Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1899 — NATION’S GREETING TO DEWEY. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NATION’S GREETING TO DEWEY.

Features es the Reception to the Manila' Here In W«ahH»«toti. The central Idea underlying the grand welcome to be given Admiral Dewey la Washington the first week la October Is Its national character. His arrival at the Capital will mark his real home-coming to the Amer people, where the officials of the Government will participate, and the magnificently jeweled sword voted by Congress will be presented. To that end all the arrangements will bo of a simple but most dignified character. The Welcome To the hero of Manila at the National Capital will probably

occur on Monday, Oct. 2, although the date Will depend upon the length of the celebration In New Yoak, which la still unsettled. The principal features of the reception In Washington, aa planned by the citizens, with the so operation of the President and Cabinet, ylllbe two In number—the presentation of the sword voted py Congress and a night parade. A public reception at the White House will be followed by dinner to the Admiral by Eresldent McKinley. The Aword will j>e presented by Secretary Long, at the cast front of the Capitol, In the pretence of Mr. McKinley and all the members of the Cabinet, late In the afternoon, while the parade, consisting of organizations of /ill kinds, win be accompanied by an Illumination of the city on a scale of beanty never before witnessed In Washington. •The different features of tha preparations are in the bands of a centra' body of citizens and eleven committees, embracing in all over a thousand people. Preparations for the celebration hare been In hand for over a month. The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and other railroads entering Washington have agreed npon cheap rates for the celebration, and the committee expects that there will be an outpouring of patriotic citizens almost equal to the Inauguration of a President.

SWORD VOTED BY CONGRESS TO DEWEY.