New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-12-21
enthusiastically
Housing ption corded
the Preside $, ,rpassed
xpe ctatio ns.
War With Spain the Great.
est Faetor ] 8 Achieving 5
his esult:
POL i TICS i Il 4 11D 10 PART ]
Democrats and Cont eder-
ates the Leading Actors
in the Scene.
President Tribute to Their
DEAD Soldiers IS Highly
Appreciated.
POL TICS RI A YED NO PART

SAVANNAH, Ga. Dec. 20. The visit
Of President Me- inley and his party
has ended after two dayssof remarkable
display of enthusiasm and patrio tism.
| In the roIlsing reception accorded the
president the original object Of his visit
has been lost sight Of. The outbuEsts Of
enthusiasm and loyalty to the Union
have far outshone the ejqicings over
peace with Spain, although peace.cele-
brat atoms was the orr ginal object os the
presidents trip South.
# In all the speeches and demonstra-
tions which have marked the presidents
visit to Atlanta, Tuskegee, Montg
and Savannah there has been the taeit
admission that the war with SPAR, was
the great factor in achieving the result,
but it is to the result and the factor that
the chief trend Of b
speechmaking 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
seagerness 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 10 and
the discussion of the Civil war have led
to many delicate situations that were
only saved from
Becoming lrri4.ti.g Dslemmas,
BY the tact Of q president who fought
against South erl. troops or BY the utter
.anees Of the Genie defates who years ago
opposed him on the battlefield. The
marvellous scenes of an audience ii. the
Confederate capital cheering the Stars
and Stripes until they grew hoarse;; of
Confederate veterans struggling to grasp
the hand of Northern Republican
president, Of General Wheeler leading
the peoplesof his state il 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 fulsomenesss or
the faint praise Of politicians by the
blunt truthf ulness of the men who Led
in these new and tremendously fervent
declarations Of loyalty. In the addresses
Eof welcome to President NICK inhy
there 81 s
i:4 Have Seen. Ne Confessions 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
ditions with a g1adness and sincerity
they never felt until the war with Spain
knit the nation into common cause
and until a Repn bliean president urged
the people Of the North and South to
honor the Confederate dead. In the
latter reason lies the main incentive tc
the intense and almost unexpected en-
thusiasm with which the presidential
party has been greeted since McKinley's
first speech IN Atlanta. Scarcely a
speaker or a paper in Alabama or
Georgia have made reference to the
president without menti Joining on every
portunity his tribute to the Cenfeder-
ate dead