ROOSEVELT IN OHIO.
The Governor of New York at Re
publican Campaign Opening.
A Regular San Jnan Charier I'pon
Democrats, State ami Natlonul
—Republican Principle*
\ ii;or»nll7 Upheld.
The republican ,-»mpaign was in
augurated in Ohio at Akron, Saturday,
September 2!), amidstageneral outpour
ing of the state forces. Gov. Roosevelt
of New York was the principal speaker,
and he spoke in part as follows:
•'I come to speak (o you because we
recognize throughout the nation that the
contest this year in Ohio is not and can
not be anything but a national contest.
It Is idle to say it is local—yes, and worse
than idle—it is dishonest to make such an
assertion where the democratic platform
lays its especial stress upon national is
sues. If a party raises an Issue which it
knows is a false issue, merely for the hope
of carrying an election, then that party
shows in the most striking way that it is
the enemy of the country and unfit to be
intrusted with Its government. If the
spokesmen of a party do not and cannot be
lieve what they say, whether in the way
of denunciation or promise, and especially
if they promise what they know they can
not perform, and what is palpably intend
ed not to result in performance, but in
vote-getting at the moment, then they in
sult the conscience and the intelligence
of every freeman fit to exercise a freeman's
privilege.
"This is just what the democratic party in
Ohio has done at this time, and just what
Its leaders, national and local, from the
top down, are doing when they speak on
expansion, on trusts and on free silver.
It is the sincere belief of all right-minded
men who have the welfare of the nation
close at heart that the position taken by
the Ohio democracy, speaking in reality
for the national democracy in this cam
paign, is one destructive of national pros
perity at home and of national honor
abroad. Moreover, it Is Impossible to avoid
the conviction that their leaders know that
this is true, but are willing to plunge the
country intoany disaster, provided only they
can persuade a sufficient number of dupes
to put them where they can gratify their
greed for office, their thirst for power. I
should not use such language in an or
dinary political contest. I use it now as I
should have used It had I been alive dur
ing the years of the civil war. The men
whom we are now lighting champion a
cause which in its essentials is the same
as that championed by the doughface and
the copperhead 37 years ago. They vote
the war a failure now as they voted it a
failure then. They mouth with hypocrit
ical anxiety about a free press now as
they did then. They attack the nation's
credit and financial honesty now as they
did then; and exactly as in those days
when they struck at an evil they struck at
It insincerely, so they strike insincerely at
any real abuse of the present time, offering
no remedy, standing ready to hamper those
who would really offer one; and when they
propose a remedy it is a measure which
will aggravate ten times whatever of evil
actually exists.
"Th ">• wish to discuss the question of
trusts, an economic question, and of ex
pansion, which is really th* question of up
* . Jlbig abroad the hor.orof the flag and the
t t nl' sts of ! ' l ° nation, and of making us
Vvel to our duties as a world power.
E": mope to avoid much discussion of the
liver stlon—much discussion of t h< ir
advocacy of a dishonest dollar; trusting
that thereby they shall be enabled to say to
the believ rs in free silver that they are
heartily in favor of it, and yet to fool the
men who stand for sound finance by ex
plaining to them that that question is
really relegated to the rear and is not a
live issue. They cannot be both for and
against free silver, and as long as th' y are
for it, it makes no difference whether they
shout or whisper their allegiance. In eitht r
case they would have to turn their words
into acts should they come into power, and
in both cases, therefore, the menace to
* the prosperity of the country and the wel
fare of its citizens is equally great. The
salvation of this country lies to no small
extent in the fact that while the bulk of
our people fully appreciate the importance
of party, and the usefulness of party gov
ernment, yet that they put country above
party. So It was in the c I»'i 1 war, when
the war democrats honored themselves by
standing by their country: and so it will
be now, for we have a right to call upon
all sincere lovers of the flag, upon all be
lievers in national honesty and civil up
rightness, upon all men who wish to
bring about the betterment and uplifting of
the mass of the people, to stand with us
until the heresies for which our opponents
now fight have been relegated to the un
clean dust where they belong.
