The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1895-10-30
PRESIDENTIAL DAY.
CDsv Gland Visits the Great At
lanta Exposition.
The Distinguished Visitor Met by Large
Crowds En- Route-A Warm Greet
Ing Extended on Arrival-The
Presidents Address.


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 EXPOSE
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 it's 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 to him as the
man who had been intrusted with the
duty Of wiping out sectional issues and
lines.
Tribute to the President.
Mr. Collier said:
ITO an assembly composed Of American
citizens, an introduction of the most illus
trious of living Americans is impossible,
save as mark of courtesy and an express
sion Of the regard in which he is held by
his fellow-countrymen. Still, it may be
possible on this occasion to signify in some
degree our profound qualification at the
presence of the chief executive of the ma
ton.
1.-The south has received from him a
recognition as constituent element of
this union, to which it had for many
years been stranger, when he was
chosen and commissioned to erase the
dark line Of sectionalism from the map
of the union. The administration of
which he Is the head not only gave it's
aid and Endorsement to the dearest enter
prise this city has projected, but has es-
tablished here for the inspection of the
world the most comprehensive and in
structive display of our federal resources
that ever ennobled any exposition. No
intelligent citizen can visit this display
without experiencing Quickening of his
patriotism as well as an extension Of his
general knowledge.
I'VE rejoice to-day in the reflection that
no other nation, in the years that have
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ment, has had in it's highest Office such an
unbroken array of men who, for devotion
TO their country, for faithful performance
Of duty, and for those virtues which adorn
the citizen as well as the executive, have
been worthy of comparison from Washing
ton to Cleveland"
President CleveIand's appearance at
for an outburst of applause from the
multitude.
President Cleveland'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
recuperation, but we are also here to claim
a 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, and they represent triumphs
Of American skill and ingenuity in which
IL
humblest have proprietary right.
cit seems TO me the thought may be sug-
gested as 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 constitution, which was ordained and
established by the people Of the United
States with the declared purpose of pro-
noting their general welfare, and secur-
ing the blessings of liberty to themselves
and their posterity.
IA contemplation Of the blessings vouch-
safed to us by our government easily re-
minds us of the Importance OF hearty and
united cooperation In its support and pro-
lection. We should lovingly watch and
guard 1t not only because we are recipients
of it's precious gifts, but for its own sake,
and because it 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, be 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 discrim-
ination in our support Of politics and
in our advocacy of political doc
trines between those which prompt the
promotion of the public welfare and those
which simply seem to serve selfish or Sec
tional 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 spirit of
broad American brotherhood and insist
ing upon such conduct as will, within the