Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-12-15
UITER[DA NOBLE Sentiment
A Touching and Conciliating Para
graph Of the Presidents Speech

A I0uCnlng and Colclllatlng Fara-
graph Of the Presidents Speech
BEFCRE THE JOINT HOUSES OF THE
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE, DREW
FORTB THE FEELINGS OF HIS
AUDIENCE, AND RENDERED. HIM
THEIR IDEAL FOR THE TIME BE-
INCA WILD CHEER OF DELIGHT
THAT WILL BE RE-ECHOED AND
LONG REMEMBERED.
Atlanta, Ga, December 14.-Presi-
dent Mckinley made memorable the
first day of the Atlanta peace jubilee
by a notable utterance in his speech
before the joint session of the Georgia
Legislature this afternoon. His re-
ception by the general assembly was
warm and hearty in the extreme and
his speech was punctuated with fire.
0uent outbursts of cheering. 1t is adj
mitted on all sides that the address
marked an epoch in history and to-
night is on every lip.
Upon the Presidents arrival at the
capitol, he was greeted with a field
artillery salute and was at once escort
ed to Governor Gamblers Office. There
was a short informal reception there.
Upon its conclusion, the Presid INT, fol-
lowed by members of the cabinet, was
conducted to the assembly chamber,
where he occupied the speakers chair
with Governor Gambler on his right.
When President Dodson, of the Senate,
called the Legislature to order, the
galleries were thronged with men and
women.
During the course of his speech, Mr.
Mckinley referred often to his notes
fand constantly paused for the cheers
to step. A scene of intense enthus-
iasm followed when, amid impressive
silence. these words fell from the lips
of the President:
every soldiers grave made during
the unfortunate civil war is a tribute
to the American valor. And while,
when those graves were made, we dl1-
fered widely about the future OF the
government, those differences were
long ago settled by the arbitrament or
arms-and the time has now come IN
the evolution of sentiment and feeling
under the providence of God, when In
the spirit of fraternity we should share
with you in the care of the graves OF
the Confederate soldiers.
A. wild cheer went UP from every
throat in the typical Southern audience,
a cheer that echoed and re-echoed
through the chamber until it was taken
up by the crowd outside. Old men,
who fought for the South, rose from
their seats and waved their hats. One
Confederate veteran, now venerable
legislator, had pressed forward until he
was leaning against the speakers
desk, hanging on each word the Pres
ident uttered. When reference was
made to the Confederate dead, this old
man buried his head in his arms, and
while the cheers rang out, cried like a
little child.
OF all the consiliatory speeches which
have been made since Grant said, Let
there be peace" nothing has more
deeply stirred a Southern audience
than the simple words of President Nc
Kinley this afternoon.
No sooner had President Mckinley
concluded before there were loud cries
for Wheeler, and when that little man
got up, his head scarcely higher than
the speakers desk the audience once
more gave vent to wild enthusiasm.
Gen. Wheeler referred eulogistically
to the efforts of the President towards
preserving peace as long as the coun-
try's honor would permit such efforts,
and of his masterful policy after war
was inevitable. Gen. Wheeler paid
tribute to Admiral Dewey, and added:
THE army, in conjunction with the
navy, was ordered to attack and de-
stroy the Spanish forces at Santiago.
In four weeks that order was obeyed,
and its purposes accomplished. The
proud Spanish nation stood suing for
peace from the nation which month
before it had held up to ridicule and
scorn."
Calls for Brigadier General Young
brought that officer to his feet with a
short speech, regarding the condition
of the army camps in the South. He
said that no troops in the world were
better, more regularly fed and we'll
treated than the troops in South Caro-
Nina and Georgia.
Gen. Lawton and Secretary Alger re-
fused to speak, and the legislature dis
solved The President held u private
reception in the Senate and afterward
a public reception on the steps of the
rotunda. Then hundreds of Southern
ers crushed and jostled each other in
their anxiety to shake a Northern
Presidents" hand. Many had come
from miles distant and when, at 2:15
p M, tie President left the capitol,
there yS>ge still hundreds bitterly dis
appointed because they had not been
able to make their way through the
snrging throng to get a second hold on
his hand.
TO BE TRIED DEC. 20.