Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1899-10-20
PLEASED WITH DAkOlA&.
President Mckinley Praises the
States for Their Patriotism
and Prosperity.
BIG CROWDS GREET HIM EVERYWHERE.

Big CROWDS GREET HIM EVERYWHERE.
At Aberdeen He Helps to Welcome
Home the First South DakotaVol-
unteers, just Returned from phil
ippines-Thanks Them for Their
Long. Faithful Service.
Wahpeton, N. D.. Oct. 16.-President
McKinley's special stopped here. A
large crowd greeted the chief execu-
tive who, in spite of the late hour, left
his car and addressed large assem-
blage. Secretaries Gage, Hitchcock
and Wilson and Attorney General
Griggs followed the president in brief
remarks. The president spoke as fol-
lows:
Pleased with Dakota.
81 have had great pleasure in passing
through your state to-day, the first visit
which have ever made to this new COM
monwealth.
at is one of the newest of the federal
union. I have been impressed with the
patriotism of your people, but also with
the prosperity and the good feeling whlch
state only ten years ago, you have made
almost marvellous progress In population
and development. Your population, am
sure, has doubled in the last ten years,
while the products of your field In single
year have amounted as high as $6O,OOO,Oo0
THE vast products have gone from your
rich fields and in turn there has come back
s6O,0O0O0O in gold to enrich the producer
and pay the wages of labor. / am glad to
see that the voice of despair is no longer
heard in North Dakota and the prophee
of evil no longer commands confidence
because he has been proved to be raise
prophet. Your mortgages are diminishing
and your markets are increasing. Inc
hum of industry gladdens the heart and
the hammer of the sheriff at public sales
less frequently darkens the homes We
are great country, and you are one OF
the great states of this great union. 1t
was my pleasure to-day to welcome back
to your state in behalf of the nation the
gallant boys of the First North Dakota,
who did such splendid service in Luzon.
Great applause.)
Soldiers Splendid Record.
"Your city furnished one of the compa-
MES. They have made not only splendid
record for themselves, but they have added
new and glorious page to American his
tory, and great honor to the American
army. l doubt If there is a man, woman
or child in the state of North Dakota who
is not proud of that regiment, and prouder
still that they remained on the firing line
when there We're many people who wanted
them to come home. Enthusiastic ap-
plause)
IF there is anything in this world we
like 1t is courage and heroism, and If there
is anything that an American boy Will
never do 1t is to desert his colors when his
country is in peril. Great applause)
1.-The truth about it is the boys of the
c.>a ,lsln oya fSr Ia y,ane mo- ri 70
sons of the veterans of the civil war. and
the patriotism, pluck, vim and vigor shown
by your boys in Luzon were only what we
found in that grand army of the republic
from 1861 to 1865. (Applause.) thank you,
my fellow citizens. for this warm, cordial
meet the neighbors and friends and fellow
citizens of your United States senator at
his home. bid you all good night" (Long
continued applause.)
At Aberdeen.
Aberdeen, S. d., Oct. 16.-At eight
o'clock in the morning President Nc
Kinley's special arrived in this city over
the Milwaukee line. A fair run was
made after leaving Wahpeton, N. D.,
and the train, which had been running
two hours behind schedule, arrived
here promptly on time. At the depot a
large crowd gathered to see the first
president of the United States who has
ever visited the Dakotas since state
hood. The principal part of the throng
was the First South Dakota volunteers,
who had just arrived from the Philip
pines, and this feature was delayed for
over an hour by the delay to the sol
diers' train. Shortly after s:25 the sol
diers' special drew up at the Milwaukee
road depot and fell in line behind an
escort of G. A. r. veterans, who fol-
lowed Immediately after the carriage
of the president and cabinet. Col Frost
rode at the head of his regiment and as
they passed down to the reviewing
station and the grain palace, every one
of the 5000 inhabitants of Aberdeen
| cheered, and they were reinforced by
several thousand visitors from other
parts of the state. Actresses were made
by President Mckinley and the cabinet
Gov. Lee and others.
Praise for the Soldiers.
The president said
.Mr. Mayor, Members of the First South
| Dakota Volunteers and Fellow Citizens
with your fellow cit zens of the state Of
South Dakota. your friends, your families
| your neighbors in t Is welcome to your
home. We are nation Of hero worship
| ers. and vet we are nation of 10000, 00t
grateful people who love valor and re.
ward the heroic deeds Of our soldiers, ant
think appreciate quite as much II mo-
| more than most of my fellow citizens this
| value of the services this regiment witt
| Its associates of the Eighth corps rendered
the country in Its hour of great emergency
/ Speaks for American People.
"And am here to speak not for mysel,
/ alone. but for the whole American people
1 in expression of gratitude and thanks fol
| your heroic action in the island of Luzon
4 have with me this morning a dispatch
| just received from your comma nder, tn,
major general commanding in the Philip
| pines. telling me of the gallantry of Col
Frost and his First regiment, telling m.
| that from early in February until late II
June you stood on the firing line; no enem,
| could resist your onslaughts upon them
/ Nor can ] forget, soldiers of the republic
that when the treaty of peace was pending
when negotiations were being conducted ii
1 Paris, when the ratification of the treat,
i was awaiting the action Of the senate. ant
finally when we were awaiting the ex
| change of the ratification with Spain
do not forget that when that time cam
| every one of you was entitled to be mus
tered out of the service Of the United
| States. and l can never express the 10.
| you gave my heart when you sent wore
that you would remain until a new arml
could be formed to take your places