Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-10-12
AT the Annual Blue and
the Gray Reunion.
WAS A WARM WELCOME
Thousands of People Turned Out to
See the President and Party AL
though a Heavy Rain Was Falling
Our United Country.

Evansville. Ind, Oct. 11.-President Nc
kinley and his cabinet came from Chi
| cago this morning to attend the national
reunion of the blue and gray. A heavy
rain was falling. but despite this 5000
! veterans and visitors thronged about the
! railroad station and the veterans in gray
We'd with the veterans in blue in tender
ing a tremendous ovation when the pres
identIal party arrived. The party was at
once escorted to the fair grounds.
Mayor William NJ. Akin presided and
G. A. Debruler of Evansville welcomed
the distinguished guests and veterans to
the city. Governor j. A. Mount fOlloWed
With an address Of welcome on behalf Of
the state and introduced President Nc
Kinley. The president said:
My Fellow Citizens-It gives me very
great pleasure to participate with you,
men of the north and men of the south,
in this glad reunion of hearts. We are
already unified. the peace which Grant
and Lee made at Appomattox has been
kept. The union today rests not on force.
which may fail. but rests in the hearts of
the people; that union can never be sew
cred.
IF l rave been permitted in the slight
est degree to help in the work of recon-
citation and unification | will esteem 1t
the greatest honor of my life. When l
made the call for troops to prosecute the
Spanish war, mel of the north and the
south, without regard to political belief
or religious creed. rallied to the standard
of the union. The best men of the south
came. the sons of the old confederate SOL
diers. The men of the north, the sons of
members Of the G.. A. r. Together, hand
in hand. they came to answer the call of
their country. We have been reconciled,
more than reconciled. for our reconcillia-
ton has been baptized in the best blood
Of both sections of our beloved country.
If a northern soldier put the flag up at
Santiago, a southern soldier, the gallant
Brumby of Georgia, put it up over Ma
Mia. 1t rests with US to look to the
future, putting the past behind us. And
this government relies upon the patriot
ism Of the country, north and south, to
stand by the purposes Of the government
and follow in the pathway Of its destiny.
We come together, not as we came a
third of a century g With arms in Oul
hands. but we come with love for each
other in our hearts"
Attorney General Griggs. Secretary
Gage and Secretary Long also spoke
briefly. The presidential party departed
at noon for the north.
At Nincennes the president was greet.
ed by another large crowd He spoke as
follows:
II thank you FOR this most warm an(
generous welcome. We ought to be f;
very happy people. We are a very happy
people. The blessings which have beer
showered upon us have been almos
boundless, and no nation in the worlt
has more to be thankful for han ours
We have been blessed with good cropt
and fair prices. Wages and employment
have waited upon labor md. differin.
from what it was a few years ago, labo
) is not waiting on the outside for wages
) Our financial condition was never bette
, than now. We "a good money AM
! plenty Of it circulating as our medium 0
exchange. Banks may fail, tl~uctuation
in prices may come and go, but tn
none Of the country remoins Away
good. and when you have a dollar of
you know that dollar is worth 100 cent
because back of it is the government O
the United States.
Not only have We prosperity but W
have patriotism. and what more do "
want: We are at peace with all nation
of the world. and We're never on bette
terms and closer relations with each an
every one of them than we are toda.
We have a little trouble in the PhiliL
) pines. but the a%allantry of the brave boy
: who have gone there will, I trust, 500
put down that rebellion against the SOY
ereignty of the United States