The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1902-04-23
ROOSEVELT AND CHAR j LESTON.
llExpert's View Of the Innp pregsiony Made by
the President.

3 staff correspondent Of the Wash
Sknoton Post, who. accompanied the
soresident to Charleston, sent his pa
per the following letter. under date Of
April 8:
4 President Roosevelt has captured
charleston and Charleston has oaptur-
d the president. Nothing could be
more genuine, spontapeous and uni-
s[ersal than the cordial Welcome which
3ss been accorded him today. The
s6nlv danger which he invites By COM
Ina 4 to this quaint and beautiful il
zSouthern city was the danger Of being
&illea by kindness. he vent to bed
q. might a tired but thoroughly happy
snan. From early morning, when q
committee welcomed him at Summer
lille, % miles from Charleston, until
hidnight, when he left the. banquet
'8oom amid enthusiastic cheers, he was
literally in the hands Of his friends.
they couldn't 90 too much Tor MIN.
1--WE wanted to show, z said Governor
BlcSweeney, to me tonight, .'that
charleston wanted the president and
3hat we could give him o patriotic and
|3ordial welcome. II we have succeed
3d, we ask no more. !"
i There can be no doubt that the
charleston people have succeeded.
Their hurrahs are still ringing in, the
Bars Of the president, vino has literal
3y bubbled over all day with his en-
5husiasm at the warmth Of the greet
! ng extended to him. He is most
unconventional president. This very
3bsence Of formality, this hearty and
bnrestrained participation in every de-
! all Of the programme arranged for hiB
Entertainment, the total absence Of re-
erve and official frigidity won all Of
a3he hearts Of mis- hosts. They knew
That he was Of different mould than.
But ifthe truth be known
3hey expected that he would go to the
3ther extreme. They rather antici-
Pated that he would move impulsivelyi
5ccording to his own free will; 1on the
contrary he was most compliant. He
followed where they led. Every fea-
| 3ure Of the elaborate programme was
accepted by him with such, instanta-f
95eous good will and with sucn evident
Enjoyment that the hearts OF the hard
horking committeeman went out TO-
Aim as one Of their own kin. ST have
3een simply delighted with every mo-
pent Of the day." said the president.
10 Mayor Smyth as he left the revenue
autter Algonquin late this afternoon,
3fter several hours spent npon the
Raters Of the picturesque harbor, and
3he remark left no doubt OF his SINGER.
jty. II really believe the president
Pas enjoyed himself,'' said Mayor
Smyth.
! Yet the presids at. it is worth re-
beating, was most unconvention- /.
IFe was more democratic in the real
2ense Of the word than any president
bf recent years. II am the last man
n the world to be bound by; eti-i
Auette," he remarked with good ma
gured franknssa when q mistake had
been made in the order Of precedence.
Never, Of coures, did he overstep the
|ine which divides dignity f,om soc;e-'
Pility and yet he was. alwais T. ,9se-
8elt. lie couldn't be anything 5iise x
Pc tried, itis quite evident that
Pc does not propose to try. He is
}3imself always. When his hat blew
pf while he was standing at the para
pet of Fort Sumter, he at once started
70 lun after it with almost boyish
freedom, and when it was finally
taught by a smutty workman from the
3laoksmith's shop. helgrasped the
pans hand and thanked him with.
3uoh earnestness and warmth that tho
ban was overwhelmed. Until his.
3ying day that workman will remam-
Der that the president OF the
United States treated him like a
brother. s
When the president was greeted at
Summerville By the reception commit
Zee, headed BY Mayor J !. Adger Smyth
Snd Col. John. G. Hemphill, he greet
d them with ) speech so cordial in its
9ature that the committeeman were
Enthusiastically repeating it all day
song. When he was snarohed over the
BEAUTIFUL roads Of Chicora park, which
sto be the Bite Of the naval station
94e vent into rapture over the panlo-
3}ama that unfolded itself before hira,
and praised tho beauty Of the live
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