River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1895-10-31
VISITS ATLANTA.
Presidential Day at the Cotton
States Exposition.
Cleveland Receives Cordial Greeting
from the southlsnd-He Delivers
Notable Address-The Hand
shaking Ordeal.

Atlanta, Ca, Oct. 24.-No brighter
or balmier sun ever shone over this
particular portion of the Southland
than that which dawned on Wednes-
day morning. Presidential day, at the
Cotton States and international eXposi-
ton.
The presidential party spent the
morning quietly at the Aragon, where
they remained until IL o'clock. 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 Mr.. 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 min
| utes before the head of the column of
/ troops wound around the hill in front
/ of the Administration building, past
the Pennsylvania, New York and Fine
Arts buildings.
Besides President Cleveland and Sec
retaries Carlisle, Lamont, Herbert,
/ Smith, Morton and Postmaster-General
/ Wilson on the reviewing stand, were
Vice President Stevenson, Gen. Atkin-
son of Georgia, and exposition and city
officials.
After the review the president deliv-
cred an address. He was introduced
/ by President Collier, of the Exposition
company, who referred 10 him as the
man who had been intrusted 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
multitude.
| President CleveIand's Address.
The president said:
"Mr President: 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 splendid sue
| cesses of the exposition you have set upon
/ foot and upon evidence you have here
/ gathered chiefly illustrative of southern
/ enterprise, southern industry and southern
1 recuperation, 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
industry, which are the joint possession of
| our people, AID they represent triumphs
| Of American skill and ingenuity in which
| all our citizens from the highest to the
| humblest have proprietary right.
'It seems 10 me the thought may be sug-
| gested not inappropriate to this occasion
| that what we see about us is an outgrowth
| of another exposition inaugurated on
/ American soil more than century ago,
/ when a new nation was exhibited to the
] civilized world, guaranteed and protected
| by a constitution, which was ordained and
established by the people of the United
| Sta ties with the declared purpose of pro-
| noting their general welfare, and secur-
| ing the blessings of liberty to themselves
! and their posterity
| "A contemplation of the blessings vouch-
/ safed to us by our government easily re-
| minds us of the Importance of a he arty and
| united cooperation in its support and pro-
/ tecIion. We should lovingly watch and
| guard IL not only because we are recipients
! Of its precious gifts, but for its own sake.
/ and because IL has been put in our hands
| in sacred keeping to prove to the world that
man can be trusted with self government.
"I hope / may, therefore. he permitted in
| conclusion, to suggest, as most important
| lesson taught by this occasion, the abso-
| lutte necessity to our national health and
| welfare and consequently TO our individual
| happiness as citizens of a careful discrm
| ination in our support OF politics and
| in our advocacy of political doc
/
| promotion of the public welfare and those
| which simply seem 10 serve selfish or sec
| Lional interests If we are to enjoy the
/ blessings our government was framed to
| fairly and justly bestow, We shall secure
| them in due time by cultivating a spirit of
| broad American brotherhood and insist
| ing upon such conduct as Will, within the
/ spirit of the Golden Rule, promote the gen.
1 eral welfare"
The conclusion of the speech was
greeted with cheers. Then the crowd
called for Carlisle. and he arose and
bowed, but refused TO speak. Vice
President Stevenson in the same man
ner acknowledged the shouts for him,
and shook his head when the people
called for speech.
| shake the Presidents Hand.
President Collier announced that Mr..
| Cleveland would shake hands with the
people if they would pass by III an or
derby line. Instantly there was a Dreak
for the reviewing stand. Here and there
ladies caught in the jam tainted, but
that did not deter others. For an hour
the president shook hands faster, he
said, than ever before in his life.