The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-05-16
IN K|NLEy
ON cOAST
he Had Ovations
All Way From
Home.
TEXAS GIVES
HEARTY WELCOME
Arrival at Los Angeles Marked by
an Enthusiastic Demonstration.
President Speaks.

N Ell RIO, Tex, May 4.-The Presi-
Ill dent and his party spent the fore
~ noon viewing the sights of the
quaint old city of San Antonio.
with its historic Spanish missions and
its thrilling memories of the war of
Texas independence, and then started
on the long stretch across the Texas
desert for FL Paso on the Mexican bor-
der Nothing could have been more in
teresting and striking than the con-
trast between the old portion of San
Antonio, its strange Spanish archi-
lecture. quaint streets filled with shift
ing NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. in high-peak-
| ed hats, the women in bright-hued
garments, and cowled priests and
sweet-faced nuns in somber black-and
the modern city of stately business
houses and residences, asphalt streets
and even swiftly-rolling automobiles
The Mexican flag was prominent in the
profusion of bunting and banners with
which the people had decorated their
city. The Presidential train arrived
from Austin at 2:35 o'clock in the
morning, and was Immediately placed
on siding, where the members of the
party were allowed to rest until 6
o'clock At that hour President Nc
Kinley was UP and about. After break
fasting on the train the President and
his party were visited by the reception
committee and the march to the Ala
mo began. The streets and buildings
along the line of march were profusely
decorated, and the President was ev-
erywhere received with the utmost en-
thusiasm.
Governor Savers. who had net the
party at Houston, accompanied them
across the State thus far to speed the
President on his, journey At the sta
ton General McKibben, who is in
the command of the Department of
Texas, together with his staff, all in
I full uniform, and several troops of cav
airy from Fort Sam Houston, united
with the citizens in receiving the party.
There was no time to visit the Spanish
Mission. owing to the shortness of the
stay, but a drive took the party
| through the old adobe Mexican quarter,
past San Fernando Cathedral, built
early in the last century, where Santa
Ana raised the red flag of defiance
against the defenders of the Alamo,
| to Fort Sam Houston, where battery
fired a salute in the Presidents honor.
There was beautiful spectacle in
Travis Square. where 5000 school child
rem. dressed in white, strewed flowers
under the wheels of the carriage oc-
cupied by the President and Mrs. Nc
Kinley, and sang the national anthem.
| In the main street, opposite the Alamo,
where Colonies Travis, Crockett and
Bowie and the 1873 heroes died to the
last man rather than surrender, plat
| form had been erected and here, be-
| fore an immense crowd which includ-
| ed the veteran organizations of the blue
and the gray, the speaking took place.
! The President was introduced by the
Mayor of the city, and spoke as fol-
| lows: Mr.. Mayor, Governor Sayres
and My Fellow Citizens-I wish had
| the voice and the speecr to respond In
fitting words to the gracious welcome
given me by your honored Mayor,
speaking for you and in your behalf
I am glad to be in this historic city,
on this historic spot and receive from
| you all the greeting and the good will
which you feel toward this great re-
public and towards the office which
for little while by your suffrages
am permitted to fill.
Here are centuries of heroic mem
cries. The Texas people have his
| tory of which they can well be proud,
but in the glory of which all Americans
and all lovers of liberty the world over
want to share. Your ancestors achieved
your independence by the sword, and
| as I stand here near the Alamo, this
sacred and historic place, / cannot fan
to recall. the names of Crockett, Travis
and Bowie and their heroic associates,
who went down after eleven days
siege, sacrificing their lives for liberty
and independence.
I These sacrificial giants cleaved the
darkness asunder and beckoned to us
where we are. Where they fell, de-
voted but dying, the meanest rill, the
mightiest river rolls mingling with
their fame forever.
II was glad to receive the welcome
of the Grand Army of the Republic
and the Confederate Veterans (grea'
applause), once more united and for
ever, each having respect for the cour-
lage of the other, and all of us sharing
the valor and the hsroism which were
shown on both sides of the line. we
know what stuff each is made of-tne
men of the South and the men OF the
North; but we have but one side. We
are solid only for the Union and the
flag.
1.-The sons of the boys in blue ane
the sons of the boys in gray Tough
side by side in Cuba, in Porto Rico ane
in the Philippines, and are today
shoulder to shoulder, carrying our ban
liner, spotless in it's mission of libert!
and emancipation.
at was a pleasure to me to be re