The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13
Eloquent Address on the COuntry'n
Progress and Future. and Forei-
BILE Appeal for Harmony.
REMARKS OF HON. C. E. SMITH
GENERAL MILES AND OTHER VISIT
ORs WARMLY RECEIVED.
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Took Part-Thc "Great Father
SaIuted with War WhoOps.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 12.-Not one feature
was lacking to-day to make the Presidents
day of the peace jubilee at the TRANSMITS
sissippi Exposition unprecedented sue
cess. The weather was delightful, an ideal
| October day. From early morning until late
at night the President of the United States
has been kept busy in acknowledging the
most enthusiastic greetings from his West
ern constituents. 1t was trying day for
| the President. for 1t is doubtful If he ever
| faced larger crowd than that which made
! the air vocal with cheers and acclamations
for him to-day on the grounds of the expo
| sition. Throughout his progress over the
| grounds, the mass of surging, struggling,
but always admiring humanity. which al
most fought for points of vantage to see
the President, seemed to augment. At
! o'clock, the registered admissions numbered
more than ninety-five thousand and before
the close of the gates at night the attend
ance was easily 125,OOO. much more than
double the high water mark on any previ-
| Gus day.
! The President has been given a wide di-
versity of entertainment to-day. Some OF
the features were receptions and band con-
| certs in his honor, exhibitions by the United
| States life saving crew on the lagoon. ball
elaborate displays of fireworks. Huge pic
| lures of the President were suspended on
almost every building and the evening IL
luminations were marvels of electrical skill.
A mammoth portrait was illuminated while
the party were at dinner and the shouts Of
the people outside when they saw the nlaz-
ing face of their ruler called the President
| from the dining table to bow his acknowl-
edgments. All through the day President
Mckinley, although somewhat wearied by
his long trip. has kept a smile of apprecia-
| tion on his face and has been ready at any
moment to respond in the most gracious
manner to the numberless demonstrations
in his honor. The cheers and accolades of
| the exposition visitors for their President
| apparently increased at every point along
his route and Mr.. Mckinley left the
| grounds tonight with the certain assurance
that the people of the transmissssippi
States appreciate most heartily his visit
to their great exposition.
President Mckinley was up early this
morning and at o'clock was in the parIor
Of the Omaha Club. where he greeted the
members of his party and other distin-
guished callers. 1t was after 10 o'clock
when the presidential party, escorted by
President Wattles and members of the en-
tertainment committee, in carriages started
for the exposition. The President probably
never received a more enthusiastic greet
ing than that which awaited him at the
grounds. BY far the greatest crowd In the
big Western shows history-so large
crowd that its numbers were almost inn
possible to estimate-thlonged about the
huge platform from which the President
made his address, Hardly one sentence was
spoken by him which did not evoke from
the people cheer upon cheer. After Pres-
dent Wattles had introduced the distin-
guished guest of the exposition 1t was fully
five minutes before the subsistence of the
applause permitted the President to begin
speaking.
The Presidents Address.
President McKinleys address follows:
Gentlemen of the Transmississippi Expo
sition and -citizens-It is with gen.
uine pleasure that I meet once more the
people of Omaha, whose wealth of welcome
is not altogether unfamiliar to me and
whose warm hearts have before touched
and moved me. For this renewed manifes-
tation of your regard and for the cordial
reception of to-day my heart responds with
profound gratitude and deep appreciation
which cannot conceal. and which the Ian
guage of compliment is inadequate to con-
vey.
My greeting is not alone to your city
and the State of Nebraska, but to the peo-
pie of all the States of the transmississppi
group participating here, and cannot with
hold congratulations on the evidences Of
their prosperity furnished by this great ex-
position. If testimony were needed to es-
tablish the fact that their pluck has not
deserted them and that prosperity is again
with them, it is found here. This picture
dispels all doubt In an age of expositions
they have added yet another magnificent
example. The historical celebrations at
Philadelphia and Chicago. and the splendid
exhibits at New Orleans, Atlanta and Nash
vile, are now part of the past, and yet
in influence they still live and their benef-
icent results are closely interviewer with
our national development. Similar rewards
will honor the authors and patrons of the
Transmississippi Exposition. Their con-
tribution will mark another epoch In the
Nations material advancement.
"One of the great laws OF life is progress
and nowhere have the principles of this law
been so strikingly illustrates. as In the
United States. century and decade Of
our national life have turned doubt into
conviction: changed experiment into demon-
stration: revolutionized old methods and
won new triumphs which have challenged
the attention Of the world This Is true not
only of the accumulation of material wealth
and advance in education, science invention
and manufactures. but above all In the op-
portunities TO the people for their own
elevation. which have been secured by wise
free government. Hitherto, In peace and
In war. with additions TO our territory and
slight changes in our laws, we have stead.