Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-12-15
THE PEACE JUBILEE.
Continued from page IL

oief StdI, started for the capitol.
Guns doomed the Presidential salute
as the chief executive assembled the
steps of the capitol. AT the Hunter
street entrance the President was met
by committee composed of Col Will
liam G. Obear, acting adjutant gener-
al. representing Gov. Chandler: Sena-
tor Hand, representing the Senate and
and Representative Hardwick of the
House, and conducted to the Gov
ernor's parlor. Here he was received
by Gov. Chandler and the State House
officials after which the General AS
sembly in joint session received the
President and party and the Governor.
The President as he entered the
House of Representatives was given
an ovation. The joint session rose to
its feet and appauded and cheered
the nations chief. VIM. A. Dodson,
president of the Senate, called the
joint session to order and in a SPLEEN
did speech introduced the President
Again was the welcome renewed and
the President as he came forward was
compelled to stand some minutes bow
ing his Acknowledgement The Pres
dent said 1T is an uncommon pleas
ure to be thus greeted by these repre-
sentatives of the state of Georgia ana
1t affords me much qualification to be
here and rejoice with you over the
signing of the treaty OF peace with
Spain"
AT the capitol President Mckinley
made the following address TO the
members of the Legislature:
Sectional lines mark the map Of
the United States. Sectional feeling
no longer holds back the love we bear
each other. Fraternity is the national
anthem sung by g chorus of Is states
and our territories at home and be-
yond the seas. The Union is once
more the domo atlas of our love and
loyalty our devotion and sacrifice.
The old flag again waves over us in
peace, new glories which your sons
and ours have this year added to its
sacred folds.
What cause we have for rejoicing,
sadGened only by the fact that so
many of our brave men fell on the
field or sickened and died from hard
ship and exposure and others return
ing bringing wounds and disease from
which they will long suffer The
legacy and the disabled will be the ma
tons care. A nation which cares tor
its disabled soldiers as we have al
ways done will never lack defenders
The national cemeteries for those who
fell in battle are proof that the dead
as well as the living have our love
What an army of silent sentinels we
have. and with what loving care their
graves are kept.
Every soldiers grave made during
our unfortunate Civil War is tribute
to American valor, and while when
those graves were made we differed
widely about the future of this gov
ernment the differences were long
ago settled by the arbitrament of
arrns-and the time has no come in the
evolution of sentiment and feeling I'M
der 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.
THE cordial feeling which now hap
pilv exists between the North and
South prompts this gracious act and
if needed further justification it is
found in the gallant loyalty to the
Union and the flag, so conspicuously
shown in the year just passed by the
sons and grandsons of these heroic
dead.
What a glorious future awaits us
if unitedly, wisely and bravely we face
the new problems now pressing upon
lis. determined to solve them for right
and humanity
The Presidents reference to the
Confederate dead was greetd with the
widest applause. Gen. Wheeler fol-
lowed the President and received
most enthusiastic reception. Gen.
IIawton and Gen. Young spoke briefly
and received warm welcome. The
LEGISLATURE then adjourned and those
present were presented to the Presi-
dnt.
Tonight. the members of the Capitol
City Club opened their club house to
President and Mrs. Mckinley and the
guests of the city. The occasion was
notably brilliant. The receiving party
consisted eff a number of Atlanta's rep
erdtative women and large COM
pany of official members. The decora-
tfoils we're flags. American smilax and
American beauty roses.
The ate arrivals. today. We're Hon.
Evan Settle of Kentucky, who will
soak in the place of Congressman
Rg:.ey: Richmond p. Hobson and Miss
Hobson ana Governor Voorhees, of New
Jersey. flis