The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-19
THROUGH HIS NATIVE STATE.
r4E PRESIDENT ENDS HIS LONG
TOUR IN OHIO.

H.. Will Now Return to Washington
and Business-Made a speech Mt
NoungstOvn-It Was Along the
same Line That He Has PJeen Fol-
Iourney-Attended His. Nephev's
wedding.
YOUNGSTOWN O., Oct. 1S.-,President Nc
t-tr,ey's special train arrived here at
o'clock this evening, and the chief exec
,tiye delivered the last speech of his tour.
THE train was backed into a sidetrack and
,hs President and his cabinet went on foot
IN a platform nearby.
Apparently everybody in town had
crowded into the two streets facing the
rl,tform. and it was with great difficulty
,,,t the President could make himself
hoard 1t was estimated that 10000 people
mere packed into the narrow space sur
,otrdins the speakers stand. AS the
I,resideut proceeded, they became quieter
and enthusiastically cheered every point in
his address.
life spoke as followsk 81 congratulate
This community devoted as it is TO indus
tr, and manufacture, upon the improved
conditions of the cou ntry in the last two
,e,rs and half. Nothing in this whole
Journey of mine of more than 5000 miles
mo the great Northwest and through the
central aud Western states, nothing has
given me more genuine pleasure than the
,sirome | have had from Cleveland to
YOUNGSTOWN by the workngmen employed
in the mills and factories along the line.
I'VE have now before US some grave
urohlems in government, problems that
command moi only for the President, but
for all the people, steady and sober judg-
mont. problems not to be settled by one
marty or another but by all the people,
problems wider than party or section
nrohems that are national and which this
noonle must settle and settle for right and
justice following the plain path OF duty
We are in the Philippines. Our flag
Is there Our boys in blue are there. They
are not for conquest. They are not there
for dominion. They are not there for eX-
ploitation. They are there because in the
providence of God, who moves mysteri-
ously. that great archipelago has been
placed i'm the hands of the American peo-
pie When Dewey sunk the ships in Ma
Mia as he was ordered to do, it was not
10 capture the Philippines It was to de-
sroy the Spanish fleet, the feet of the ma
ton against which we were waging war
ana We InOuSUL lHdL tIl6 quickest way 10
end that war was to destroy the
power of Spain to make any
So we sent Dewey and the islands
came TO us 1t was no responsibility we
sought but it was a responsibility put
upon u.s. VIII the American people shrk
az Cries of No!D Have the American
people ever been known to run away from
2 great high moral duty? Repeated cries
Of 'No,J
Our flag is there not as the symbol of
oppression, not as the token of tyranny
not as the emblem of enslavement, but our
flag is there as our flag is here, represent
ing liberty, humanity and ciViliza ton.
There was n2. cloud in Dewey's victory
and there will be no doubt or hesitation in
preserving it.
Secretary of the Navy Long and Score
tary Of the Interior Hitchcock also spoke
Having taken dinner aboard the train,
the President Mrs. Mckinley and Miss
Mary Barber were driven 10 the residence
OF MIR. Deetrick, in North Phelps street,
to attend the wedding of Miss Anna Viola
Deetrick to MIR William Mckinley Dun
can son of Aadrew X. Duncan and
nephew of President Mckinley. The par
Tors of The Deetrick home were tastefully
decorated with orchids and smilaX
The wedding ceremony was performed at
So'clock Rev. S. r. Frazier officiating. An
hour later the President and his party en-
tered carriages and were driven 10 ST
Columbia's Hall, where a reception was
given President Mckinley greeted hun
dreds of his boyhood friends with a hearty
handshake and kind word. The recep-
ton lasted until 10 o'clock. At that hour
The party returned to the train, which left
Immediately for Pittsburg over the Penn
syvauia line
Dung the day the presidential train
stopped al number of places and the
President made short addresses. His recep-
TIN was enthusiastic, particularly so at
Mics, where President Mckinley was born.