The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-15
M'EINLEY BURIES DEAD ISSUES
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and while the cheers rang out, cried
like a little child.
OF all the many conciliatory speeches
which have been made since Grant
said, Let there be peace nothing has
more deeply stirred a southern and
fence than the simple words of PreSi-
dent Mckinley this afternoon.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
The presidents address in full fol-
lows:
1T is an uncommon pleasure to be
thus greeted by the people Of the state
of Georgia, and it affords me much
qualification to be here and rejoice with
you over the signing Of the treaty of
peace with Spain.
Sectional lines no longer mar the
map of the United States. Sectional feel
ing no longer holds back the love we
bear each other Fraternity is the ma
tional anthem. sung by a. chorus of
forty-fiVe states, and over territories
at home and beyond seas.
The Union is once more the common
Atlas of our love and loyalty, our de-
votion and sacrifice. The old flag again
waves over US in peace with new glor-
les, which your sons and ours this year
have added to its sacred folds.
What cause we have for rejoicing,
saddened only by the fact that so many
of our brave fell on the field or sick
ened and died from the hardships and
exposure, and others returning bring
wounds and disease from which they
will long suffer.
THE memory of the dead will be a
precious legacy and the disabled will
be the nations care.
"A nation which cares for its dis
abled soldiers, as we have always done,
will never lack defenders. The ma
tional cemeteries for those who fell in
battle are proof that the dead as we'll
as the living have our love. What an
army of silent sentinels we have, and
with what loving care their graves are
kept. Every soldiers grave made dur
ing our unfortunate civil war is a trib
ute to American valor. And while,
when those graves were made, we diff
fered widely about the future of this
government, these differences were long
ago settled by the arbitrament of arms
and the time has now come, in the
evolution Of sentiment and feeling, INV
der the providence of God, when in the
spirit of fraternity we should share
with you in the care of the graves of
the Confederate soldiers.
THE cordial feeling now happily eX-
listing between the north and south
prompts this gracious act, and if it
needed further justification, it is found
in the gallant loyalty to the Union and
the flag, so conspicuously shown in the
year just passed by the sons and grand
sons of these heroic dead.
What a glorious future awaits u.s. if
unitedly, wisely and bravely, we face
the new problems now pressing us, de-
ternined to solve them for right and
humanity"
WHEELER EULOGIZES MKINLEY.
No sooner had President Mckinley
concluded before there was loud cries
for Wheeler, and when that little man
got up, his head scarcely higher than
the speakers desk, the audience once
more gave vent to wild enthusiasm.
General Wheeler referred eulogistically
to the efforts of the president towards
preserving peace as long as the coun-
try's honor would permit such efforts,
and of his masterful policy after war
was inevitable. General Wheeler paid
tribute to Admiral Dewey, and added:
The army, in conjunction with the
navy, was ordered to attack and destroy
the Spanish forces at Santiago. In
four weeks that order was obeyed, and
its purposes accomplished. The proud
Spanish nation stood suing for peace
from the nation, which, a month before,
it had held up to ridieule and scorn.''
Calls for Brigadier General Young
brought that officer to his feet with
short speech regarding the condition of
the army camps in the south. He said
that no troops in the world were bet
ter, more regularly fed, and better
treated than the troops in South Caro-
lima and Georgia
General Lawton was loudly cheered,
but refused to make a speech. He sim
ply thanked, on behalf of his men at
Santiago, the legislature and people of
Georgia, for their tribute to himself.
Secretary Alger refused to speak, and
the legislature dissolved.
RECEPTIONS HELD.
The president held private recep-
ton in the senate, and afterward a
public reception on the steps of the ro-
tunda. Then hundreds Of southerners
crushed and jostled each other in their
anxiety to shake a northern presidents
hand. Many had come from miles dis
tant and when, at 2:15 p. M, the presi-
dent. left the capitol there were still.
hundreds bitterly disappointed because
they had not been able to make their
way through the surging throng. to get
a seconds hold on his hand.
Tonight the members of the Capitol
City club opened their clubhouse to the
president and Mrs. Mckinney, and the
guests of the city. The occasion was
notably brilliant The receiving party
consisted of a number of Atlanta's rep
resentative women and a large COM
pany of club members. The decorations
were flags, American snilax and Amer
lean Beauty roses.
The late arrivals today were Hon
Evan Settle of Kentucky, who will
speak in the place of Congressman Bal
ley; Richmond P. Hobson and Miss
Hobson, and Governor Voorhees, of New
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