"Our opponents denounce trusts. Hut
they propose not one remedy that would
not make the situation ten times worse
than at its worst it now Is. I read through
carefully the speeches of Mr. Bryan and of
his fellows to find out what they proposed
to do. I have found plenty of vague de
nunciation. 1 have not found so much as
an attempt to formulate a national policy
of relief. In the democratic platform in
Ohio, just two measures of relief are pro
posed; the first, that you should change
the tariff, because it favors trusts; and
the second, that you should coin silvc-r in
the ratio of sixteen to one without regard
to the action of any other nation. They
pretend that the tariff favors trusts. They
know that the greatest trusts in this coun
try, the Standard Oil and the sugar trusts,
are utterly unaffected by the tariff. They
know well that the trust with which there
is the most widespread and deepest dissat
isfaction, the beef trust, is utterly unaf
fected by the tariff; and in my own state,
one of the largest trusts, the ice trust
(which is said to have as Its most promi
nent member and promoter that ardent
anti-trust champion and advocate of Mr.
Bryan, Mr. Richard Croker), is also wholly
unaffected by the tariff. Six years ago you
were under the kind of tariff to which
they now ask you to return. And you were
suffering from the threat of free coinage—
the threat which thry now revive. Atve the
people of this country so short-sighted that
they forget the miseries of six years ago?
Do they forget ("he bread riots, the pov
erty, the squalid want, even of those able
and anxious to work? Surely the country
has had enough of tariff tinkering by the
opponents of a protective tariff. The sec
ond remedy they propose for trusts is the
free coinage of silver at sixteen to one—
the coinage of a 4S-cent dollar. They
actually propose to the people that, if the
trusts deprive certain men of part of their
earnings, or throw a certain body of men
out of employment, this shall be remedied
by decreeing that the men who still have
employment shall be paid IS cents on the
dollar for the work they do.
"The utter unsettlement of values con
sequent upon a complete upsetting of our
financial system would give a great oppor
tunity for gain to every unscrupulous spec
ulator in the country, and probably the peo
ple who would suffer the least from It
would be the very people who by combina
tion have created the greatest trusts. The
big capitalist, a large share of whose ex
penses takes th<- 'orm of wages, would be
compensated to some extent for his losses
in otner directions by the shrinking of
the amount he would have to pay out for
wages; but the man who received these
wages would not be compensated in any
way. If the wage-workers act with wisdom
and with forethought, if they show far
sighted prudence in their combinations, in
dustrial and political, their ultimate wel
fare Is assured. In the long run only the
American workingman can hurt himself.
Whatever is really for Ms welfare, for his
permanent and ultimate welfare, Is for the
welfare of the community. And of all
ways most surely to Interfere with his
material welfare, tampering with the cur
rency In which he is paid is the surest. The
banker, the manufacturer, the rich mer
chant, the land owner, could get along
after a fashion under the scourge of free
coinage, liut the laboring man could not.
The laboring man would go down to the
level where you find them in countries where
silver Is the standard metal. The two rem
edies our opponents propose—altering tlie
tariff and debasing the currency— could
have no possible effect in abating the evils
of the trusts and could hurt those who profit
by the trust only to the extent that they hurt
every member of the American business
community, from the capitalist to the day
laborer. For a number of years the dem
ocratic party has posed as the especial
enemy of corporate wealth, and in its plat
forms has denounced monopolies, trusts,
rich corporations and the like, and bid
strongly for the vote of the working man.
Yet during the time that the democrats
wire in power not one effective law was put
upon the statute books to carry out the
threats they made. We came in bent upon
doing what in us lay to lighten to some ex
tent the burden of injustice, to make con
ditions a little fairer, a little more equal.
The inheritance tax, the corporation tax,
the franchise tax. are one and all our handi
work. They represent the first great at
tempt that has been made in New York
state to meet the new conditions caused by
the upgrowing of great corporations, the
exploitation of municipal franchises, in
each instance, and especially in passing
the franchise tax, we had to face the op
position of thf great and wealthy corpora
tions. We disregarded their opposition, be
cause we thought them wrong, just as fear
lessly as we would have championed them,
if we had thought them right.
