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The Georgia y Record.
VOL 1.
PRESIDENT IS CAMPAIGNING
Entertains a Large Audience at Quincy, 111.
With an Addres of Thanks.
SECRETARY ROOT ALSO HEARD
War Secretary flakes Urgent Plea
That Administration Should
Be Upheld.
Cannon boomed and bands ployed
“Dixie” as President McKinley alight
ed from the Campania, his private car,
at the grounds of the Illinois Soldiers’
home at Quincy Friday morning. The
sun shone brightly, making almost a
perfect day. Fifteen hundred old vet
erans, inmates of the home, cheered
enthusiastically as the president and
the members of the cabinet took car
riages to be driven between long
platoons of soldiers around the beau
tiful grounds of the home.
The president was first escorted to
an improvised platform, from which
he bowed and smiled in acknowledg
ment of the veterans’ greeting, shak
ing hands with as many as possible.
Then, in company with members of
the local committee, the president
made a short visit to the Soldiers’
hospital. The presidential party was
next driven from the Soldiers’ home
to the city proper, a distance of two
miles. Company F, Fifth infantry,
the naval reserves and Company F,
Eighth Illinois infantry, escorted the
party through the business district.
The sailors were supplied wi.L
Hotchkiss guns, and as soon as the
president arrived in sight of the pub
lic square a president’s salute of twen
ty-one guns was fired. Six thousand
school children from all the schools of
the city, publio and parochial, were
massed on the east side of the court
house, waving flags and singing na
tional airs as the president appeared.
McKinley’s
The president and several members
of the cabinet delivered brief addresses
from the reviewing stand. The presi
dent said:
“I thank you one and all for this
patriotic welcome. It has given me
uncommon pleasure to meet this morn
ing at the Soldiers’ Home, the men of
1861, the veterans who stood in the
trenches and behind the guns in that
year of great emergency when the life
of the nation hung in the balance. It
has given me like pleasure also to
meet with the ex-soldiers of the Span
ish war from the city of Quincy and
the naval malitia representin the pa
triotism of 1898. And it is gratifying to
me to learn that you sent from this
city one of the gallant young officers
who fought with Dewey in Manila
bay. This is an era of patriotism, my
countrymen.
“The United States has never been
lacking in gratitude to its soldiers and
its sailors who have fought in its
cause, and the cause of the United
States has never lacked defenders in
every crisis of its history. Front the
revolutionary days to the present, the
citizens of the United States have
been ever ready to uphold at any cost
the flag and the honor of the nation
and to take all the responsibility
which comes from a righteous cause.
There are responsibilities born to
duty, that can never be repudiated.
Duty unperformed is dishonor and
dishonor brings shame which is heavi
er to carry than any burden which ,
honor can impose.
“My fellow citizens, I thank you
for this more than gracious welcome
and bid you all good morning.”
Secretary Root Speaks.
Secretary Root spoke as follows:
“Fellow Citizens of Illinois: My (
humble duty during the last two
months is to do what you are doing
here today by the encouragement and
inspiration of your presence, holding
up the hands, strengthening the soul, ■
and cheering the courage of the presi
dent, the chief magistrate of your be
loved country, In maintaining its <
honor and doing its full duty before 1
God and man on the great stage of <
the world. It is fitting hero, almost 1
at the very spot where the two ex- j
tremes of population, coming, the one i
from Massachusetts and Connecticut '
and the other coming from Virginia ]
ATLANTA. GA.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER J, 1899.
and Kentucky, ,he children of New
England, and the children of the
south, should join him in doing
honor to the president of the
whole country, north and south,
east and west. There is no partisan
ship, no factionalism, in the business
in which we are engaged in, helping
President McKinley.
“No man can shelter himself under
the flag of party or justify himself by
any declaration of principle in failing
to stand behind the men of all parties
and all creeds who lie today in the
trenches in Luzon.
“No man who knows bis duty and
is a true American will fail to do it. I
have no fear, no question whatever,
that in the days and nights that the
secretary of war is giving to seeing
that the army of the United States is
the best fed, best equipped and best
armed army the world has ever seen,
the sympathy and the support of the
people of Quincy, of Illinois, of the
country, will be behind him and be
hind the president.
