Birmingham state herald., 1895-10-24
BALMY AND BEAUT|FU Was Presidents Day at the Cot
 ton Exposition, MIR. CLEVELAND'S ADDRESS Was Short But Full of Good and Patriotic
 Advice. A LARGE CROWD LISTENED TO HIM. After the Speaking He Shook Hands for an Hour and Broke All Previous Rec ords-Many Ladies Painted
 Tn the Crush
MIR. CLEVELAND'S ADDRESS
A LARGE CROWD LISTENED TO HIM.

Atlanta, Oct. 23-President's day at the Cotton States and International ex- position broke bright, balmy and beau tiful. Incoming trains brought thou sands of visitors and the streets were crowded at an early hour. The president remained In his apartments at the Ara gon until the committee called for him. Secretary Carlisle and VicePresident Stevenson were out early, however, for a stroll. The throng collected around the hotel long before carriages arrived for the visitors. Calls were made for the president but he did not respond.
 At 10 o'clock the military procession formed down town and half an hour later passed the Aragon on its way out to the exposition. The military was not in- tended as an escort and MT. Cleveland and his official family were driven rap idly to the exposition grounds. They reached the reviewing stand in front of the government building few minutes before the head of the column of troops wound around the hill in front of the ad- ministration building, past the Pennsyl- vania, New York and fine arts buildings.
 Besides President Cleveland and SecrS- taries Carlisle, Lamont Herbert, Smith, Morton and PoStmaster-GeneralW Wilson on the reviewing stand were present MT. Stevenson, Governor Atkinson of Geor- gia, exposition and city officials. The military parade was long and pictur- esque United States regulars from Fort McPherson, and volunteers from Con- necticut Virginia and North Carolina were in line. Governor O'Ferrall and staff of Virginia received prolonged cheers as they rode by. Governor Coffin and the relocated governors foot guard (tt cot a great round of applause Mr. Cleveland lifted his hat to the officers as they passed and gave the governors special smile. The review being over Dr. T. s. Hopkins of Atlanta delivered prayer for the pres ident and the prosperity of the nation and the success of the exposition. Pres ident Collier of the exposition then in ten minutes speech introduced the pres ident. Several thousand people were on the plaza in sight of the president. Though only a small part of these could hear the introduction, all recognized him and gave a mighty cheer. President Cleveland had most respectful attention while he spoke
 The president spoke as follows:
 MT. President: On my own behalf, and for my co-lab borers in the executive branch of our government who have ac- companied me, thank you for your kind words of greeting. We are here to con- graduate you and your associates upon the splendid success of the exposition you have set on foot, and upon the evil dences you have here gathered chiefly il- lustrativ of southern enterprise, south ern industry and southern recupera ton, but we are also here to claim share in the pride of your achievement. No portion of our countrymen, wherever found, can exclusively appropriate the glory arising from these surroundings. They are proofs of American genius and J1 talx f1an f0t iTra of our people, and they represent tri- umphs of American skill and ingenuity in which all our citizens from the high est to the humblest, have a propriatory right.
 While my fellow citizens of Georgia and her neighboring states may felicitate themselves to the fullest extent upon such evidences as are here found of the growth and prosperity of interests and enterprises in which they are especially concerned cannot be deprived of the en- joyment afforded by the reflection that the work that they have done empha- sizes in the sight of the world the inn mense resources and indomitable thrift of the people of the United States.
 'It seems to me. though it may be sug gested as not inappropriate on this occa- sion, that what we see about us Is the growth of another exposition inaugurated on American soil more than century. ago, when a new nation was exhibited tol the civilized world, guaranteed and pro- tected by a constitution which was or dained and published by the'people of the United States with the declared purpose of promoting their general welfare and securing the blessings of liberty to them selves and their posterity.
 "The success which has attended this exposition of products and manufac- lures is not altogether due to the quality of the soil or character of the people in Df ,fri1, tfy1er Cfo but rests largely upon the fact that these states are members of beneficial gov erned nation, whose natural resources and advantages everywhere have been developed and improved by the influence of free institutions and whose people have been stimulated and encouraged by the blessings of personal liberty.
 "A contemplation of the blessings vouchsafed to us by our government cas- fly demands of us the importance of a hearty and united cooperation in its support and protection. We should lov- ingly watch and guard it, not only be- cause we are recipients of its precious gifts, but for its own sake, and because 1t has been put in our hands in sacred keeping to prove to the world that man can be trusted with self-government.
 "We shall walk in the path of patriotid duty if, remembering that our free insti- tutions were established to promote the general welfare, we strive for those things which benefit cur people; and if each of us is content to receive from a common fund his share of the prosperity thus contributed, we shall sadly miss our duty and forfeit our heritage if in mar roY selfishness we gre. needless of the general welfare, and struggle to wrest from the government private advantages which can only be gained at the expense of our fellow countrymen.
 'T hope I may. therefore, be permitted in conclusion to suggest as a most inn portant lesson taught by this occasion the absolute necessity to our national health, and welfare, and consequently to our individual happiness as citizens of a careful discrimination in our support of policies and in our advocacy of political l,taf1. h