The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-10-04
Addresses by Perry, Long, Mckinley
and Reply by Dewey

Addresses by Perry, Long. Mckinley
and Reply by Dewey.
Prayer was offered by Rev. DIR. Bristol.
President McKinley's pastor. Ross Perry
then made the Introductory address. which
was Justify cheered. He said:
Admiral Dewey. the Nations capital
welcomes you. the Nations hero, the city
OF Washington welcomes you. who, in the
roundness and completeness or your cnar-
acter. approach the perfect orb or that SUI
preme man whose name II bears. Like MN
YOU too have anticipated the fame OF I'M
mortality. Long may you live TO enjoy IL.
May you live long to truly prove the love
and honor of a grateful people.
America has never lacked great men.
When the crucial hour in her history has
struck. the man Of the crisis has appeared.
OF time and space and saw upon the horizon
the star OF a new world. Great men
plowed unknown seas, pierced boundless
the harsh features Of the wilderness into
the smiling face OF this fair land. Our
colonial infancy. our PROVINCIAL youth; our
struggling manhood have been fostered and
protected by the wisdom and the courage
of great men. Their blood has given us in
We have withstood foreign war and domes-
tic malice chiefly through them. To them
IL Is due that we but yesterday stood a
united. although an isolated. Nation, and
sent forth to the world a challenge in the
name of humanity. Ii was your sigma good
fortune that made you the challenger. But
IL was altogether your OWL great QUALITIES
that made the challenge good: that won the
fight: that maintained the victory; that put
the Nations flag SO high in the Eastern
sky that all could see IT: that made the
whole world know and say that our Nation
is a citizen of the world, come to play a
mans part and to demand a mans power
and honor. These great qualities the Nation
to-day formally recognizes.
Happy you, who hear with your own
ears; what too often the children OF the
you will behold your own best monument
In your country's good. grown greater
own true hOme-this city of the Nation"
Secretary Long to Dewey.
Mr.. Perry closed by introducing Secretary
Long, who was received with enthusiasm
and, standing bareheaded. addressed his re-
marks directly to Dewey. who remained
bareheaded and seated. Mr.. Long said:
MY Dear Admiral-Let me read a few
extracts from our official correspondence;
covering less than a fol tnightS time, and
now known the world over:
washington. April "a. 1898.
dewey, Hong-Kong-War has COM
menced between the United. States and
is9ands. f Besfn OPERATIONS a1 ohon 20 at t once ph par,Ie .ne
larly against the Spanish fleet. You must
capture vessels or destroy. Use utmost en-
deavors. LONG
"sManila, May /, 1898.
Secretary of the Navy, Washington
The squadron arrived at Manila at day
enemy and destroyed the following vessels
. . The squadron is uninjured. Few
men were slightly wounded.
Manila, May 4, 1898.
Secretary Of the Navy. Washington
Philippine islands. 1 control bay completely
and can take city at any time. TIL squad
ron In excellent health and spirits. i am as
sisting and protecting sick and wounded.
DEWEY
Washington, May II, 1898.
"rDewey-The President, in the name of
the American people, thanks you and your
officers and men for youf splendid achieve
ment and overwhelming victory. In recog-
milton he has appointed you acting rear I'd
| niraI, and Will recommend a vote of thanks
to you by Congress as a foundation for fur
ther promotion
A VOLUME IN A FEW WORDS.
I'm those few words what a volume of
history: what a record of swift, high, heroic
discharge of duty; you went, you saw, you
| conquered. 1t seems but yesterday that the
Republic, full Of anxiety, strained its listen
ing ear to catch the first word from these
distant islands of the sea. 1t came flash
ing over the wires that May morning as the
sun bursts through the clouds and filled
every heart with the illumination OF its good
cheer. In the twinklipg of an eye your
name was on every lip; the blessing of ev-
country strobe instantly forward a mightier
| power among the nations of the world. As
we WELCOME you back there comes s,, back /, also 50
hopes and fears, and with all IT'S swift sue
| ceeding triumph and glory.
Let me now read the act OF Congress In
pursuance of which we are here:
Resolved, By the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, that the
secretary of the navy be. and he hereby is,
authorized to present a sword of honor to
Commodore George Dewey, and to cause to
be struck bronze medals, commemorative
the battle of Manila bay, and to distribute
such medals to the officers and men of the
ships of the Asiatic squadron of the United
States, under command CT Commodore
George Dewey, en- May /. 1898, and that, to
enable the secretary to carry out this reso-
luton the sum Of 10000. or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropri-
ated out of any money In the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Approved June 3, 1885,
1T was by this solemn enactment, ap-
proved by the President, that the people OF
the United States made provision for put
ting in material form one expression OF
their appreciation of your valor as an off
achievement as their representative in
opening the door to a new era in the civil.
The victory at Manila bay gave YOU
rank with the most distinguished naval he.
roes of all times. Nor was your merit most
in the brilliant victory which you achieved
In a battle Tough. with the utmost gallantry
and skill. waged without error and crowned
with overwhelming success. 1t was still
more in the nerve with which you sailed
from Hong-Kong to Manila harbor; i'm the
spirit Of your conception Of attack; in your
high commanding confidence as a leader
who had weighed every risk and prepared
for every emergency, and who also had that
unfaltering determination TO win and thai
utter freedom from the thought or POSSIBLE.
ity of swerving from his purpose, which
are the very assurance of a victory.
A CRUCIAL TEST.
n captain ever faced a more crucia
test h when. that morning, bearing the
fate and honor of your country in your
hand, thousands of miles from home, will
every foreign port in the world shut to you
nothing between you and humiliation bur
the thin sheathing of your ships, your can
non and your devoted officers and men. yol
moved upon the enemy's batteries on shor,
and on sea with unfinching faith anC
nerve. and, before the sun was half way Ut
in the heavens, had silenced the guns of tn,
Zoe. sunk the hostile fleet, demonstrated tn,
supremacy of the American sea power anC
transferred to the United States an empir,
OF the Islands of the Pacific.
Later, by your display of large power
OF Administration, by your poise and pru
dence, and by your great discretion, no
only in act, but also in word. which is al
4 nA2 more tU