The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-09-10
GOOD AMERICANS
PRESIDENTS MAIN TOPIC AT
ASHEVILLE,
He KNOWS NO SECTION.
IS PROUD OF HIS GEORGIA ANCEs-
TRY.

Escorted to Speakers stand by Feb
Vance COnfederntes He Pays Trib-
ute TO the Men of the Mountain
section for Their Great Work,
Both in War of Revolution and i'm
civil Wharf.-The Lesson of Brother
hood-He Cares Only for Good
Americans No Matter From What
section They Come.
Asheville, N. c., Sept. S.-Asheville
extended warm greeting to President
Roosevelt to-day. Fully 10000 people
occupied the Court House Square,
where the President addressed them
from an improvised stand. The spe-
cial train arrived here at $50 o'clock.
The night was passed at Hot Springs
and the run from there to Asheville
this morning was uneventful. A short
stop was made at Marshall, the home
of Senator Pritchard, where a num-
Der of people had assembled The
President thanked them for their greet
ing.
At Asheville he was met by a recep-
ton committee. of which Charles Nc
Nance 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
President in his car by Senator Pritch-
ard. Carriages were in waiting and
under the escort of the Zeb Vance
Company, Confederate Veterans, car
rying battle flags, two companies of
state militia and the First Regiment
Band, the party started for Court
House Square. At Battery Park the
school children were assembled on the
lawn and sang America" as the party
passed. President Roosevelt stood in
his carriage bareheaded The city was
elahorately decorated and hundreds of
people had come in from the country
to greet the President When the
President was introduced by Chair
man MeNamee he was enthusiastic
cally greeted.
His Georgia Ancestry.
The President said:
MIR. Chairman, Mr.. Gudger and
you, my fellow Americans: 1t is in
deed pleasure to have the chance of
saying word of greeting to you this
morning, to speak here in the midst
of your beautiful country of Western
North Carolina, in this beautiful city.
in front Of the monument raised to
Senator Vance (Applause), and to be
addressing people whose forefathers
have borne a distinguished part in
every great military or civic struggle
through which this country has come.
Applause) 1t was not far from here,
as we measure distance in America,
that the Mecklenburg Declaration of
Independence was Formulated The
gentleman who introduced me spoke of
the great deeds of the men who in the
Revolutionary War followed Marion
and Mcdowell. My forefathers fought
under Marion (Applause). My fore
fathers fought with the Georgia and
South Carolina troops who battled
throughout dark days when CORVALLIS
and the Red Dragons of Tarleton
overran the Southern states. They
were present at Kings Mountain, at
the Cowpens, and they saw the final
triumph when the men in blue and buff
who followed Greene wrested victory
out of defeat and when at last the
flag of the thirteen Union states, who
had been the thirteen colonies, waved
without rival along the
coast and along the foot
hills of the mountains. 1t has been
great and peculiar pleasure
TO be greeted as / was to-day by the
men who served in the Confederate
army Yesterday and to-day 1 trav-
eled through a region which sent it's
sons. some to wear the blue, some to
wear the gray, all to serve with cour-
age and self-devotion the right as it
was given to each to see the right.
10 HAF
me battlef1elds of Chickamauga and of
Chattanooga over the space of terri
Tory which saw for two months one of
Lne gigantic death wrestles of the
civil War, the territory partly in Ten
nessee, partly in my mothers state of
georgia (applause), and 1 feel that the
man would be but poor American
VINO did not come from the scenes
concentrating the valiant deeds of
tuose armies a better American than
"hen he started. While l was there
oelegation of young men from the
state of Georgia came to present me a
sane cut from the battlefield with the
lanes of three Union and three Con-
Lederate generals on it, One of the
= mon generals, Gen. Boynton, was
showing me around the field One of
me confederate generals. Gen. Joe
wheeler, had been my chief in the
spanish war (applause). Yesterday we
stopped at little station in Tennes-
see and among those who gathered
~ greet me was an old fellow who
MAD worn the gray. He said: was
one OF Wheeler's boys 1 said: SO
was /. daughter and applause.)
His Non-sectionaI views.
1t is good thing for an American
resident to have the chance to travel
through the different sections of the
- uhtry, because 1t is a mighty good
tMhg for any American to meet his
4eioW Americans at different parts of
ne country in order that he may re-
1ilze now trivial are the points of I'M
HKeness and how essential are the
FONTS of likeness. (Applsuse.) A good
american is good American. and
Ioh care snap of my finger whether
ne comes from the North or the South
VI the East or the West If he is
Sualght and decent man | am for him.
ana II he is not. am not. applause
On, my friends, the lesson of broth
erhood, the lesson that is taught by
Euch a greeting as I am receiving at
ms moment, the lesson that is taught
whenever YOU see valiant and true men
VINO wore the blue meet valiant and
rue men who wore the gray and shake
hands with them. that lesson applies
through all our national life, and it
"pphes just as much in forming
Judgment between class and class as
bctween section and section. We never
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