The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-10-24
SPOKE TO A MULTITUDE.
HIS ADDRESS RECEIVED WITH A
THUNDER OF ENTHUSIASTIC
APPLAUSE.
AN HOUR OF HANDSPRING.
THE FESTIVITIES OF THE OCCASION
CONCLUDE WITH A CHAMPAGNE
LUNCHEON.

ATLANTA, GA, Oct. 23.-President's
day at the Cotton States Exposition broke
bright, balmy and beautiful. Incoming
trains brought thousands of visitors and
the streets were crowded at an early hour.
The President remained in his apartments
at the Aragon until the committee called
for him. Secretary Carlisle and Vice
President Stevenson were out early, how
ever, for stroll.
The throng collected around the hotel
long before carriages arrived for the dis
tinguished visitors. Calls were made for
the President, but he did not respond.
AT 10 o'clock the military procession
formed downtown, and half an hour later
passed the Aragon on its way out to the
exposition. The military was not intended
as an escort, and Mr.. Cleveland and his
official family were driven rapidly to the
exposition grounds. They reached the re-
viewing stand in front of the Government
building few minutes before the head of
the column of troops wound around the
hill in front of the Administration build
ing. Besides President Cleveland and
secretaries Carlisle, Lamont, Herbert,
Smith, Morton and Postm aster-G General
Wilson on the reviewing stand, were Vice
President Stevenson, General Atkinson of
Georgia. and exposition and city officials.
The military parade was long and pic
turesque. United States regulars from
Fort Mcpherson and volunteers from Con-
necticut, Vermont, Virginia and North
Carolina were in line.
The review being over, DR.. T. s. Hop
kins of Atlanta delivered prayer for the
President and the prosperity of the nation
and the success of the exposition. Presi-
| dent Collyer of the exposition then, in q
ten-minute speech, introduced the Presi-
dent. Several thousand people were on
the plaza, within sight of the President.
Though only small part of these could
hear the introduction. ali recognized his
rotund figure and gave q mighty cheer
Said the President:
Mr.. President, on my own behalf and fol
my colaborers in the executive branch of ou1
| Government who have accompanied me,
! thank you for your kind words of greeting
! We are here to congratulate you and your asso
c1ates upon the splendid success of the expos
ton you have set on foot and upon the eyi.
dence you have gathered, chiefly illustrative
of Southern enterprise, Southern Industry and
Southern recuperaton; but we are also here to
The success which has attended this e1posi-
ton of products and manufactures is not alto
gether due to the quality of soil or character OF
people in any of the contributing States, but II
rests largely upon the fact that these States are
members Of benefcently governed Nation,
whose natural resources and advantages every
where have been developed and improved by
the influence of free institutions and whose
people have been stimulated and encouraged
| by the blessings of personal liberty.
| A contemplation of blessings vouchsafed to
us by our Government easily reminds us of the
| Importance of hearty and united cooperation
in its support and protection. We should low
ingly watch and guard it, not only because we
are recipients of its precious gifts, but for its
| own sake, and because it has been put into our
hands in sacred keeping to prove to the world
that man can be trusted with self-government
We shall walk in the path of patriotic duty, if,
remem bering that our free institutions were
established to promote the general welfare we
strive for those things which benefit our peo-
pie, and if each of US is content to receive from
a common fund his share of prosperity thus
contributed, we shall sadly miss our duty and
forfeit our heritage if in narrow selfshness we
are needless of the general welfare, and strug-
gle to wrest from the Government private adj
vantages which can only be gained at the ex-
pense OF our fellow countrymen.
hope may, therefore, be permitted in con-
clusion to suggest, as a most important lesson
taught by this occasion, the absolute necessity
to our National health and welfare, and conse-
quently to our individual happiness as citizens
of careful discrimination in our support of poll
cies and in our advocacy of political doctrines
between those which seem to serve selfish or
sectional interests if We are to enjoy the bless
ings our Government was framed to fairly and
justly bestow. We shall secure them in dine
time by cultivating spirit of broad American
brotherhood and insist upon such conduct a,
will, within the spirit of the golden rule, pro
mote the general welfare.
The conclusion Of the speech was greeted
with cheers. Then the crowd called fol
Carlisle, and he arose and bowed, but re.
fused to speak. Vice President Stevenson
in the same manner acknowledged the
| shouts for him and shook his head when
the people called for speech.
| President Collyer announced that Mr.
| Cleveland would shake hands with the
people. Instantly there was break fol
the reviewing-stand. Here and theirs Ia
| dies caught in the jam tainted, but that
| did not deter others.
| For an hour the President shook hands
faster, he said, than ever before in his life.
| When he grew weary the committee
rushed him into carriage and off to the
Piedmont driving club just in the outer
edge OF the grounds. There champagne
luncheon was served at 8 o'clock to the
President, Cabinet officers and their wives,
after which the party visited the various
buildings.