Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-05-16
DENVER'S RECEPTION
Ten Thousand People Welcome
the Chief Magistrate.
THOUSANDS MORE CHEER HIM

DENVER, NAV 13. Ten thousand peo-
pie welcomed President Harrison when
the train rolled into this city. Thou
sands more were massed ON the side
walks as he was driven from the station
to the Metropolitan hotel. The crowd
was noisy, but good natured. and the
sincerity of its welcome could not be
doubted. Senators Teller and Wolcott
and the governor of the state were the
first to greet the president, after which
he was escorted to his carriage, which
was drawn by six magnificent horses.
All along the line Of march the presi-
dent was greeted with most enthusiastic
cheers. A grand ovation was given him
when he passed the High school build
ing by the school children, who were
massed row above row in front of the
building. The street was covered with
flowers strewn by the children. The
party were halted at the Metropolitan
hotel, where an elaborate banquet was
served. After the banquet the process
sion was again formed and moved TO
Lincoln avenue and Broadway, where
an address of welcome was made by the
mayor, to which the president responded
rs follows:
Governor Routt, Mir. Mayor, Pioneers of Colo
RADIO, Comrades of the Grand Army and
Fellow Citizens:
This scene is inspiring. This beautiful city,
the fame of which your journeying citizens
have not failed to carry to the far east, had
become known to me, and can now, by the
hearing of the ear and seeing of the eye, re-
joice to add my pleasant impressions of Colo
RADIO and of its commercial and political CAPT
tai. Your state is blessed in the diversity OF
its resources. You do not depend upon one Of
the greatest industries of civilized life. You
have taken from your mines immense stores
of precious metals, but when these are gone,
or their supply is diminished, you will turn
your eyes towards those metals that we call
base, but that after all enter in so many ways
into human life that they supply more endur-
ing, and in the end more profitable industries.
Your iron and coal, and lead, and building
stone Will be sources of income inexhaustible
| am glad TO know that you have not been
80 busy delving in the earth, that you have
so turned your minds to precious metals, as to
have forgotten that there is a blue above you.
that there are aspirations and hopes and
glories that are greater than all material. You
have not failed to make sure that the blessed
children of your households that are now com.
ing are made secure in the possession of the
well ordered and well endowed common
school system. II has been most happy
sight TO see the old banner that we bore into
the smoke of battle and carried over dying
comrades now in the hands OF school children
of Colorado.
But, my fellow citizens, this assemblage is
too vast and the demand made upon my time
for public speech has been too protracted to
enable me to pursue these remarks further.
Comrades of the Grand Army of the Republic
survivors Of the great war which SO sue
cessfully brought back the flag in honor and
established again the undisputed emblem OF
an indissolube union, God has bountifully
heightened ont your days that You might
catch some glimpse Of the glory that has come
from the achievements in which you took an
honorable part. But only the vision of the
prophet reaching out over centuries to come
can catch the full glory of what your deeds
have wrought. give you today most affec.
uonate greeting and a regretful good-by.
May you hold the community in which you
live in the respect and honor to which you are
entitled. Let no Grand Army man ever dis
honor in civil life the noble record he made in
the war. May every blessing follow YOU and
if ii shall not be in Gods dispensation to give
you riches, at least, comrades, you shall die
with the glorious thought of having contrib
uted 10 the greatest work that man ever
wrought for humanity and for God.
Citizens of Denver, l cannot close without
expressing the great satisfaction and surprise
which have witnessed this morning, the mag
niticent development of your city. These
streets these towering substantial and stately
buildings in which your commerce is trans.
acted place you in enterprise and in the beauty
of your streets among the great cities of the
land. thank you very sincerely for demon.
stration which l cannot accept as personal
All this is too great for any man. accept this
as evidence that in all essential things we are
patriotic American citizens, having love fol-
the constitution and the flag that brings us all
at last to submit our opinion 10 the lawfully
expressed wish of the majority.
AT the reception at Mrs. Governor
Routts residence Mrs. Harrison was
presented with handsome book of Col
0rado wild flowers. After leaving the
Grant smelter the party were driven all
over Denver suburbs and past the West
Denver public school, where / 900 child
rem were drawn up in line. In returning
the party were driven to the depot,
where a large crowd was awaiting to
see them off. Promptly at o'clock the
train pulled off over the Burlington
road, The president said his reception
IN Denver was the best arranged affair
OF any he had received, everything 60
ing off smoothly.