"We abolished the contract labor system:
we established inspection of factories and
the bureau of labor statistics; the eight
hour law; the law providing for the aboli
tion of sweat-shops—in short, every labor
measure has been initiated and put
through by us. The board of mediation
and arbitration has for the first time be
come a live factor In the settlement of la
bor trouble; sweat shops are controlled;
the eight-hour law Is enforced. In our
state convicts do not compete with free
labor, and the bureau of labor statistics
and factory inspectors' department work
practically hand in hand with the foremost
representatives of the wage-workers, to do
all that can be done in the interests of
labor. What is true of New York is true
of the rest of the country, and what is true
of labor legislation and of the control of
corporations, will be true of trusts. \\ e seek
to ameliorate and curb abuses and not to
destroy what may be useful. Our oppo
nents take refuge in destruction only, and
not a few of the laws they propose against
trusts, if put on statutfc books, would de
stroy the right of labor unions to exist, or
of small tradesmen or farmers to band to
gether. We shall do all in our power to
destroy anything that upholds monopoly;
that artificially lowers wages, or artificially
increases prices, or puts It in the hands
of one man, or one set of men, to become
absolute in any branch of business.
"Our opponents through the nation, and
in particular here in Ohio, propose as a
method of attacking trusts to meddle with
the tariff, which would mean economic dls
aster to the masses, and to debase the coin
age, which in addition to even more fright
ful economic disaster,' would mean na
tional dishonor. When they come to the
second plank in their platform, the ques
tion of expansion, they advocate the dis
honor of the American arms, and the trail
ing of the American flag in the dust. They
place themselves outside the rank of prop
er party opponents and make themselves
merely the enemies of the nation as a whole,
as already by their action on the currency
they have shown themselves to be the en
emies of honesty within the nation. The
other day Ohio sent to New York a prophet
of .Mr. Bryan's new dispensation in the
shape of ex-Congressman Lentz, who di
vided his time between fervent hopes for
the success of Aguinaldo, and, therefore,
for the ruin of the American army in the
Philippines, and the lirmly expressed con
viction that the mantle of Washington and
of Lincoln had fallen upon the shoulders of
ex-Oov. A Itgeld. Truly, >lr. Bryan's new
dispensation begins with a queer cata
logue of saints, when they canonize Agui
naldo as a hero and Altgeld as a sage.
The combination is entirely appropriate.
Those who would encourage anarchy at
home most naturally strike hands with
the enemies of our country abroad. The
friend of the bomb thrower and his apol
ogists are doing what is fit and meet when
they strike hands across the seas with those
who are lighting our soldiers in foreign
lands. Fundamentally the causes which
they champion are the same. The step
encouraging the assassination of theguard
lans of the law at home, to the aiding and
abetting of the shooting down of our sol
diers abroad, Is but a short one; and it
matters little whether the encouragement
be given by the exercise of the pardoning
power, by raving speeches upon the plat
form, or by the circulation of silly docu
ments composed by men too feeble to ac
complish the mischief they design.
"Make no mistake. In the Philippines we
are at open war with an enemy who must
be put down, it is absolutely impossible to
save our honor except through victory;
and it is equally impossible to win peace,
to restore order in the islands, or to pre
pare the way for self-government there,
save through victory. People tell you that
the Filipinos are fighting for independence.
This was exactly what the copperheads of
lhUl said of the confederates. Here in Ohio
Vallandingham ran on the issue that
the war was a failure, and that the inde
pendence of the southern states should be
acknowledged. The feeble Vallandlnghams
of to-day take the same positiun, and if
Ohio is true to the great memories of her
past, she will give the same answer now
that she gave then. No man can hesitate
in this struggle and ever afterwards call
himself a true American and true patriot.
He must stand by the flag. He must uphold
the honor and the interest of the nation
and the only way in which he can stand
by the one, and uphold the other, is to over
whelm the party that assails both.
"Two facts must be emphasized: First,
that out of the present situation the only
honorable and humane way is to put down
armed resistance in the Philippines, and
to establish a government of orderly justice;
and, in the second place, that this situation
inevitably arose out of the war, and could
not have been avoided save by shameful
conduct on our part. You will meet short
sighted people who say that Dewey, after
sinking the Spanish fleet, should have sailed
away from Manila bay. Of course, such
conduct was impossible. It is not too much
to say that such conduct would have been
infamous. Either the islands would have
been left to their own fate, had such a
course been followed, irt which case a series
of bloody massacres would have tak« n
place, and the war between the Spaniard*
and the Filipinos would have dragged
along its wretched length until some out
side interference took place; or else, what
is more probable, as Dewey's fleet sailed
out the fleet of some European power would
have sailed in, and we should have had th«
keen mortification of seeing the task which
we shrank from begun by some nation
which did not distrust its own prowess,
which had the courage to dare to be treat.
