Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-09-09

|,rrs SPEECH IN SHOWER
Few Boquets Among
w.. T,ou...sesns- visits widow
Of psrson Brownlow'

,,,,s Tenn, Sept. s.-Athens was
Wv, a, AIS a short stop peihs
IN, and where the party was s'e''"
bv large crowd - ,oaa
A 'Rlcsviie where a STOP p. was as ', "rst
's,sr. the president for the iirs'
since he started out on ' his s sua,,
n' ..,a shoOk hands with those ABOUT
s s' It has been his custom to re,
:, from handshaking, but when a
~ :" n tne crowd asked him to shake axe,
I, u. ,he president said: well ln,S
a' a,s al crowd and l viii shake your
Lsa," He told the people he had oeen
!. ~, the battlefield of chckamau as,
aid II a man were half an Ani Sa,
sa'u ao,,J moi help becoming q pet
citizen after such q TRIP
IN KNOXVILLE.
,.,s,asr, Roosevelt brayed the ele-
.,s i o,e this afternoon ana IN de-
s uas N a hard rainstorm was driven
lpcs VI he streets lined with people
y .tand on Main street, nearly a n,l'e
am the depot, where he spoke 10 ~,
VD n. ~" Who stood in a drenching
!, r IKE presidential party arrived AT
Sslock and was met by large re-
.ption committee, the SIKH regiment
M and a battalion Of militia.
/ ii,,r the president had stated that
. s~,ld stand the storm to see the
NJ Il the people could stand 1t 10
Kim carriages were taken and, pre-
IA Nv the troops, the procession
Doyei up the main business street 10
(. speaker's stand. erected In front OF
Women's building, All along the
n Of march the president STOOD Win
lrd head bowling 10 the cheering
brong. 49,,
Introduced by Congressman Henry
Gibson of this district, as a man VINO
kublned all the sterling traits OF char-
k,r Of Andrew Johnson, Andrew
5.ckscn and James Knox Polk, Presi-
IN Roosevelt thanked the people FOR
Inning out in such weather. lie con-
klued:
PRESIDENTS ADDRESS.
4 want to say how much ! apprcci-
he your having come out TO see me and
take II that your National Guard are
'ot fair weather soldiers. II has been
in Inspiration 10 come through east
tennessee today as have. | am sor-
y for my sake that the rain should
ave come at this particular moment,
ut you needed 1t, and | am glad you
ave got II.
Yesterday j spent the time going ov-
r the great battlefields OF Chickamau-
a and Chattanooga, partly within the
boundaries of your own state and part
y within the boundaries of my mothers
tate Of Georgia.
Nov come here along the upper
waters Of the Tennessee TO the seat Of
he first community settled by the peo-
Ne OF our stock on the waters which
low into the Gulf of Mexico. 1t was six
'ears before the outbreak OF the revo-
utionary war that the first little set
lement out Of which grew the state OF
Tennessee was founded and II was
here In this region that the mounted
Ilfemen gathered under the leadership
" SEWER, the shaft In memory Of whom
you see there-gathered to go across
NE mountains and strike at Kings
mountain the decisive blow which In the
nd freed the Southern States In the
evolutionary war. Right from the be-
rfnlng the Tennesseeans showed them-
trd freed the Southern states In the
uy In which they proved their ability
beonlend In time Of peace. Great has
ven Tennessee's share in war and
pace.
Because, my fellow countrymen.
vale you have been a great agriculture
tslale while YOU are now rapidly be-
unlng In this section one OF the great
q Industrial centers Of the entire
qshlfy' you have acted throughout
,n credit. While It is great to pro-
ee works Of man Il Is greater to
Feiuce man himself.
VISA great thing to have factory,
nine, a railroad. but greatest of ali
Wy . have the high average citizen
NY u the community That you have
%.nsn with the power TO produce the
.'.Ml virtues and the rougher virtues
uneeds be.
tennessee has won her place-the