The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-15

scramble for federal patronage in
South Carolina and in other States
where the President has listened to
the advice of clean, conservative men
without regard to party lines.
The Presidents Impressions.
1t is not strange that the RepubH-
can leaders in South Carolina should
feel anxious as to the future recogni-
ton of some of their unsavory follow
ers- President Roosevelt by nature
and by cultivation is a keen observer,
and some of the object lessons given
him while in the South were not lost
upon him, while there was absolutely
no thought or intention on his part of
improving his personal interest in the
South from a political standpoint. He
nevertheless learned several whole
some lessons which may be of great
value to him in solving some of the
political problems which may arise in
that section of the country.
On the homeward bound trip from
Charleston the President talked very
freely with his friends on the train
as to the motives which induced him
to go South and of the experiences
which had given him such a thorough
and impressive insight into Southern
life and Southern methods, which could
not have been derived except by a per-
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part of the country 1t would not
be unreasonable or beyond the bounds
of fancy to imagine that President
Roosevelt would be willing to receive
suggestions or hear expressions of
opinion on questions of public policy
from such gentlemen as Judge Simon
ton, Mayor Smythe, Judge Brawley,
Capt. WAGNER Andrew Simonds, Mr..
Gadsden, j. c. Hemphill and others.
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advantage, and it is certain would be
equally as Impressive if not more so
than partisan vaporings from State
Chairman Mas, Loomis Blalock, Bob
Smalls, George Washington Murray,
the Talbert brothers, John Capers and
other recognized Republican leaders in
South Carolina.
President Roosevelt does not hest
tate TO say that he has been greatly
benefited by seeing and meeting the
people of South Carolina at close
range. He went to Charleston, not as
a political vote hunter, but as the
President of the United States who
wanted to know the people of the
South and in return wanted them to
know him as he is, and not as he
might be represented to them. Had
he remained in Washington and been
content to form his impressions of
South Carolina and her people by the
Republican delegations who come here
office seeking he might have been JUS
titled in making some of the federal
appointments that have been urged
upon him. He went to South Carolina
for information which might be val
liable to him and at the same time
enable him to administer the affairs
of his great office, so far as that state
is concerned with better understand
ing of the circumstances and condi-
tions existing there.
His Trip of Great Value.
The President himself has declared
to his closest and best friends %ince
his return to Washington that the
Southern trip was of greater value to
him from any standpoint from which
it may be viewed, than he can esti-
mate. Senator Lodge is equally en-
thusiastic on the. subject and the Mas
sachusetts senator declares that the
whole nation should be grateful to the
state of South Carolina for inviting the
President to go to Charleston so thai
the whole world might see the love, re-
speet and affection which the Presi-
dent of the United States encounters
in any section of the country he may
visit Republican senators and rep.
resentatives of high standing in the
party ranks do~-not believe with the
South Carolina Republican organiza'
ton that the President suffered politi-
cal or personal contamination while il
Charleston. On the contrary the high
minded men Of the Republican and tht
Democratic parties here in Washing
ton agree that President ROOSEVELT
visit to South Carolina was a benefit tt
the entire nation, and it viii go dowI
in history as an undying example o.
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mean when we say to the world tha
wa arc a united neOple