Arizona republican., 1902-11-20
VICE G0VERNOR'S
 PROUOEST DAY
The Welcome Home of Gen.
 eraI Luke Wright
The Principal Address in Greeting ct the Returning Hero Was Deliver ed by President Roosevelt. A Re view of the Work in the Philip pines.


 brated the homecoming of General l.. F. Wright, vice governor of the Philip pines, it is no reflection upon the warmth of the welcome extended to him to say that President Roosevelt'5 presence wa@ the overshadowing feat ure of the day. Excursion trains were run into the city and a number of dis tinguished people were present to parti- cipate in the celebration. Among them were Governor Benton McMillin and General Joe Wheeler.
 Immediately after the presidents ar rival there was a parade through the streets to the Gayoso hotel where breakfcst was rendered the president and Governor Wright by the ladies of Memphis. Tn the afternoon the presi- dent attended and spoke at two recep- tions given in honor of General Wright, one at the Auditorium by the white citizens and the other at a hall in the black section of the city by the colored people.
 Later there was a Colonial Danes tea at the Gayoso. and the festivities closed tonight with an elaborate ban quet at the Peabody at which the presi- dent delivered set speech.
 In the welcome of Vice Governor Wright President Roosevelt said:
 It a real and great pleasure to come to this typical city of the southern Mississippi valley in order to greet d typical American, a citizen of Tennes- see. who deserves honor not only from his state, but from the entire country General Luke r.. Wright We have right to expect a high standard of manhood from Tennessee. It was one of the first two states created west Of the Allegheny Mountains, and it was in this state that the first self-governing community of American freemen was established upon waters flowing into ' the gulf. The pioneers of Tennessee were among the earliest in that great ! westward march which thrust the na- tiou's border across the continent to | the Pacific, and it is eminently fitting | that a son of Tennessee should now | play so prominent a part in the further movement of expansion beyond the Pa cific. There have been presidents of | the United States for but one hundred and thirteen years, and during sixteen ' of those years Tennesseeans sat in the White House. Hardihood and daring and iron resolution are of right to be ! expected among the sons of a state which nurtured Andrew Jackson and l Sam Houston; which sent into the ! American navy one of the most famous | fighting admirals of all time, Farra- gut.
 | There is another reason why our | country should be glad that it was | General Wright who rendered this ser ! vice. General Wright fought with ! distinguished gallantry among the gal 1 lant men who served in the armies of the confederacy during the civil war. l We need no proof of the completeness Of our reunion as a people. When the war with Spain came the sons of the men who wore the blue and the sons of the men who wore the gray Vied with one another in the effort to get into the ranks and face a foreign foe under the old flag that had been carried in tri- umph under Winfield Scott and Zachary Taylor and Andrew Jackson. It was my own good fortune to serve under that fearless fighter, old Joe Wheeler. a memory of which I shall always be proud. But if we needed any proof of the unity of our interests it would have been afforded this very year by General Wright, the Confederate, in his administration as acting governor bA liIe IIlHpplDe lSldnQS. upon nm during the months of summer rested q heavier responsibility than upon any other public servant at that particular i time: and not the least of his titles to our regard is the way in which he was able to work on terms of cordial good will with the head of the army. him self man who had honored the blue uniform as Wright had honored the gray.
 General Wright's work has been as difficult as it was important. The events of the last four years have def nitely decided that whether we wish to or not we must hereafter play q great part in the world. We can not escape facing the duties. We may shirk them if we are built of poor stuff. or we may take hold and do them if we are fit sons of our sires-but face them we must whether we will or not. Our duty in the Philippine is lands has simply been one of the du- ties that thus have come upon us. We are there. and we can no more haul down our flag and abandon the islands than we could now abandon Alaska Whether we are glad or sorry that events forced us to go there is aside
 from the questions the point is that, as | the inevitable result of the war with
 Spain. we found ourselves in the Philip
 pines and that we could not leave the
 Islands without discredit. The island
 CTS were wholly unfit to govern them
 selves, and if We had left there would
 have been a. brief period of bloody
 chaos, and then some other natior
 would have stepped into do the worl
 which we had shirked. It can not b,
 too often repeated that there was nC
 question that the work had to be done
 All the question was, whether we woulC
 do it well or i'll: and, thanks to tn,
 choice of men like Governor Wright, ]
 has been done well.
 The american flag stands for order
 ly liberty. and it stands for it abroad .