Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1898-09-05
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| Camp Wikod, Saturday, were:
Vice President Hobart, Secretary of
War Alger. Attorney General Griggs,
Senator Redfield Proctor of Vermont,
Brigadier General Eagan. commissary
of the army; Brigadier General Lud-
dington, quartermaster of the army !;
Colonel Henry Hecker and Secretaries
TO the President Porter and Cortelyou,
Mrs. Alger and Miss Hecker, daugh-
ter of Colonel Hecker.
Mr.. Mckinley and party drove to
General Skaters tent in the detention
camp. The general who was flushed
and weak from mild case Of malarial
fever, was in full uniform, sitting in a
chair at the door of the tent. He tried
to rise, but Mr.. Mckinley said: Stay
where you are, general. You are en-
titled to rest.
The president congratulated General
Shafter on the Santiago campaign, and
after few minutes rest proceeded to
the general hospital He stopped at
many of the cots and spoke to some of
the men.
He went 90 the infantry plain where
about 5000 men were gathered, among
them some men from the Eighth Ohio.
General Wheeler introduced him.
The president made a speech in
which he said he was honored to stand
before them and said he brought them
the gratitude Of the nation. He said
at one point:
"Y our exertions made easy the con-
quest of Porto Rico under the resistless
army commanded by Major General
Miles, and behind you to proceed at
TnOtnpnttl c1rtpr11onc xyara mora than
100000 of your comrades, ready to sup
port you, disappointed that the oppor-
tunity which you had did not come to
them, yet filled with pride at your we'll
earned fame and rejoicing upon your
signal victories.
At another point he said:
1--WE cannot bid you welcome here
today without our hearts going out to
the heroes of Manila on sea and on land
whose services and sacrifices, whose
courage and constancy, in that far dis
tant field of operations have never been
surpassed by any soldiers or sailors the
world over. To the army and the navy,
to the marines, to the regulars, to the
volunteers and to that Providence which
has watched over them all the nation
today is full of thanksgiving and praise.
The brave officers and men who fell in
battle and those who have died from
exposure and sickness will live i'll i'm
mortal story, and their memories will
be perpetuated in the hearts and the
histories of a generous people, and those
who are dependent upon them will not
be neglected by the government for
which they SO freely sacrificed their
lives.
On the way to the detention hospital
they passed the graveyard, in which
were so or 20 plain new wooden crosses.
The president solemnly raised his hat
The president went through the deten-
ton hospital, even going in the danger
GUS ward, while the others stood outside
this ward.
The president then drove through
lines OF cavalry. He then drove to
General Wheeler's headquarters.
The president and those with him
took lunch with General Wheeler and
his staff. After lunch the president,
Mr.. Alger, General Wheeler and Colo
mel Hard of the Eighth Ohio were
photographed in group.
The president issued an order direct
ing that the regular troops at Camp
Wikoff whose posts are east of the
Mississippi should return with the least
possible delay to their posts.
The presidential party then went
down to the station and left ON a spe-
cial train.
The president said he was gratified
with what he saw of the care of the
sick, and Hobart and Proctor spoke
fayorably of the camp.
At Long Island City the president
took the government ferryboat Cen
eral Melgs and was taken around the
lower end of Manhattan island to the
Jersey shore, on his way to the vice
presidents home in Paterson, N. J.