The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-09

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 business
street to the speakers stand erected IN
front of the woman's building. All
along the line of march the president
stood with barred head, bowling to the
cheering throngs.
introduced by Congressman Henry r.
Gibson of this district. as a man VINO
combined all the sterling traits of char
acter of Andrew Johnson, Andrew jack
son and James Knox Polk, President
Roosevelt thanked the people for coming
out in such weather. He continued:
Il want to say how much l appre-
ciate your having come out to see me,
and I take it that your national guard
are not fair weather soldiers
1T has been an inspiration to come
through east Tenn q see today as have.
/ am sorry for my sake that the rain
should have come at this particular
moment, but you needed it,. and I am
glad You have got it. lApplause)
over the great battiefeids of Chick
amauga and Chattanooga, partly within
the boundaries of your own state, and
partly within the boundaries of my
mothers state of Georgia.
Now 1 come here along the upper
waters of the Tennessee, to the seat of
the first community settled by the. peo-
pie of our stock on the waters which
flow into the gulf of Mexico. 1t was six
years before the outbreak of the revolu-
tionary war that the first little settle
ment out of which grew the great state
of Tennessee was founded, and it was
here in this region that the mounted
rifiemen gathered under the leadership
of Sewer, the shaft in memory of whom
you see there-gathered to go across the
mountains and strike at Kings noun
tain the decisive blow which in the end
tionary war. (Applause). Right from
the beginning the Tennesseeans showed
themselves to be typical Americans In
the way which they proved their ability
to contend in time of peace. Great has
been Tennessee's share in the leadership
of the country, alike in war and peace
Because, my fellow countrymen,
while you have been a great agricultural
state, while you are now rapidly be-
coming in this section one of the great
est industrial centers of the entire
country, you have acted throughout
with credit. Though it is great to pro-
duce the works of man, it is greater still
to produce man himself. (Applause).
cit is a great thing to have a factory,
a mine, a railroad, but greatest of all is
to have the high average of citizenship
in the community (Appiause)- That
you have; the men with the power to
produce the gentlest virtues and the
rougher virtues as needs be.
Tennessee has won her place-the
typical Tennesseean stands as embody-
ing so much. We are glad to call him
the typical American because the Ten
nesseean has never shrunk from the
rOughness of life The men who first
came here on the headwaters Of the
tributaries of the Tennessee river built
their little forts The 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
victory worth having if they proved
themselves men enough to wrest that
victory from the throes from savage
men and savage nature. / would pre-
dict to no man for whom I cared the
snap of my finger life of ease. The
man who works is the man to be envied
(Applause). He may work in one way
or he may work in another. I care not
the way in which he works If his work
is worth doing and is well done Gap
plause). / care not if the man work
with his hands or his head. what may
be the line along which he has chosen
to do his work, If his work is worth do
ing and is well done
''At Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge
and Lookout Mountain yesterday 1 saw
the scene of the desperate fighting of
the men who wore the blue and those
who wore the gray.
Now 1 shall try to talk no longer,
won't melt myself-your umbrellas are
say is I am very much obliged to you
for coming out and hope you are one
half as glad to see me as I am to see
you" (Applause).
At this time the storm had broken
with such fury that the presidents
voice could not be heard ten feet from
the stand. The entire party again took
carriages and were driven to the resi-
dence of Mrs. William G. Brownlow.
wife of Tennessee's famous editor. for
| mer governor and United States sena-
tor The president spent several min
utes in conversation with the aged lady.
Then the University of Tennessee was
visited after which the party returned
| to the depot The train pulled out at Z
O'clock for Hot Springs. N. c.