The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-09-10
visit to the BiItmore Estate, Where
the President Spent an Hour I'm
Inspecting the Grounds.
SPEECHES EN- ROUTE NORTH
ENTHUSIASTIC DEMONsTRATIONs AT
ALL THE STOPPING PLACES.
Good Cftfzenshfp and Industrial
Growth of the Southland Dis
cussed Briefly.

ASHEVILLE, N c., Sept. 9-Asheville
extended a warm greeting to President
Roosevelt to-day. Fully 10000 people occu-
pied the courthouse square, where the
President addressed them from an impro-
vised stand The special train arrived
here at $50 o'clock. schedule time. The
night was passed at Hot Springs and the
run from there to Asheville this morning
was uneventful. A short stop was made
at Marshall, the home of Senator Pritch-
ard, where a large number Of people had
assembled. The President thanked them
for their greeting.
At Asheville he was met by a reception
committee, OF which Chares McNamee was
chairman. Mayor Miller, Senator Pritch-
ard and Congressman Moody were among
those who greeted the President, the men,
bers OF the committee being introduced to
the President In his car by Senator Pritch-
ard. Carriages were In waiting, and. un-
der the escort OF Zeb Vance Company,
Confederate Veterans, with the battlefags
and two companies OF State militia and
the First Regiment Band the party started
for courthouse square. At Battery Park
the school children were assembled on the
lawn and sang America" as the party
passed. President Roosevelt stood in his
carriage, bareheaded. The city was elab-
orately decorated, and hundreds of people
had come In from the country to greet the
President When the President was intro
duced by Chairman McNamee he was en-
Enthusiastically greeted. The Introduction
followed a short address Of welcome by
former Congressman Gudger.
The President spoke OF the pleasure it
gave him to speak before the monument
of the late Senator Vance, which Is near
the stand. He was glad he said, to meet
people whose forefathers had fought under
Marion; glad to be greeted by men who
served in the Confederate army. He told
OF his visit Sunday to the battlefield of
Chickamauga and repeated the declaration
that the man would be but a poor Amer
lean who did not come from the scenes
armies a better American. He told of serv-
ing under Wheeler in Cuba. and said that
yesterday he met old man who served
In the Confederate army. 81 was one of
Wheeler's boys, said the veteran. $50
was l.. replied the President.
II think II Is good thing" the Presi-
dent said. for an American President to
have the chance to travel through different
sections of the country, because Ii is a
mighty good thing for any American to
meet his fellow-Americans in order that he
may realize how trivial are the points OF
unlikeness and how essential are the points
or likeness. "A good American Is a good
American whether he came from the
North. the South, the East or the West"
The President spoke OF the benefits to be
derived from the brotherhood of men and
said he did not care what section of the
country man came from; IL he was good
American that was enough for him. I'VE
need good laws" said the President "and
We need an honest administration of the
law, but We need as the fundamental pre-
requisite for good government high aver
age standard OF citizenship in the men who
make the laws and stand back of them
If a man Is not honest. is not decent then
the ADLER he Is. the more dangerous to the
community. But decency and honesty are
not enough. i don't care how good a man
is IL he is timid man you can do but lit
tle with him. In addition to honesty and
decency you must have courage. Honesty
and courage are not enough. You must have
common sense. The average citizen must
make himself worthy citizen of the gov
ernment. The government Is us-you and
and the government is going to do well
or Ill, according to the way we determine
the government shall be-"
The President concluded as follows: MY
plea TO you, fellow-Americans, is to re-
member that in this country no law, no
leadership can possibly take the place OF
the exercise by the average citizen of the
fundamental virtues of good citizenship,
the exercise OF the fundamental qualities of
honesty, courage and common sense"
AS the President finished his speech he
was given three rousing cheers. Carriages
were then entered and the presidential
party was driven TO Biltmore the estate
OF George Vanderbilt. More than an hour
In one OF the summer houses the Presi
dent shook hands with a number OF Con-
federate veterans. His train left at 30 10
m for Washington.