New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-12-21
.S'0Q'I|'|A|.''S LOYALTY
Rousing Reception Accorded
the President Surpassed
& Expectations.
War With Spain the Great
est Factor in Achieving
=, This Result.
POLITICS PLAYED NO PART
Democrats and Ex-Confeder-
ates the Leading Actors
in the Scene.
Presidents, Tribute to Their
Dead Soldiers Is Highly
-, Appreciated. i.

SAVANNAH. Ca, Dec. 20.--The visit
Of President Mckinley and his party
has ended after two days Of remarkable
display Of enthusiasm and patriotism
In the rousing reception accorded the
president the original object of his visit
has been lost sight Of. The outbursts Of
enthusiasm and loyalty to the Union
have far outshone the rejqicings over
peace with Spain, although peace cele-
brations was the original object Of the
presidents trip South.
In all the speeches and demOnsrra-
tons which have marked the president
visit to Atlanta, Tuskegee, Montgomery
and Savannah there has been the taeit
admission that the war with Spain was
the great factor in achieving the result
but it is to the result and the factor tha5
the chief trend Of
speechnaking and Enthusiasm
has lent itself. Political influences seem
to play no part in the reception of Presi:
dent Mckinley, On all sides there is an
eagerness to publicly express the loyalty
of the Southern states and to admit
that the war with Spain not only helped
to weld the compact of the sections. but
gave to the South the opportunity to ex-
press sentiments Of loyalty which have
long lived, but have lacked opportunity
of expression and this has BEEN done
chiefly by Democrats, many of whom
fought for the Stars and Bars and to all
of whom the name Of Davis is sacred
memory. The frank references to and
the discussion of the Civil war have led
to many delicate situations. that were
only saved from
Becoming IRRITATING Dilemmas,
by the tact Of president who fought
against Southern troops or by the utter
ances of the Cenfederates who years ago
opposed him on the battlefield. The
marvellous scenes Of an audience I'M the
Confederate capital cheering the Stars
and Stripes until they grew hoarse; of
Confederate veterans struggling to grasp
the hand of a Northern Republican
president, of General Wheeler leading
/ the people of his, state in cheers for
| William Mckinley in the place where
Jefferson Davis, once urged the South to
fight for separation, are all redeemed
from the suspicion of fulsomeness,, OF
the faint praise Of politicians by the
blunt truthfulness of the men who Led
in these new and tremendously fervent
declarations of loyalty. In the addresses
of welcome to President Mckinley
there
/ Have Been No Con essions of Sin.
| In substance they all said they fought
for what they then thought was right
/ that they neither blamed themselves
nor their dead fathers or sons for enlist
| ing in the cause of the Confederacy, but
that they accept today the changed con
I ditions with gladness and sincerity
they never felt until the war with Spain
knit the nation into common cause
and until a Republican president urgel
the people Of the North and South t.
honor the Confederate dead. In thu
latter reason lies the main incentive K
the intense and almost unexpected en-
thusiasm with which the presidential
party has been greeted since Mckinley
first speech in Atlanta. Scarcely
speaker or a paper in Alabama O
Georgia have made reference to tn
president without mentioning on ever,
opportunity his tribute to the Confeder
| ata dead