Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-10-24
PRESIDENTS DAY
Mr.. Cleveland Speaks to the Peo-
pie at the Atlanta Expo
sitiOn.
Introduced as the Man Who Made
Eradication of Sectional
Lines Possible.
eat Heritage of the Amer
lean People and How 1t
Should Be Kept.

ATLANTA, Oct. 24.-No brighter or
baImier sun ever shouo over this partic-
ular portion Of the Southland than
that which dawneA on Presidential
Day. at the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition. The thousands Of
visitors landed III the city early swelled
the Il rongs on the streets to immense
proportions and lOcomotion 500 be-
came a difficult matter. In accordance
with the carefully laid plans of the ex-
post on management, the exercises of
the day We're all concentrated within
the exposition grounds, into which the
cohorts Of visitors and large proportion
of the population of the city emptied
themselves during the morning.
The presidential party spent the morn
ing quietly at the Aragon, when they
were driven rapidly to the exposition
grounds without any parade whatever.
Inside the gates the military was al
ready gathered.
Captain j. +. Burke of the Gate City
Guards acted as marshal. He had IN
line the Fifth regiment Of United States
regulars. commanded by Colonel w. L..
Kellogg; the Fourth Virginia regiment,
commanded by Colonel G. a. Nash; the
Virginia Military Institute cadets, com
manGed by Colone- d. Price; the First
company Of the Governors Foot Guard
o. Connecticut. commanded by Major
l.. Henry Hyde; the Second company
Of the Governors Foot Guard of Con-
uocticut, commanded by Major Browa;
Grimes Battery Of Richmond, and the
Ashayille Light infantry.
The troops paraded around the board
walk within the fair enclosure and
were reviewed by the president from a
stand in front of the government build
ing.
After the review the president deliv-
cred an address. He was introduced by
President Collier of the exposition COM
mittee, who referred TO him as the man
who had been entrusted with the duty
of wiping out sectional issues and lines.
President Cleveland's appearance at
the front of the stand was the signal for
an outburst of applause from the multi
tude.
The president said:
On my own behalf and for my CO.
laborers in the executive branch of our
government who have accompanied me,
/ thank you for your kind words of
greeting. We are here to congratulate
yOu and your associates upon the splen-
aid success of the exposition you have
set on foot and upon the evidences you
have here gathered, chiefly illustrative
Of Southern enterprise, Southern in
dustry and Sou hern Incorporation.
But we are also here to claim a share
in the pride of your achievement. No
portion of cur countrymen wherever
found can exclusively appropriate the
glory arising from these surroundings.
Icy are proofs Of Amer can genius and
industry which are the joint possession
of al our people, and they represent
trlumphs OF American skill and in
gcnuity in which ali III citizens from
the highest to the humblest have a pro-
pr.etary right.
While my fellow citizens Of Georgia
and her neighb0ring states may felci-
tate themselves to the fullest extent
upon such evidences as are here found
OF the growth and prosperity of the in
terests and enterprises III which they are
especially concerned, l cannot be de-
prirod OF the enjoyment afforded by the
reflection that the work they have done
emphasizes i'll the sight of the world the
immense and indomltable
THRIFT of the people of the United States.
Suggests a Thought
1t seems to me the thought may be
suggested as not inappropriate to this
occasion, that what we see about Us Is
an outgrowth Of another exposition in
augurated on American soil more than
q century ago, when q new nation was
exhibited TO the civilized world, guar
anteed and protected by a constitution
which was ordained and established by
the people of the United States with the
declared purpose of promoting their
general welfare and securing the bless
ings of liberty to themselves and their
posterity. The success which has at
tended this exposition III products and
manufacture is not altogether due TO
the quality of the soil or character of
the people in any Of the contributing
states, but it rests largely upon the
fact that these states are members of a
Bsneacently Governed Nation,
whose natural and advantages
everywhere have been developed and
improved by the influence OF free ingti-
.tutioEs, and whose people have been
stimulated and encouraged by the bless
ings of personal liberty. A contempla-
ton Of the benefits ~vouchsafed 10 Us by
our government easily reminds us Of the
Importance of a hearty and united 90