The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-21

Ottawa. kas., June 2O-It is esti-
mated that fully 10000 people were
here today, besides those who live
here and those who have tents on
Chautauqua grounds.
At 10 o'clock, Acknowledgement
Dawes addressed an audience of 5000
people, who packed the tabernacle.
While Dawes was speaking, Governor
Mckinley appeared on the platform,
and few minutes later Governor
Morrill, arrived. Ex-Governor George
L. Anthony, as president of the day,
took charge of the exercises which be-
gan with songs by the Modoc club.
Welcome, Mckinley.
Governor Morrill, said that on be-
half Of the c. A r. of Kansas. he
welcomed Ohio's governor and in do
ing SO his breast sWelled with pride,
FOR Kansas had sent to war more SOL
dlers in proportion to the population
than any other state. He welcomed
Mckinley as governor of Ohio, as
distinguished citizen, and last and
best as true-hearted comrade who
had marched side by side with heroes
who mad fought TO preserve the I'M
ion.
Governor Mckinley arose and the
two men grasped hands, while the
multitude cheered and waved hand
kerchiefs, hats, umbrellas, canes and
every available object.
Governor Mckinley said that no
greeting was so sacred as welcome
which came from his old comrades
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
He thanked Governor Morrill, from
the bottom of his heart for the vel
come, so sincere and earnest. He re-
membered his services with Governor
Morrill,, in the national house of re-
personalities. He remembered him
most because he SO Faithfully stood by
the flag and his comrades of the Grand
Army.
Morrill, Sheds Tears.
Here Governor Morrill, was visibly af-
fected and his eyes filled. Governor
Mckinley, too, was overcome and he
tried to rally by saying in a jocular
manner that he was glad to come to
Kansas because much of Ohio was
here, but he could not recover and
the scene ended with prolonged cheer
ing. Thousands filed past and shook
hands with the governors.
At l o'clock, the hour set for Gov
ernor McKinley's address to the old
soldiers. every chair and every foot
of standing room beneath the expan-
sive roof was occupied. Governor Nc
Kinley read his address from manu-
script In the course of his address
he said
when patriotism has fled from the
hearts of the masses, the country is
near dissolution and death. Patriot
ism is an absolute conservation to
country; it is the total abandonment
of self, it is the turning away from
plans which have been formed for
life's career 1t is the surrendering
of bright prospects and the giving up
of ambition in a chosen work; it is
the sundering of all the ties of home
and family and almost the swapping
of heart strings which bind us to
those we love; it is the conservation
of self to the demands of country. It
may mean diseases contracted by ex-
posture or from wounds in battle; it
may mean Imprisonment. insanity or
death; it may mean hunger, thirst
and starvation.
Meant All of These.
I'm our own civil war it meant all
of these. In this land of the free and
the home of the brave there were
nearly three millions who SO loved lib
erty and union that they were willing
at any cost or sacrifice to follow the
flag. The blood of half a million men
was eXacted in the fearful conflict to
save the country, and there are men
today by tens of thousands whe are
suffering from disease contracted in
the service of the government and as
many thousands more bearing wounds
from which they suffer every hour in
the day and some Of these, alas, are
in distressing poverty. Our asylums
contain many poor fellows whose hard
service dethroned reason and unbal-
anced the mind forever.
Can we ever cease to be debtors to
these men? IS there any reward in
reason they should not receive? Is
there any emolument too great for
them? Is there any benefaction too
bountiful? Is there any honor to these
patriotic men which living people can
bestow that they should not extend?
What the nation is, or may become, we
owe Loyalty to them. If there is one of
these old patriots sick at heart and
discouraged, should not the cheerful
and the strong, who are today the
beneficiaries of his valor, comfort and
console him.
To Officers and Men.
The speaker compared the manner of
honoring the old warriors in different
countries and said the gratitude of the
people of this country is of that grand,
patriotic character which recognizes
no title, permits no determinations,
and the soldier, whether of the rank or
file, the line or staff, who fought and
fell for liberty and union are warmly
cherished in the memories of this great
and glOriOu,; people
The speaker said he would not with
hold the most generous eulogy from
conspicuous soldiers, living or dead
Grant, Sherman, Thomas, Mcpherson,
Meade, Hancock. Mcclellan, Hooker
Cook, Logan and Garfield-who were
the very incarnation of soldierly valor
before the eyes of the American people
The speaker then paid beautiful
tribute to the private soldiers, to the
rank and file of the old regular army