Arizona republican., 1895-05-31
HEROIC DEAD. Flower StreWn Graves In Phoenix Cemetery. Equal HonorS Done to
 The Blue and Gray. Local Contribution to National
 Expressions of Woe.
Never Before in the History of Pho- nix was Memorial Day SOC Gen.
 timely Celebrated.

Never before was Memorial day in Phoenix so much of holiday. Accord ing to custom and law all territorial, county and municipal offices were closed and at noon all merchants ceased business either to actively join in the celebration of the day or to pay silent and passive tribute to the memory of the fallen brave. Flags on public buildings foated at half mast and Sabbath stiffness prevailed everywhere. Many private residences and stores were simply but beautifully decorated and the insigna of the Grand Army be- came more and more frequent in the streets as the day advanced
 The ceremonies were to begin at 8 80 o'clock but long before that hour crowd began to congregate about the quarters of J. W. Owen post.
 At length the rat-tat.tat of a time beating drum, Company B marched down the street from it's armory and dressed along the south side of Wash inpton, Nearly score of confed- crate veterans occupied line on the left of the militia and the Grand Army post, represented by fifty mem bers. formed in line alongside them. The column was then formed in the follow ing order:
 City Marshal and Aids Mounted.
 Drum Corps.
 Marshal of the Day aud Staff Mounted.
 Company R N. G. A.
 FIX .Confederates Association.
 Orators of the Day in SGIiages; Chief Jus tice A. c. Baker with c. F. Belden),
 J. W. Owens Post A. R. Visiting Comrades and Veterans. Woman's Relief Corpi in Carriages. Sons of Veterans.
 Citizens on Foot.
 Equestrians, etc, etc.
 The column marched up Washington street to the city hall, and counter marched to the point of formation where it was broken up, and the vet erans took street cars for the cemetery There was reformation of the line! and the ritual of the Grand Army wal read and patriotic musis~rendered by the Presbyterian church choir.
 The orators of the day were c. D Belden and Chief Justice Baker. Botl addresses were carefully prepared abounded in patriotic sentiment ani both were singularly free from expres sions of bitterness, which sometime unfortunately find their way into Me morial day orations. The address O Dr. Belden began with history of tn, regard of nations for those who fall il the defense of country. After recount ing the ways in which the dead hat thus been honored from the remotes times, he quoted ftom the immorta Logan: Better than all monuments better than all trlumphal arches, bette than all statutes is this beautiful trib ute. Better for the nation that it children and youth remember this da, than it have armies as large as those o all Europe"
 From this the speaker passed to tn history of the struggle in which Maj 30 received Congressional recognition and beca me national holiday.
 The address of Judge Baker WAS al eloquent tribute to the soldier, not tn soldier of fortune or the tool of despot but the warrior who fights and dies il defense of principle or country.
 It had been said that Dr. Belden wa to be the orator for the Grand Arm. and that Chief Justice Baker would de liver an address in behalf of the Con federate veterans. If such an arrange ment had been made, but happily had not, both gentlemen fell short c what had been expected of them There was no speech for the north there was none for the south, but ther were two addresses to the survivors ( the soldiers of both sides of the grea Ame rican conflict. Speaking not to but flor the south Judge Baker said:
 "The people of the south accepted tn decrees of the war in good faith. The submitted the principles in which the believed to arbitration by the swor and lost. That fair land, warmed b glowing suns and famed by coolin breezes, was drenched in blood. Tn earthquake jar of the contending host shook it's hills, and it's plains ran re with the blood of it's sons. The wall ( the widow and orphan filled the land It's fields were desolate; it's villages, it proudest cities in ruins. But they hal bored no malice, no yengefulness, n vindictiveness. They beat their sword into plough shares and their spears int pruning hooks. They pulled dow their social and industrial fabrics an laid the cornerstone of new and t l them untried policy. They modiie their organic laws so as to conform } the new order of things"
 At tba nIosino of the address an hor