Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-10-21

tne signal Tor another outbreak OF ap-
plause and cheering, the volume of
which made all the others appear in =.
significant.
Mr.. Funkhouser's Address.
"Major Mckinley: Since your nomi-
nation by the Republican party as it's
candidate for President you have been
visited iy many large delegations, rep.
resenting all class of American citi.
zenship, all callngs of American
voters. Your visitors have heretofore
been chiefly from the northern and
western sections OF our great, magnifi
cent country. In your receptions Of
the many visitors who have come to
give you assurances Of their ardent
and earnest support and to lend you
encouragement in the noble contest
you are waging for the best interests of
all the people of the whole country,
you have not gazed in the faces of
many men from that grand part of our
common country, the glorious south
land. Then, sir, l can not express the
pride and pleasure feel in being com
missi0ned to present to you this dele.
cation composed of ex-Confederate SOL
diers and of the sons of onfsderate
veterans. They come from the beau.
tiful Shenandoah valley, where in the
campaigns OF real war, more than
thirty years ago, you were, yourself,
a soldier.
"These battle SCARED and gray haired
Virginia soldiers have travelled many
miles from their homes to testify their
admiration for and devotion to you as
the standard bearer of that party, and
the representative of that policy, in
triumph of which they believe rests
the prosperity and happiness of the
whole American people. These old
soldiers know that they will meet from
you that warm welcome which brave
man ever gives to brave men, whether
they be former friends or former foes.
''These men of the Southland have
long since forgotten the bitterness en-
gendered by civil strife, and have
turned their gaze and bent all their
energies to the progress and prosperity
of the whole country. They are repre-
sentatives of many thousands of your
fellow citizens in the South who see
In your coming victory thorough,
complete, and never again to be dis
tributed, harmony of all people of all
sections of our great united country.
Their faith rests upon your past po-
litical history; on your safe and con-
servative views of all questions of pub
lie policy ION your just consideration OF
the rights and interests of the Southern
people equally and in common with
those of all the people of our whole
country.
"At their homes your visitors of to
day are earnest workers in the Repub-
lican ranks. firm inaintainers OF Re
publican principles and firm believers
in the triumphant success of the Re.
publican party in the present cam
paign."
In conclusion Mr.. Fun khouser intro
duced Confederate General John E.
Roller, who spoke particularly for the
Confederate veterans. General Roller
said:
General Rollers Address.
Major Mckinley, 1 have the honor
to present to you nearly 1000 Of the
Confederate veterans of the far
famed valley of the Shenandoah, and
behind them a vast assembage of theii
kinsmen, and those who have come
with them as an escort of honor. 1t ID
the source of the deepest regret to us
that the more distinguished of the
Confederate leaders, of the Confeder
ate veterans, who have been forced by
their conviction to ally themselves with
the Republican party, are absent from
this auspicious occasion and are com
PEELED to witbgo the pleasure of partlci
pating in it. In the language of the
old song: