The Indianapolis journal., 1898-12-19
M'KINLEY,s SPEECHES.


The erstwhile rebel yell is now the Union
yell.-Kansas City Star.
President Mckinley pins his faith to the
genius of American civilization And it isn't
likely to betray his confidence.-BoSton Her
aid.
That little speech of William McKinley's
to the Georgia legislators is going to make
difference in this country.-Hartford
Courant.
Recent events at Atlanta and Montgomery
have demonstrated that William Mckinley
is President of the whole country.-Nash-
vile Banner.
President Mckinley is right. The peace
and justice and liberty for which the stars
and stripes stand will stay wherever that
flag is hoisted.-BoSton journal.
The President honors himself and the
Union in declaring that the time has come
to ratify the reconciliation of North and
South in fitting deeds-Boston Globe
Major Mckinley has an idea that the
American flag, once raised, is raised to stay,
and they applaud that idea down in Dixie as
We'll as in the North.-Pittsburg Chronicle
Telegraph.
Great was President McKinleys oppor-
tunity. Grandly did he seize it. The note
he sounded at Atlanta ended the civil war.
Let the date be remembered-Dec. IA, 1898!
washington Times.
President Mckinley says the American
been raised. This is another way of an
nouncing that the Philippines are not for
Sale.-BaltimOre Herald.
The President has made great hit in
Georgia. 1t is likely that the name of no
President would receive louder Southern
cheers just now than that of Mr.. Mckinley.
st. Louis Post-Dspatch.
The Presidents speech before the Georgia
Legislature was conceived in his best vein.
He seized upon the spirit and significance
of the occasion and set them forth with
moving eloquence.-Rochester Post-Express.
A good deal more of statemanlike discus
sion even at the expense of some fine
sounding phrases might be infused into Mr..
McklnleyS charming but ethereal speeches
without in the least impairing their value to
the country.-Detroit Free Press.
Those who value the tranquility of the
present and love to think on this as re-
united and happy country in which sectional
lines are unknown will do well not to put
President McKinley's fraternal utterance
concerning the Confederate dead to the
money test of a pension for the living.-Au-
gusta (Ga) Chronicle.
President Mckinley touched the hearts of
a host of Southern men and women when
he expressed the hope that the federal gov
ernment would take care of the graves of
the Confederate dead. That was a noble
and a magnanimous sentiment and ii has in
creased the already high regard for Presi-
and the South already held.-Atlanta Jour
nal.
There is no more purpose to-day to disre-
gard American theories of government than
there was in 1861. 1t has fallen to the lot of
President Mckinley to express for the South
and for the North approval of the result
of the civil war and to apply to a wider
sphere the large AmericaniSm which is the
twin brother of that for which Abraham
Lincoln stood.-Brooklyn Eagle.
Now the President comes among us, and
accepting us as we are with our traditions,
with our dead, we stand within the house,
hold upon equal terms honorng alike the
memory of Lee and Grant, of Davis and
Lincoln Each of them obeyed the author
ity which was known to him, and each of
them was true to every duty of citizenship
and of manhood. Verify, we are living in
historic days the story of which will enliven
the chronicles of the time to come Atlanta
Constitution.
Above the sod there's but one God;
Beneath the sod one clay;
And why should States keep olden hates,
And part the Blue and Gray?
Oh! blood is strong, through right and
wrong,
And stronger when tbs sned;
And Blue and Gray are washed away
In the last great flood of Red!
One land henceforth No South! No North!
Brothers, let quarrels cease!
The Red the Gray and the Blue to-day
Are joned in the White of Peace!
New York Press.