The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-10-11

message Of general good fellowship,
purely Il message of invitation. and |
hope ne will excuse me if ! do not
turn aside now to discuss the tariff,
Mr.. BARBOUR. VIII the gentleman
yield for u question?
Mr.. UPSHAW. ! yield to the gentle
man from California.
Mr.. BARBOUR. In the gentleman S
opinion ought not the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Blanton) to include in his
list a few useless roll calls? U4augh-
teri.
Mr.. UPSHAW. If the gentleman Will
allow me, will bring you the message
of invitation from my home city. God
willing-and | want you all to hear
thiS--I would love to be willing when
the last survivor Of the gray and the
last survivor of the blue shall be
brought here with these sacred walls,
and clasping hands in Il beautiful fell
| lCwship which only true soldiers on
both sides can understand, let them
cement with their latest word and their
latest deed the once sundered sec
tions in a glorious spirit Of national
love that would put the last partisan
| to stammerng hush and crown with
in this temple of patriotism "a ma
tional glory and grandeur without a
parallel in the annals of ages ZAP
plausel
Come to Atlanta, my colleagues, and
see there the statue of Henry Grady
the great seer statesman, and paci
ficator, who died literally loving a
Nation into peace" Come to Atlanta
and see revolving about that statue the
activities Of great city and whose
bricks and mortar, as Grady declared
in his New England dinner speech
that so nightly touched and stirred
the Nations heart. There is no
buried one single bitter prejudice
not one ignoble memory" (Applause)
Come to Atlanta for your own sake'
as we'll as ours, for you do want t.
go to heaven, you do not want to wall
the streets of the New Jerusalem, un
til you have walked the streets of Al
lanta, the most famous city of Il quar-
ter of million people on the Ameri
can continent; a city whose curbstone
are surcharged with the electricity o
progress, and beneath the ambient blu
of whose arching skies there gro\
surely the bravest men and the fan
est women on whom the sun eve
shone. for we believe, Mr.. Speaker
that it Is almost as near to heaVeI
from Atlanta as it is from Washing
ton or even from Boston herself
daughter and applause). Come to Al
lanta. my colleagues, and see cit
whose enthusiasms have always gatf
cred around the things that are hlgf
est and best, a city whose temples G
learning and whose temples of wol
ship are the inspiration of the Sout
, and a bulwark of strength and hope t
our threatened civilization.
/ Come to Atlanta, the progressiv
home Of Emory University, Oglethorp
/ University, Lanier University, Co
College, Georgia Military Academy
Agnes Scott College. Washington Sem
: nary. Spellman Seminary, Gamma
Seminary, Clark University and ha
| dozen progressive colleges, togethe
with famous Georgia Tech" the grea
est chronological school in all tn
! south. Come and see the city {
+ splendid auditoriums, the great cit
auditorium-the meeting place of tn
t reunion-seating 5000 people-Wasf
- ington ought to have one like It'll
| Baptist Tabernacle, seating 5000; We
D ley Memorial, seating $500; and doze
D superb theatres that would be tn
T. pride of any metropolis. Come and sc
, our mayor, the forward-looking frien
e of upward.reaching humanity; our go
+ ernor, young in years but keen an
S clean, bright, and brave; our sheriff
e as handsome as he is fearless and eff
+ cient; and our far.famed chief of p
lice, who proved in a campaign ft
n civic righteousness that he is 'n'
afraid of poverty, the poorhouse, dealt
+ nor the devil" Come to Atlanta an
find a chamber of commerce, pos
: lively wild on the subject Of spreadin
e the famous Atlanta spirit to the fol
d corners OF the earth--a chamber
n commerce that will stay up until mi
), night working for your happiness, the
a stay awake until daybreak plannir
d for your joys of the morrow, and the
e get up with the early streaklings
e the mornings light to put into ex
cution its dreams for your diurnal bill
e and your nocturnal felicity! (Applaust
/. Come and see the great military pos
n Fort Mcpherson, Camp Jesup, al
a hat marvel OF mobilization, Cam
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