The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-14

girls with hands fun of flowers, were lifted
up to a level of the President. He took the
hand Of each one and thanked them in
low tone for the roses. The people surged
forward to grasp the hand of the Presi-
dent, and he smilingly accommodated as
many as he could reach. Before the train
started. reaching far over the railing, he
took the outstretched hand of a lady who
must have been seventy-five years old. She
said to him: Mr. President. this is the
happiest moment OF my life" The remarks
Of President Mckinley at Hastings were
as follows:
MY Fellow-citizens - 1t has given me
great pleasure, as 1 have journeyed through
this glorious State. to observe evidences
both of patriotism and of prosperity. We
have pretty much everything in this country
TO make it happy. We have good money.
we have ample revenues, we have unques-
tionable national credit, but what we want
is 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 which numbered easily 5000 people.
He said:
ut gives me great pleasure to look into
your faces as 1 journey through your State.
W Aot AohOH VI tl1O WOLlu AdS 10 pC
thankful for than ours We have material
wealth, We have rich and fertile lands, we
have great shops and great factories that
make everything. We have skilled work
men, we have genius for invention, and in
the last thirty years we have achieved COM
mercial triumphs which have been the won
der OF the world. We have much to be
thankful for. We have come out of events
of the last five months glorious in our vic
tories and more glorious in the results which
are to come. We are fortunate in the vir-
tue Of our people and in the valor of our
soldiers and sailors. We have been patriotic
IN every crisis of our history and never
moro patriotic than from April l, 1893, to
the present hour. Our patriotism must be
continued. We must not permit it to abate,
but we must stand unitedly until every set
tlement OF the recent contest shall be writ
ten in enduring form and shall record a
triumph for civilization and humanity /
am glad to be at the home of that gallant
young hero who went down in the harbor
of Havana, Ensign Merritt. / 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 fellow-citizens, and will
Dc always held in remembrance by CRATE
~"4 PSOP4S. 4NOW, my IellOW-clIlZenS, IL
gives me great pleasure to present to you
the secretary of the treasury, whom, I am
sure you will be glad to hear for a mo-
ment.''
secretary Gage spoke as follows:
"Friends-The proudest title that any man
on this earth wear, in my opinion. is
the title of an American citizen: second To
that, in my estimation, is seems to me the
DrOudeSt thing is to 10 q Of
mighty, growing West / am a citizen. a
sympathetic citizen, of this mighty grow
ing West. 1t 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 in contact to-day
with this man, the President of the United
States, in whose judgment, WISDOM cour-
age, virtue, fortitude, zeal and patriotism
the fortunes Of the American people are so
fully committed. Citizens, he is worthy of
your confidence and love- support him by
your sympathies and your confidence. I
will now introduce the postmaster general,
Mr.. Charles Emory Smith,"
Postmaster General Smith said
Il am very glad, as a member Of the
Presidents Cabinet to meet this great as
semblage of the people of this rich and fer
tile State of Iowa. You are here to meet
and greet the President of the United
States. He is your President; he is en-
shrined in your affection and your admira-
tion because you know that he is President
of the whole people. You have given him
your confidence and your support through
the greatest crisis and emergency which
this country has faced since the civil war,
because you knew that he is firmly devoted
to the welfare of the entire American peo-
pie and has given his single earnest pur-
pose to the promotion of the interests of
our whole country. In his further work
you will continue the confidence and sup
port which you have thus far given him.
and in the settlements which are to come
he will have the support of the American
people as he has had in the great conflict
through which we have passed"