Arizona republican., 1912-05-31
NATIONS DEAD
 REMEMBERED
Decoration Day Exercises at City Hall Plaza. Ad- dresses Delivered by Governor Hunt and Chap lain Christy.

| trees on the west side of the city hall paid their tribute of respect to the ! soldier dead. The c. A. R. were there, l the hOary veterans of the days of '61 l There, toO were the confederate war
 veterans, a pathetic handful to repre- | sent the thousands who wore the gray | of the southland. In sharp contrast to | the griZZled veterans were the youths of the National Guard, mere striplings l in khaki, boys with the vigor of untried 1 manhood showing in every form ana 1 every mcVement-as replica of those
 who won and lost the great battles of | half a century ago
 Also there were others in attendance at the exercises. There were the Wo- mems Relief corps who took d prom 1 inent part in carrying out the program. And finally there were many specta- I tors, not as many as should have been. 1 but still fair number to listen to the | speeches and the music and the solemn ritual with which the Grand Army al- | ways observes this day of days | Part e. the exercises was conducted | by Post Commander Harrington. Cap | tain Parker was to have been one of | the speakers, but he is at the coast and | failed to return as soon as expected. | There were two addresses, one by | Governor Hunt and the other by Geo. | D. Christy. himself a veteran of the i Spanish-American war and the son of J d veteran of the war of '61
 Preceding the addresses came the ! ci, | by Miss Helen Boyle and the reading l of President Lincoln's Gettysburg a,l- 1 dress b. Miss Anna MOnahan A | graceful act was the decoration of a monument to the nations dead. this ceremony being carried out by the
 Women'~ Relief comps.
 1 The first speech was delivered by
 the governor. MT Hunt said he re- 1 called that he had been invited to de- | liver an address for the occasion but 1 had forgotten all about it until re-
 minded of his engagement by reading a newspaper this morning.
 l The governor said it had been either i his good or bad fortune to be born in
 a southern state and that many of his i relatives had worn the gray in the ! great conflict between the states He i spoke at some length of what he re- i ferred to as that tra gedy in the 1 drama" of the nations life and paid a
 tribute tO the patriotism and bravery of the men who had fought on either
 side in the nations greatest conflict. Now" he said, T am glad that this is a reunited country which We are all engaged in making the greatest nation in the world"
 MT Hunt said also that nobody but
 the Anglo Saxon people could have done what the American people have
 done what the American people have 1 done-lived through that period of civil strife to become a reunited people with
 a single aim-the good of the entire country.
 But We must remember" Mir. Hunt said. that eternal diligence is the price | of liberty Abraham freed millions of black slaves, but We must not forget that there are those in this country who will make of us white slaves if 1 they can And the time may come when the people of the United States will again have to shoulder the sword and the gun and go out in defense of hu- man liberty"
 The governor then spoke of Abraham
 Lincoln who, he said was the greatest man who had ever lived in the world. He paid a tribute to the veterans and closed by saying that Arizona is try
 ing to put into use the principles em- bodied in the life of Christ
 The real event of the day, however, was the address by Captain Christy- | He told a number of interesting incl
 dents belonging to the civil war period
 and told them in an extremely inter
 csting manner. One of these related to
 a conversation between President Lin coin and General Scott that occurred l early in the war. why is it." the president asked the old general. that
 you, with 12,OOO men invaded Mexico
 and took the capital of that country in
 a few months; and We have been try
 ing for ;. year with hundreds of thOus- | andS of men to take Richmond and 1 haven't done it yet
 ] MT President" replied General 1 Scott" the reason is that the men who I led into the city of Mexico are keep
 ing your men out of Richmond"
 Captain Christy also paid tribute to Albert Sidney Johnson, the gallant ] southern leader who was Killed at
 Pittsburg Landing and whom he de- nominated one of the bravest and most honorable men of the war He spoke of Grants campaigns and the policy pursued by the great silent general
 that finally won victory for the union ! arms And the most effective part of
 his address came when he spoke of the | famous words of Grant, uttered just after the surrender at AppamattoX when he said. Let us have peace"
 Between the addresses by the gover- nor and Captain Christy d male quartet
 rendered a selection and at the close Commander Harrington read brief address The quartet was composed of | Walter Hoyt, Earl Hill R. H. Brooks, | and MT. Robertson.
 The service was one of the most
 solemn and impressive ever witnessed in Phoenix and was a splendid tribute
 to the dead heroes who are held in 1 grateful remembrance by all the peo-