The bee., 1897-06-17
MAGNIFICENT OVATION
rendered the President at the
Tennessee Centennial
Exposition.
A GREAT MULTITUDE PRESENT
Speeches of Gov. Taylor and
President rlcKinley in Full,
NOTES OF PRESIDENTS DAY.

alone, or / enneSSee or Kentucky
but from the United States of
America to help celebrate Presi-
dents Day and Cincinnati Day at
the Tennessee Centennial. The
crowds were record breakers and
the registers showed how widely
distributed were the homes of the
multitude of visitors. They came
from every state in the Union.
These have been eventful days for
Tennessee and the South and the
many courteous and deserving and
gracious things said and done by
distinguished visitors and by the
spokesman and women for the Ex-
position and the State have been
as the strong cement of brotherly
love, and the people OF the South
feel stronger bond of sympathy
with those of the North and East
and West, and a frmer conviction
that nothing can defeat our
national progress.
President said this of the Cen
tennial:
have been astonished at the extent Of
the Centennial and the excellence OF your
Exposition. | came expecting to see a
State affair On the contrary, find it a
national enterprise of which any State
might be proud. In fine the Centennial
is gem, and at night perfect dream"
The procession was imposing
and everything on a scale betting
the dignity of the occasion.
Roster OF the Party.
The hotel register shows the party to be
as follows
The President Mrs Mckinley. Mrs.
Saxton Mrs McKinley's aunt. DIR. N. l.
Bates) the Presidents physician), Mrs
Bates, steward of the White House, maid,
Secretary Porter. Mrs Porter, Secretary
Sherman. Mrs McCallom, Secretary Alger,
Mrs. Alger, Miss Frances Alger and maid,
Postmaster General Gary, Mrs Gary, the
Misses Gary Secretary Wilson, Mrs.
Wilson, Hon. H. Clay Evans Gen. Chas.
II. Grosvenor. Hon. Joseph p Smith
director Bureau of American Kepublcs).
Master Smith (son of Hon. Joseph p.
Smith, Mr.. +. c. Squires (Secretary
Ayers private Secretary.
AS the party reached the Ex-
position and neared the Auditorium
the bells in the tower OF that
building chimed out a welcome in
music most appropriate through
brazen tongues which had not
spoken before, and the band at the
PROFESSIONS head marched by the
Auditorium playing the sweet,
familiar strains of those Southern
tunes, dear to our hearts, "Old
Kentucky Home" "Sewanee Riv-
err" "Dixie."
The party filed into the immense
building at IL o'clock and the ten
thousand people who had secured
seats arose to their feet and cheefed
and waved handkerchiefs and hats
until all were seated on the stage
and lines orchestra came to the
rescue with stirring strains of
music.
Speeches we're made by Presi-
dent Thomas for the Exposition,
Gov. Taylor, Mayor McCariy,
Senator Clark, of OHIO, Gov.
Bushnell, of Ohio, and President
Mckinley. The two principal
speeches of the day are in full as
follows:
Gov. Taylor's Speech.
Mr.. Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen
With uncovered heads and patriotic pride
we welcome the President of the United
States and all who accompany him to the
warm. throbbing heart of Dixie.
1t has been whispered abroad that We
have too much sunshine in The South. and
that its effect is to render the people lazy
and thriltless. II is believed by millions
of misguided men who dwell in our North.
ern suburbs, especially in the rural state.
of Ohio, Michigan and New York. that in
this warm Southern climate energy evap
crates. But our honored guests shall see
today complete refutation of the soft i'm
parchment They shall see the triumphs
OF our brain and Drawn, and the tangible
evidences of our activity And some o
them who saw our ruined country thirty
years ago will certainly appreciate The
fact that we have wrought miracles 1
they will only look they shall be living
witnesses of the victories we have won.
4 The grass now grows green where bu
a few years ago death sat on the pale hors,
reckoning the blue and the gray TO the
opening grave. and roses now bloom where
heroes bled. In this land of battlefeIds and
monuments, in this land of memories
touching as the soldiers last tear on thi
white bosom of his manhoods bride, il
this land of beauty and of sorrow, where thu
white tents of armies once shrouded th,
hills, new cities been have built in quarte
OF century. and this splendid industrial
Exposition, which is a prophecy Of ou
glory and power in the future now bios
SONS like beautiful flower in the track o
war. and us token of eternal peace anc
brotherhood between the two sections.
Tennessee clasps hands with Ohio today
and the North and the South are one
and j. eperable Mason and Dixon's lint
is SIT there but thank God, it is no Longer
the open mouth OF death which once swal
lowed up the best and bravest sons of thu
nation Time has closed its bloody lips
and now it is tine red scar of honor acros.
the breast of the Republic, which mark
the unity of our once divided country.
We greet our guests with the arden
hope that every hour of their minglinI
with our people may be as sweet as a SOM
and delightful as a glass of sparkling VINE
believe in these Industrial expositions
They are the flowers of progress: they ar,
the bouquets of civilization the are the
garlands of peace gathered from the gar
dens Of human brains and human hearts
and the only bloom in the most eulight
ment centers OF the world They deserve
the encouragement of the rulers of nations
because they are the conservators of peace
and good will among men.
congratulate my State. and the South
and the whole country upon the fact thai
the ruler of the greatest nation in the
world, accompanied by the first lady in the
land and by members of his Cabinet and