The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-12
NOT ENOUGH HoNoRs FOR ALL
PEOPLE THINK PRESIDENT BIGGER
MAN THAN THE GOVERNOR,
And the Party Accompanying the Lat
ter Feels SIighted at the Lack
of Public Attention.

DEL MONTE. Cal, May 1.-THE Pres
ident and his party to-day enjoyed COM
paratively quiet day. They came here for
two days of rest to prepare for the trying
programme laid out FOR them next week at
San Francisco. and the President and Mrs.
Mckinley spent most of the day at their
hotel This afternoon the party was driven
over to Monterey. two miles from the hotel,
and the President made a brief speech. The
entire population Of this historic Cd town
turned out to welcome him and there was
the usual display of flowers. The speaking
took place at the point where the bear flag,
the standard of the old Republic Of Cali
fornia, first raised.
The party then continued its journey to
Pacific Grove, a small neighboring town,
where the annual encampment of the De-
partment of California and Nevada, Grand
Army Of the Republic, is being held, and
here the President met his old comrades
lie was introduced 10 them by George NJ.
Mott department commander of California,
and although he addressed them at first in
a light vein, he was visibly moved as he
proceeded and spoke of the perils and sacri-
fees they had endured together. The Pres
ident said:
Il am greatly pleased to meet with the
veterans of the civil war and my comrades
of the Grand Army OF the Republic. War
IN memory Is to ne preferred TO war in
motion. The shell that has exploded is
safer than when unexplOded. 1t is & good
deal more comfortable to talk about the
war than IL TO take part in the war
laughter and applausel and very much
safer. tLaughterl There is not nearly
So much peril in il. and the events of war
lose nothing by time We rarely ever un-
derstate the story of our achievements.
Laughter We fight battles over,
but we fight them at long distance, and
none of our heroic adventures is forgotten.
fLaughter.l That is to my comrades of
the war-tO nobody else. lLaughter.l
rThe Nation You served so we'll owes
YOU a debt of gratitude which il can never
repay. You saved the jewel of freedom for
the family OF nations You preserved with
your sword and your sacrifices the freest
government on earth. The South went TO
war rather than that the Union should
live. The North engaged in the war rather
than the Union perish tapplause], and
you triumphed. We consider less great
and appalling as IL was) that the war cost
us in life and treasure than we see what
the war brought us In liberty. equality and
opportunity. Americans never surrender
but TO Americans The men who yielded
after four and a half years of struggle,
who were blood Of our blood, finally yield
cd 10 their own fellOw-citiZens, and we are
to-day a Nation reunited.
Il have passed, within the last ten days,
over the track of many of the battieheldS
on which you fought. I have been greeted
by the men against whom you tougnt.
have seen the beautiful sight, beautiful to
every lover of his country, OF the mem
bers of the G. n. r. walking arm in arm
with the Confederate veterans ls9eaI P1 aP
plausel carrying the American flag and
giving welcome, and each Nylng with the
other in the warmth of that welcome 10
the President of the United States; and
each demonstrating in friendly rivalry
their devotion 10 the government and 70
the flag that shelters Us all And so you
are TO be congratulated to-day upon WHAT
You did upon what you sulLeItu, uPoh
what YOU sacrificed, that liberty and union
might not perish. 1t cost us great deal
More than half a million lives were given
up as a sacrifice for the preservation OF
the Union Some things are so precious
and so good that nations which get tneih
pay only with blood. And what blood TINS
tuion has cost us But What Ohloh II
T. now. l(ireat applauSe.I
81 cannot tell YOU what pleasure IL gives
me to- be with you to-day. have peeh
Welcomed by all of my fellow country ymen'
but this is the first time in my long Jour
uev I have felt the warm touch OF SO many
with whom I kept step from 1871 10 ioo9'
Enthusiastic applause and cheerlhS Ailu;
rqvine saved the Union. il Is the duty OF
am to keen i saved. We viii NOT AWAY
he mere. but the sons OF the veterans on
hofn sides of our war Will be mere ana
rh6fr sons will follow. and this priceless
heritage viii be transmitted 10 our lasi
generation Indeed. what you won, ana
what we mean TO preserNe' ~ ers - CON
tinued applausel
II had been the intention Of the President
70 take the famous seventeen-mile drive
along the ocean front afterward but Mrs.
Mckinley was indisposed and he decided TO
.urn to the hotel. The members of the
cabinet however. enjoyed the long drive
- ough the vast park of 20.0o0 acres Il IS
q natural park filled with ancient moss
s-own cypress and live oaks and abounds
IN deer and game Of all kinds. Along the
coast the party saw herd of seals on the
rocks and Secretary Hitchcock called the
attention Of the party 10 a whale about
sixty feet long spouting off shore, about a
third of a mile. On the return trip a big
rose tree in Monterey was pointed out by
the guide as the growth of a little bush
which. Il is said Gen. W. T. Sherman and
his Spanish sweetheart planted there years
ago. when ne was a lieutenant serving IN
the Department OF the Pacific. This even
ing after dinner the President held an in
cormal reception in the hotel parlor. at
which the guests Of the hotel were present.
Tomorrow the party will rest here quietly.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley prob
abiy will attend church in Monterey.