The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-22
WELCOME TO DEWEY
The Streets Thronged With
Paraders in His Honor.
Fifty Thousand Gather in Savannah's Avenues
to Greet Him. Miles ard Dewey Ban
Quoted at the De Soto.
(By The Associated Press.)


Savannah, Ga, March 21.-Fifty
| thousand persons on the streets here
this afternoon gave Admiral George
Dewey as enthusiastic welcome as
was ever accorded to any public man
anywhere. The Admiral had recover
ed from his indisposition Of yesterday
sufficiently for him to take part in
the military parade and review ar
ranged in his honor and as he rode
through the streets with Mrs. Dewey
at his side, ringing cheers rent the air
and waving colors made the scene one
to be long remembered.
There were present and in the pa
rade five military companies from
Charleston, under command of Ma iOr
III. Schact; one or more companies of
naval reserves from each Charleston,
Mount Pleasant, and Beaufort, S. c.,
and Brunswick, Ga, and military or
CARNATIONS from Columbia, Pelzer and
Timonsville, S. c., and Augusta,
Brunswick, and Thomasville, Ga.
There were in all II out of town or
CARNATIONS. Adding the local militia
there were nearly 1000 men in line.
The review took place in the park eX-
tension where an admirals salute was
fired by the Chatham artillery from
brass pieces presented to the organi-
zation by President George Washing
ton.
Business, public and private was
suspended from noon in honor of Ad-
miral Dewey.
The climax of the occasion occurred
at the banquet at the De Soto Hotel
tonight where the Admiral was pre-
sented with a beautiful silver vase
on behalf of the city of Savannah by
Hon. +. c. Dubignon. The vase is
elegantly engraved and stands nearly
three feet high on a marble base. At
the banquet table General Nelson A.
Miles, who arrived in the city this
evening too late for the military feat
ure. sat next to Admiral Dewey.
While the main function was in pro-
gress n committee of fifty ladies en-
tertained Mrs. Dewey at banquet in
an annex adjoining the banquet hall.
Upon the conclusion of the dinner the
ladies We're accommodated with chairs
in the main room that they might
hear the speeches.
Among the speakers were Judge Emory
Peer, of the United States court; Surgeon
General Wyman. Congressman Brantley
of Georgia. ex-Attorney General W. O..
Smith, OF Hawaii, and others.
In speaking to the toast THE President
of the United States" Judge Emory
Speer said in part:
"While the administration of President
Mckinley, more than any other save
that of Lincoln, will afford to the his
torian material at once to attract, to in
struct and to thrill the students and
readers of the future, it is nevertheless
true that his Americanism. while prompt
and purposeful in conviction and decisive
in action, has been cautious and concilia-
tory at home and abroad. r The
war was inevitable. Its results have fol-
lowed in inevitable sequence By
the supreme law of the land the Philip
pine Islands became the territory Of the
United States, with a title as clear as
that which we have to Florida or to any
foot of that marvellous empire to the
westward of the Mississippi acquired by
the Louisiana purchase or by treaty with
Mexico. Who will say that the Presi-
dent had the power or right to ignore his
duty to the American people and to man
kind in territory thus acquired?
The administration of William Nc
Kinley and it's great achievements will
receive proud recompense. He will live
in history as the first President who di-
rected the energies of this nation in a
great and successful war beyond the
seas. Greater civic renown may yet be
his, but to my mind the crowning glory
of his life will be found in those simple
words of proffered kindly national
recognition of the honor due the sacred
ashes of his once incompatible foes.
This peroration refers to President Nc
Kinley's recommendation that the graves
of the Confederate dead should be cared
for by the nation.