The herald., 1895-10-24
THE PRESIDENT At ATLANTA
Greeted by Balmy Weather and
Great Crowds
A REVIEW AND SPEECHES
Render the Day Both Interesting ard
Memorable
A REVIEW AND SPEECHES
President Cleveland Calls for the Cultivation
Of Spirit of Broad American
Brotherhood
Associated Press Special Wire.

Associated Press Special Wire
ATLANTA, Oct. 23.-No halmier sun
ever shone over this particular portion of
southland than tnat which dawned this
morning. presidents day at the cotton
states and International exposition.
Thousands of visitors landed in the city
yesterday. swelling the throngs on the
streets TO immense proportions.
In accordance with carefully laid plans of
the exposition management. the exercises
of the day were all concentrated within
the exposition grounds. The presidential
party spent the morning quietly at the
Adagon. At II o'clock they were driven
rapidly TO the exposition grounds with
out any parade whatever. inside the
gates the military had already gathered.
Captain J. f. Burke of the Gate City
guards acted as marshal.
After the review the president was in
tloduced to President Collier of the ex
position company. who spoke as follows:
To an assembly composed of American
citizens. an introduction OF the most
illustrious OF living A mericans is impossi-
BILE, save as mark of courtesy and an
expression OF the regard in which he is
may be possible upon this occasion to
signify in some degree our profound,grat-
ifcation at the presence of the chief exc
cutive OF the nation. The demonstrations
ho has already witnessed prove better
than could any mere words the sincerity
and the warmth of his welcome. He, of
all men in this country, should be best
able to recognize the voice of the people.
for unto him it has been shown in more
emphatic terms than to any other man
of our generation; but we must convey
to him an assurance of the admiration
and esteem of the people of the southern
states and especially of Atlanta.
The south has received from him re-
cognItion 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 lines of
sectionaism from the map of the union.
The administration of which no is the
head not only gave its aid and endorse
ment to the dearest enterprise this city
| has projected, but has established here
for the inspection of the world the most
comprehensive and instructive display OF
our federal resources that ever ennobled
any exposition. No intelligent citizen
can visit this display without experienc-
ing quickening of his patriotism, as
we'll as an extension OF his general
! knowledge.
We rejoice today in the reflection that
no other nation in the years that have
passed since the foundation of this gov
ernment has had in its highest Office such
an Lnbroken array of men who for devo-
tion to their country, for faithful per-
formance OF duty and for those virtues
/ which adorn the citizen as we'll as the
executive havs been worthy of compari-
son from Washington to Cleveland.
! President Cleveland spoke as follows:
| Mr.. Presdent:-On my own behalf,
and for my co-laborers in the executive
| branch of our government, who have ac-
| com panied me, thank you for the kind
| words of greeting. We aro 10 congratu-
| late you and your associates upon the
i splendid success of the exposition you have
| set on foot and upon the evidences you
have here gathered, chiefly illustrative of
| southern enterprise. southern Industry
| a nd southern recuperation.
| But we are also here TO claim a share
in the pride Of your achievement. No
| portion of our contrymen, wherever
found, can 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 ingenuity in which all our citi-
| zens, from the highest to the hum blest,
have proprietary right.
"Wbile my fellow citizens OF Georgia
and her neighboring states may felicitate
| themselves to the fullest extent up)n
| such evidences as are here found of the
|
and enterprises in which they are esps
! clally concerned | cannot be deprived Of
| the enjoyment afforded by the reflection
that the WORK they have dore Emphasizes
! in the sight of the worl the immense
| resources and indomitable Thrift OF the
people of the United States.
| lit seems to me the thought may be
suggested as not inappropriate to this oc-
| caslon that what we see about us Is an
| outgrowth of another exposition lnaugur-
| ated on American soil more than CEN
| tnry ago, when new natlnn was ex-
| hibited to the civilized world. guaran-
/ teed and protected by a constitution
| which was ordained and established by
| the people of the United States with the
| declared purpose of promoting their gen
| eral welfare and securing the blessings OF
| liberty to them selves ana their postefi ty.
| he success which has attet ed this eX-
| position of products and manufactures is
| NOT altogether due to the quality of the
soil or the character of the people in any
of the contributing states. hut IL rests
largely upon the fact that these states are
mem bers of a benefcently governed ma
| ton. whose natural resources and advan-
taces everywhere have baen developed
| and i'm proved bv the influence of free in
| stitutions. and whose people have been
, stimulated and encouraged by the bless
| ines of personal liberty.
| "a contemplation of the benefits
youchsafed TO us by our government
easily reminds us of the Importance OF u
hearty and united cooperation in their
support and protection. We should low
insly watch and guard it. not only be-
cause we are repcipients OF its precious
gifts, but for its own sake, and because it
has heen put in our hands in sacred keep
| ing. to prove to the world that man can
be trusted with self-government.
/ 1--WE shall walk in the path of patriotic
duty it, remembering that our free insti-
| tutinns were established to promote the
| general welfare. we strive for those
| things which benefit all our psople and
| each of us is content to receive from
com mon fund his SCARE OF the prosperity
| thus contributed. We shall miss our
| duty and forfeit our heritage if, in narrow
selfshness, we are needless of the gen.
eral welfare and struggle to wrcst from