Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-10-01

trate of the Nation Gets His 1ndon-
liable VIII.
Through the paternal branch of the
ancestral tree may have flown some of
the sap i.-.a5 gave President Roosevelt
his indoll.rable spirit. but certain it il
that the maternal branch was rich in
thai quality that marked the Bullochs
OF Georgia for their resolution. peril
nacity and strength of will No better
exponent of those traits could be found
than Martha Rulloch Roosevelt. the
mother Of the president.
Not long after the civil war Mrs.
Roosevelt was on visit TO Savannah.
Ga. where she had many friends. says
the ST. Louis Globe Democrat She
was a Georgia woman of distinguished
ancestry. tie Bulloch family being one
of the best in the state and its repre-
sentatives having served with distinc-
ton in the highest positions. 1t was
I but natural therefore. that she should
have been well received upon her visit
to. Savannah and that there should
( have been rare pleasure to her. an I'M
reconstructed Confederate, in her in
tercourse with her own people. those
who had fought and bled upon the field
/ of battle or fought the greater hight of
waiting and watching.
/ Reunion with her southern friends
after the years of the war that she had
spent at her home in New York was
I pleasure to Mrs. Roosevelt, and it was
with the keenest relish that she re-
counted stories of the times and of the
trials that she suffered in the city of
her adoption through her answering
/ loyalty to the cause of the south, a
I cause in which one brother. Irvine L.
Bulloch. fought as an officer aboard
/ the cruiser Alabama and which anoth-
/ er brother represented at England's
/ capital city. One of these stories clear
/ ly revealed the character of the woman
! and leaves little difficulty in determin-
4 mig whence the president gets some of
/ those qualities that have tended to his
preferment.
1t was at a dinner given in Mrs.
Roosevelt's honor by Mrs. Henrietta 5.
Cohen that she told the story. OF late
f years, because of Theodore Roosevelt's
rapid advancement, ii has been recalled
by his mothers old friends, who feel
pride in having known the mother of
the president and gladly ascribe to her
some of the traits that are seen in the
son.
1t was just when the spirit of peace.
uncertain as to whether it should
alight was lowering over the land.
Theodore Roosevelt the elder decided
at about that time TO give some great
social function. The Roosevelt mansion
was accordingly bravely deeked in
bunting and with American flags. From
every window save one flew the stars
and stripes. That one was of Mrs.
Roosevelts boudoir. Her husband had
not desired to omit it from the decora-
tive scheme. but she would have none
of it. Instead she hit upon a plan that
would clearly reveal her sentiments.
Stopping not TO consider the peril in
which it might place her and her hus-
band. but determined to show that all
in the house We're not of the cause OF
the north. she drew from among her
most cherished treasures the stars and
bars, the emblem of the south. Going
to the window. she firmly fixed its staff
and allowed its folds to futter from the
breeze.
On the instant almost the hostile en-
sign was noted. A passerby in the
street below deserted it. In hot indgna-
ton he pointed it out to another. AS
mobs will. so one began to grow, and
soon the street was choked with angry
people who shook threatening fists at
the Confederate flag and inveighed
most bitterly.
Alarmed by the gathering that was
swelled every moment and that direct
ed its wrath against his home. Theo-
dore Roosevelt sought the cause that
had stirred the people to anger. He
was not long in finding it. Fierce ac-
claim directed his gaze. which rested
upon the huttering emblem of the
south. The Roosevelt nature has never
quailed before a crowd. Theodore the
elder saw that imminent danger could
probably be averted only through his
persuading his wife to remove the OBJ +
jectionable flag. With a word to the
crowd he left. entered the house and +
found his wife. He told her what she I
already knew-that the anger of the +
mob had been excited by her indiscreet +
display of her colors and that it would +
be we'll for her to take in the flag.
Il shall not do So" declared the moth /
er of the president The flag is mine I
The boudoir is mine. l love the flag. for +
it represents my native land. No ruffian +
SLdA pilNdIs VI
boudoir TO drag down that flag, nor
shall ruffian shouts force me TO remove +
il from the window of room that is
wholly mine. Explain to them that
am a southern woman: that I love the
south. Do anything you like except
touch that flag. 1t shall not come
down"
And it did not. Theodore Roosevelt
-
a speech. dwelling with finesse upon his
wifes love for her own land and mold
ing the mob TO his will and to an induI-
gence of Mrs Roosevelt in her desire
to fiy the flag of her beloved south.
The crowd dispersed. but the story
remains TO show a maternal quality