The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-09
AT KNOXVILLE.
Presidents Speech Broken Into By
 Q Rain storm.

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 Knoxville, Tenn. Sept. s.-President afternoon, and in dehance of hard rain storm, was driven through streets lined with people to a stand on Main Avenue, nearly a mile from the depot where he spoke to 12.o0o people who stood in quiet while drenching rain poured down upon them.
 The Presidents special arrived prompt ly at o'clock and was met by a large reception committee, the 9th Regiment Band an da battalion of militia. After the President had stated that he could stand the storm to see the people If the people could to see him, carriages were taken and preceded by the troops, the procession moved up. the main street to the speakers stand erected fin front of the Woman's Building. All along the line of march the President stood with barred head Lowing to the cheering throng.
 introduced by Congressman Henry R. Gibson of this district as man who combined all the sterling traits of char acter Of Andrew Johnson, Andrew Jack son and James Knox Polk, President Roosevelt spoke as follows:
 My fellow citizens and countrymen: I shall detain you for but a short time. I wish to thank you for having come out in this weather. Somebody asked me when It was raining so hard whether would come up here anyway. told them I guessed if you could stand it. l could.
 "I want to say how I appreciate you having come out to see me and take it that your National Guard are not fair weather soldiers.
 Ut has been an inspiration to come through East Tennessee today as have. l am sorry for my sake that the rain should have come at this particular mo- ment. But you needed it and am glad you have got 1t.
 Yesterday 1 spent the time going over the great battlefield of ChiokamauEa and Chattanooga, partly within the bound- aries of your own State and partly with In the boundaries of my mothers State of Georgia.
 ''Now I come here along the upper waters of the Tennessee to the seat of the first community settled by people of our stock. on the waters which flow Into the Gulf of Mexico. It was six years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War that the first little settlement out of which grew the State Of Tennessee was founded, and 1t was here in this region that the mounted rifemen gath cred under the leadership of Sevier the shaft in memory of whom you see there gathered to go across the mountains and strike at King Georges Mountain the decisive blow which in the end freed the Southern States in the Revolutionary War Right from the beginning the Ten nesseeans showed themselves to be typi- cal Americans in the way in which they proved their ability to contend in time of peace. Great has been Tenhessees share in the leadership of the country, alike in war and peace. Because, my fellow countrymen. while you have been great agricultural State, while you are now rapidly becoming in this section one of the greatest industrial oenters of the entire country. you have acted through put with credit. Though it is great to produce the works of man, 1t is greater still to produce man himself It is a great thing to have factory. q mine, a railroad, but greatest of all is it to have the high average of citizenship in the community-that you have the men with the power to produce the gentler virtues and the rougher virtues, as needs be- .
 Tennessee has exoa1 her pfaceAthe typ ieal Tennessean stands as embodying so much. We are glad to call him the typi- cal American because the Tennessean has never shrunk from the roughness of life. The men who first came here on the hcadwaters of the tributaries of the Ten nessee River, built their little palisaded forts Those men did not come here in search of ease, they came here because this great, rich and beAutiful' territory opened to them the chance of a victory worth having if they proved themselves men enough to wrest that victory from the throes of savage men and savage na- ture. would preach to no man for whom cared the snap of my finger, a life of ease. The man who works is the man to be envied. He may work in one way or he may work fin another. care not the way in which he works If his work is worth doing and is well done. care not if the man work with his hands or his head. what may be tho line which he has chosen to his work if his work is worth doing and is we'll done.
 At Chickamauga, Missional Bridge, at Lookout Mountain yesterday I saw the scene of the desperate, fighting of the men who wore the blue and those who wore the gray.
 ''Now shall try to talk no longer.