The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1902-04-11
Especial to The State.

| rendered to President Roosevelt TO-
night at the Charleston hotel was a
fitting cloose to a day full of incl
dents and served to gather together
men prominent in the affairs of the
State, having solely in mind a greet
ing to the president which would
prove the sincerity and the warmth
of feeling existing for him as the
chief executive of the nation. The
BANQUET hall was bower Of roses,
pinks and smilax, artistically ar
ranged, while loosely strewn over
the tables we're thousands of violets,
whose fragrance could only but sug-
gest that springtime had arrived.
Over three hundred specially invited
guests were present and the president
was at his best. In few we'll chosen
remarks Mayor Smyth welcomed
President Roosevelt to Charleston,
whose response was listened to with
the closest attention and which was
interrupted by loud and continuous
applause.
THE PRESIDENTS RESPONSE.
The presidents remarks were as
follows:
"Mr. Mayor, and you, my hosts
and my fellow American citizens:
(Great applanse.) I should indeed
be but a poor American myself If l
we're not deeply touched and graft,
fed by the way you have greeted me
today, in this your beautiful city;
and of course I feel at home here.
(Applause.) I think that an Amerl-
can who is worth his salt has the
right to feel at home in every part of
the United States. (Applause.)
"Around this table see many men
who took part in the grea; war. The
war in which the younger among us
here took part was very little one
because it didn't have to be any big
ger. (Applause) But it had one
thoroughly good effect; it put the
CAP on the structure that had been
building while we were almost un'
conscious of it, and it taught us how
thoroughly at one we WERE When
we got through that war it did not
make a bit of difference to us whether
it was an admiral who came from
Vermont or a lieutenant who came
from Alabama (applause), If the
man had done his duty in such shape
as to make US each feel an even
more generous thrill Of pride in our
common nationality. The debt that
we owed him had little to do with
the section from which be came.
(Applause.)
"And now, q special word to you
of Charleston and of South Carolina.
Just 12 years ago when l first went
to Washington to take part in gov
ernmental work was Immediately
thrown into singularly close contact
and intimacy with South Carolinlan.
It was my good fortune to work with
him for three years and for the nine
years since and for as long as l shall
continue to be in public life, it will
be to me ever a spur to try to DO
decent duty for the republic, because
have been thrown intimately IN
contact with as fearless and as high
minded a public servant as this
| country has ever had, my old friend,
your for&er governor, Hugh Thomp-
son. (Grest applause.)
"And from what l have known OF
YOU and of your representatives 1t
| was in no sense a surprise, but 1t was
q keen pleasure to be greeted with
the hearty and generous hospitality
the more than hearty and generous
hospitality which you have shown
nae today. (Applause)
"The welfare of any part of this
country is in a certain sense an index
Of the welfare of all, and | think
gentlemen, that on the average al
we all tend to 60 up, it seems to b'
little better to 60 uniformly rathe'
than at sharper gait, for the time
being, and then down and then ul
AGAIN and then down. South Caro-
lima seems during the last two Gle