The record-union., 1898-10-13
A Great Celebration in Honor OF
William Mckinley.
Thousands Of People Give Hearty Wei
come to the Chief Executive.
The President Pays a Glowing
Tribute to the Success OF the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition,
and Refers to the Lessons OF
Patriotism Taught by the Late
War With Spain

war with Spdlu~
OMAHA Oct. 12-The third day Of
Omaha's peace jubilee and Presl-
dents" day at the Trans Mississippi
Exposition opened with lowering SKY.
About 10 O'Clock, however the sun
burst forth in all it's radiance, making
the hearts of thousands glad. The Pres
ident was up early this morning. and at
9 o'clock was in the parlors of the
Omaha Club, where he greeted the
members of his party and other dls-
tinguished callers. 1t was AFTER III
o'clock when the Presidential party, es-
corted by President Wattles and mem
bers of the Entertainment Committee
in carriages, started for the exposition
grounds. They were headed by a pla-
toon of mounted police, While the Pres
ident and party We're escorted by the
Board of Governors of the Ak-Sar-Ben,
mounted and dressed in their regalla
The party proceeded directly to the
grand plaza on the bluff tract of the
exposition, where in the music paVll-
ion the formal exercises of the day oc-
CURED.
In the first carriage was the Tresi-
dent with Gordon w. Wattles, Presl-
dent of the exposition. Then followed
General Miles, General Greedy, Gen
eral Wheeler, Secretaries Gage, Bliss
and Wilson, Postmaster General Smith,
the members of the diplomatic corps,
Secretaries of Legation and press rep
resentatiyes.
The vast crowd that had gathered to
see President Mckinley leave the club
building was ably controlled by Major
Clarkson, general manager of the eX-
position.
President Mckinley probably never
received a more enthusiastic greeting
than that which awaited him at the ex-
position grounds. By far the greatest
crowd in the big Western shows his
tory, so large a crowd that its num-
bers are almost impossible to be esti-
mated thronged about the huge plat
form from which he made his address
Hardly one sentence was spoken by
him which did not evoke from the
people cheers. After President Wat
ties had introduced the distinguished
guests of the exposition, it was fully
five minutes before the subsistence of
the applause permitted the President
40 begin speaking President McKin-
ley's address was as follows:
Gentlemen of the Trans Mississippi
Exposition and fellow citiZehs: 1t is
with genuine pleasure that l meet once
more the people of Omaha, whose
wealth of welcome is not altogether un-
familiar TO me, and whose warm hearts
have before touched and moved me.
For this renewed manifestation of your
regard, and for the cordial reception
of to-day my heart responds with pro-
found gratitude and a deep apprecia-
tion which / cannot conceal, and which
the language of compliment is made
Quate TO convey.
My greeting is not alone to your city
and the State of Nebraska, but to the
people of all the States of the Trans
Mississippi group participating, and I
cannot withhold congratulations a evil
dences of their prosperity furnished by
this great exposition. If testimony
We're needed to establish the fact that
their pluck has not deserted them, and
that prosperity is again with them, ii
is found here. This picture dispeis all
doubt.
In an age of expositions they have
added yet another magnificent ex-
ample. The historical celebrations at
Philadelphia and at Chicago. the splen-
did exhibits at New Orleans. Atlanta
and Nashville, are now a part OF the
past, and yet in influence they still
live, and their beneficent results are
closely interviewer with our national
development. Similar rewards will
honor the authors and patrons of the
Trans Mississippi Exposition. The con-
tribution viii mark another epoch in
the nations material advancement
zone of the great laws of life is prog
ress. and nowhere have the principles
of this law been so strikingly illus
trated as in the United States. A GEN.
fury and a decade OF our national life
have turned doubt into conviction;
changed experiment into demonstra-
ton: revolutionized old methods and
won new triumohs which have chal-
lengedi the attention of the world. This
!s true not only of the accumulation
of material wealth and advance in ed
ucation, science invention and man
ufacturing, but above all in the op.
portunities to the people for their owr
elevation, which have been secured by
wise free government. Hitherto in
peace and in war, with additions to oul
territory and slight changes in /oui
laws, we have steadily enforced the
spirit Of the Constitution secured TO Us
by the noble self-sacrifice and far
seeing sagacity of our ancestors. We
have avoided the temptations of con-
quest in the spirit of gain. With ar
increasing love for our institutions and
an abiding faith in their stability, we
have made the triumphs of our system
of government in the progress and the
prosperity Of our people an inspiration
to the whole human race. Confronted
at this moment by new and grave prob
lens, we must recognize that their So
luton will affect not ourselves alone
but others of the family of nations
I'm this age of frequent interchange
and mutual dependency, we cannot
ehirk our international responsibilities;
il we would; they must be met with
courage and wisdom and we must fol
low duty even if desire opposes. M
deliberation can be too mature or self
control too constant in this solemn
hour Of our history. We must avoic
the temptation of undue aggression