The Washington times., 1902-09-10
PRESIDENTS TRIP
IN THE SOUTH ENDS
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into the soulful eyes of the aristocratic
Biltmore COWS in their patriciau
stables.
Senator Pritchard boarded the train
as soon as it rolled into Asheville. The
Presidents attention had but few
minutes before been called to Mr.
Pritchard's town, Marshall, where the
Senator's mills and barns and store
houses filled all the foreground. Mr.
Pritchard is preaching progressive in
dustrialism to his State, and is prac-
tising what he breaches. Apparently,
| too, he told the President something
about his ideas, as the Presidents
speech at Hickory late this afternoon
| indicated. ~
Battle Flags Furled.
The seventy-fve veterans in the pro-
cession were too feeble, most of them,
to walk up and down the Asheville hills,
so they rode in carriages. In the first
carriage were the battle flags of two
North Carolina Confederate regiments.
They were carried furled.
! The public square of the Vance monu-
ment was packed tighter than a can of
/
proportis;n of mountaineers among them.
and in tns time Of waiting they asserted
themselves with all the mountaineer's
desire for elbow room and fair play. The
militia and the police were sorely put
| TO it TO keep them from climbing the
stand TO make a close examination of
the President. But as soon as the Presi-
dent began to talk, they became quiet,
end remained quiet. The President said:
1T is pleasure TO speak here in the
midst of your beautiful country of west
ern North Carolina, in this beautiful
city, in front of the monument raised TO
Senator Vance, and to be addressing
people whose forefathers have borne .
distinguished part in every great mill
tary or civic struggle through which this
country has come. 1t was not far from
here. as we measure distance in Ameri-
ca, that the Mecklenburg Declaration OF
Independence was formulated.
Heroes of Old Time.
1.-The gentleman who introduced me
spoke of the great deeds of the men
who in the Revolutionary war followed
Marion and Mcdowell. My forefathers
fought under Marion. My forefathers
fought with the Georgian and South
Carolinian troops who battIed through
out the dark days when CORVALLIS and
the red dragons of Tarleton oYerrar,
the Southern States.
They We're present at Kings Noun
tains at the Cowpens, and they saw the
fnal triumph when the men in blue and
buff who followed Greene wrested vic
tory out of defeat, and when at last the
flag Of the thirteen United States. which
had been the thirteen colonies. waved
without rival along the seacoast, and
along the foothills of the mountains.
at has been a great and peculiar pleas
ure TO be greeted as ! was today by tho
men who served in the Confederate army.
Yesterday and today | travelled through
region which sent its sons, some TO
wear the blue. some TO wear the gray.
all 10 serve with courage and self-devo-
tion for right as it was given TO each
TO see the right. The day before yes
terday, j went over that space of terri
tory which saw for two months one OF
the gigantic death wrestles of the civil
war-territory partly in Tennessee
partly in my mothers State, Georgia.
and / feel that the man would be but
poor American who did not come from
The scenes eommemorating the valiant
deeds of those armies better Ameri-
can than when he started
Yesterday, We stopped at a little sta