. / shall carry it with
me to Washington as reminder of q
scene that will never fade from my
memory. [Applause.l 1t is very pleas
ant to know that all these pursuits that
so much engage your thoughts and so in
dustriously employ your time have not
turned your minds away from the love
of the flag and of these institutions which
spread their secure power over all your
homes. What is it that makes the scat
tered homes of our people secure? There
are no policemen at door, and there is no
guard to accompany us as we move across
this great continent YOu and | Arc in