The Monmouth inquirer., 1898-12-22
M'KINLEY IN SOUTH.
WITH HIS CABINET HE ATTENDS THE
PEACE JUBILEE.
The President Reviews the Results
of the War-RejoicesO over Reunited
Country and Says Old Glory Must
stay where 1t Has Been Planted.

! President Mckinley and his associates
returned to Washington Tuesday from
pne- of the most remarkable presidential
lours in the history of this country.
The president with members of his
eabinet and officers of the army and
navy left Washingtonaearly last week
to attend the peace jubilee at Atlanta.
The trip has served double purpose
that of celebrating the ending of our
victorious war with Spain and furnish
ing a concrete demonstration of nation
al unity
The Jubilee formally began on Wednes-
dAy with a reception to President Nc
Kinley and other distinguished guests
of the city at the Georgia statehouse,
where the legislature was in session,
The senate and house, acting jointly,
received the president and his party
with expressions of courtesy, when
later developed into an enthusiastic
ovation. On being presented President
Mckinley said in part:
Every soldiers grave made during
the civil war is a tribute to American
yalor, and while, when these graves
were made, we differed widely about
the future of the government. those
differences were long ago settled by the
arbitrament of arms, and the time mas
now come, in the evolution OF sentl-
ment and feeling under the providence
of God, when in the spirit of fraternity
we should share with you in the care
Of the graves of the Confederate sol
diers."
A wild cheer went up from every
throat in the typical southern audience
"a cheer that echoed and reached
through the chamber until 1t was taken
M by the crowd outside. Continuing,
the president said
"The cordial feeling which now hap-
PLY exists between the north and south
prompts this gracious act, and II II
needed further justification 1t is found
in the gallant loyalty to the Union ana
the flag so conspicuously shown in the
year just past by the sons and grand
sons of these heroic dead.
What a glorious future awaits US II
unitedly, wisely and bravely we face
the new problems now pressing upon
us, determined to solve them for right
and humanity"
Of all the conciIiatory speeches which
have been made since Grant said, Let
us have peace nothing has more deep
ly stirred a southern audience than the
simple words of President Mckinley in
the Georgia state house.
President Mckinley Thursday after
noon reviewed the military and civic
parade, which was unquestionably the
greatest pageant of it's kind ever seen
in the south. After the review the
president was received by 10000 ap-
plauding people at the Auditorium,
where he said in part:
"Other parts of the country have had
their public thanksgivings and jubilees
in honor of the historic events OF the
last year, but nowhere has there been
greater rejoicing than among the peo-
pie here, the gathered. representatives
of the south. I congratulate them upon
their accurate observation of events
which enabled them to fix date which
insured them the privilege of being the
first to celebrate the signing of the
treaty of peace by the American and
Spanish commissioners.
ssUnder hostile fire, on foreign soil,
fighting in a common cause, the memo-
ry of old disagreements has faded into
history. From. camp and campaign
there come the magic healing which has
closed ancient wounds and effaced their
scars. For this result every American
patriot VIII 4OiCNCl CjOASC.
.'This government has proved itself
invincible in the recent war, and out of
it has come nation which will remain
indivisible forevermore No worthier
contributions have been made in patri-
otism and in men than by the people of
these southern states. When at last the
opportunity came, they were eager to
meet it, and with promptness responded
to the call of country. Intrusted with
the able leadershipof men dear to them,
who had marched with their fathers
under another flag, now fighting under
the old flag again, they have gioriously
helped to defend its spotless folds and
added new luster to its shining stars.
THAT flag has been planted in two
hemispheres, and there it remains, the
symbol of liberty and law, of peace and
progress. Who will withdraw it from
| the people over whom it floats in pro-
tecting folds? Who will haul it down?
"The victory we celebrate is not that
of ruler, a president or a congress, but
of the people. An army whose valor we
admire and navy whose achievements
we applaud were not assembled by draft
or conscription, but from voluntary en-
/ listment. The heroes came from civil
as we'll as military life. Trained and un-
| trained soldiers wrought our triumphs
THE peace we have won is not self
! ish truce of arms but one whose con-
ditions presage good to humanity"
The jubilee ended with banquet
Thursday evening, at which many bril-
| liant and patriotic speeches were made
by distinguished men.
After the banquet the president and
party left for Montgomery. Ala, stop
ping en- route on Friday forenoon at
Tuskegee, where Mr.. Mckinley address
ed colored students and teachers.
The party reached Montgomery Fri
day afternoon, and the president was
received with great cordiality at the
first capital of the Confederacy. A re-
ception was rendered by the Alabama
legislature, where a demonstration much
like that at the Georgia statehouse oc-
Cured. The president spoke on the
complete reunion Of the nation and was
applauded to the echo by thousands OF
| delighted Alabamians.
From Montgomery the presidential
party went to Savannah, where the
troops there stationed were reviewed
and where there was another enthusi-
| astic series of receptions The party