Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-01

PRESIDENT Makes an Ao0reSS on
the Power Of a United
Nation.
Memphis. Tenn. May 1.-The presi
dental train passed thru the heart OF
Dixie yesterday and al i:so in the after
noon reached Memphis. on the banks of
the Mississippi. This was the first
resting place of the tour.
The fresh, green southland. with its
fruit in full bloom and its infinite va
sriety of wild flowers in the fields and
forest. was giea, Change from the.
backward spring which The party had
left behind at Washington. The heat
was rather oppressive but the weather
was not so warm as the presidents
welcome. The hearty greetings ex-
tended TO him along The route testified
how completely he had captured the
hearts of the people of Dixie. Confed-
crate veterans at all the stopping places
We're among the presidents most en-.
thusiastic auditors. and that he was inn
pressed with their marks of love and es-
teen was evidenced by the tone of his
speeches at the different stopping
places
AT Memphis the party received a won-
derfully impressive welcome. A COM
mittee, headed by Senator Carmack,
met the train at Corinth and escorted
the party to this city. A national salute
sof twenty-one guns fired from the river
bluffs signaled the approach to the city.
AT the station Governor Mcmillan and
others reinforced the greetings to the
party. A military parade, with a COM
pany Of grizzled veterans In their old
uniforms acting as the guard of honor,
escorted the party in carriages thru the
principal streets and around the custom
house, whence view of the Mississippi,
now almost overfiowing on the Arkan-
gas side. was obtained, to Court square.
Not IA residence or business house
seemed 10 have escaped from the desire
10 decorate IN honor of the president s
coming. Banners We're stretched across
The streets bearing such inscriptions a 9
MIR. President, the City is Yours"
The Nations President
The cheering throng which the process
sion passed was tremendous at points
along the route. In Court square where
the open air reception occurred, the
platform was hedged around with roses
and other blossoms as to make it a
flower show. More than 10000 people
We're packed into the square when the
president was introduced by Mayor Will
liams.
In response to the cheers which greet
ed him the president made the first real
~ notable speech of his trip. His theme
was the resistless power of a great unit
ed people and was delivered in his best
vein. When he referrd In closing to the
noble record of the Tennessee volunteers
in the Spanish and Philippine wars,
Governor Mcmillan led in the cheering.
The president spoke as follows.
reciprocate the sentiments of good
will and fraternity expressed by your
honored mayor and SHOWN in this cor
dial reception hy the people of Ten
nessee do not misinterpret this DEM
onstration. do not appropriate IL, but
accept ii in its true significance TO our
common country. 1t is representative
of that universal good feeling happily
subsisting among the people of the
United States and which isnot bounded
by state political or geographical lines
1t is CO. extensive with the union itself
and exists because OF our love for the
union. 1t is not perfunctory or super
fetal, but deep and heartfelt 1t is the
hearty. honest sentiment of honest peo-
pie loving their country and proud of
its institutions and determined that
both shall he maintained. 1t Is power
fully influencing our national life and
development and completing that uni
fication 30 essential to national security
and SO Indispensable to the realization
of our national strength and influence
What mighty. resistless power for
good is united nation of free men. 1t
makes for peace and prestige, for prog
-ess and liberty. II conserves the
rights of the people and strengthens the
pillars of the government and is a full
tillment of that more perfect union for.
which our revolutionary fathers s;rove
and for which the constitution was
made. No citizen of the republic re-
ioices more than I do at this happy
state. and none will do more within this
sphere to continue and strengthen 1t.
Our past has gone into history No
brighter one adorns the annals of man.
| kind. Our task ia for the future. Wc
leave the old century behind us, holding
| onto its achievements and chershing
its memories, and turn With hope TO the
| new With its opportunities and obliga-
| tons. These we must meet, men Of the
south, men of the north, with high pur-
/ pose and resolution. Without interna,
\ troubles to distract us or jealousies to
disturb our judgment. we viii solve the
problems which confront us, untram-
meled by the past, and wisely and cour-
ageously pursue a policy of right and
Justice In all things, making the future
under God even more glorious than the
Ipast.
i am glad to meet with the people of
Memphis and of the state of Tennessee.
Their history is associated with the
greatest struggles and sacrifices of our
country and their valor has been con-
4 spicuous on every battlefield of the re-
public The commonwealth has lost