| Show ai ii sotar judge ID ellett dies in the tho stand while 11 AILING 1 THE 1 PARTY 0 the patriotic speech before his death AT NASHVILLE TENN the residential presidential party actually got lot left 3 great crowd crowds gather to see the pats rats ing lag train the usual grand demonstrations associated arem to the IlE HERA ItALD LI THE SOUTHERN hOUT HERX 11 the president will be th the gaet of general jackson oct 15 judge 11 II C ellett who made the welcoming address to the president here tins this morning died on the stand before the ceremonies were over the tragic incident occurred ju just 4 as tho the president closed hie ilia remarks in response to the judges weh heliome ome though the day was n as not uncomfortably aarm tile spot in the center of court square quire where the speakers stand had been erected was an exposed one and judge i elliott who juda stood for a time with his m hat coffas the president was vv as speaking sat pat down dow naiia and vias is coon soon ov overcome by the heat ir dr bryant br ant of the presidential party took direction of affairs and remained with the unfortunate gentleman while bite tile president was escorted to the cotton and exchange judge elliott died five minutes after the tile president left tile receiving stand the fact was studiously kept from the president judge ellett was a courtl courtly y gettleman of high local repute and the address which was as not alone for memphis emphis but buffor forthe the whole hole south sout hwass a memorable one the presidents reply was as equally can illy notable the other aspects of the occasion had h id combined to make 1 tho tile affair extraordinary in in all respects the du decorators decora tons visible everywhere were more elaborate and general than th those 80 of any puce place yet et visited by tile president tile possible exe exception of madison adison INI and it was remarked remark ZI that twice in ice as many people were on tho the as had cei ever been been seen before in memphis judge ellett first presented mr cleveland with mith the symbolical freedom of the city then addressing the president ho he continued eloquently elo quent ly you hao have recently participated he said in a celebration of the ono one hundredth hun dreth anniversary of the formation of tho tile of tile united states and ou have beheld multitudes of our fellow countrymen flocking flock in g from every direction to the where that instrument was fashioned and renewing their os ons of reality at the shrine brine of thit that grandest monument of heinan wisdom let sir that tho the southern heart beart was full of sympathy with that interesting occasion and I 1 that hat nowhere 0 in in all this aroid bro ad 1 ind land 1 w ill 5 ou on find more lo 10 loyalty ally to the cou ution of the united states and to the government t treated by it than among the people of the southern states the differences of opinion aa am to its true theory and proper construction st in somo PO points ints existed from its very creation and tile controversy tro versy has often been angry and bitter one great and important a in in the program of things became sectionalized and out of it rose a question of constitutional interpretation which was b by the southern regarded dod alre people mple as eo so ato ital to ake their rights and slid interests iliev committed their solution to tile of arms but mr president they have bowed to the stern logic of events until they have in in a franic afrank and manly way accepted the result of the struggle as a final settlement of all the in in di als dispute to and they have einie since labored wifel with rare courage fortitude and cheerfulness to accommodate at themselves to their new condition conditions to reconstruct their broken fortunes 1 and I to contribute as fir far as possible to tile general prosperity and happ irim of tile thew hole holo country As one practical tl result accomplished by the conflict the theory of the right of compact uns w is over thrown nand and the in indestructibility of lie the american union was established on the fi firmest irmes t found i tion tito thief chief element of discord has been removed forever and though questions wil vill continue to arise about which men liny may ditter differ and differ earnestly it is 19 settled sett leil bei ond appeal that for all abuses and anti grievances that arteo arise from the tile action of the ron gen eg mar cral government the remedy hereafter reatter ho be sought within the pale of the union and under the tile forms ot of establish established ea government ROV eminent the speaker closed with a graceful price ful tribute to mrs cleveland the tile president replying sketched tho the triumph of memphis in overcoming the tile of war closing as follows 11 the b 1 1 tic sentiment expressed on yo your r behalf by your honorable hono liono roble fel fiel lo low citizen in in hie his address of welcome iveli omo I 1 am buro bure I 1 ma may say a will be generously if responded to by your our countrymen contra men of I 1 the a north iliev want I 1 believe rest from sectional bitterness all and they that the de destiny detiny tiny of the country is only to bo be achieved by a true union in sentiment and feeling i ell us as in in name the business inter ats e ste of our people are too alert and intelligent intelligent tell lel igent ligen to bo be sacrificed or injured by felti b appeals to aaion aion aich I 1 s I 1 ion id bo be allayed they he only insist that all the results of the tile of arms to which aich reference ins has here been nade I 1 shall be fully full retained and 1210 enforced I 1 nuiT LETT tenn oct 15 I 1 the presidential train ans as on time here the information has just ut been con eon vey keyed ed to lie tile president of the death of judge ellett abid ho lie is greatly shocked he ile pressed expressed the warmest sympathy B pathy with tile bereaved family eimil I 1 ir srm says lie found no signs of life vt lien ahen he lie reached tho the unfortunate mans side ride but ho lie sar nothing until ahokas ho vi as relieved A few ini minutes later bv by two wo local ph physicians bici ane to these he lie said saia that the judko judge was dead it em pit I 1 S 0 kt A 15 tl TI e presidential reception ion to the pub public le in in the hall of the cotton Ext 1 hango was about an hour in length from the exchange tile part Ns ere cavorted to their train and at I 1 1 p in eft left forNa or nashville NasH villo tomi anti oct I 1 5 at ale kenzie tenn the 11 Prebi re dont Ident andUrs and mrs cleveland and tho tile P postmaster ost master gener jl ai actually actual I 1 got ot left the tile train starting arting el wily 1 for nashville without them ix ie a it crossing of two tv roads and the train had been switched croul one to another on a 1 Y 11 wr kihen en tha th reached the statton the mayor camo canio aboard and told the president that a plat platform forni hid bad been arec erected led and the people kere esra alinn alting to hear and to see him the president Pre Aident said since they had made lucli preparation he wadd go out und and bow show hIm Palf but voula 0 adit t talk acco accordingly i I 1 lie is mft and nd vilas alighted while the ittin it tin was being switched df the 1 rail it road PU put the genara general r managers car in between tile engine and eti bulo tr train a in and nhen this aa as done started rl right ight off from the opposite mide eido of libbe the depot ae tho the ma manager of f alio ra railroad read 1 supposing 1 I p i t that h at the tile president dent and pirth was aga aboard r d the tile train had gone a akile milo daw a regil grade a before tho the manager co could ld f ho reached dand and then owing to tho tile light engine and the heavy beav train it tool took quite a little time to back up to tho the station again gain the tile party caroo came abroad lau laughing hing but tho the president said for the future tur abe he confine himself to getting off at placed indicated in in the pro gramme all along the tile road great crowds cro vidi viero ero col acted to see the maesing pa esing train and t the he usual demonstrations were ft ere made at 9 lo 10 alie belle 2 meado six six miles from nashville where ex senator now pow judge jackson and hia his brother general NV 11 II jackson on the car and welcomed the prest dente dents party the president sirs cleveland and col lament lamont entered the carriage of 0 general jaclson jackson to bacomo decomo hie his quests till Ifo monday mom morning while tho tile postmaster general aej and M ife dr bryant and mr fr brimmell Brim sell accompanied the ex senator other members of the party proceeded to 1 I 1 0 on the train and vere ere t tere dat maduell house john of new york a well known 07 n Rou routhers thern financier by invitation joins the presidential party hero here and will remain with thew thera until her ti e r arrival at atlanta |
