The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-09

ters of the Tennessee to the seat of the first community settled by people Of our stock on the waters which flow Into the Gulf of Mexico. It was six years before the outbreak of the revolutionary war, that the first little settlement out or which we grew Ihe state or tennessee was foundered axd It was here in tnis region that the mounted rifemen Bath- cred under the leadership of Sevier, the shaft in memory of whom you see there gathered to go across the mountains ana strike at Kings mountain the decisive blow which in the end freed the southern states from the revolutionary war. hlght from the beginning the Tennesseans showed themselves to be typical Amerl- cans in the way in which they proved their ability to contend in time of peace. Great has been Tennessee's share in the leadership of the country alike in war and peace (Applausel. Because. my Tel i low countrymen, while you have been an | agricultural state. while you are now rapidly becoming in this section one or the great industrial centers of the entire country, you have acted throughout with credit Though if Is great to produce the works of man 1t Is greater still to produce man himself. (Applause). IL ls a great thing to have factory, a mhle' a railroad but greatest of all IS II .o have the high average of citizenship Tn | with the power to produce the gentler virtues and the rougher virtues, as needs be.
 Tennesseans Are Americans.
 ..Tennessee has won her piace-the typical Tennesseean stands as embodylns so much. We are glad to call him the typical American because the Tennes- seean has never shrunk from the resish- ness of life. The men who first came here on the headwaters of the trloutarles of the Tennessee river, built thelr httie palaisaded forts Those men old hos come here in search of ease. They came here because this great and beautiful ter ritory opened to them a chance of victory worth having If they proved themselves men enough to wrest that victory rom the throes of savage men and savage ha- ture I would preach to no man Tor whom I cared the snap of my finger, a hie or ease The man who works is the man lo be euview, (Applause.) He may work Tn one way or he may work in anotnef. ! care not the way in which he works if his work is worth doing and is well done. (ApplauseO I care not if the man "ofk with his hands or his head, what may be the line which he has chosen 10 pc ms work. if his work is worth doIng ana 10 well done.
 Now I shall try to talk no longer won't melt myself-your umbrellas are in the way (applause. go ahead, put them down)-and all I will say is that l am very much obliged to you for coming out and I hope you are one-half as glad 10 see me as I am to see you" (Applause)
 At this time the storm had broke In such fury that the Presidents voice couio not be heard ten feet from the stand. lh.. entire party again took carriages ana were driven to the residence of Mrs. Will h. x4sffa af 8 famous editor, governor and United States senator. The President called on the aged lady and spent several minutes with her. Then the University of Ten nessee was visited, after which the party returned to the depot. The special pulled out promptly at o'clock. Hot Springs | N. C., will be reached about 10 O'CLOCK. and the party will spend the night there, going into Asheville at s:sO o'clock tomor- row.
 At Jefferson City.
 Jefferson City. Tenn, September B. When President Roosevelt's train reached here this evening he was greeted by sev- eral hundred people to whom he spoke for several minutes. He referred to his trip of yesterday over the Chicamauga battlefield, and thanked the people for their greeting.
 Chattanooga an Inspiration.
 
 Morristown, Tenn, September S.-Presi- dent Roosevelt's train stopped here about five minutes at S45 tonight, and the President found a large crowd awaiting to greet him. He said he was glad he had come into the state ana was es pecially glad that he had had an oppor- tunity to visit, the great battledelds around Chattanooga. He felt that 1t is an inspiration for every good American to think of the deeds of yalor done alike by the men who wore the blue and by those who wore the gray. He said that any man who was half an American ought to feel more like un Americaf. after having visited these fields The President referred to the large number o. Tennesseeans who have made names for themselves in the nations history, anu said that the greatest admiral the coun- try has had in the last ninety years Farragut-was a native of Tennessee.
 Fiery Welcome Given.
 Newport, Tenn. September S.-The cit izens of this place extended a fiery well come to President Roosevelt as his train passed through here at 9:30 o'clock to- night. Barrels were placed for consider able distance on both sides of the track and these were fired a few minutes before the train arrived so that when the special slowly pulled through the town in it's path 1t was lighted by the fames The train did not stop