Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1889 — THE PRESIDENT. [ARTICLE]

THE PRESIDENT.

H« b Wmlj OrMltd (Thirmr Ha ApI. pours—HU Trip. . President Harrison's trip to Indianapolis was a succession of ovations: Ho arrived •t Cincinnati at Id a. m., Tuesday. There Were crowds at all the stations Which his {train passed, and when stops were made jhis appearance waa received with prolonged cheering. T<k streets of Cincinj nati were packed with enthusiastic people, I *nd the President was kept busy acknowledging the greetings from every side. He j occupied a carriage with Governor Fora- | ker. He was conveyed to the Burnett | House and for three-quarters of an hour I held a reception, during which many hundreds of people grasped his hand. Mayor Mosby made a brief welcoming address, to which the President responded: “Mr. Mayor—l thank you, and the pebple of Cincinnati, for whom you speak, for this friendly welcome. It would be pleasing to me to speak of the recollections which 1 your remarks and this city recalls. But there is neither time nor opportunity for ! that Cincinnati, however, more than any j other city of its class in the country,seems to me to be the home city.” He was then driven re the Builders’ Exchange. He responded to another address of welcome as follows: “I have laid upon myself the innovation of avoiding public speaking on this trip; but I can not refrain a word in appreciation of your kindness. I rejoice in the prosperity and development of your great city, and hope it will always be a city of prosperity and happy homes, whether rich or poor.” He was then conveyed to the Chamber of Commerce, and a reception lasting an hour j was held. The President responded as follows to the address of welcome: “Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen—- , The figures which your speaker has used in his address quite overcome me. The suggestions and phrases bring to my mind many pleasant recollections. It was here at your crowded wharves and where floated great palaces upon the waters, I had my first glimpse of a great city. To me, a country boy, it was a wonderful sight. Some of my earlier professional days were Bpent here under the guidance of Bellamy Storer. Although but comparatively little of my later life ha 3 been spent in your city yet I feel that in your welcome to-day you not only welcome me as an officer of the Nation, but as a neighbor. I appreciate the fact that I see before me not only representatives in business, but loyal supporters of our great Union. I thank you.” At 4:31) the President’s departure from the Burnett House was the occasion for renewed applause. It was started by the spectators in the corridor, who saw the President kiss a wee tot of a child in its mother’s anus as he was coming down the stairway. This touch of nature seemed to deepen the applause, which grew from hand-clapping to cheers, and was taken np by the crowd on the street as the President entered his carriage and drove away, accompanied by the Indianapolis committee of invitation and by members of the Cincinnati committee. The Indianapolis committee, which arrived in the afternoon, was made up of Governor A P. Hovey. Mayor C. S. Denny, Hon. E. B. Martindale. Albert Gall, Judge L. C. Walker, Gen. Geo, F. McGinnis, John P. Frenzel, Hon. W. H. English, J. A. Wildman, R. S. .McKee, Dr. H. Jameson, Wm. Scott and Geo. G. Tanner. There was a brisk drive to the Cincinnati, Hamilton Sc Dayton depot, where the special train ordered by that road was in waiting. At 5 o'clock the train started. At that moment the ‘President appeared at the 'rear platform and a hout arose until the train was out of sight t was a cheering send off after a happy ,visit from the chief magistrate of the Nation, and a good lesson in patriotism to the many children who crowded about to see end hem* it. At Hamilton 500 or 600 people were willing and anxious to shake the President’s hand. At Oxford the President’s car was at once surrounded by what seemed to be the total population of the little city. As soon as the cheering had ceased, the President was led to platform at the side of the depot, where Mayor Denby read a brief address, reciting the facta that in Oxford the President had acquired both his education and his wife; that Oxford had always felt the keenest interest in his career in both war and peace, and was now happy to greet him as President of the Republic, and proud of the honor he conferred upon the town in making a stop, brief though his stay might be. In reply, the President said: “I can not hope that many of whom I knew in my school-boy days are here now. To them, if there be any, and to you who continue to live in this beautiful college town, I give my sincere thanks for this hearty greeting. It is not possible or proper that at this time I should attempt to speak upon any theme. You will therefore permit me to again return my sincere thanks and to bid you good bye.” The hamlet of College Corners, on the State line, Was reached at 6:29, and the inhabitants were found assembled in full force at the station. Rev. Mr. Black, mounted upon a store box, awaited the coming of the President’s car, and as soon as it arrived gave him a hearty welcome to the town, and, pointing to an ancient carry all at hi* side, announced that they had there a carriage in which his grandfather, of beloved memory, rode in 1840, and if he would only take the time they would also give him a ride in it. The President thanked him with a smite, gracefully declined the proffered offer, and continued: “I am much obliged to yen mid this audidicnce for this hearty greeting. 1 am not unfamiliar with these College Corners. This town was often the objective point of those boyish rides I used to take with companions of my college days at Oxford. It gives me pleasure to cross the line into my own State, which has been so loyal and kind to mo always, and it gives me pleasure to look into the faces of its happy and prasteron* people to-night.” When the President returned to the car; Governor Hovey welcomed him to the State In the following words: Mr. President—As Governor of the State , of Indiana, I take pleasure, and have the weloeme you, a* President, to your own fiUta, a State that has honored