Dewey had to stay and we had to finish th♦
job we had begun. The talk about the
Filipinos having practically achieved their
independence is, of course, the veriest non
sense. who has turned against
U3, owed his return to the islands to us.
It was our troops, and not the Filipinos,
who conquered the Spaniards, and as a
consequence is was to us the islands fell,
and we .shall show ourselves not merely
weaklings unlit to take our place among
the great nations of the world, but traitors
to the cause of the advancement of man
kind, if we flinch from doing aright the
task which destiny has intrusted to our
hands. We have no more right to leuvr
the Filipinos to butch, r one another and
sink slowly back into savag- ry than wo
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1899
would have the right, In an excess of senti
mentality, to declare the Sioux and Apaches
frte to expel all white settlers from the
lands they once held. The Filipinos offer
excellent material for the £uture; with our
aid they may be brought up to the level
of self-government; but at present they
cannot stand alone for any length of
time.
"A weak nation can be pardoned for giv
ing up a work which It does badly: but a
strong nation cannot be pardoned for
flinching from a great work, because for
sooth there are attendant difficulties and
hardships. The century which is just clos
ing has seer. •rkat the century which is
opening will sure also see—vast strides In
civilization, the result of the conquest of
the world's waste places, the result of the
expansion of the great, masterful, ruling
races of the world.
"Our opponents are fighting against the
stars in their courses, for they are striv
ing to bring dishonor upon the American
republic. They can qualify, reline, differ
entiate and differ all they wish, but funda
mentally their attitude is the attitude of
hostility to the flag, and hostility to our
sailors and soldiers, of hostility to the
greatness of the nation —the greatness of
the race. The other day in New York a
democratic club started to call Itself the
Dewey club, and had to abandon the name,
because the members quarreled so among
themselves—half of them repudiating
Dewey because he was an expansionist.
Think of it. They dared not call them
selves after the greatest hero, military or
naval, whom we have produced since the
civil war, because they were not loyal to
the policy for which the hero stood, to
the policy which he has done so much to
put into effect.
•'.My fellow citizens, this contest of yours
in Ohio is no mere state contest. It is a
national contest. Our opponents are light
ing on national ground. They take their
stand In favor of economic unrest, of finan
cial dishonesty and of national dishonor.
We take up the glove that they throw
down. We meet them on every point. We
stand for a continuation of the conditions
which have brought prosperity to us. We
stand for an intelligent effort to wipe out
any wrong that many arise without sub
stituting a ten-fold greater evil. Finally,
we stand for upholding the traditional
American policy of defending the honor
of the American people in the face of any
foreign foe, and of giving free outlet to the
vigorous and abounding strength of the
nation. If we flinch from doing our task
in the face of the nations, if we flee from
the Philippines, we shall have written a
shameful page in the history of our coun
try, a page which our sons and grandsons
will read with bowed head. I verily be
lieve that the shame and anger such action
would arouse in our bosoms would force
us in a few brief years again to tread the
path upon which we have now entered: only
the delay would Increase beyond measure
the difficulty and danger. We cannot shrink
from doing the task allotted to us, unless
we are content to see it done by stronger
hands, and admit that we are not in the first
rank of nations. Surely no American
worthy the name will muke such an ad
mission. In the present crisis we appeal
not merely to party, but beyond party; we.
appeal to all good citizens, to ail patriotic
Americans, to stand with us, as we uphold
financial integrity and the conditions which
make for material prosperity at home, as
we uphold the honor of the llag and the
interests of the nation abroad."
POLITICS AND CROPS.
Farmers Are Not I.onliik Any Time
llelvatliilK the Sim of the
Money Power.
Tlic prospect of a good average wheat
crop in this country is supplemented
by it propitious outlook for corn. It
is assumed that there will be, all fold,
a 2,000,000, 000-bushel crop of corn, a
total which lias only been reached lour
times in the history of American agri
culture. A scarcity of wheat abroad
will help sell corn at good prices, par
ticularly for export. As usual, Kan
sas and Nebraska are near the head of
the list as producers, the former with
an estimated yield of 400,000,000 bush
els, and the latter with .150,000,000.
