Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1898-09-08
INSPECTs CAMP WIKOFF.
President Mckinley Visits the Sick
Heroes, and Addresses Those
3 More Fortunate.

Os~I NANAA1A4CJ SPCuI live uOu1
in the camp Saturday, bareheaded most
of the time, visiting the sick in the hos
pitfalls and inspecting the we'll in their.
environments. He made d speech to the
assembled infantryman, reviewed the
cavalrymen, expressed his opinion of
the camp to the reporters, and issued
an order directing the regulars to re-
turn to their stations east of the Mis-.
sissippi. :. r.. q
With the president, besides the Sec
rotary of war; We're: -
Vice President Hobart, Attorney General
Griggs, Senator Redfield Proctor, of Yer
mont; Brig. Gen. Egan, Brig. Gen. Lud-
ington, Maj. Webb c. Hayes, son Of the
late President Hayes; Col. M. T. Herrick,
of Cleveland; William Mckinley Barber,
Of Canton, o. H. H. Herrick, of Cleve-
rotary Cortelpou. ..-.
The ladies of the party were Mrs. .Alger
and Miss Hecker. ..+
Mai. Gen. Wheeler was surrounded
by number of his staff. s. The car
riages, preceded by the cavalry, wound
up the hill to Gen: Wheeler's head,
quarters. ~ 4
There the president took a long view
Of the wide, treeless expanse, check
cred with regimental camps and hos
pitfalls, great porterres of canvas amid
stretches of grass.
''This is beau :lful," Mr.. Mckinley
said, and then later: II think never
saw a handsomer camp" ~
Gen. Wheeler, who rode beside the
presidents carriage, pointed out the
different places 81 interest. All the
nurses and physicians were assembled
at the hospital when the president ar
rived. The cheers were spontaneous
and ringing. The president went into
the tents alone OR with Gen. Wheeler
and made a personal inspection. The
tents were in admira BILE condition.
Everything was clean and attractive,
and the wan patients smiled joyfully
as the president went to them grasp
ing many by the hand, as if they were
his own brothers and sons. So the Wis
iting was continued from tent to tent,
from division to division. until the en-
tire camp had be- inspected.
A visit was paid to the infantry plain
where the cheering was prolonged and
eAAS AASA SLo"So Ill ulgn
spirits. Men of tie Ninth Massa chu-
setts, Fist Illinois, Eighth Ohio and
Thirteenth, Twenty-frst, Twenty-sec-
end and Twelfth regular infantry were
assembled without arms About 5000
stood in close order and Gen. Wheeler
said:
''The president Of our great country has
come here to greet the soldiers who
marched so CALAMITY up San Juan hill or
1uly 1. He comes here to express the ma.
tlon $ thanks to these brave men. wish,
to tell you that when the president sent me
mere, two weeks ago, to command this
camp he enjoined me in the most emphatic
language that I should, without regard to,
expense, exercise any and every authority.
necessary to make comfortable this body
Of brave men, who, by their courage, have
raised this republic to the highest position
among the great nations of the EARTH ]
nave the honor and pleasure of INTRODUCING
TO you the president of the United States.''
When the cheering subsidized Presi-,
dent Mckinley responded as follows:
Gen. Wheeler. Soldiers of Camp Wikoff,
Soldiers of the Fifth Army Corps: trust
that you will put your hats on-I am glad
to meet you. I am honored to stand be-
tore you to-day. I bring you the gratitude
OF the nation to whose history you have
ADDED by your valor a new and glorious
page. You have come home after two
months of severe campaigning, which has
embraced assault, siege and battle, so bril-
liant in achievement, so far-reac ching in re-,
suits as to command the unstinted praise.
of all your countrymen.
you had the brunt of the battle on land.
You bore yourselves with supreme courage.
and your personal bravery. never before ex-.
celled anywhere has won the admiration
of your fellow citizens and the genuine re-
spect of all mankind, while your endurance.
under peculiar trial and suffering has
given added meaning to your Leroism
Your exertions made easy the CONQUEST of
Puerto Rico under the resistless army COM.
manded by Maj. Gen. Miles, and behind
you, to proceed at moments summons,
were more than zoe, 900 of your comrades,
ready to support you, disappointed that the
opportunity which you had did not come to-
them, yet filled with pride al your we'll
earned fame and rejoicing upon your sig
nal victories.
you were on the line of battle-they, no.
less than you, were in the line of duty. All.
have served their country in its need, all
will serve 1t so long as they may be re-,
CURED, and all will forever have the thanks.
and regard of a grateful people.
I'VE cannot bid you welcome here to-
day without our hearts going out to the
heroes OF Manila on sea and on land, whose
services and sacrifices, whose courage and
consistency in that far-distant field of OPP
eratlons have never been surpassed by
any soldiers or sailors the world over.
ITO the army and the navy, to the ma
rlnes, to the regulars, to the volunteers and.
to that Providence which has watched over
them all the nation to-day is full of thanks
giving 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 his
tories of generous people, and those who i
are dependent upon them will not be neg
lected by the government for which they:so
freely sacrificed their lives rs
After the tour OF the tents had been.