“The cause in which your soldiers'
are fighting and in which you, Demo
crats and Republicans alike, stand be
hind them, is the cause of civilization
and of peace. The men behind the
guns in Manila today are in front of
the schoolhouse, of law and order and
will be followed by the men with their
text book and Bible, bringing the arts
of civilization, respect for law and
order, and the welfare of country. No
government can live for self alone, nor
grow to full stature by the exercise of
selfishness. No men and no party of
men can be bound to the performance
of a mission of the great republic for
the regeneration and elevation of man
kind. It is following today as it has
followed in the past, the lines marked
out by a Providence superior to the
wisdom of presidents and of legisla
tures, pointing the way of the great
march of civilization.
“My friends of the city of Quincy
and of the state of Illinois, the presi
dent of the United States will be faith
ful to the soldier who represents it.
His cabinet will be faithful to him and
I know that you, one and all, will
stand with us in sustaining and help
ing him the great work which you
have laid upon him.”
The streets of Quincy were literally
packed with people.
A street fair is in projection, and all
along the line of march booths and
arches had been erected, most of which
flaunted the stars and stripes and im
mense pictures of McKinley and
Dewey.
FARMERS IN CONFERENCE.
The National Congress Holds Sessions In
Boston, Mass.
The delegates to the Farmers’ Na
tional Congress were received by Gov
ernor Roger Wolcott at the statehouse
in Boston Friday. The congress, on
resuming its business session, heard a
report from the committee on resolu
tions.
Hon. H. C. Adams, dairy and food
commissioner, of Wisconsin, delivered
an address on “The Necessity of Pure
Food Legislation.”
The following officers were elected:
President, H. P. Heard, Fort At
kinson, Wisconsin.
First vice president, P. G. F. Can
doge, Brookline, Mass.
Second vice president, Colonel John
S. Cunningham, of North Carolina.
Secretary, John M. Stahl, Chicago.
Treasurer, L. Van Morison, Penn
sylvania.
Executive Committee—B. F. Clay
ton, of Iowa; T. C. Slaughter, Texas;
E. L. Furness, Indiana; D. G. Whit
temore, Nebraska; E, F. Whelstein,
Kentucky.
SCHOONER LOST.
The John 11. Tiiigu* Goes to Pieces on
Cumberland Island.
Captain Taylor and crew, of the
schooner John H. Tingue, bound
from Philadelphia to Jacksonville with
cargo of coal, arrived at Fernandina,
Fla., Friday morning from Dunge
ness and reported the loss of his ves
sel Thursday on Cumberland island.
The vessel will be a total loss. No
lives lost.
MORE WARSHIPS
TO THE EAST
Result of Dewey’s Coalerence
With the President.
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BROOKLYN IS ONE OF THEM.
Admiral Stated That the Situa
tior Is Very
Urgent.
A Washington special says: The
president, Wednesday directed the
immediate disp tch to the Philippines
of a number of vessels of the navy, in
cluding the cruiser Brooklyn and gun
boats Marietta and Machias. The ac
tion is the result of Admiral Dewey’s
interview, in which he went over the
Philippine situation with the presi
dent.
The orders given are in line with
the expressed determination of the
president to furnish the army and
navy every resource for stamping out
the Philippine insurrection at the
earliest possible time.
At Admiral Dewey’s extended in
terview with the president the former
went into the Philippine situation at
great length, explaining carefully the
existing of affairs and hla
views of the outlook, concluding with
an earnest -recommendation that the
Brooklyn and some other vessels be
sent at once to the Philippines.
The re-enforcement of the present
fleet of the Asiatio squadron he urged
as necessary and said their dispatch
should be directed as early as possible.
The president immediately communi
cated with the navy department and
instructed the secretary of the navy to
issue an order carrying out the ad
miral’s recommendation and to see
that they be got in readiness at once.
The Marietta and Machias, besides the
Brooklyn, will be designated by the.
navy department along with several
other vessels which have not yet been
selected.
