Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-04-09
PRESIDENT 5 Day
AI CHARLESTON
Events Of the Day Opened With
Mafificent Parade Thru
Streets Of Charleston.
Roosevelt Delivers an Address
and Presents Sword to
Mayor jenkins.
The Presidents Speech Notable
for His Utterance On Trust
Question.

for His Utterance On Trust
Question.
Charleston, April 9.--This is 'Presi-
dent,s Day, at the exposition. The
events of the day began with a srahu
nrocession thruout the principal streets
of Charleston. The parade was the
most important Charleston has ever
seen. Besides the president and dis
+,n.,,,shed visitors, United States ar
tu,ervmen. marines and jackies there
were soldiers from various states ana
cadets from the two military academ-
ies~.The president reviewed the troops
fron, the platform near the auditorium
at the exposition grounds. salute
of twenty-one guns was hred py the
artillery on the entrance OF the presl-
dant into the exposition grounds, Al
noon the president proceeded from the
reviewing stand into the auditorlui'
where the formal ceremonies occurreu' l
Addresses were made by Captain =. w.
waeener. president Of the expositlon
company. Governor McSweeney. Oh
South Carolina, Governor Aycock; OF
North Carolina, Mayor Smyth, OF
r,har,eston and the president OF the
United States. -
The president spoke as follows:
AFT is to me a peculiar privilege TO
sneak here in your beautiful city. MY
mothers people were from Georsia' ou.
before they came to Georgia, oeiore tie
revolution, in the days OF colonial RUE
they dwelt for nearly century IN
South Carolina; and therefore can
claim your state as mine by lnnerl- :
tnnce no less than by the stronger anu
roblar right which makes eacn toot OF >.
American soil in sense the properly OF
oil Americans.
"Charleston IL not only typical
southern city; 1t Is also city whose
history teens with events which link
themselves to American history as
whole. In the early colonial days
Charleston was the outpost of our peo-
p,e against the Spaniard in the south.
In the days OF the revolution there oc-
Cured here some Of the events which
vitality affected the outcome Of the
struggle for independence. and which
Impressed themselves most deeply upon
the popular mind. It was here that
the tremendous, terrible drama Of the
civil war opened.
with delicate and thoushtful court
esy you originally asked me to come to
this exposition on the birthday Of Abra-
ham Lincoln. The invitation not only
showed a fine generosity and manli-
ness in you, my hosts. but 1t also em-
rhasized what hardly anything else
could have emphasized how completely
we are now united people. The
wounds left by the great civil war. In
comparably the greatest war of modern
times, have healed: and Its memories
are now priceless heritages of honor
alike TO the north and to the south. The
devotion, the self-sacrifice. the stead
fast resolution and lofty daring, the
high devotion to the right as each man
saw 1t, whether northerner or southern-
er-all these qualities OF the men and
women Of the early sixties now shine
luminously and brilliantly before our
eyes. while the mists OF anger and ha-
tired that once dimmed them have
passed away forever.
"All Of us, north and south, can glory
alike In the yalof of the men who wore
the Blue and of the men who wore the
Gray. Those were iron times and only
iron men could fight to its terrible fin
ish the giant struggle between the hosts
CT Grant and Lee. To us OF the present
day and to our children and childrens'
children the valiant deeds. the high en-
oh nF al cl,o
In that struggle by those who took part
therein-will remain for evermore to
mark the level to which we in our turn
must rise whenever the hour Of the ma
tons need may come.
when four years ago this nation was
compelled to face foreign foe, the
completeness of the reunion became in
stantly and strikingly evident. The war
was not one which called for the exer-
else of more than an Insignificant frac-
ton Of our strength, and the strain put
upon US was slight, indeed, compared
with the results. But 1t was satisfac-
tory thing to see the way in which the
sons Of the soldier of the union and the
soldier Of the confederacy leaped eager
~ forward, emulous to show in brother
ly rivalry the qualities which had won
renown for their fathers, the men Of the
great war. 1t was my good fortune to
serve under an confederate general,
gallant old Joe Wheeler, who COM
manded the cavalry division at San
tiago
In my regiment there were certainly
as many men whose fathers had served
In the southern as there were men
whose fathers had served in the north.
crn army. Among the captains there
was an opportunity to promote but one
to field rank. The man who was sin.
gled out for this promotion because Of
conspicuous gallant1y in the field was
the son of asconfederate general ana
was himself citizen Of this, the Pal
n1etto state; and no American officer
should wish to march to battle beside q
more loyal, gallant and absolutely fear
less comrade than my former captain
and major, your fellow citizen, Micau
Jenkins.
"A few months ago. owing to the en-
forced absence of the governor of the
Philippines, 1t became necessary to
nominate vice governor to take his
place--one of the more important
places in cur government at this time.
nominated as vice governor an ex-
confederate, General Luke Wright, 81