The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-06
MAKES ADDRESS
President Makes a Memorial
Day Address
OF INDIANA SOLDIERS
The Executive Pays Warm Tribute
to oliver Morton, the War Govern
or of Indiana.

indianapolis, Ind, Special. -Presr
dent Roosevelt delivered the principal
address here at the unwilling OF a
monument to Gen. Henry w. Law
ton. He discussed railway problems
and incidently paid a warm tribute
to Oliver Morton, the war Governor
Of Indiana.
At the conclusion of the address
the President and Vice President
were driven to Grove Hill Cemetery,
wheer the President placed a wreath
on the grave former President Ben
jamin Harrison.
The programme of exercises III
eluded an invocation by Rev. ID. X.
Lewis an address by Gov. j. Frank
Hanly, music by the Seventh Regl-
ment Band, the reading of a poem
dedicated to General Lawton by
James Whitcomb Riley, the introduc-
ton of the President by Governor
Hanlv and President Roosevelt's all
dress. The President said in part:
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
"For more than n reason l am
pecularliarly glad that this year l
speak on Memorial Day in the State
of Indiana. There is no other class OF
our citizens to whom we owe Sc
much as to the veterans of the great
war. To them it was given to per
; form the one feat with which ne
: other feat can be compared, for tc
them it was given to preserve TIL
Union. Moreover, you men who wore
, the blue, blessed beyond the vletor'
in any other war of recent times
have left to your c~ountrymen NOR
thar Tie material results OF tn
triumph, more ven than the ach1eV
ing the triumph itself. You hav
. left a country so genuinely reunlte'
= that all of us now, In whatever par
= of this Union we live, have a RICH
: to feel the keenest pride, not only l
= the valor and self-devotion OF YOU
= the gallant men who wore the blue
. but also in the valor and self-devo
ton of your gallant opponent VIII
: wore the gray. The hero whose NOR
= ument we to-day %unveil, by his III
bore singular testimony to the con
% pleteness of the reunion. Gener:
o Lawton in his youth fought gallant
in the civil war. Thirty-three veal
= afterward he again marched to wa
= this time against a foreign foe, an
~ served with distinguished ability ar
- success as general officer, both
- Cuba and in the Philippines. Whe
- he thus served it was in an arm
whose generals included not on
u many of his old comrades In arm
but some of his old opponents ais
as General Wheeler and General Fit
hugh Lee: Under him, both amor
= the commissioned officers and In +
- ranks, were many men whose tathe
had worn the blue serving side
side with others whose fathers h
70 worn the gray; but all America
~ now, and nothing but Americans,
united in their fealty and devotl
to their common flag and their co,
mon country, and each knowing or
err the. generous rivalry with his fello
raj as to who could best serve the cal
for which each was ready to lay do
III life itself. To General Lawton it
fell actually to lay down his life
mt tragedy, but one of those noble tra'
IT. dies where u pride rises above
sorrow. For he died in the fulln'
of of time, serving his country with
av. tire devotion Ia death that eve
man may well envy"
SIS At Other Points.
National Memorial day was gen
ally observed throughout the count
"e In the principal cities, both No
-, and South, the graves of the de
Ine were srown with flowers, and all
az public addresses breathed of patri
ism and with kindly references
no the fallen heroes who fell upon b
lrs sides of the memorable struggle.