Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1898-12-22
TGlGglaDllc News QttlG Week

TGlGgraDllc News otthe Week
Atlanta, Dec. 1.-THE train bearing
the Presidential party arrived here te
attend the Jubilee at eight O'Clock thi!
morning. President and Mrs. McKin
| ley breakfasted in the dining car. AT
Gainesville about two hundred persons
assembled to greet them. From there
to Atlanta there was an occasional
cheer, but nothing in the nature of a
dem onstration.
When the train arrived every avail
able space was crowded about the depot
TO greet the distinguished party. The
President took d carriage aud was driv-
en to TIE KimbAll House half block
away. The rest of the party walked
the short distance. General Whe eler
aud his daughter held an informal re-
Icaptio n in the hotel parlOis. The pro-
gram as arranged for today allowed
the travellers to rest in advance of be-
ing entertained after breakfast, and at
| 40 on by the Jubilee COMMITTEES on re-
ception as planned by the Governor and
the General Assembly at the Capitol.
The rest of the program provided for a
| public reception at the Capitol at two
o'clock for a review of the floral parade.
At 3 O'Clock they returned to the Kim
ball House and partook of dinner at 6
p. m. A reception at the Capital City
Club took place at nine. The President
has not decided as to whether he will
make any remarks except of an inform
al nature.
Atlanta, Dec. 15.-President McKin
ley continues to receive an ovation
Ex- Mayor Glenn said this morning that
after the speech made last night by the
President that he might make any mum
Der of negro appointments in the South
and the South would hardly take ex-
ceptions. He showed that not only
was the past dead, but, this new coun-
tfy in all sections is now i'll sympathy;
Jhatthe North IN honor the Confede-
rate dead because they were Americans.
Continuing, Mr.. Glenn said: "The Pres
ident has carried the city off it's feet"
Train after tralnload of people have
been unloaded and the sight-seeers this
morning have ethe streets crowded. The
jam today is worse than on yesterday
The military and civil parade today was
eae greatest pageant in the city's histo-
ry General Wheeler commanded five
hundred Confederate Veterans. His
guard of honor consisted of one hun.
dred of his old cavalryman. The civic
para e Included ten thousand school
children and four hundred Carriages.
rhe President spoke publicly at three |
O'Clock and the Jubilee reception at the
Executive Mansion came off at four
o'clock. Governor Chandler, of Geor-
gia; Governor Johnston, of Alabama:
Governor Vorhees, of New Jersey, occu-
pied seats at the President g table.
The speech of the President made on
w CuuccOdy 10 ttc lOliO Wo.
Its an uncommon pleasure to be thus
greeted by these representatives 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 |
feeling no longer holds back the love we
Dear each other. Fraternity is the Ma
tional anthem, sung by chorus OF
forty five States and our Territories at
nome and beyond the seas.
1.-The Union is once more the COM
mon atlas of our love ard loyalty, our
devotion and sacrifice. The old flag |
again waves over us in peace, with new
ylories which your sons and ours have
this year added to its sacred folds.
"What cause we have for rejoicing. |
saddened only by the fact that so many |
brave men fell on the field or sicken-
ed and died from hardships an / expo
sure, and others, returning, bring wounds |
and disease from which they will long
suffer. The memory of the dead will
De a precious legacy and the disabled
will be the nations care.
ga nation which cares for it's dis
abled soldiers as we have always done
will never lack defenders. The Nation
al cemeteries for those who fell in battle |
are proof that the dead as well 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 during
our unfortunate civil war is a tribute to
American vaior. And while when
those graves were made we differed
widely about the future of the govern
ment, the differences were long ago set
tied by the arbitrament of arms-and
the time has now come in the evolution
of sentiment and feeling under the prov
idence Of God, when in the spirit of fra
ternity we should share with you in the
care Of the graves of the Confederate
sol1iers.
The cordial feeling which now happi
" exists between the North and South
prompts this gracious act, and il it need
ed further justification it is found in
the gallant loyalty to the Union and
the flag so picuously shown in the
year just passed by the SONS and grand
so ! of these heroic dead.
" hat glorious future awaits us if
ittdly, wisely and bravelY We face
the Lew problems now pressing upon
US, determined to solve them for right
and Lumanitv."
Norfolk, Va, Dec. 14.-The battle
ship Texas commanded by Captain