The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-10-14
THRONGS GREET M'KINLEY
TRIP OF THE PRESIDENTS TRAIN
 THROUGH IOWA.

As It Proceeded Eastward Through the
 State the Throngs Seemed to Increase
 Never Abated-Speeches Made at Vari-
 ous Places by the President and Mem-
 bers of His Cabinet.
 Corning, la, Oct. 12.-As the presi- dents train to-day proceeded eastward through Iowa from the Omaha exposi- tion the throngs of people seemed to increase at every point, and the ap- plause and enthusiasm for the presi- dent never abated. At some points, after he had finished speaking, MT. Me Kinley presented to the people the members of the cabinet who are with him, and the cheers for Secretaries Bliss, Gage and Wilson and Postmas ter General Smith were almost as hear ty as those given for the president.
 At Hastings, President Mckinley spoke as follows: Tt has given me great pleasure, as I have journeyed through this glorious state, to observe evidence both of patriotism and of pros perity. We have pretty much every thing in this country to make us hap py. We have good money; we have ample revenues; we have unprecedented national credit. But what we want are new markets, and as trade follows the flag, it looks very much as if we were going to have new markets"
 At Red Oak, Ia., the president faced a crowd of five thousand. He said: What nation of the world has more to be thankful for than ours? We have material wealth; we have rich and fer tile lands; we have great shops and great factories that make everything; we have skilled workmen; we have genius for invention, and in the last thirty years we have achieved commer- cial triumphs which have been the won der of the world. We have come out of events of the last five months glori- ous in our victories and more glorious in the results which are to follow them
 We are fortunate in the virtue of our people and in the yalor of our soldiers and sailors. We have been patriotic in every crisis of our history and never more patriots than from April, 8898, to the present hour. Our patriotism must be continued. We must not permit it to abate, but we must stand united in the settlement of the resent contests. I am glad to be at the home of that gall lant young hero who went down in the harbor of Havana, Ensign Merriam. am glad to pay a fitting tribute to him and to all the other heroes of the war. His name and his fame will be sacredly guarded by his own neighbors and fell low citizens, and will be always held in remembrance by grateful people,
 The president then introduced Secre- tary Gage. who said: Tt is to me a source of pride and satisfaction that you, the people of this mighty west, can be brought into contact, as you have been brought into contact to-day, with this man, the president of the United States, to whose judgment, wis., dom, courage, virtue, fortitude, zeal and 1 patriotism, the fortunes of the Ameri- can people, are committed. He is wor- l thy of your confidence and love; SUD- port him by your sympathies and your | confidence"
 Postmaster General Smith spoke next. He said: You are here to greet | the president of the United States You | have given him your confidence and your support through the greatest cri- 1 sis and emergency which this country has faced since the civil war, because you know that he is firmly devoted to | the welfare of the entire American peo- 1 pie and has given his earnest purpose | to the promotion of the interests of our | whole country In his further work you will continue the confidence and sup I port which you have thus far given l him, and in the settlements which are | to come he will have the support of the 1 American people as he has had in the | great conflict through which we have
 passed"
 ] At Malvern the president greeted a
 large crowd and said in part: T can-
 not but recall as I journey through the
 country the difference between condi-
 tions now and those 37 years
 ago. Then we were at war with each
 ether, one section of our beloved coun-
 try fighting against the other; then the 1 contest was for the preservation of
 the union and in that conflict we hap | oily triumphed. Thirty-seven years 1 later we are engaged in another war
 as a united country, north and south
 vieing with each other in self sacrifice
 ing devotion to the country and flag,
 and united, my fellow countrynen, we
 are invincible, and having stood togeth- 1 CT asairst foe, we must stand togerh-
 CT until every settlement of that war
 shall be finally embodied in a public 1 treaty. Secretary Gage spoke briefly. l By far the largest and most vocifer-
 ous crowd of the day had gathered at l Creston, Ia., which was reached at 3 o'clock. When the presidential party
 ascended the platform provided for 1 them 12,O00 persons cheered the presi- 1 dent. MT. Mckinley said: 'I do not 1 know a period of our history when the | country enjoyed more real and substan- | tial prosperity than it does to-day In i every one of the great industries of the
 country, all are feeling a degree of
 prosperity which gives new hope to all our people, Not only are the people 1 reasonably prosperous but the govern
 ment is alike prosperous. We have had
 no bad luck lately (Applause). We
 have got along fairly we'll thus far, , tboplrc tn tba DatriofiSo If fha A,,,ari