The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-09-09
AT MoNTAuK POINT.
General Wheeler Greets President McKtn
ley at the Camp-The Speeches.

General Wheeler Greets President McKin-
ley at the Camp-The Speeches.
On Saturday last President Mckinley
visited Camp Wikoff at Montauk Point
and was welcomed by General Joseph
B. Wheeler, as follows:
"The President of our great country
has come here to greet the soldiers that
marched so CALAMITY up San Juan hill
on July /. He comes here to express the
Nations thanks to these brave men. /
wish to tell you that when the President
sent me here two weeks ago to command
this camp he enjoined me in the most
emphatic language that I should, with
out regard to expense, exercise any and
every authority necessary to make com
Portable this body of brave men, who by
their courage have raised this Republic
to the highest position among the great
nations of the earth. | have the honor
and pleasure of introducing to you the
President of the United States
When General Wheeler ended his
speech he was cheered by the men, who
then looked at President Mckinley.
AAaress of the President.
The Chief Executive was standing in
lis carriage, and when General Wheeler
stepped back the President. with his
head uncovered. addressed the infantry
men as follows:
General Wheeler, soldiers Of Camp
Wikoff, soldiers Of the Fifth Army
Corps, I am glad to meet you. I am
honored to stand before you today. l
bring you the gratitude of the Nation, to
whose history you have added by your
valor new and glorious page. You
have come home after two months of
severe campaigning which has embraced
assault, siege and battle, so brilliant in
achievement, so far-reaching in results
as to command the unstinted praise of all
your countrymen. Yon had the brunt
of the battle on land. You bore your
selves with supreme courage and your
personal bravery, never before excelled
anywhere, has won the admiration of
your fellow-citizens and the genuine re-
spect of all mankind, while your endur-
ance under peculiar trial and suffering
has given added meaning to your hero
ism. Your exertions made easy the
conquest of Porto Rico. under the resist
less army commanded by Major General
Miles, and behind you to proceed at a
moments summons were more than two
hundred thousand Of your comrades
ready to support you, disappointed that
the opportunity which you had did not
come to them, yet filled with pride at
your well-earned fame and rejoicing
upon your signal victories. You were
on the line Of battle; they, no less than
you, werein the line of duty. All have
served their country in its need, all will
serve it so long as they may be required,
and all will forever have the thanks and
regard of a grateful people.
ssWe cannot bid you welcome here to-
day without our hearts going out to the
heroes of Manila, on sea and land, whose
services and sacrifices, whose courage
and constancy in that far-distant 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 volun-
teers, and to the Providence which has
watched over them all the Nation to-day
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 in immortal story,
and their memories will be perpetuated
in the hearts and the histories of a
generous people, and those who are de-
pendent upon them will not be neglected
by the Government for which they SO
freely sacrificed their lives. .