The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-13


President Mckinley and party arrived
in this city at II O'Clock to-day. IA
immense crowd assembled at the rail-
way depot to greet the Chief Executive.
AS he emerged from the train tremer-
dous cheering began. and was taken up
by the waiting crowds, and carried
Gown The line for blocks.
carriages in waiting conveyed the
President and cabinet to the home Of
Mr.. Thomas Lowrey, Here a light
luncheon was served. Meanwhile the
rain bearing home the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers to the Philippines
arrived, and was greeted with tree
mendous cheers. The regiment formed
in line in front OF Nicolet avenue. Car
riages bearing President Mckinley and
his cabinet drew up. and took their po-
sltons at the head OF the column. The
procession moved shortly after one
o'clock, moving down NIcolet avenue to
the center OF the city. AT Tenth
street the President entered the re-
viewing stand, the Philippine veterans
passing before him.
AS the rear guard passed the re-
viewing stand the President entered
his carriage and drove by a shorter
route to the exposition building. Here
the principal events of the day took
place. within the building in which
the Republican convention of 1892 noHl-
mated Benjamin Harrison for Presi-
dent of the United States, under the
Craftsmanship of William Mckinley
was spread a feast for the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers.
At the conclusion of the banquet,
President Mckinley was introduced by
President Cyrus Northrop, Of the Uni
verslty of Minnesota.
President Mckinley was greeted with
prolonged applause. He said:
THE century now drawing to close
has been most memorable in the worlds
progress and history. The march Of
maldnd in moral and Intellectual adj
yancemnt has been onward and u''-
ward. The growth Of the worlds ma
terinl interests is SO vast that the fig
ures would almost seem to be drawn
from the realm Of imagination, rather
than from the field Of fact. All peo-
lies have felt the elevating influences
Ct the century. Humanity and home
have been lifted up. Nations have
been drawn closer together in feeling
and interest and sentiment. Contact
has removed old prejudices at homo
and abroad, and brought about'a bet
Ter understanding, which has destroyed
ermity and promoted amity. Civillza-
ton has achieved great victories, and to
the gospel of good will there are now
few dIssenters.
81 sometimes think we do not real
lie what we have and the mighty trust
We have committed to our keeping. The
study OF geography and history have
now more than passing interest to
the American people. 1t is worth read
ing that when the Federal Union was
formed we had 9O9,765 square miles OF
territory, and in less thon one hundred
years we have grown to s,sl5,515 square
miles.
1.-THE first acquisition, in 1898, known as
the louisiana purchase" embraced
SS3O72 square miles. exclusive of the
area west of the Rocky mountains.
say 1t comprises the entire states Of
Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska,
North and South Dakota, and parts Of
the states of Minnesota, Kansas, Colo
RADIO, Montana, Wyoming, Louisiana,
all OF Indian Territory and part of
Oklahoma Territory. 1t would seem
almost incredible to the present gener-
alton that this rich addition to the
federal domain should have been OPP
posed, and yet It was resisted in ev'
cry form and by every kind Of assault,
The ceded territory was characterized
as "malarlal swamp" It's prairies a.
destitute OF trees or vegetation. 1t
was commonly charged that We had
been cheated by giving $l5OOo,OOO for
territory so worthless and psstIlen-
tlal that 1t could never be inhabited or
put to use; and 1t was also gravely as
serted that the purchase would lead to
complications and wars with European
powers. In the debate in the senate
over the treaty distinguished senator
from Connecticut said: "The vast and
unmauageable extent which the Access
sion Of Louisiana Will give the United
States; the consequent dispersion Of
our population and the destruction OF
that balance which It is 30 important
10 maintain between the eastern and
western states. threatens, at no very
distant day, the subversIOn Of our
Union"
Imperialism had chief place in the
catalogue of disasters which would
follow the ratification of this treaty.
and 1t was alleged that this was the
first and sure step to the creation o.
an empire and the subverslon of the
constitution, The phrase which IS
now employed by some critics, "plane-
tary policy so far as have been able
to discover first appeared here. Jefrer-
son vas made the subject Of satIrlcal
verse:
see MIN commence, land FpeculatOr,
ANA buy W. the realm Of nature
towns CUES, indians, sDlnlards, prni- |
THE opponents, however. were I'm IN, |
minority, and the star Of the Repub- |
lie did not set, and the mighty west