President McKinley’s California Reception
Surely President McKinley must be pleased with the reception accorded him and his entourage thru-out their ten-thousand-mile trip. California literally, figuratively, and florally received him with open arms. Such a profusion of nature’s loveliest decorations have at times quite eclipsed the great mass of bunting. Royalty in very deed could not be served better. It is to be regretted that Mrs. McKinley has been so ill during her stay in California; it has taken much from the pleasure she would have enjoyed. It is to be hoped that those who have participated in and enjoyed the abundance and profusion of California’s floral display will remember that all these things are gifts of God, incidental only to the people who happen to live here. There are as loyal hearts to truth and righteousness in less favored climes. May God bless and guide the President of the United States, that he may execute the duties of his great office in righteousness, equity, and peace, and that he may be delivered from scheming and self-serving and sin-serving men.