Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1891-04-23
IN ALABAMA.
Progress of the Presidential Party
from Atlanta to Birmingham.
Receptions at Tallapoosa, Admission and
Birmingham of the Most Enthu-
siastic Characteristic Pres
ident's Speeches.

ident's Speeches.
BIRMINGHAM. Ala, April FIX
| tensive preparations had been made for
| doing honor to the president by the
| Georgia Pacific Railroad Co, over which
| line the president and party iourneyed
| from Atlanta to birmingham. All the
| the stations along the line of the road
We're decorated with the national colors,
| and the gigantic locomotive attached to
the train was covered with bunting and
had a large portrait of President Har-
rison fastened above the headlight.
Lithia Springs was the first stopping
place, and during the five minutes the
| mayor and committee of citizens
waited upon and paid their respects to
| the president.
There We're no pans spared by the
people of Tallapoosa, known as the
| Yankee town under southern sun, ;"
to make the president feel that he was
welcome. When the train came to a
halt at the station few minutes after
II o'clock, steam whistles sounded and
brass bands started up simultaneously
with Hail to the Chief" and as the
! president appeared on the platform,
bowling to several hundred people gath
cred about the train. there was much
applause.
Mayor Head introduced the president,
who spoke as follows:
MY FELLOW CITIZENS: This assemblage
of people from this new and energetic local
ity is very pleasant, and thank you for the
welcome that it implies. All of these evil
Gences of extending industry are extremely
pleasing to me, as l observe them. They
furnish employment to men; they imply
comfortable homes, cont ented families, a
safe colonization and a strength to the ma
ton OF which you are part. / am glad to
see that these enterprises, which are taking
the ores from the earth and adapting them
to the uses of civilization, have not
been started here unaccompaned by
that more important work of gathering
the children into the schools and instruct
ing them, that they, in their time, may be
useful men and women. IApplauSe.l l am
glad to greet these little ones. 1t is a cheer
ftl sight. We are soon to lay down the
work of life and the respons Utilities of citi-
Zenship. These mothers are soon to quit
the ever-recurring and never ending work
of the home and give it into new hands. 1t
is of the utmost consequence that these lit
tie ones be well trained in mind and taught
the fear of God and benevolent regard for
their fellow men, in order that their lives
and social relations may be peaceful and
happy. We are citizens of the country, hav-
ing one duty. We are starting upon a new
era of Development, and hope the develop
ment is to keep pace and to be the promo
ting cause of a very perfect unification of our
people. Cheers. We have a government
whose principles very simple and very
popular. The whole theory of our institu-
tions is, that pursuing those election meth
DDS which we have prescribed under the
constitution, every man shall exercise freely
the right of suffrage that the law confides to
him, and that the majority, when it has ex-
pressed itself, shall conclude the issue for
all There is no other foundation. This
was the enduring base upon which the. ia
theirs of our country placed the institutions.
Let us always keep them there. Let press
the debate in our campaigns, as to what the
laws should be; but let keep faith and
submit with that reverence and respect
which is due to the law, when once lawfully
enacted. Applause.
The development which is coming to you
in these regions of the south is marvellous.
In ten years you have increased your
production of iron about 800 per cent, nearly
million and a quarter of tons, and you
have only begun to open these mines and to
put these ores to the process of production.
Now want to leave this thought with you:
In the old plantation days of the south you
got everything from somewhere else. Why
nOt make it all yourselves? ICheerS
Just as the train was leaving, Mrs.
Harrison received several bouquets and
Mr. Wanamal1er with polished hickory
cane.
Shortly after leaving Tallapoosa the
train passed from Georgia .nto Ala
bama and at the same time Governor
Jones of the latter state was on his way
from birmingham to meet the presi-
dent at a station called Henry Ellen.
Nothing was lacking in the complete
ness of the welcome given by the citi-
zens of Admission, Ala. Whistles
sounded. bells rang and flags waved
everywhere and on all sides. Half the
population of the city were in
and about the station, while
several military companies, a
great number of school children, and
negro lodge were lined up by the side
of the track. After the mayor.
who had accompanied the party from.
Atlanta, had introduced the president,
addresses of welcome We're made by
ex-Lieut.-G McElroy and w. A Ste
vens, a colored citizen. The president,
standing bareheaded in passing show
er, responded as follows:
GENTLEMEN AND FELLOW CITIZENS: very
much regret that am able to make so little
return for this cordial manifestation of your
respect and friendship, and yet, even i'll
these few moments which am to spend with
you, I hope l shall gather and possibly be
able TO inpart some impulse that may be
mutually beneficial. i am glad to the
great development which is taking place in
the mineral regions of the southern states.
1 remember we'll as boy, resident upon one
of the great tributaries of the Mississippi,
how the great products of these states, the
corn and provisions raised upon the fertile
acres of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys,
were raised in the south. The south
then essentially q plantation region,
producing one two great staples that
found 4 ready market in the world; but de-
pendent for all its implements of industry
and its domestic utensils, even, upon the
states of the north. l am glad all this Is
changed, as you are realizing the benefits of
a diversified agriculture, and that the pro-
duction upon these farms of these staples,
which YOU once bought elsewhere Is largely
increased, and am glad that to diversified
agriculture you have also added the great
mechanical pursuits which have brought
into your communities artisans and
laborers, who take from adjacent
farms the surplus of your fertile
lands. ICheers.l There has been received
in the south since the not less than
eight billion dollars for cotton; and while
rejoice in that. am glad to know that in the
mineral region there are nearly one hun
dred thousand acres devoted to raising
watermelons. [Laughter.l No farmer GER
tainly no planter. in the old time would have
consented to sell watermelons. You are
learning that things which were small and
despised have come to be great elements in
your commerce. Now your railroads make
special provision for the transportation of a