The Brooklyn is now with the other
vessels of the North Atlantic squadron
off Tompkinsville, Staten Island. The
Machias and the Marietta are at pres
ent on waiting orders. These re-en
foroemonts will and considerable
strength to the Asiatic squadron and
the administration believes their pres
ence will £ave a material effect in ex
pediting the end of the hostilities.
The Brooklyn is an armored cruiser
of the first rating, carrying twenty
main battery guns and having a total
displacement of 9,215 tons, and is so
well thought of by Rear Admiral
Schley that he desired that she be as
signed as his flagship in the new
south Atlantic squadron.
The Marietta is a composite gun
boat of 1,000 tons displacement and
with a main battery equipment of six
guns.
The Machias, with a displacement of
1,177 tons, carries a battery of eight
guns. Their commanders are all vet
erans of long experience in the ser
vice. The Brooklyn is commanded by
Captain Theodore F. Jewell, who has
seen fourteen years of sea service and
much more than that on shore sta
tions; the Machias by Lieutenant Com
mander Leavitt 0. Logan, with fifteen
years of sea service, and the Marietta
by Lieutenant Commander Edward
H. Gheen, whose record shows seven
teen years of sea service.
The Brooklyn’s formidable equip
ment will make her of invaluable gen
eral service, while the Marietta and
the Machias are expected to be of
much usefulness in the numerous
shallow waters about the archipelago
where larger craft cannot go.
It is not known how soon these
vessels can be ready, but their orders
are to get away as early as possible,
and no delay is anticipated. Their
commanders will report to the depart
ment when they are ready to proceed
and on arriving at Manila will report
without delay to the admiral com
manding the Astatic station, for or
ders.
GREAT WAS CHICAGO DAY.
McKinley Lays Corner-Stone of Magnificent
Federal Building.
DEPENDS ON STATE
Georgia Will Be Asked to Build
Atlanta’s Car Shed.
GOES BEFORE THE NEXT LEGISLATURE
President Thomas Says Road* Arg Not
Only Willing, But Auxious to
Do Something.
The Georgia state railroad commis
sion and the railroads held a confer
ence in executive session Monday at
the capitol.
The plan now proposed is for the
state of Georgia to build a union pas
senger station for Atlanta. <
After figuring on it for a year, the
railroads have thrown up the job. They
say they cannot agree on a plan, and
they are willing for the state to try.
It is certain that some legislation
will be undertaken looking to that
end. An effort will be made to get a
bill through the legislature creating a
commission and appropriating money
to pay for the work.
Governor Candler is expected to
recommend something of the kind.
The state railroad commission will
recommend it in its annual report, and
the Western and Atlantic’s special at
terney, Colonel Brown will urge it in
his report.
The state is in a position to build a
new station and make money by the
operation, if the roads will agree to
use it for thirty years.
The roads may hesitate on that point.
It is not a sure thing that the legisla
ture will consider it advisable to build,
but the proposition will be strongly
backed. President Thomas favors this
plan.
In his written statement presented
at Monday’s conference, President
Thomas said that the railroad man
agers are “not only willing, but anxi
ous to build a commodious station,
provided the complications surround
ing the present location can be satis
factorily adjusted.”
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
List of New Industries Established the
Past Week.
The more important of the new
industries reported during the
week October 7 include a bag
ging factory in Texas; brick works in
Alabama; a construction company in
East Tennessee; a cornice works in
Alabama; three cotton mills in North
Carolina; electric light plants in Ala
bama, Tennessee and Virginia; a fur
niture factory in North Carolina: a
handle factory in Alabama; hardware
companies in Georgia and Louisiana;
a heading factory in Tennessee; iron
mines in Alabama; a 875,000 lumber
mill (rebuilt) in East Texas; a knit
ting mill in Alabama; nail works in
North Carolina; a 81.00,000 naval
stores company in Florida; paint
works in Virginia; a sash, door and
blind factory in Alabama; a sugar re
finery in Florida; a 8200,000 tobacco
stemmery in Kentucky; a twine and
plow line mill in North Carolina.—
Tradesman (Chattanooga, Tenn.)
