The age-herald., 1901-05-24
Says They Are Hope and the Glory of Their
 COuntTy
CITIZENS AND SOLDIERS
The President Was Entertained in San Francisco by the Union League Club and the Ohio Society
 of California.

San Francisco, May 23.-President Me- 'Kinley breakfasted this morning at the residence of Irving M. Scott, returned to his temporary home and received a dele gation of Federal officials. President Mo 1<inley asked the Federal officials to pro- vide position for man named Ritter who sevred in his regiment during the Civil war. MT. Ritter lost a leg in battle and IS now a resident of San Leandro. The President remarked that this was the first appointment he had asked for and hoped his comrade would be provid- sed for. The officials promised to do so.
 The most important event of the day came next It was the Presidents visit fo the Presidio, where he reviewed the Forty-fifth and Forty-sixth Volunteer Infantry Regiments, just returned from the Philippines to be mustered out of service. When the President mounted the reviewing stand the soldiers cheered and he addressed them with much feeling, speaking as follows:
 The Presidents Speech.
 'I count myself very fortunate to have been in the city of San Francisco upon the arrival of these two regiments, that l might join with my fellow citizens of this city in giving you welcome home, and at the same time to express not only my own thanks as President of the United States. but the gratitude of the American people for the splendid services you have rendered to your country in the past two years Our hearts have been with you; our hopes have been with you, and we have realized in large measure peace as the result of the splendid work you per formed in the Philippine Islands. You went carrying with you the purposes and the spirit and the conscience of the peo- pie of the United tSates; you carried with you the flag which is the symbol of ths best and noblest aspiration of a free peo- pie, and you. bring that flag back with added horror and deliver it to the govern ment which you served so well and so faithfully.
 You come back now to be citizens of the country and government whose honor you have preserved. You were cit izens before you were soldiers. And you became soldiers with your life's blood if necessary. You have done your duty; you have done it nobly and you come back to go into the walks of citizenship with your other fellow citizens and to take the places that you left when you enlisted two years ago. That is one thing about American honor that is a surprise to the world We have mustered for the armies the greatest army that ever was mustered-from '61 to '65-and yet when the was was over, when Lee surrendered to Grant at Appomattox, nearly 100000 soldiers came back to their homes, fell n citizenship taining the government for which they fought. And so you come back as your forefathers came back, more than thirty years ago, having done your duty, and it is now your purpose to do your duty as a good citizen; and I want to express my heartfelt thanks to all of you and to all belonging to you, every good thing in this life. I thank you"
 At the close of the Presidents remarks three cheers were given by the soldiers. The President next visited the. general hospital, going through every sick ward Lowing and speaking words of cheer to every sick soldier.
 Union League Reception.
 In the afternoon the President was the guest of honor at the reception of the Union League Club, the Ohio Society of California, the Mexican War Veterans. pioneers and native sons. The latter so-
 
 containing 1850 worth of gold. At each re- ception the President responded briefly to presentation speeches.
 At the reception of the Ohio Society President Mckinley said in part: T meet Ohio people wherever go and the surprise to me is how we have gotten on 50 we'll when so many of you have left us. Slaughter and applause.) And then I have that other reflection, how would the other states have gotten on if we had not loaned you to them. daughter) Ohio has carried the best traditions of the old commonwealth with her sons roaming. lApplause) It is a good old state Here are some of her sons: Giddens and Bluff, Old Ben Wade and Garfield and Hayes, and Thurman, and Pendleton and Sher- man, leading statesmen of their time and generation; and then we never forget that Grant was born in Ohio. (Applause.) He who girdled the globe with his fame as he marched in the pathway of the sun; nor that Sherman, who made that mag nificent march from Atlanta to the sea, was born in Ohio. (Applause) And that gallant little Irishan, Phil Sheridan (ap- plause), who did not perit Jubal Early to rest in the summer of 1864 in the Shenandoah Valley and finally won that magnificent victory, he, too was born in Ohio"
 Responded to the greeting extended him at the Union League Club. the President
 
 said:
 ''I have not spoken a partisan word for go many years that have no notes. (Ap- pIause and laughter) Now none are for party but all are for state and whether we are Democrats or whether we are Re- pubIicans we are all for the flag. We may have our little differences among our selyes but observe that whenever a crisis comes in the life of the nation, party lines are obliterated and all stand to pa- triotism. Great applause.)
 we never had in all our history such m exhibition of unfaltering devotion to lountry from men of all parties as we have had in the past four years. The treat parties represented in the two branches of Congress just before the war with Spain voted without a dissenting yoice to place into my hands 50,000.000 of Iollars without restraint or direction to be expended in my discretion for the na- lonal defense. (Applause).
 1. And all through that struggle men of