The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-04-13

TIME youngest President in the his
tory of the United States last week
sent a thrill of vigor down through
Virginia. across North Carolina,
and into Charleston. The Southerners-
Democrats as a matter of course and OPP
posed at many points to the principles
of the Administration - feared that he
might tread on their corns by referring
10 their battles against tremendous odds
forty years ago. So when he declared that
theirs was a great history and that they
should treasure the memory of the great
war" they warmed to him at once, and
twice as many people turned out along the
route of the Presidential special on its
way back TO Washington as had greeted
it when it sped to the Palmetto State.
THE President IS going away"
THE President has gone away
The President has returned"
With sateuSSEt frippery of detailed de-
scriptioE this is the way the public is
served with information OF the iaunts
the Chief Executive occasionally makes to
various parts of the country. The jour
neys are nearly always vital in their
bearing on national politics - they are
partl- planned with a view that they
shat; De.
"Ihe Presidential Special"
Outside of the President himself and his
speeches from the rear platform to the
crowds that cheer and surge over the
tracks and try to grasp his hand and yell
that TEDDY is hot stuff, the most i'm
portant factor in these trips is the Pres
idential special" the most magnificent
train ever made up, which houses the
Chief Executive and his party. 1t is given
the right of way over every other train
ia the road. If necessary 'limiteds" are
sidetracked while the President swings
by.
Ii doesn't stop everywhere. Generally
pauses are made only at the cities and
the towns of considerable size But that
doesn't prevent the people from turning
put along the road to watch the olive
green streak fash by.
Platforms Always Filled.
In the dead OF night the station plat
forms are filled with people who wait for
hours for this glimpse of the train bear
ing their President They 90 home salts
fed and feeling that If they have not
seen or heard the President speak they
have done the next best thing-seen his
train.
Presidents have pushed TO nearly every
part of the United States and great
crowds have cheered them irrespective
of the dominant political faith OF the
section visited. They have gone into big
cities. where the spirit of the crowd is
estimated by its numerical strength. and
they have pushed into the sparsely set
tied districts where the enthusiasm for
the Administration is measured by the
righteousness of the cheering and the
fact that two thirds OF the auditors Of
the rear platform oratory Travelled TWEEN
~ OF thirty or fifty miles in wagons or on
horseback TO listen. They have swung
clear across the Continent and felt the
greeting extended = President for the
first time since Grants trip to California
where the earth smiled superlatiyely fra
grant welcome.
Mr.. Roosevelt was perhaps better fitted
by temperament TO score victory N
the hearts and minds Of Charleston than
any other President in the White House
since the war.
SoutherreIs Love a Brave Man.
Southerners love a brave man and
frank one la the advent last week of the
President their appetite for these admira-
Bile qualities was satiated to the limit.
In South Carolina, and especially in
Charleston, ancestry is a great thing
The door of high society opens not TO
wealth. Blue blood Is the primary quail
Gcation. II such a man is related to the
So-and-Sos he is more desirable" than If
he owns blocks OF stock in the phosphate
factory or the octopus like company which
sontrols light and electric power and