There is some danger that the output
will be lessened by bad weather, but
not much, and the farmers are looking
forward with as great confidence to
good luck with corn as they are with
wheat.
It docs not often happen that large
crops are synonymous with big prof
its or that the farmers are able to get
their full share at any time of general
prosperity; but the rule has been
steadily reversed since the summer of
1897. Big crops have happened to come
just in time to meet a bigger cash de
mand, and the prosperity which now
floods the country reached the farm
ers first. Moreover, it is staying with
them, a fact which accounts, among
other things, for the almost utter ab
sence in the middle west of political
interest. When times were bad there
was more politics than wheat or corn
to the acre of inhabited soil; now it
is impossible even tot Bryan to raise
a crowd which will more than pay ex
penses in gate money. Nothing fails
so soon iii the middle west as a populist
newspaper; nothing excites less notice
than a populist orator. The farmers,
instead of bewailing the sins of the
money power, are lifting mortgages
and buying pianos and otherwise com
porting themselves like people in rising
fortunes. When they vote it will be
to let well enough alone, for who more
than they realizes the part which a re
vived manufacturing industry is play
ing in the demand for their commodi
ties? But they are not going to get
excited about it all. They have too
much to occupy their minds already.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
ITT 1 In one way only can the democrat
ic party elect the next president. This
is bv nominati.iga man for whom every
democrat will vote. No man now con
spicuous as a possible democratic can
didate meets this requirement, for
everyone, however admirable other
wise. is part of some grand scheme or
is committed to the propagation of some
theory upon is irreconcila
ble party division.—N. Y. World (Dem.).
tcSo' far the president's Philippine
policy is concerned, the issue is thus
clearly drawn in Ohio, and the repub
licans stanil by their guns ready to
fight it out on that line, rejoicing in
the able manner with which the secre
tary of state lias opened up the heavy
cannonading, to the eternal discom
fiture of the democratic hosts.—Cincin
nati Commercial Tribune.
VJ William .1. Bryan is very lavish
with his speeches on trusts btcause he
is anxious that the democracy take him
on trust for the next campaign.—ln
dianapolis Journal.
THE SHAMROCK IN DR ( DOCK-
The < up < liallenger's Lille* are In*
iiprrlril by 1 m liuiurn and Tliry are
Dlaappoiuli-d.
New York, Sept. ES. —The Shamrock
was yesterday safely drydocked at
lirie basin. There was no attempt to
hide the lines of the yacht lroni view.
The yard was open to the public until
night and hundreds of yachtsmen
stood for hours while the water was
being pumped out, that they might
get a look at the under body and keel
of the yacht.
In the morning her crew were put
to work scraping off the green paint
that covered her top sides, exposing
♦he metal underneath. Just what
metal these two upper streaks of
plates are composed of is a secret,
but it looks much like a composition
of aluminum and nickel, very light and
ut the same time very strong.
The Shamrock is a powerful craft
with Iter greatest beam about where
the masthead runners fasten to the
deck. The under body, which is of
bronze was covered with slime which
came oil readily with a vigorous appli
cation of salt water and brushes, leav
ing tlx* plates shiny and smooth. Wlven
tiic hull and keel were fully exposed
there were expressions of disappoint
ment on all sides. The experts ex
pected to see something new and a
radical departure from the old type
of Knglish cutter. The Shamrock tan
be described as a vessel with a lirit
tania body and a Pefender lin and lead,
including the hitter's r,oeker keel, but
with greater draught than either.
There is nothing particularly hand
some about the cutter's lines except
that they are nil curves.
In comparison with the Columbia
the Shamrock is fuller bodied, especial
ly amidships, has about a foot more
beam and a draft about ten inches
greater. Her over-liangs are shorter,
so the lines of her hull are not so well
carried out as in the Columbia, and be
ing short increase the look of btiili:i
ness. Then she is higher sided than
the cup defender. The lead on the
keel weighs about 15 tons less than
the Columbia's or about SO tons,
but as it is about five feet longer than
the latter, or about 33 feet and not
nearly so deep, it puts Ihe ballast low
er and therefore gives the Shamrock
fully iis much if not greater stability.
