The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-20
A PUBLIC SESSION.
Speeches at McDonald's Theatre Last
 Night.

Night.
 Three hundred Red Men and their friends assembled at McDonald's Theatre last night to listen to the official welcom- ing of the visiting Indians to the Mont gomery hunting grounds.
 On the stage was seated Senior Saga more Thomas H. Watts of the Great Council of the United States; Past Great Incohonee Andrew H. Patton of Danvers, Mass; w. H. Hyronemous of Birming- ham, Past Great Incohonee; R. Tyler Goodwin, P. H. Stern and J. H. Hartley of the Montgomery Tribes, w. A. Hayn1@ of Grady, Great Sachem, and c. P. Mc- Intyre, representing Mayor E. B. Joseph.
 Mir. Watts presided over the meeting and introduced the speakers. Mir. Watts opened the program by stating the pleas ure which he knew every Red Man in Montgomery felt in having the Great Council with them and referring in the highest terms to the principles of the or der and the personnel of it's membership. He said the official welcome to the city, however, would be delivered by an Alder man of the City Council and one of the most worthy and eloquent of the city fathers. He introduced Councilman McIn- tyre.
 Welcomed by MT. Mcintyre.
 MT. Mcintyre said he regretted that Mayor Joseph was unable to deliver the speech of welcome, but said that noth- ing gave him more pleasure. than to greet tn Red Men of Alabama to the city of Montgomery and assure them that the community was theirs throughout the ses- sion of the Great Council. He referred to the good standing of Montgomery Red Men in the community and the beneficial work done by the order here.
 MT. Watts said that the welcome from thel Red Men of Montgomery would be de- liver6tf by an enthusiastic member of the order, who had beer justly honored by his fellow citizens on numerous occasions. He introduced Hon. R. T. Goodwyn.
 MT. Goodwin said that the term Red Man usually calls up the thoughts of the wlgwam, patriotism. the scalping knife and the tomahawk of the primitive h. dian.
 MT Goodwin then culogized the valor and patriotism of the American Indian and especially the Indians of Alabama, the record of whose bravery, he said, is written on every hilltop from the Ten nessee to the Gulf. He spoke on the won derful growth of the order in Alabama during the past year and the good that it has done by the large benefits it had distributed among It's membership. MT. Goodwin rendered the visiting chiefs the welcome of the Montgomery warriors and braves.
 The chairman said that many years ago he went as a representative of the Ala bama tribes to the meeting of the Great Council of the United States at Provi- dence, Rhode Island He did not know a soul in the town. but in no less than five minutes after he had written his name and address on the hotel register, a man from New England. the Great Incohonee of the order welcomed him to New England and made him fell at home.
 There was a time," said MT Watts, ''when New Englanders were not welcome in Alabama, in fact we did all We could to keep them out. That time has past and I want you to welcome, Andrew H, Patton of Danvcrs Massachusetts to Ala bama, as heartily as he welcomed Thomas H. Watts to New England. "
 Past Great IncohOnee Patton was en- Enthusiastically received and it was several minutes before the applause had suf- ficiently abated for him to speak.
 He said that he was in Montgomery as a representative of the present Great Incohonee and needed no public avowal to assure him of his welcome. Mont gomerians and Alabamians, he said, had shown him by their actions that he was ,,yal,,or,a totheir reservation. Mir Patton