The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-12-03
PRES'T ROOSEVELT
 CORDIALLY INVITED
Commercial Club Adopts Reso-
 Iution Assuring Hospitality
COMMITTEE IS APPOINTED
This Committee VIII See President and Ascertain # lie Will Be Able to Visit 6IrmIngham--FormaI ln-
 vitaton Later.

At the meeting of the Commercial club yesterday afternoon a resolution was unanimously adopted inviting President Roosevelt to visit Birmingham on his southern trip and assuring him that his reception here would be marked by genu- inc cordiality and hospitality.
 A committee, consisting of Internal Rev enue Collector J. o. Thompson, Postmas- ter J. W. Hughes, Joseph H. Montgomery and J. B. Cobbs, was named to go to Washington and ascertain at what time the President would see larger com mittee appointed to extend the formal in- vitation to the President. The commit tee will probably go the early part of next week, and after its return President Jackson will name committee of twenty five representative citizens who will ex- tend the formal invitation.
 The resolution passed was offered by President Jackson of the club, and was unanimously endorsed with applause. It is as follows:
 The Resolution.
 Resolved, That we the members of the Commercial Club of Birmingham have heard with sincere pleasure that Presi- dent Roosevelt will visit the south in the coming spring, and that the course of his journey will bring him to Birming- ham. We beg to assure him that he will find the people of the south everywhere cherish and retain their ancient virtue of hospitality, and are as proud as their ancestors were of being part, and "big" part of the great republic. Especially in Birmingham, the most modern and enterprising city in the south, and the largest city of its size in the world, will the President of the United States meet such a welcome as will leave no doubt in his mind that the old cordiality and open hearted patriotism of the south have been emphasized instead of weak ened by the march of industrial prog ress.
 'We recognize in the dormant charac- teristics of President Roosevelt his thor oughness, his virile strength, his hon esty or purpose, and his habit of success, the very qualities that are carrying Birmingham to the front of the strenuous life of the twentieth century"
 Collector Thompson's Speech.
 Collector Thompson was asked to speak and The assured the club that he believed the president would come to Birmingham. He said;
 Tt is no surprise to me that the pro- gressive city of Birmingham is ready to throw wide her gates in welcoming President Roosevelt, knowing that she of all the cities of the south, most feels the potent prosperity arising from his wise administration of republican prin- ciples and policies. It Is a genuine pleas ure for me to anticipate the mutual good will and more perfect understanding that will grow out of the meeting of the Pres ident and the southern people.
 "In that meeting the people of the south will realize that the man who presides over the destinies of this nation is in every essential southern man, honest, brave and true, and that he in- herited from that little Georgia mother not only warm affection for the south but also the very impetuosity of which the south has most complained.
 Tn the past two years it has been my lot to discuss many questions pertaining to the south with the President, and at all times he has expressed a deep regret that the people so near to his heart should so thoroughly misunderstood him. feel that much good will be done by the people of Birmingham in their whole souled and splendid way to impress upon the people of the north in the royal en- tertalnment of the President, and that Vardamanism in the south is no way rep resents the sentiment of the best people of Birmingham and Alabama. (Warm ap- plause)
 q feel that much good will come to 4ISt fff,, of fIo ioIf uf chief executive of the nation."