The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-12-15
The Address OF
Mckinley
MARKS A NEW EPOCH
Remarkable Utterance Be-
fore a Southern Audience.

Atlanta. Ca, Dec 14-President Nc
Kinley made memorable the first day of
the Atlanta peace jubilee by a notable
utterance in his speech before the joint
session of the Georgia legislature, this
afternoon.
His reception by the general assembly
was warm and hearty in The extreme,
and his speech was Interrupted with
frequent outbursts of cheering. 1t is
admitted ON all sides that the address
marked an epoch in history, and it is
tonight on every lip.
Upon the presidents arrival at the
capitol he was greeted with a field ar
tillery salute and was at once escorted
to Gov. Gamblers office There d short
informal reception took place. Upon
its conclusion the president was CON
Quoted to the assembly chamber, where
he occupied the speakers chair, with
Gov. Gambler on his right.
When President Dobson of the senate
called the legislature to order the gal
lerics We're thronged with men and
women. The body of the chamber was
well filled with state senators and as
semblymen, while the uniforms of
various officers and the governors
staff gave a touch of brilliant color to
the gathering.
on the first row facing the speaker
sat Secretaries AIger, Gage, Long and
Wilson, Postmaster General Smith and
Secretary to the President Porter Be-
side the speakers desk and below the
president, Gems. Wheeler, Lawton and
Young. in full uniform, sat on chairs
The speaker raped for silence, and in
troduced the president to the audience,
after congratulating the state Of
Georgia upon the presence of their dis
tinguished guests. AS the president
arose the audience applauded. During
the course of his speech Mr.. Mckinley
referred to his notes and constantly
paused for the cheers to stop. A seem.
of intense enthusiasm followed when,
amid impressive silence, these words
fell from the lips of the president;
Every soldiers grave made dur
ing the civil war is a. tribute TO
american NAlOr. And While, when
these graves were made we differed
widely about the future of the gov
eminent those differences were
long ago settled by the arbitrat-
ment of arms and the time has now
come in the evolution of sentiment
and feeling, under the providence of
God, when in the spirit of frater-
nifty we should share with you in
the care of the graves Of the con-
federate soldiers"
A wild cheer went up from every
throat in the typical southern audi
ence cheer that echoed and reached
through the chamber until it was taken
up by the crowd outside
Old men who fought for the south
rose from their seats and waved their
hats. One confederate veteran, now a
venerable legislator, had passed for
ward until he was leaning against the
speakers desk, hanging on each word
the president uttered. When the refer
ence was made to the confederate
dead, this old man buried his head in
his arms and, while cheers rang out.
cried like 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 audience than
the simple words of President McKin
ley this afternoon.
NO sooner had President Mckinley
concluded than there were loud cries
Tor 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.
Gen. Wheeler referred enthusiastically
to the efforts of the president toward
preserving peace as long as the coun-
try.s honor would permit such efforts.
and of his masterful policy after II
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tribute to Admiral Dewey and added:
The army in conjunction with the
navy was ordered to attack and des-
troy the Spanish forces at Santiago
In four weeks that order was obeyed
and It's purpose accomplished. The
proud Spanish nation stood sueing for
peace from the nation which a month
before it had held no to ridicuIe and
scOrn.''
Calls for Brig. Gen. Young brought
that officer to his feet with a short
speech regarding The condition of the
army camps in the south. He said
that no troops in the world We're bet
ter, more regally fed and treated
than We're the troops in South Caro-
lima and Georgia.
Gen. Lawton was loudly cheered. but
refused to make speech He simply
thanked, on behalf of his men at San
tiago, the Legislature and people of
II.
Secretary Alger refused to speak and
the legislature dissolved
The president held private recep-
ton in the Senate and afterward
public reception on She steps of the
rotunda. There were hundreds of
southerners crushed and jostled by
each other in their anxiety to shake a
northern presidents hand. Many had
come from miles distant, and at 2.15
p. m, when the president left the cap
tol there were still hundreds bitterly
disappointed because they had not
been able to make their way through
the surgng throng t. get a seconds
hold on his hands.
The days festivities included a
unique floral parade which was re-
viewed by the president and a festival
tonight to the distinguished guests at
the Capitol City Club.
Tonight the meatbers OF the Capitol
City Club opened their club house to
the president and Mrs. Mckinley, and
the guests Of the city. The occasion
was notably brilliant The receiving