Los Angeles herald., 1891-04-26
A POEM In FLOWERS.
The Presidents Trip Through
California.
San Francisco Reached at 8 z.
M. Yesterday.
The City and Bay Most Beautifully
Illuminated.
The Run Through the San Joaquin 9
ley was q Continuous ovatioh'
Handshaking Resumed.
Associated Press Dispatches.

Associated Press Dispatches.
FRESNO. CAL, April 25.-The presi-
dent and party arose at 9 O'Clock this
morning, while the train was crossing
the Tehachapi mountains on its way to
the valley of the San joaquin, and had
asplendid view OF the celebrated rail-
road loop at that point. The first stop
ping-place was Bakersfield, where the
party arrived at 80 o'clock. The train
remained ten minutes. The president
received a cordial welcome. He was
introduced to the people by Judge Ajar,
and was about to respond, when he was
assailed 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 de-
sisted. whereupon the president again
advanced to the front platform OF the
car. and addressed them as follows:
My FRIENDS: am very much obliged
to you for your friendly greeting and for
these bouquets. You must excuse me
if am little shy of bouquets. l re-
ceived one in my eye, the other day,
which gave me q good deal of trouble.
You are very kind to me at so early a
time to receive me with this demonstra-
tion. 1t has been very long journey,
and been accompanied with some IA
tigue of travel, but we are we'll this
morning in this exhilerating air and
this sweet sunshine, and refreshed with
your kind greeting, are as bright and
more happy than when we left the
national capital. am glad to feel that
here on the western edge of the CONT
nent, in this Pacific state, there is that
enthusiastic love for the flag, that same
veneration and respect for American in
stitutions, for one union and 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 fact
that men may live or die, but we have
still that to 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, when that great wave of
dismay and grief swept over the land,
standing in busy thoroughfare of New
York, could say "The government at
Washington still lives" 1t is depend
ent upon no man, lodged safely in the
affections of the people, and having its
impregnable defense and its assured
perpetuity in their love and veneration
for law. [Cheers.l
A STUMP SPEECH AT TULARE.
Tulare was reached shortly after 10
O'Clock, and the president and party,
which now included Governor Markham,
Ex-Governor Perkins, Mr.. Stump and
Col. Crocker, received a regular ova-
ton. A national salute was fired, dur
ing which he party was escorted to
gaily decorated stand, the base OF which
was the stump of mammoth redwood
tree. This was surrounded by guard
of honor, composed OF the local militia
and Grand Army posts. The president
was introduced by Governor Markham,
and was greeted with hearty cheers. He
addressed the assembly as follows:
Ny Friends: This seems to be very
happy and smiling audience. | am sure
the gladness which is in your hearts and
in your faces does not depend at all upon
the presence of this little company of
strangers who are with you for a moment
only. 1t is born of influences and condi-
tions that are permanent. 1t comes
from the happy sunshine and sweet air
that is over your fields, and still more
from the contentment, prosperity and
households. California has been
spoken of as wonderland, and every
where we have seen something new.
interesting and surprising, presented to
our observation. There has been but
one monotone in our journey, and that
is the monotone of universal welcome,
from all our people. [Cheers.l Every
thing else has been new and exceptional
at every stop. My own heart kindles
with gladness my own confidence in
American interests is formed more and
more settled. You are here
in great agricultural region
reclaimed from desert waste
by the skill and energy of man, induced
by substantial industries of thrifty, God
fearing people-people devoted to the
institutions under which they live !;
proud to be Americans, feeling that the
American birthright is the greatest heri-
tage they can hand down to their chill
dren; proud of the great story of our
country from the time of independence
to this day; devoted to the institutions
that give the largest liberty to the indi-
vidual, and at the same time secure
social order. Here is the firm founda-
tion upon which our hopes for future
society rest. Nothing but our own neg
lect-our own unfaithfulness-ca put in
peril the existence of our national insti
buttons, or our local organizations OF
government. True to ourselves, true
to those principles which we have en-
bodied in our government, there is no
danger that can threaten the firm base
of our institutions. 1 am glad to see and
meet these happy children. feel like
kneeling to them as the future sover-
eigns of this country. | feel as if it
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
liveswith grace and usefulness. [Cheers.] ]
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 Postmaster-General Wana-
maker and Secretary Rusk.