The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-22
THE INDIANA.
PRESENTED WITH A MAGNIFICENT
SILVER SERVICE.
Ex-President Harrison on the Need
of Navy Both at Home and
Abroad

Abroad
NEW YORK, Sept. 21-The battle
ship Indiana was presented today with
a handsome silver service by the citi-
zens of the state, in whose honor the
crack fighter of the navy is named.
The ceremonies of the presentation
were simple, but impressive. The
handsome silvet set was spread out ON
the quarter deck aft, and gathered
about it was a distinguished company
of naval and military men, a number of
| citizens of Indiana and beautiful and
Well gowned women Grouped about
ON the turrets and the side of the ship,
were the jack tars in their natty cos
TUNES, all
MAKING A STRIKING SCENE.
One of the features of the day was a
speech by ex-President Harrison, who
was numbered among the guests.
| Nearly all the official party, including
Governor Matthews, of Indiana; eX-
President Harrison and Assistant Sec
Rotary of the Navy McAdoo, boarded
the dispatch boat Dolphin at West
Thirty fourt1l street early in the MORN
ing, and steamed down the bay. Others
proceeded to the Indiana by way of
the ferry to Homkinsville. The Dol
phin came down to the man-of-war
shortly before noon. The ships had
been formed in Unidentified columns and
as the Dolphin passed through the
flagship New York gave a. salute Of
seventeen guns, the Dolphin acknow-
Lodging it with q response Of thirteen
suns.
The Dolphin proceeded out, giving
the guests q little excursion, out to sea-
She returned shortly after o'clock
and transferred her guests to the Indi-
ana
THE FIRST PARTY
to come aboard from the Dolphin was
eX-President Harrison, who was warm
ly greeted by Admiral Bunce. The mo-
ment he stepped ON deck, the big guns
of the whole fleet-the Raleigh, Massa-
chusetts, Maine, Montgomery, Column
bia. New York and Indiana,-thundered
out twenty-one guns, the Indiana's
band played, Hail to the Chief, while
the Jack tars stood at quarters and
saluted. The guests, 200 in all, formed
a circle around the spot where the sill
ver service was displayed. The cere-
monies opened with a presentation adj
dress by Governor Matthews, who took
his position in front of the silver set.
The address was answered by AS
sistant Secretary of the Navy McAdoo,
who accepted the service on behalf OF
the navy, and Captain Evans,
Charles r. Williams, of Indianapolis,
the prime mover in starting the popu-
lar fund for the service, was the next
speaker. and at the conclusion of his
address, there were cries for
EX-PRESIDENT HARRISON
who responded as follows:
81 am delighted to be here and wit
ness this magnificent spectacle. I am
especially delighted because of the fact
that [ am sort of a godfather to this
ship, and l confess the fact the more
willingly because she is so young a.
ship. When I was in a position to-
have some influence with the secretary
of the navy, / told him 1 wanted the
best ship then building to be named
after Indiana, and l guess he followed
my wish.
"a company of Indiana people have
come here today-a11 those who could
get away-but all Indianans are ami
mated by the thought of pride in the
ship love of the flag and the conf
dence in the men the Indiana carries
This is a magnificent silver present
Governor Matthews here takes pleasure
in the white metal, while we take
pleasure in the fact that so much sill
yer will never get into the minis. He
is for free silver, Captain Evans, and
in all that this means is Indiana a, free |
silver state.
1--WE have wrought wonders in the |
building of our navy. When l was a
senator [ recall with much regret the
partisan jealousy manifested in recon-
structing and rebuilding the navy. 1t |
mortified me. too, and I rejoice now
that we have passed that state of af-
fairs and that congress does not pause |
now to consider whether we have a
Democratic or Republican secretary
when asked to build additions to our
navy, for fear of building up the navy
yard for election time.
THE PROGRESS MADE
in our navy has been amazing. The
countries of Europe had spent millions
of dollars upon their navies, while we
fell behind for twenty-five years after
our civil war. Now we come in to reap
all the benefits of the blunders and
outlay of those countries. We have
up to them, until now we
stand abreast of the great naval con
structors of the world Who says we
shall not go beyond them?
True, England has more ships than
we have, but she needs every one Of
them to protect her interests. She
must look out for her numerous colo
MES and guard her various interests
for some of the European nations are
catching up with her. But we do not
need such a navy. We are a CONNER
cial people and our commerce is ex-
tending. Our people are scattering all
over the earth. We send missionaries
to far-of lands. We must take care
of them. We must have ships to
speak of our power at home, and If
necessary let the commanders clear
decks to protect our citizens from out
rage abroad. Our foreign policy has
not been a sentimental one, but our
SYMPATHIES HAVE GONE OUT
to every one suffering for freedom. We
are not going to seize other peoples
countries. We are not a nation of
but other countries are
stretching out. The world is not big
enough for them. They have come to
the time like that which came to AL
when the world was not large
enough. There is a hemisphere here
II which We have an interest. We have
/ watermelon, SO to speak. and when
t is sliced we are not going to allow
anybody else to eat it all up. Our
'eople are holding congresses of arbi-
ration. That is all very well, but do