Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-12
PRESIDENT 1t EVANSVILLE.
Given an Ovation by the Veterans Of
Blue and Gray.
WELCOMED TO THE CITY--A PRES
IDENTIAL SALUTE WAS FIRED,
ACCOMPANIED BY THE RING
ING OF BELLS AND THE
SHRIEKING OF WHISTkES-A
SPEECH TO NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN VETERANS.

EVANSVILLE, Ind, October H.
president Mckinley and his cabinet
came frcm Chicago this morning to at
tend the national reunion of the blue
and the gray. A heavy rain was fall
ing. but despite this 10000 veterans
and visitors thronged about the rail-
road station and the veterans in gray
WED with the veterans in blue in tend
ering a tremendous ovation when the
president and party arrived. They
swarmed around the President and
cabinet officers, cheering and extending
their hands for grasp of welcome
AT the same time Presidential salute
of q guns doomed from Camp Farra-
gut, at the tri-State grounds. This
was the signal for whistles and bells
throughout the city to join in.
Owing to the short stay OF the Presi-
dent the party was at once escort
ed by Cleveland Grays and reception
committee, went to the fair grounds,
where President Mckinley delivered an
address.
Mayor AIKEN presided and introduced
C. A. DeBruler, Of Evansville, who
welcomed the distinguished guests and
veterans to the city. Gov. A. j..
Mount followed with welcome on be-
half OF the State and introduced Pres
ddent Mckinley, who said:
My Fellow Citizens-It gives me
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 Appa-
matox has been kept, not by law or
restraint, but by love and fraternal re-
gard. The union to-day rests not on
force, which may fail, but rests in the
hearts Of the people, union that new
er can be severed.
If / have been permitted in the
slightest degree to help in the work OF
reconciliation and unification, l will es-
TEEN it the greatest honor of my life
When I made the call for troops to
prosecute the Spanish war, men from
the North and 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 old Confederate soldiers. The best
men of the North came; the sons of
the old members Of the Grand Army
of the Republic. All came together in
heart and hand to follow the flag of
their country wherever it might lead
We have been reconeiled, for our re-
Cancellation has been baptised in the
best blood of both sections of our be-
loved country.
II a Northern soldier puts the flag
up at Santiago, Southern soldier. the
gallant Brumby, of Georgia, put it UP
over Manila 1t rests with us to look
to the future, putting the past behind
H. And this government relies upon
the patriotism CT the country, North
and South, to stand by the purpose of
the government and follow in the path
way Of it's destiny.
l am glad to meet and greet you; we
come together not as we came third
of a century ago, with arms in our
hands, but we come with love for each
other in our hearts.
The President and party was escort
ed back to the train, followed by a
long line of veterans marching in
army order, the Blue and the Gray
shoulder to shoulder.