The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-14
AN HOUR AT SAN JOSE
President Is Presented Bouquet 90
Feet in Circumference.

San Jose, Cal, May 14.-ThOuSandS OF
people between Del Monte and San Jose
who have been anticipating a sight of
the president for months, were disap-
pointed. The presidents presence in
San Jose for an hour took the edge off
of the disappointment here where the
rose carnival was being held in his hon
or and where the floral display surpaSs-
ed anything ever before seen in this
part of the country. After leaving Del
Monte, the cabinet carried out the itin-
erary as originally planned, stopping at
Pajaro and Santa Cruz and visiting the
big trees in the San Lorenzo valley but
they had no heart to put into the feS-
tivities in the absence of their chief and
the keen regret of the people was writ
ten on their countenances. Many ex-
pressions of kindly sympathy for Mrs.
Mckinley were heard at each stopping
place At Santa Cruz. Secretary of
State Hay was the representative of the
president to reply to the address of well
come made by the mayor.
The presidents presence here barely
saved the day. He ran down from San
Francisco in his special car, arriving
here just as the cabinet train pulled into
the city from the south.
But he only remained for the formal
exercises. At $3.50, when they were con-
Guided he was driven back to the sta
ton and left Immediately for San Fran
CISCO At St. James square, opposite the
court house, a handsomely decorated
formal exercises took place. The presi-
dent responded as follows to the may
or's address of welcome:
Mr.. Mayor, My Fellow Citizens:-We
have had many warm and generous
greetings as we journeyed from the Po-
tomac to the Pacific slope but none has
been more interesting, more generous
and more memorable than the one the
people of Santa Clara county and of
San Jose accord US today. Great ap-
r4la NJ a
this multitude of Americans but face
the headquarters of a thousand old
Ohioans who with my other fellow citi-
ems, give US welcome. We are all proud
of our states and well we NAV be
whether We come from the north or
whether we come from the south. We
are proud of our birthplace and of our
state citizenship; but above all we re-
joice in the great nation, the glory of
it's achievements, in the flag which rep
resents liberty and law and the consti-
tuition of the nation that shelters US all
(Applause). We have seen everything
in California, we have eaten of your
fruits, and your fishes; we have tasted
the perfumes of your flowers; we have
visited the ancient mission churches,
where the altar of religion was first
raised and whose chimes have sounded
through centuries their message of hope
and benediction; we have heard the
dashing waves of your ocean, we have
felt the sunshine-and we have been
tanned somewhat by its rays; Naugh-
teri, but We have all the time felt the
warm touch of our hearts. We saw at
Redlands the other day that they
sprinkled their streets with oil and we
discovered the other day they bored for
it at Los Angeles and got it. (I.aughter).
We have met your people-your brave
men and WOmen-we have met the pio-
neers who builded and founded this
state, we have met all conditions of peo
pie and wherever we have gone we have
tod
and have heard the cheers of school
children from one end of this state to
the other. Here, I am greeted in this.
the first capital under your constitution
"a constitution that dedicated the ter
ritory of California to liberty and union
forever; Great applause)-whose peo-
pie asked and were admitted into the
union of states and received the protec-
ton of the federal constitution and from
that hour until now the people of Cali
fornia have been loyal to the govern
ment and to its government. Great ap-
plause)- In peace or war you have been
faithful. We live. my fellow citizens.
under a constitution that was made for
four millions of people, and yet it has
proved quite adeq tate for rs millions of
people. (Applause)- It has embraced
within it every national duty and pur-
pose and has never stood in the way OF
our development and expansion.
THAT instrument seems almost to be
inspired to carry forward the holy mis-
sion Of liberty. 1t seems not to have
been made alone for those who framed
it and their successors. but for all ages
and all mankind. That instrument
stands today almost as it left the hands
of it's trainers. Few amendments have
been added, and those have only been
to enlarge the priceless blessings of
liberty and free government to the peo-
pie and no amendment can ever be made
to the constitution of this country that
will curtau the supreme and sovereign
power of the people Great applause)-
We have lived under it for a hundred
and twenty-five years, IN storm and In
sunshine, in war with and without,
amidst passions and tumult, and after
a century and a quarter that great in
strument stands unsullied by single
lapse of principle (Applause). To US,
my fellow citizens, young and old, the
preservation of that constitution is
committed It is a sacred instrument
and it is a sacred trust given to us to
see to It that it is preserved in all its
virtue and vigor to be passed along to
the generations yet to come. Glorious
constitution, glorious union, glorious
hagt Seventy-fve millions of people
stand together as they never before
stood to defend them all" Great APP
Immediately in the rear of the stand
was the big bouquet of which so much
has been heard. It was ninety feet in
circumference, and stood in its frame
twenty-five feet high. The stem was
telegraph pole sunk in the ground. It
was composed of cut flowers of every
variety J1aL blooms Inc lQed Oh pre-
senting this immense floral offering to
Mrs Mckinley originated with the ladies
of san Jose and the presentation was
made to the president by Mrs. E. 0.
Smith who expressed tender words of
regret for Mrs. McKinley's illness and
hopes for her quick recovery. The men,
bers of the cabinet took the long drive
through the orchards of the Santa Clara
valley which had been planned for the
president visiting on the way the Jesuit
college at Santa Clara and the Universe
r~1~a r1+ 1r0r1-
had been made along the route to re-
cai,.a TIE rrasident and the disapnoint-