you heretofore, sad la ready to do so hens after. You will meet in it thousands of men who will greet you with the exclamation, “Well done!” President Harrison replied: ‘‘l thank theJGovemor for this 1 irger welcome, extended, as Governor, on the pail of the people of the whoieState. You have well said that the people of Indiana have bean kind to me, and if, when my pub’ie career is ended, I can return te yuu, too happy possessor of your inspect sad good will, I shall not leave public office w'.ih t - gret.” At Liberty, C. W. Stivers, Eaq., delivered a warm welcoming address, and the President said ia response. * Ur. Stivers and Fellow Citizens:—l have In the main successfully resisted, n>t o ily upon this trip, bat also during in;/ recent trip to the New England states, the suggestion often made to me that I should make a public address. I beg you will excuse me this' evening from saying more than that I do very deeply feel this eahiest and hearty welcome which you extend upon my return to Indiana. I left you to assume the duties of the presidential office with a very deep sense of the responsibility attached to it, which has not b :cn lessened by theso months of experience. I am sure I have u >t been aide to avoid some disappointment. I could not hope to do this, and yet I hope I may come to j .r.: with the consciousness that whatever ha* been Slack you will forgive, and that n thing has happened to create in your minds 1.0 ibt of my sincere purpose to subserve tne general good of tho Amaricau people ana to uphold as I may the honor and .dignity of tiie United States. AtConnresville he said: I desire to thank you for this cordial welcome to Coanersville. I have many times visited your city, and have always been kindly received by your people. Among your citizens are many who have always been my warm friends. I thank them for their kindness to me, and would acknowledge again this kindly welcome you ha re given me. Secretary Rusk aho spoke: Follow Citizens--! must refrain from miking a speech and h t ro only this to say to you, that I feel bighlj honored to accompany your groat citizen, who is now at the head or the national government, to thi3gra.i i and iiobia - State of Indiana. Gov. Hovey sak|: Ladies and Gentlemen—l am very proud tobeat'leto meet you again, and return thanks'’or former favora. lam also proud to accompany the . President to his home, and hope we shall see you all there to-mor-row at the laying of the corner stone of the monument to Indiana’s soldier dead. An immense crowd had gathered at Rushvilie and a large crowd at Morristown, but no speeches were made. A vote of thanks was adopted to tho C. H. & D. R. R. forth® courtesies of the trip. The Presidential party arrived at Indianapolis at 9:30 p. m., and was greeted by thronged thousands. Tae President was conveyed through tha c leering humanity nortkon Illinois street, east on Washington ananorth on Pennsylvania street to the New Denison Hotel. Gao. G. Tanner, President of the Board of Trade, and James R. Carnahan, on behalf of the State Monument Commissioners, delivered addresses of welcome. The President replied as follows: “Gentlemen of tho Committee and Friends—l scarcely know how to convey to you the deep impression which this cordia) welcome back to Indianapolis has mado upon my heart. I can not hope to do so. 1 have been deeply touched with this generous greeting. It was not my expectation when 1 parted with you under so serious a sense of official responsibilities to be assumed, to return again so soon to my home, but this occasion was one from which I felt I could not be absent It seems to me that it will enlist, aud has already enlisted, to A degree that nothing else has done in many years in our State, the patriotic interest and the State pride of Indiana. It is as General Carnahan has said that I felt so early interest in this movement. I fed that, until this monument was built—until its top stone was laid, and until its voica was heard by the people of this State in expressive speech—we should not hav® paid that tribute to the dead which we owed them; that we were neglecting those who had died for us. “I am glad to be with yon; glad to be present to see this monument started for hs stately pinnacle, and I shall hope to be with you when the cap-stone is laid, and with reverend rejoicings aud pride we may hail the work which this commission has so wisely and so magnificently inaugurated.”J On Wednesday he held a reception at the hotel from 10 to 11 a. m., and after that carried out the programme arranged in the comer stone ceremonies. The presidential party consisted of tha President, Secretary Rusk, Attorney General Miller, Wm. M. Meredith, Thos. A. Morgan, Private Secretary Halford and Dan. M. RonsdelL