The record-union., 1899-10-07
The President Receives a Royal
Welcome at Quincy.
CAeered Enthusiastically BY the Thousands
Upon His Arrival.
Delivers a Patriotic Address at the
Public Square, Which Was
Thronged With People Anxious
to Get a Glimpse of and Hear
the Chief Executive Talk.

QUINCY Qn0, Oct 6.-Cannons
doomed and bands played Dixie as
President Mckinley alighted from the
Campania, his private car at the
grounds of the Illinois Soldiers Home
this morning. Fifteen hundred old in
mates of the home cheered enthusi-
astically as the President and TIE
members of the Cabinet took carriages
to be driven between long platoons of
soldiers around the beautiful grounds.
The President was first escorted to
an improvised platform, from which
he bowed in acknowledgment of the
veterans greetings, shaking hands
with as many as possible.
The Presidential party was driven
from the Soldiers Home to the city
proper. Company f, Fifth Infantry,
the naval reserves and Company J.,
Eighth Illinois Infantry, escorted the
party through the business district.
The sailors were supplied with HOtch-
kiss guns, and as soon as the President
arrived in sight Of the public square IL
Presidents salute Of twenty-One guns
was fired. Six thousand school children
were massed on the east side of the
Courthouse, waving flags and singing
national airs as the President APP
peared.
The streets Of Quincy We're literally
packed with people. A street fair is in
projection and along the line of march
booths and arches had been erected.
NEST OF which Haunted the Stars and
Stripes and immense pictures of Nc
Kinley and Dewey.
The procession went by a circuitous
route through the principal business
streets of the city until the public
square was reached, where the Presi-
dent and members OF the Cabinet as
&C lded a platform to review long 1ies
of veterans from the Soldiers Home.
The President and seFefai of his
Cabinet delivered brief speeches. The
President said:
I thank you one and ali 20: this
patriotic welcome. 1t has given me
uncommon pleasure to see tins moasl-
ing at the Soldiers Home the rlen OF
1S6I-the veterans who stood in the
trenches and behind the sglns in that
year Cf great emergency, when the
life of the nation hung in the balance.
(Applause) 1t has given me like pleas
ure also to meet with the * soldiers of
the Spanish wars from the city of
Quincy and the naval militia. repre-
senting the patriotism of 1898. zap
plauseJ And it is gratifying to me
to lealn that you sent from this city
one of the gallant young ct3i,.rs who
fought with Dewey in Manila Bay.
This is an era of patriotism, my
countrymen. The United States has
never been lacking in gratitude to its
soldiers and its sailors who have
fought in it's cause, and the cause Of
the United States have never lacked
defenders in every crisis of its his
tory. From the revolutionary days to
the present the citizens of the United
States have been ever ready TO uphold
at any cost the flag and the honor of
the nation, and TO take all the re-
sponsibilities born Of duty that can
never be repudiated. Duty unperformd
is dishonor. and dishonor brings shame,
which is heavier to carry than any
burden which honor can impose. My
fellow citizens, 1 thank you for this
more than gracious welcome and bid
you all good morning"
Secretary Root said: "Fellow-citizens
Of Illinois: My humble duty during the
last two months was to do what you
are doing here to-day by the encour-
agement and inspiration of your pres
ence holding up the hands and
Strengthening the soul and cheering
the courage of the President, the Chief
Magistrate of our beloved country, in
maintaining it's honor and doing its
full duty before God and man on the
great stage of the world There is no
partisanship, no factionalism in the
business in which we are engaged,
helping President Mckinley. No man
can shelter himself under the flag Oh
party. or justify himself by any dec
laration Of principle in failing TO stand
behind the men of all parties and all
creeds who lie to-day in the trenches
in Luzon.
81 have no fear no question whatever,
that in the days and nights that the
Secretary Of War is giving to seeing
to it that the army of the United
States is best fed, best equipped and
best armed army the world has ever
seen, the sympathy ana the support
of the people of Quincy, of Illinois, and
of the country will be behind him and
behind the President. The cause in
which your soldiers. are fighting, and
in which you, Republicans and Demo-
Gratis alike, stand behind them, is the
cause of civilization and peace.
THE men behind the guns in Manila
to-day will be followed by the men
with the textbook and the Bible, bring
ing the arts of civilization, respect for
law and order and the welfare of coun-
try. No Government can live for self
alone, nor grow to full stature by the
exercise of selfishness. This great re-
public is following to-day as it has
followed in the past, the lines marked
out by Providence, superior to the wis
dom of Presidents and Legislature,
pointing out the way of the great
march of civilization
Attorney General Griggs spoke as
follows at Quincy:
II was interested to see that vast
concourse Of school children who
turned out to welcome the President
They will be told by their teachers
that within a year there has been add
ed to our domain vast Archipelago in