Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-10-25
Mr.. Cleveland Speaks to the Peo.
pie at the Atlanta Expo
sitiOn.
Introduced as the Man Who Made
Eradication Of Sectional
Lines Possible.
The Great Heritage Of the Amer
lean People and How It
Should Be Kept.

ATLANTA, Oct. 24.-No brighter or
ular portion of the Southland than
that which dawned OH Presidential
Day, at the Cotton States and Inter-
national Exposition. The thousands Of
visitors landed in the city early swelled
the throngs on the streets to immense
proportions and locomotion soon be-
came difficult matter. In accordance
with the carefully laid plans of the ex-
position management, the exercises of
the day were all concentrated within
the exposition grounds, into which the
cohorts of visitors and large proportion
Of the population of the city e,nptied
themselves during the morning
The presidential party spent the morn
ing quietly at the Aragon, when they
We're driven rapidly to the exposition
grounds without any parade whatever.
Inside the gates the military was al
ready gathered.
Captain j. F. Burke of the Gate City
Guards acted as marshal. He had in
line the Fifth regiment of United States
regulars, commanded by Colonel w. L.
Kellogg; the Fourth Virginia regiment,
commanded by Colonel G. A. Nash; the
Virginia Military Institute cadets, COM
manded by Colonel D. Price; the First
company Of the Governors Foot Guard
of Connecticut, commanded by Major
E. Henry Hyde; the Second company
Of the Governors Foot Guard of Con-
necticut, commanded by Major Brown;
Grimes Battery Of Richmond, and the
Asheville Light infantry.
The troops paraded around the board
walk within the fair enclosure and
were reviewed by the president from a
stand in front Of the government build
ing.
After the review the president deliv-
cred an address. He was introduced by
President Collier of the exposition COM
mittee, who referred to him as the man
who had been entrusted 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 multi
tude.
The president said:
On my own behalf and for my CO.
laborers IN the executive branch Of our
government who have accompanied me,
I thank you for your kind words of
greeting. We are here to congratulate
you and your associates upon the splen-
did success Of the exposition you have
set on foot and upon the evidences you
have here gathered chiefly illustrative
of * uthern enterprise, Southern in
dustry and Southern recuperation.
But we are also here to claim share
in the pride of your achievement. No
portion Of our ccuntrymen 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 all our people, and they represent
triumphs Of American skill and in
genuity in which all our citizens from
the highest to the humblest have a pro-
prietary right.
While my fellow citizens of Georgia
and her neighboring states may felici-
tate themselves to the fullest extent
upon such evidences as are here found
OF the growth and prosperity OF the in
terests and enterprises in which they are
especially concerned, I cannot be de-
prived of the enjoyment afforded by the
reflection that the work they have done
emphasizes in the sight Of the world the
immense resources and indomitable
thrift Of the people Of the United States
Suggests q Thought
It seems to me the thought may be
suggested as not inappropriate to this
occasion, that what we see about us is
al outgrowth of another exposition in
augurated on American soil more than
a cen ury a o. when new nation was
exh bjted to the civilized world, guar
ameed and protected by a constitution
which was ordained and established by
the people of the United States with the
declared purpose of promoting their
general welfare and securing the bless
ings Of liberty to themselves ard Their