Thi’sexposli o i reprt’.s. nu the growth and aspira
tion of the Piedmont region. ( 'rude as it mny ap
pear, It beivs evidence to a rehabilitation without
parallel in our industrial hi-tory. Much, Mr. of this
is due to the confidence b-* otten by your elect! >n
and jii. Aided by your ad ministration. [lTolonged
che r ng.j
In welcoming you to tho people of the Piedmont
states, compacted here with conn ion and auspicious
purpose. I can promise you a privilege that even a
president may eat-em that of 1 Miking into the
faces and hearing tlie c.ndial welcome of more
southerners than any living or dead has se<n
as-emb <”i. [Cheers.]
My countrymen, J present, to you your president.
[Prolonged cheering. |
'J he president’s speech.
President Cleveland spoke as follows:
When in 1815 a convention was held in Memphis,
in the state of Tennessee, having t r its object the
development of tin resources oi the western and
southern states, one of the greatest and most far
seeing statesmen of our country foretold the future
greatness and imporlnnee of a point in
Dekalb county, in the state of Geor
gia, culled Atlanta, not far from tho village of
Decatur. This place, at that time waspropir.y culled
“a point,” for Atlanta wnstlw-n merely ammie given
to a railroad st. ton here, without the h a t preten
sion to belli; a city or even a village. It was, I
think, two years after this that the n.nne was adopt -
cd by the little village of Marthasville when she
proudly received a city charier.