The Shamrock carries more sail than
the Columbia.
INSURGENTS ARE DARING.
Tliey I'reacli Hevolt Hlglit I'nder tlie
>o»e» ol American 'I roup*.
Manila, Sept. 28.—The insurgents are
trying to incite the natives of Mala
bon, a city of 30,000 inhabitants, live
miles from Manila, to raise against the
American garrison. Capt. Allen ha.»
been holding the place with two com
panies of infantry, but on account of
the lined of all the available men at
the front, his force has been reduced
to 70 men. They now remain near
the big church, where they are quar
tered, being too few in number to at
tempt to patrol the town. Armed
parties of insurgents recently disem
barked from cascoes during the night,
collected money for the insurrection
and preached revolt.
Mnlabon has been made the shipping
point whence provisions and other
suni' are brought irom Manila by
trains and shipped into the hostile ter
ritory. The insurgents seem to be
trying to make their good treatment
of the American prisoners a card by
which to gain outside sympathy. Two
Englishmen who have arrived here
from Tarlae report that the Americans
are treated more like guests than pris
oners. They are fed on the best that
the country affords and everything in
done to gain their favor. A Filipino
paper says that on the occasion of <i
recent fete at Vittoria, in celebration
of a mythical Filipino victory, the
American prisoners there were given
the freedom of the town and five pesos
each with which to celebrate the "vic
tory."
WAS BORN IN CHICAGO.
Mew Temperance Society Come* Into
ICxlatence—lt» Alius Outlined.
Chicago, Sept. 28.—A new temper
ance society, the Young People's Chris
tian Temperance union, came into be
ing yesterday in Willard hall. It had
a somewhat anarchistic birth. The
delegate from Missouri, William K.
ileeine, of Kansas City, advocated 'he
use of dynamite in spreading temper
ance doctrines by blowing up distil
leries and breweries, declaring that
violence would furnish the only means
by which the new society could accom
plish its purpose.
The other delegates did not agree
with the delegate from Missouri and
there were decided declarations
against the proposition.
The const itutirn pledges the newly
formed society to the project o| secur
ing 1.000.000 votes for th<» prohibition
party and of collecting- $1,000,000, or
more if necessary, to save the woman's
temple.
■ latiiua Striker* ■•'all.
Havana, Sept 28. —In consequence
of the proclamation of Gen. Ludlow
the backbone of the strike is broken.
The men lost their beafinsrs, owing lo
their inability to hold meetings. Some
struck, but. others remained uncertain.
The military authorities arrested 21
men. There is a general desire to re
turn to work and yesterday the lea
ders notified Mayor Lacoste Ihat they
would sign a proclamation urging the
men to resume their usual avocations
and acknowledge the strike was a com
plete failure.
.MacVeiurli I'leatl* lor tarter.
Washington, Sept. 2S. —Attorney
General Griggs yesterday gave ;i hear
ing to Hon. Wayne MacVeigh, counsel
in the court-martial case of Cnpt. 1,.
M. Carter, of the army. Mr. Mas-
Veigli nsked for a judicial hearing in
the case, saving that if the president
affirmed the proceedings he would be
guilty of an act of great cruelty and
wrong. The record was, he contend
ed, so saturated with errors of law
that it is impossible in a country gov
erned by law to affirm the finding. Mr.
MacVeigh also denied that the finding
ol the court had been unanimous,
SIIPIBJSPLAY.
Majestic Parade of Warships
and Other Craft
A CONTINUOUS OVATION.
Shores of North River Resound
with Roars of Welcome.
MILLIONS SAW THE PAGEANT
Tlie I'lrnt Day of the llcwry Celebra
tion at Sew York na< a Kerord
Breaker ill I'oliit of KuthiiManiii and
Size ol the 112 row do (hat I'arllcipaled.
New York, Sept. 30.—N0 Roman con
queror returning to his triumph of bar
baric splendor; no victorious king or
prince coming home from a successful
svar ever received such a magnificent
ovation as overwhelmed Admiral Dew
ey yesterday as he stood on the bridge
of the Olympia at the head of a mag
nificent fleet of steel thunderers of the
deep, followed by a thousand vessels
of peace, each black with people, and
sailed over the water of the epper bay
and up the broad pathway of the sun
lit river, whose banks were gay with
millions of flags and streamers danc
ing in the wind. The sky was blue,
the water rippled under the wind that
held out flags straight and jaunty, and
the wharves, piers, rocky heights and
grassy knolls were black with frantic,
enthusiastic people, strivee. weak
ly to make their shouts heard above
the perfect bedlam of tooting whistles
that accompanied the admiral ashore
»nd afloat.
