The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1899-10-21
/ MEMORABLE DAY
FOR SOUTH SOUTH DAKOTA.

The Return Of the Volunteers and
the Visit Of the President
Saturday
RECEPTIONS IN MANY TOWNS
Great Crowds Welcome the Philip
pines Heroes and the Nations
Executive Addresses
by Mckinley.
Saturday was a great day liz South
Dakota. Two events made the i4th Of
October, 1899, memorable for the
state-the return of the volunteers
fram4the Philippines and the visit Of
President Mckinley. Enthusiastic re-
ceptions were given to the soldier boys
and the nations executive. The presi-
dent met companies of the Philippines
heroes at several points in the state,
which made the occasion doubly in
spring. Withal, it was a red-letter
day in the history Of the state. Re-
ports from the various towns are given
below: E
at Aberdeen Early In the Day.
Aberdeen, I'D, Oct. 16.-At 8 o'clock
Saturday morning President McKin-
leSss special train arrived here. AT the
depot a large crowd gathered, d con
spicuous part of the throng being the
First South Dakota volunteers, who ar
rived from the Philippines soon after
the presidents train IN in. They
fell in behind an escort of G.. A. Il. vet
eraiis, who followed the carriages of
the. president and cabinet. Colonel
Frost rode at the head of his regiment
and as they passed down to the review
ing stand and grain palace everyone of
the 5000 Inhabitants of Aberdeen, re-
inforced by several thousand visitors
from other parts of the state, cheered
Justify. Addresses We're made by the
president, cabinet members, Governor
Lee and others.
The president confined his address
to welcoming the returned regiment.
He reviewed their deeds of valor while
on the firing line. and told how, while
the ratification of the treaty of peace
was pending and the regiment entitled
to discharge, 1t gladdened his heart by
sending him word that it would stay
until a new army could be formed to
take its place. 1t was an example of
personal sacrifice and public consecra-
tidn rarely known in the annals of
war, he said, and added:
"Rut it was just like the American
soldier. No matter where he comes
from, he never lays down his arms In
the presence of the enemy, never low
ers the flag of his country until he has
triumphed yer the enemies who as
sail it"
The train bearing the presidential
party left at 1880 for Huron.
Speaks at Redfleld.
Redfeld, S. D., Oct. 16.-president
Mckinley and party reached this city
at 1880 o'clock Saturday afternoon.
A speakers stand had been erected
near the depot and on three sides OF it
the streets were damned with people
anxious to hear the president speak.
The president said, in part:
There has never been a moment of
time, my c~ountrymen, when we could
have left Manila bay or Manila harbor,
or the archipelago of the Philippines
without dishonor to our name. We did
not go there to conquer the Philip
pines. We went there to destroy the
Spanish feet, that we might end the
war, but in the providence of God, who
works in mysterious ways, this great
archipelago wns put into Our lap, and
the American people never shirk duty
(Cries of "Never!") and the flag now
there is not the flag of tyranny, 1t is
the flag Of liberty, and wherever the
flag goes character, education, intelli-
gence, American civilization and
American liberty go.''
The cabinet members also spoke
briefly. Bartlett Trip, member Of the
Samoan joint commission, boarded the
presidential train here and remained
with the party until Yankton was
reached.
Reception al Huron.
Huron, s. D.,sOct. 16.-Ten thousand
people joined in the welcome to Presi-
dent Mckinley and five companies of
the First South Dakota volunteers Sat
urday. The president made a twenty
Ave minute speech. The soldiers were
given q banquet. In the procession
were 300 veterans of the war of the re-
bellion, 200 members of the Women's
Relief Corps and 1000 school children.
The decorations were the grandest and
most elaborate eve seen here. The
president said in part:
II came here to make acknowledge
ment to the people of this state for it's
patriotism. When you were a terri
tory you furnished battalions. of gal
liant soldiers to fight in the great war;
for the preservation of the union and
my comrades OF the Grand Army Of
the Republic are all about me here to-
day. (Shouts: And we will stand by
you!") And when the Spanish war
came, the son of these veterans and.
the sons of these settlers sprang to
arms at once on the call of the coun-
try; and n regiment of your troops
served most CALAMITY and uncomplain-
ingly in the island of Luzon. I have the
extreme pleasure of joining in South
Dakota's welcome to these brave men.
They look like athletes, showing the
generous care of the government of
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strong to bear the burdens of the;
weak; and your prayer should be not
that the burdens should be rolled.
away, but that God should give us
strength to bear them. And the So
called burdens which this war has
placed upon the American people were
unsought and unexpected-for no
body in the United States dreamed
eighteen months ago that the Philip
pine archipelago would become a part
of the United States. They came to
us not of our seeking, but as one of the
inevitable results of that war. When
Dewey went into Manila bay under
orders and destroyed the Spanish fleet,
from that hour we were responsible
for the peace of the Philippine islands,
and from that hour we could not es-
cape with honor to ourselves or from
obligations to the nations of the
world. And your boys stayed even
though there were some people who
wanted them to come home. am
proud of them and so are you. They
did not come home until they had
placed the flag stainless and spot1ess:
in the hands Of the new army we sent,
and we sent enough Of them to carry
that flag to ultimate victory