Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1902-09-10
Veterans Of the Gray Give Chief Executive
Hearty Welcome,
He GOES FROM THERE TO BlLTMoRE
While at Vanderbilt's Place He Shakes
lands with Ex-RebelL
GLAD TO SEE MARlONs DESCENDANTS
President Speaks to Large. audiences
and His Words Are q Ii"IIy
Received-what He
said.

AsHEVILLE. n. c.. Sept. s.-Asheville
extended a warm greeting to President
Roosevelt today. Fully 10000 people Gu
pied the court house square, where he
president addressed them from an impro-
vised stand.
The special train arrived here at $3.50
o'clock, schedule time. The night was
passed at Hot Springs and the run from
there to Asheville this morning was un-
eventful. short stop was made at Mar
shall, the home OF Senator Pritchard, where
large number of people had assembled
The president thanked them for their greet
| ing
At Asheville he was met by a reception
committee, Of which Charles McNamee was
chairman. Mayor Miller Senator Pritchard
and Congressman Moody were among those
who greeted the president, the members of
the committee being introduced to the pres
idont in his car by Senator Pritchard.
Carriages were In waiting. and, under
the escort of zeb Vance company. Con-
federate Veterans. with the battle flags.
and two companies of state militia and tho
First Regiment band, the party started for
court house square.
At Battery park the school children were
assembled on the lawn and sang America
rs the party passed. President Roosevelt
stood in the carriage, bare-headed.
The city was elaborately decorated and
hundreds of people had come in from the
country to greet the president. When the
president was introduced by Chairman Nc
Nance he was enthusiastically greeted.
The president remarked the pleasure
it gave him to speak to the people. He was
glad, he said, to meet people whose fore
fathers had fought under Marion; glad to
be greeted by men who served IN the cen
federate army, He told of his visit Sunday
to the battlefield of Chickamauga and re-
peated the declaration that the man would
be but a poor American who did not come
from the scenes commemorating the valiant
deeds OF those armies a better American.
He told of serving under Wheeler in Cuba
and said that yesterday he met an old man
who served in the confederate army.
One of wheeIer's Boys.
81 was one of Wheeler's boys" said the
veteran
80 was l." replied the president. "I
think it is a good thing" he said, "for an
American president TO have the chance to
travel through different sections Of the
country, but it 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 es-
sential are the points OF likeness. A good
American is a good American, whether he
is from the north, the south, the east or the
west"
Continuing, the president said 1--WE need
good laws and we need an honest admins
tration of the law, but we need as the fun
damental prerequisite for good government
a high average 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 abler he is the more dangerous
he is to the community. But decency and
honesty are not enough. I don't care how
good man is, If he is a timid man you
can do but little 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 a worthy citizen
Of the government.
THE government is us-you and land
the government is going to do we'll or i'll,
according to the way We determine the
government shall be-"
Goes to BiItmOre.
The president concluded as follows:
my plea to you fellow Americans Is to
remember that in this country, no law. no
leadership, can possibly take the place OF
the exercise by the average citizen OF the
exercise OF fundamental qualities OF hon
esty, courage and common sense"
AS the president finished his speech he
was given three rousing cheers. Carriages
were then entered and tho presidential
party was driven to Biltmore the estate of
George Vanderbilt. While in one OF the
summer houses the president shook hands
with a number Of confederate veterans
His train left at 1870 p. m. for Washington.
Glad to he in the south.
SALISBURY. N. c., Sept. 9.-President
Roosevelt arrived here at $3.50 o'clock this
afternoon on the way TO Washington and
was welcomed by large crowd. The run
from Ashevlle through the mountains was
greatly enjoyed by the president, who en-
joyed the scenery and the engineering skill
| displayed in building the road. A short
stop was made at Old Fort, and here the
president found large number of country
people waiting to see him. He said
have only time to say a word of thanks
ana greeting to you. 1t has been a great
| pleasure to come through North Carolina
! today and to meet your people. i count
| myself lucky In having come here. good
| AmeTican is good American anywhere.
| YOU do not find any better than In North
Carolina. (Applause) A man who is a de-
| cent citizen, a good husband and a good
! father, and behaves well with his neghbor,
! is a good citizen north or south and II he
north or south, east west. There Is no
royal road to good citizenship. The quail
| ties that made man good citizen hun
! dred years ago will make him good citi-
| zen 100 years hence.
! At Connolly Springs the president made
a brief speech. The largest crowd on the
| run from Asheville was encountered at
Hickory and the short speech he made was
Enthusiastically received. He said:
| Travelling today through North Carolina
| and yesterday through Tennessee l have
been struck by the evidences Of Industrial
growth Of which this town is an example.
| The industrial awakening of the south ls
| a feature fraught with great benefit to the
| south and 10 the entire country Because,
| remember my fellow citizens, We are going
| 10 go up or down together. C'Thats right
\ that's right came from the crowd,) Some
| OF us will feel the good times more and
| others less, and when the bad times come
| we will all be put back. The Industrial
| awakening Of the south which is going on,
/ and which I believe will go on with ever
! increasing rapidly. believe will not only