Show I CALIFORNIAS IVEUCOMs I If President McKinley and his party live another week they will have stamped on their brains for all time to come what Is meant when the Golden State the land of flowers I Is i spoken of When It comes to doIng do-Ing the grand all other States are like thc hOrses that ran against old Eclipse Before his great race his owner said that when the horses started he would name the position of every one at tho outcome for r 6 i lj 2 He vas overwhelmed with takers but when tho horses started and he was called upon to name their positions he said Eclipse first the rest nowhere and ho won the rest SomeIentcldans were all distanced Some were told here when they were going through to the celebration o the Knights Templars in San Francisco twelve or l fifteen years ago that they would meet wjth a hospitality In Calj n nl < n I LorLIIu IIIUL wuiiiu uotvin311 uwi torUIi liL WULIU 1 Kentuckians They would not believe It They drlftedback one by one and one of them said to n friend In Ogden as they passed through We give It I up We have champagne In bottles I and baskets In Kentucky but we do t I not have It running in the gutters The only satisfaction that we have is 1 that we believe we broke those fellows over there for two years to cp 1e1 We suspect the President never b fore had the streets through which he passed laid with n carpet of flowers with flowers to right of him flowers to left of him flowers In front of him flowers overhead flowers everywhere every-where And then the flowers reflect 1 the hearts of the people They never do anything on a reasonable plan What with otlTcr people lso luxury with them Is a matter of course The President has lived through the Spanish Span-ish war and the Philippine war and all sqrts of criticisms He has borne the speeches of Sultzer and Lentz In Congress the cartoons and the charting of n malicious press and retained re-tained his health The chances are however that when he passes out of California he will have to go into dry dock for repairs There Is no other coast Dike the Golden coast Bal boa saw the Pacific from the mountaintops mountain-tops of Darien Unless the President I Is very careful when he looks out upon lit he will see two oceans |