The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-09

TO1ItS, 1E!IUETEU
even If IL is necessary to amend 1T. lap
plause.l But remembering the Importance
OF all that, oh. my friends, what / hope
we will never forget is that in the last re-
sort the problem of good citizenship is the
problem OF producing good men and wom-
en-. IApplause.l That is the fundamental
problem. All the organizations in the
world, the best development of the brother
hood will not make a coward or snlrk
a good engineer or good fireman. and
Work bn ii # ae bs~e nef n the
citizen that which counts for more IMAM
intellect and stands as far above intelect
strength-character character that is COM
posed of three elements: OF honesty, or
courage and of hard common sense
And now let me say word, speaking
but speaking TO all our citizens. Governor
McMillin Mr.. Mayor: / fail TO see how
any American can come to Chattanooga
neighborhood, the battlefields here in this
State and just across the border in my
mothers State of Georgia Icheers and APP
plausel, how any American can come mere
and see evidences OF the mighty deeds
done by the men who wore the blue and
the men who wore the gray fail TO see
how any man can come here ana look
upon these evidences and not go away
a better American, prouder of the coun-
try, prouder because of the valor displayed
on both sides in the contest, the valor. the
self-devotion, the loyalty to the right as
each side saw the right. [Applause.]
BRAVE CONFEDERATES.
Yesterday 1 was presented with cane
cut from the Chickamauga battlefield by
some young men of Northern Georgia On
the cane were engraved the names of three
Union generals and three Confederate gen.
erals. One of those Union generals was
at that time showing me over the battle
field-General Boynton. [Applausel. Under
one of the Confederate generals, General
Wheeler, / myself served. GApplausel In
my regiment there served under me in the
ranks a of General Hood, who COM
manded at one time the Confederate army
against General Sherman. The only cap
tain whom 1 had the opportunity of pro-
noting to field rank and to whom this pro-
motion was given for gallantry on the
field, was Micah Jenkins, of South Caro-
INA, the son of a Confederate general
whose name you will find recorded among
those who fought at Chickamauga. Two
of my captains, and by a strange fatality.
the best two captains, were killed at San
tiago-one was Allyn Capron, the fifth In
in the regular army of the United
States-who had served in every war in
which our country had been engaged.
The other Bucky O'Neill. his father
had fought under Meagher, when
on the day at Fredericksburg his brigade
left more men under the stone wall than
any other brigade did
II had in my regiment men from the
North and South; men from the East and
from the West men whose fathers had
fought under Grant and whose fathers had
fought under Lee; college graduates, capt
talists sons, wage-workers, the man of
means and the man who all his life had
owed. each days bread to the days toll;
the Catholic. Protestant, Jew and gentle.
Among my captains were men whose fore
fathers had been among the first white
men TO settle on Massachusetts bay and on
the banks of the James, and others whose
parents had come from Germany, from Ire
land, from England, from France They
were all Americans and nothing else. and
each man stood on his worth as man to
be judged by ii and to succeed or fall &C
cordingly as he did well or ill. Compared
TO the giant death wrestleS that reeled
over the mountains roundabout this city
the fight at Santiago was the merest skirm-
ish, but the spirit in which we handled our
selves there hope was the spirit In when
the men handled themselves In the big
war and the spirit in which We have got
to face our duties as citizens II we are to
make this Republic what it must be made.
Yesterday in passing over the Chicka-
manga battlefield l was immensely struck
by the monument raised by Kentucky to
the Union and Confederate soldiers from
Kentucky who fell on that battlefield. The
inscription reads as follows: AS we are
united in life, and they united in death,
let one monument perpetuate their deeds;
and one people, forgetful of all asperities:
forever hold in grateful remembrance all
the giories of that terrible conflict which
made all men free and retained every star
on the Nations flag [Cheers and applause
That is a sentiment by which we can all
stand. And, oh, my friends, what does
that sentiment have as its underlying
spirit? The spirit of brotherhood ICheers
and appiausel
II firmly believe in my countrymen. and.
therefore, believe that the chief thing neces-
sary in order that they shall work together,
is that they shall know one another; that
the Northerner shall know the Southerner,
and the man of one occupation know the
man of another occupation; the man who
works in one walk of life know the man
who works in another walk of life, so that
we may realize that the things that divide
us are superficial, are unimportant, and
that we are and must ever be knit together
into one indiSSoluble mass by our Amer
lean manhood" [Cheers and applause.l
SPEECH AT COURTHOUSE
When the President concluded there was
enthusiastic cheering. The presidential
party then took carriages and led a mag
nificent parade through the principal
streets OF the city. Composing the parade
were citizens in carriages. representatives
of the Brotherhood OF Locomotive Fire
men, the entire Seventh Cavalry Regiment
mounted, details of mounted police and
the local contingent of the state guard.
The procession stopped at the county court
house, where, from an improvised platform
| in the yard, President Roosevelt deliv-
cred a short address to 10000 people, say
| ing:
Judge Moon, and you, my fellow-Ameri-
can citzens-I have but moment in which
| to speak to you. for we are already behind
on the schedule, but / must express my
pleasure at being here in your beautiful
| city, to speak to the men and women Of
| this great State. For sixteen years the
presidency of the United States has been
filled by Tennesseeans. Tennessee has al
| ways borne its part in the leadership Of
the Nation, in peace and in war. L shan't
| keep you but just sixty seconds more. The
State of old Hickory is a State of the en-
| tire American Republic, because every
where throughout the Union we claim the
greatest of Tennesseeans, Andrew Jackson,
| as one of the greatest of Americans and
! an American whom all Americans delight
to honor. [Cheers and applause.1 There
| were differences as to Andrew Jackson s
policies. but the character of the man. his
| rugged honesty, his absolute fearlessness.
| his devotion to the right as he saw the
| right, are the qualities which we never
can afford to lose sight of in this Repub-
| lie. L am glad to be here to accept your
| greeting. to bid you welcome and to say
| that there Is always a lesson and in
spiration to come to Tennessee to come
to the home of Andrew Jackson" fCheers
and applausel
| The exercises were QUOT short by rain at
1:2O o'clock and the presidential party has
tened to the central depot, taking train
/ at 1870 o'clock over the Southern Railway
| for Knoxville.