BRYAN MUCH BETTER.
Nebraskan Responds To Inquiry As To
His Condition.
In reply to the telegraphic inquiry
Monday as to his condition, Hon. W.
J. Bryan replied ns follows from Web
ster, la., where he is stopping with
Hou. Fred White, the Democratic can
didate for governor of that state:
“My condition was not serious and I
lam much better today. I expeet to
be able to resume my tour tomorrow.”
Forty Drowned In Floods.
Forty persons are reported as drown
ed, according to a special dispatch from
Naples, by floods following severe
rains, in the province of Salerne. A
number of small villages and factories
have been destroyed.
NO. 15.
I THOUSANDS THEN APPLAUDED
Three Nations Represented—Day
Ended With Great
Banquet.
A Chicago special says: Surround
ed by men who guide the diplomatic
I relations of three governments, and in
the presence of thousands of specta
! tors, President McKinley formally
laid the corner stone of the magnifi
cent new federal building of Chicago
Monday morning. In the angle form
ed by the south and west wings of the
federal building at Jackson boulevard
and Dearborn street, and in front of
the Union League Club, a reviewing
stand had been erected for the accom
modation of tho distinguished visitors,
including Vice President Mariscal and
party, of Mexico; Premier Laurier, of
Canada, and other notables of that
! country; members of President Mc-
Kinley’s cabinet and the diplomatic
■ corps at Washington; senators, con
! gressmen and other invited guests,and
when President McKinley threw the
j first trowel full of mortar under the
j uplifted block of limestone and pro
j nouneed the corner stone set, one of
| the most notable gatherings ever in
' Chicago looked on.
The president received a hearty ova
tion as he drove to the stand. Judge
Christian C. Kohlsaat, chairman of
the committee on ceremonies, intro
duced Secretary of the Treasury Ly
man J. Gage as presiding officer for
the corner stone exercises. The sec
retary was warmly cheered as he
stepped forward. At the conclusion
of Secretary Gage’s brief address,
Rev. Frank Gonzaulus offered a brief
but impressive prayer, the president
I and all the members of his party un
covering as Dr. Gonzaulns asked a
blessing on the ceremony.
The actual ceremonies of tho laying
of the corner stone then began. C. E.
Kremer, of the fedei al committee,
i arose and formally announced that
I the stone was ready, and read the list
lof articles placed within it. President
McKinley was introduced by Secretary
Gage, and as he stepppd forward to
receive the trowel from the hands of
the architect, Henry Ives Cobb, the
crowd burst forth into cheers, the ap
plause not eeasing until the president
raised his hand.
The president then stepped to the
side of the uplifted mass of Illinois
limestone and, taking a trowelful of
mortar from the board, he threw it on
the base of the stone. As he did so a
band stationed in the reviewing stand
played the “Star Spangled Banner,”
and as the notes of the national an
them were heard the crowd broke into
cheers, the noise almost drowning the
music. President McKinley then pro
nounced the stone set and resumed
his seat while the workmen settled the
I stone in its place.
Senator William E. Mason was next
introd*eed and made a brief address
on behalf of the city of Chicago. The
ceremonies concluded with the offer
ing of a benediction by Rev. Dr. Gon
zaulus. President McKinley and
party then arose and were again es
corted across the boulevard to the
Union League Club, where the presi
dent was the guest of the federal com
mittee at luncheon.
Chicago D»y Banquet.
Chicago’s great auditorium, which
has been the scene of so many notablo
events, never had a greater gathering
than Monday night, when the Chicago
Day banquet was held within its walls
under the auspices of the hall festival
committee. The great stage upon
which 1,000 people can easily find
standing room, had been enlarged,
and a great floor built out over the
seats of the parquette, quadrupling
the floor space of the stage.
The balconies were resplendent with
banners, and the coats of arms of ail
tho states in the union, and groupings
of American, British and Mexican
flags adorned an elaborate peace arch.
The president, who was the guest
of honor, sat at a raised table on the
right of Melville E. Stone, the toast
master.