The record-union., 1899-10-15
MCKINLEY IN SOUTH DAKOTA.
The Presidents Welcome on His
Arrival at Aberdeen.

Arrival at Aberdeen.
ABERDEEN, Oct. 14.-At o'clock
this morning, President McKinley's S
special arrived in this city over the
Milwaukee line. At the depot a large
crowd gathered to see the first Presi-
dent of the United States who has ever
visited the Dakotas since statehood.
The First South Dakota Volunteers.
who arrived to-day from the Philip
pines, fell in line behind an escort of
G. A. R. veterans, who followed imme-
diately after the carriage of the Pres
ident and Cabinet
Colonel Frost rode at the head of his
regiment, and as they passed down to
the reviewing stand and the grain pal
ace the 5000 inha abitants of Aberdeen
cheered and were reinforced by several
thousand visitors from other parts of
the State
Addresses were made by President
Mckinley and the Cabinet, Governor
Lee and others.
The President said:
Mr.. Mayor, Members of the First
Dakota Volunteers and Fellow Citizens
II gives me very great pleasure to join
with your fellow citizens of South Da-
kota, your friends your families, your
neighbors in this welcome to your
home. We are not a nation of hero
worshipers, and yet we are nation of
/ seventy millions Of grateful people who
/ love valor and reward the heroic deeds
/ of our soldiers, and think appreciate
quite as much, if not more, than most
I of my fellow citizens, the value of the
services this regiment, with it's asso-
ciates of the Eighth Corps, rendered the
country in its hour of great emergency
And 1 am here to speak not for myself
alone but for the American people in ex-
/ preston of gratitude and thanks for
your heroic action in the island Of
Luzon. 1 have with me this morning
a dispatch just received from your
/ commander, the Major General COM
manding the Philippines, telling me of
the gallantry of Colonel Frost and his
First Regiment, telling me that from
early in February until late in June
! you stood on the firing line and no
enemy could resist your onslaugllts up-
on them. Nor can I forget, soldiers of
the republic that when the treaty Of
peace was pending, when negotiations
! were being conducted in Paris, when
the ratification Of the treaty was await
/ ing the action of the Senate and finally
when we were awaiting the exchange of
! the ratification with Spain; I do not
/ forget that when that time came. every
! one of you We're entitled to he rrustored
/ out of the service of the United States
and | can never express the joy YOU
gave my heart when you sent word that
/ you would remain until a new army
could be formed to take your places
/ That, members of the First South Da-
/ kota, was an example of personal sac
! rifice and public conservation rarely
! known in the annals of war, but it is
! just like the American soldier No
matter where he comes from he never
/ lays down his arms in the presence of
the enemy and he never lowers the flag
/ of his country until he has triumphed
! over enemies who assail it,
/ A voice-We will never leave there
until they are all licked
81 am glad to see the veterans of
1861 with the veterans of 1898 1t is
/ all the same kind of patriotism you got
that never deserts, and never en-
! courages desertion. But, my fellow
citizens and members of the First Da-
1 kota, you have just come home and I
know you want to get nearer home
and I shall not detain you a moment
longer except to say to you that thank
you for your splendid services to the
country; I thank you for standing
faithful and unfaltering on the battle
line; I thank you for preserving our
/ flag stainless; I thank you for waiting
in the trenches until the relief came; I
thank you for having transferred this
/ banner to those who succeeded you
without disbonor and without blot. and
where that flag is, it stands for liberty,
humanity and civilization"
The train bearing the Presidential
party left Aberdeen at II 80 o'clock for
/ Huron 6 u