Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
THE PRESIDENTS WARM SOUTH.
ERN WELCOME.

The telegraph has repeated from day
to day the progress of the presiden-
tial party through the southern states,
and the people of the country north
and south rejoiced at the additional
evidences of complete reconciliation
between the states. No other presi-
dent has done more to awaken this
patriotic sentiment than President
Mckinley, and he has done this not
In an ostentatious way or as if it were
an act Of grace, but in a
simple, plain American manner
that the American people recognize
as genuine and the honest expression
of an honest public officer, who has
nothing to ask for at the hands of his
fellow citizens except continued re-
spect, and support to the last admin.
istration of the great office to which
he has twice been chosen.
The telegraph gave details of public
receptions rendered to the presidential
party but the aftermath as it is gather
ed from the public press of the south,
in the form of editorial expressions
from the leading southern journals
is Of great interest, and if it were pos
sibie to reproduce all these express
sions in the northern states it would
give us all better ideas of the depth
and breadth of southern patriotism.
The following is from the New Or
leans Times-Democrat, of May 2,
printed the day after President Nc
Kinley arrived at the Crescent City:
The President was given a welcome
in New Orleans yesterday of the cor
diality Of which there can be no ques-
ton. No visitor has ever been more
warmly or more enthusiastically re-
ceived here, none has had SO large an
audience to welcome him. Along the
entire line of march the streets were
crowded, the balconies filled with peo-
pie cheering and applauding and wav-
ing their hands enthusiastically at the
President and his party. Every per-
son in New Orleans who could do So,
turned out, and there were obviously
many visitors from the country, come
to New Orleans for the chance-prob-
ably the only one they will ever have
of seeing the President.
President Mckinley proved himself
q most agreeable guest. The day was
very warm, and must have felt even
warmer to one coming as he did from
Washington, where winter still lin
gers; but the President took the heat
pleasantly, and was apparently less
affected by it than many of the ma
tives. Throughout the entire long
line of march, and during the two
hours his carriage was driven from
the Illinois Central depot to the st.
Charles hotel, he sat with uncovered
head, often with the sun beating down
on him, bowling to the right and left
in graceful acknowledgement of the
cheers that everywhere greeted him.
He seemed in perfect spirit, smiling
pleasantly and accepting the delays
which made the march SO much long.
er than expected. Few persons would
have looked as fresh as the President
did after so long and dusty railroad
journey, or would have been pre-.
pared after disembarking from
the cars for another journey
through the hot, crowded streets OF
the city; but is was the subject of uni
yersal comment that the President
looked far younger than his pictures
that he appeared to have enjoyed his
trip and that he was as fresh as any
man in the many hundreds who march
ed as his escort. The impression
made by him on the people of New
Orleans was an excellent one. Kind