The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-04-09
1t Begins at Charleston With a
Big Procession.
Speeches in the Exposition
Building Follow.
ROOSEVELT SPEAKS.
Talks Of the War Of Cuba and
of Trusts.
Presents a Sword to Major
Micah Jenkins.

Charleston, S. c., April 9.-This IS
Presidents day" at the exposition. The
events of the day began with grand
procession through the principal streets
of Charleston and afterwards there
We're speeches in the exposition auditor
ium. the presentation of a sword by the
president to Major Micah jenkins. a
luncheon at the womans building and
inspection of the grounds and buildings.
The parade was the most imposing that
Charleston has ever seen. Beside the
president and distinguished visitors, I.
S. artinerymen. U. S. marines and jack
les. there We're soldiers from various
states and cadets from two military
academies
The procession moved from the St
John Hotel promptly at 10 O'Clock and
proceeded UP Meeting street to Calhoun,
through Calhoun to Rutledge avenue,
thence nOrthward to Grove street and to
the exposition gates. The march was
continued through the Grove street gate
and then around the court of palaces
The presidential party was driven d.
rectly to the exposition auditorium
where the president reviewed the troops
from a platform erected at that point
The presidents salute of 4 guns was
fired by the German artillery on the
entrance Of the president into the eX-
position grounds.
al llNQu AnE ltltHlQEl4L IIOtEeuEQ from
the reviewing stand into the auditorium
where the formal ceremonies took place.
Addresses were made by Captain f.
w. Wagner, president of the South
Carolina Interstate and West Indian
Exposition company Governor Nc
Sweeney of South Carolina. Governor
Aycock of North Carolina, Mayor Smyth
Of Charleston and the president of the
ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.
President Roosevelt spoke as follows.
1T is to me a peculiar privilege to
speak here i'm your beautiful city My
mothers people We're from Georgia; but
before they came to Georgia, before the
revolution in the days of Colonial rule,
they dWelt for nearly a century in
South Carolina and therefore / can
claim your state as mine by inheritance
40 less than by the stronger and nObler
right which makes each foot of Ameri-
can soil in sense the property of all
Americans.
Charleston is not only a typical south
ern city. it is also city whose history
teens with events which link tnem-
selves TO American history as a whole
In the early Colonial days. Charleston
was the outpost of our people against
the SDaniard in the south. Ia the days
of the revolution there occurred here
some Of the events which vitality affect
ed the outcome of the struggle for inde-
pendence and which in pressed them
selves most deeply upon the popular
liiAALtA- III Was mere lllaL llG tremendous.
terrible drama OF the civil war opened.
With delicate and thoughtful courtesy
you originally asked me to come to this
exposition on the birthday of Abraham
Lincoln. The invitation not only show
ed q fine generosity and manlinesS in
you, my hosts but it also emphasized
what hardly anything else could have
emphasized, how completely we are now
a united people The wounds left by
the great civil war, ncOmparatively the
80 M
healed, and its memories are now price
less heritages of honor alike TO the
north and to the south. The devotion.
the Self-sacrfice. the steadfast resolu-
tion and lofty daring, the high devotion
TO the right as each man saw it, whetE-
er n0rtherner or sOUtEerner-al these
qualities of the men and women of the
early sixties now shine luminous and
brilliant before our eyes, while the mists
of anger and hatred that once dimmed
them. have passed away forever
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
All of us. north and south can glory
alike in the valor of the men who wore
the blue and of the men who wore the
gray. Those We're iron times, and only
iron men could fight to its terrible finish
the giant struggle between the hosts of
Grant and Lee To us of the present day
au0 TO our children and chiIdren's child
rem, the valiant deeds the high endeav-
or and abnegation of self shown in that
struggle, by those who took part there
in. viii remain fOrevermore to mark
the level to which We in our turn must
rise whenever the hour of the nation 5
need may come.
When four years ago this nation was
compelled to face a foreign foe, the
completeness of the reunion became in
stantly and strikingly evident
The war was not one which called for
the exercise of more than an insignia
cant fraction of our strength, and the
strain put upon US was slight indeed
xii b
satisfactory thing to see the way in
which the sons of the soldier of the
union and the soldier Of the cOnfederacy
leaped eagerly forward. emulous to show
in brotherly rivalry the qualities which
had won renoWn for their fathers the
men Of the great war. Tt was my good
fortune to serve under an ex-cOnfed-
crate general, gallant old JO Wheeler
Sfo commanded the cavalry division al
Santiago.
In my regiment there certainly were
as many whose fathers had served II
the southern as there were men whose
fathers had served in the northern army
Among the captains there was oppor-
tunity to promote but one to field rank
The man who was singled out for this
promotion because of conspicuous gal
lautry in the field. was the son of a con
federate general and was himself a citi-
zen of this the Palmetto state. and nc
American officer could wish to marcf
to battle beside more loyal. gallant
and absolutely fearless comrade thar
my former captain and major your fel
low citizen, Micah Jenkins
AS TO LUKE WRISHT
few months ago owing to the en-.
forced absence Of the governor of the
Philippines. it became necessary tt
nominate a vice governor to take hi.
place-one Of the more important place.
I'm our government at this time. I nom
mated as governor confederate gen
eral. Luke Wright Of Tennessee 1t i.
therefore a confederate who now stand!
as the exponent of this government ane