As the tomb of Grant on Riverside
tri ve was reached the fleet paid its
tribute to the memorj of the great
warrior with a national salute of 21
2ftms. The fleet then Jtnehored find
reviewed the almost endless proces
sion of crafts that steamed past, all
»o burdened with humanity that they
looked as if they would turn turtle be
fore they got back to their piers. To
jiard the end the parade became disor
ganized and it took hours for the flotil
la to get by. Darkness at. last brought
relief to the tired admiral who had
stood on the bridge for six hours bow
,ng his acknowledgements to the sten
torian expression of homage.
New York has never witnessed be
fore anything approaching this won-
Serful,remarkable demonstration. The
Columbian naval parade, the dedication
)f Grant's tomb and the reception of
the North Atlantic squadron last fall,
ill pale before this gigantic ovation
the sailor who in a single morning
lestroved an enemy's fleet without the
loss of a man or a ship. It is not
beyond the mark to say that 3,000,000
people viewed the pageant from shore
and that a quarter of a million were
illoat.
When the parade began Ihe Olym
pia's speed cones climbed to her yards
is thecruiser gotunder way. The other
vessels slowly turned toward the Nar
rows and then headed back up the
harbor toward the Battery, the Olym
pia escorted by the mayor's boat in
the lead. Baclc of her came the New
York, then the Indiana and Massachu
setts, the Brooklyn, the Texas, the
Dolphin, the Lancaster, a relic of an
atlicr naval age; the Chicago and final
ly the little Marietta, the rear guard
r»f the fighting crafts. Behind
stretched the transports and further
still, almost lost in the distance, the
yachts and miscellaneous crafts. The
evolution began at 1 o'clock and in 15
minutes the fighting line was straight
ened out. Admiral Dewey was going
to his own at the head of a squadron"
that would have won three battles of
Manila bay without stopping for break
fast.
The head of the column was a broad
arrow. Six torpedo boats spread out
as the barb, three on a side from the
Olympia's quarter. Outside of them
a flying wedge of police patrol boats
formed a great V, whose apex was the
Olympia. Planking them, ahead and
astern, were the harbor fire boats,
spouting great columns of water that
turned threateningly toward the ex
cursion boats on either side when they
attempted to crowd the line of march.
But the pageant hack of this powerful
vanguard was not limited to a single
nor to a sextuple line of ships. I*
was a sinuous marine monster, half a
mile wide, whose vertebrae were the
ships of the white squadron and whose
ribs were rows upon rows of every
sort of floating thing.
I'p the Hudson pandemonium
reigned supreme. Aerial bombs broke
at intervals overhead in puffs of white
smoke and a feathery canopy of
steam hung over the advancing fleet as
hundreds of steam whistles screamed
continually. Storm clouds that had
gathered down the bay followed close
in the pageant's wake. A sharp wind
bred white caps in the river and a few
rain drops pattered on the decks. The
glare of an angry sky turned the har
bor behind the warships to molten
lead, upon which the gigantic ligitre
of Liberty seemed to stand for a time
and was soon swallowed up in a bank
of gray haze. Then the threatening
sky relented. The sun broke out
ahead and painted across the clouds a
rainbow arch that stretched from Man.
hattan to the .Jersey shore. It seemed
a bit of nature's art work spread by a
kindly miracle at the opportune mo
ment. beggaring man's humble efforts
on shore, but forming a fitting arch
of triumph beneath which the victor
ious admiral sailed to his anchorage.
The old Portsmouth's crew manner.
the rigging as the Olympia passed, and
off Grant's tomb the naval reserves on
the St. Mary did the same. Routrj
•he stake boat the Olyiupia turned
smartly, her guns throbbing a salut*
to the resting place of another national
hero. The other vessels of the white
squadron swung around the St. Mary
in turn, each saluting the tomb. 'J'lie
Olympia and her consorts dropped an
chor and the water pageant passed the
admiral in review.
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