The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-14
Is One Uninterrupted Triumph
and Ovation from the Pa.
triOhc Citizens.
THEMES OF HIS ADDRESSES
Were Education of Youth Of
Country and Instlllation
OF Patriotism.

i over 4plVVV pEOPlei luCluuluB iIVVV SCHOOL
children, received the party at the
city hall. A committee Of children pre-
sented the President and party with a
neat. printed souvenir, purchased with
penny contributions by the school
children. Caroline Kennedy, a slx-year-
old girl. presented the souvenir.
The President thanked the children
very graclously. Mayor Dietrich In
troduced the President, who spoke as
follows;
"Fellow CItIzens:-I need not be told
that the people of this city love their
country. The demonstration Of this
morning would indicate to the most
casual observer that men, women and
children are loyal to the nag and faith
full In upholding its honor wherever It
has been raised.
II have been glad to note your prO-
gress and prosperity. have been
glad to note the difference between
your condition when last was here
and your condition now. The coua-
try Is altogether too busy with active
industry and thriving commerce to lis
ten any longer to the prOphe: Of evil.
! We are engaged now In looking after
ourselves and In taking care OF our
selves, and we have discovered that the
best statesmanship for America IS that
statesmanshI2 which looks to the high
est interest of American labor and the
highest development Of American re-
sources.
II have come this morning that l
may say to you that the people of this
country are not only prosperous, hut
they are patriotic. No state in the
Union was more prompt to answer the
call of the country than your state.
The whole Union. north and south,
quickly responded 10 the call of arms,
aha when peace came were Dc quick to
enter the paths Of peace. thank you
most heartily. thank the school girls
and the school boys. / thank you all
for this splendid demonstration, not to
me, not to the President of the United
states, but to the states and the peo-
pie"
Brief addresses were made by Sec
retary Long and Secretary Cage and
the train then departed for Duluth.
AtDuluth.
DULUTH, MIMI, Oct. IA noisy
welcome was given the presidential
party on its arrival in this city to-day,
Hundreds of tug boats and steamers
were anchored under the bridge across
the st. Louis river, and as the special
train passed overheard the screaming
sirens beneath the bridge Joined in a
halr-raisIng chorus.
An escort committee OF prominent
DuluthIans headed by Mayor Truelsen
and Congressman Page Morris, board
ed the train at West Superior. Enter
ing carriages ut the Great Northern de-
pot, the presidential party was driven
through blocks of cheering humanity To
the high school building. AT the head
a, the processloa marched battalion
az tho Thlrd Minnesota volunteers.
The souare around the high school
w5s packed with people who cheereI
wIldIv as President Mckinley entered
tbs sneaker,s stand. He spoke rs fol-
,ows.
"Fel,ow CItlzens:-My welcome to
duluth has been unique and most gra-
elous, greeted at the station by the
people Of your city and Vicinity es-
corted by my comrades Of the civil war
on the right and the left led BY the
young soldiers of the Spanish war, a"d
then the final crownlnS consummatioh
of It all, the welcome OF the school
children of Duluth. around and about
this beautiful temple OF learning. open
to oil. rich and poor alike. All That
we have seen about us this morning.
typify and Illustrate the government OF
the United states. 1t rests IN inc
hearts and cOnscienees of the people II
Is defended. whenever II Is as8ai'eu' pS
It's citizen soldier, and 1t furnishes eaa-
cation free to ALTO the young tnn'
they may take upon themselves tp'
great trust Of carrying forward VIII
out abatement OF vigor this fabric o.
government. No picture more De4u'''