The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-11-27
PRESIDENT MAKES
 NOTABLE SPEECH Wants to be President of All
 the People QUOTES LINCOLN FREELY Six Hundred Guests Attend Banquet Given in the Hall of the Alps
 on the Worlds Fair
 Grounds.
QUOTES LINCOLN FREELY

St. Louis. November 26.-The banquet to President Roosevelt rendered by the exposition authorities was served in the main dining hall of the Alps concession, at which 600 guests were present. Presi- dent and Mrs. Roosevelt, accompanied bs' MT. and Mrs Thompson. their hosts, were greeted with cheers and patriotic music. Among the guests besides the President and Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Alice Roosevelt. were the Duke and Duchess of Manchester, Mayor and Mrs. Rolla Wells Governor Dockery of Missouri, Thomas H Carter, Governor-elect J, w. Folk of Missouri, Robert Mccormick, ambassador to Russia, and Governor and Mrs. 1ates of Illinois.
 At the conclusion of the banquet Pres ident Francis introduced the President as the typical American who typifies the objects of American principles"
 President Roosevelt then made the only speech of the evening. saying in part;
 President Roosevelt Speaks.
 "President Francis and You, My Hosts: count It, indeed, a privilege to have had a chance of visiting this mar vicious exposition. l can't sufficiently ex- press my appreciation of it's wonder and It's beauty. It is in very fact, as you, President Francis have said, the greatest exposition of the kind that we have ever seen in recorded history. As l walked today through the buildings and saw what they were and contained what they sig nfied in the way of achievement at home and what they sgnifed in the way of achievement among those great and friendly nations who are represented here, I had but one regret, and that was deep regret-the regret that these could not be made permanent. (Applause)
 "The regret that 1t is impossible to keep these buildings as they are for our child ] ren and for our chidrens children, and all who are to come after as permanent memorial of the greatness of this coun- try I think that the American who grudges dollar that has been spent here is not so far-sighted as he should be It is q great credit to the United States that this exposition should have been carried to so successful a conclu- sion, and of course it is preeminently to Missouri and to St. Louis, and on behalf of all the people of the country for each man in the country has a personal stake in the success of this exposition for It's success reflected credit upon the entire country and therefore on behalf of the people of the nation I wish to express my deep appreciation of the far-sighted 1 tireless, intelligent, disinterested work I that has been done by all who are re- sponsible for this exposition, and more than by all others. to you President
 Francis The country is under great 1 debt of obligation to you and your as- sistants and I am 6lad of this opportun- ity to express, however imperfectly, my sense of this obligation.
 Refers to Tom Benton.
 "A number of years ago I made a par ticular study of one of the great men | t4ac fad to the service of the nation-old Tom I Benton (applause). l have always felt that every man who had the welfare of 1 the nation deep at heart, could find very much by which to profit in the career of I Benton and his fellows of Jacksonian de- mocracy of that day. 1t is curious thing now as time goes by, We are able to sec in the men and in the parties of the past features of the utmost usefulness to the country, even though at the time those men or those parties seemed antagonistic 1 and l wish to say that any good Ameri. l can of the present can find an ncalcuabls amount from which to learn and by whicf | to profit in the principles and the practices | alike of the whigs. who followed the lead of Henry Clay of Kentucky, and those whom they regarded then as the chief ! foes of those very whigs-the democrats who followed the lead of Andrew Jack 1 son of Tennessee and of Tom Benton or l Missouri and of Sam Houston of Texas 1 and perhaps the chief lesson to be learned from the lives of all those men IS i the lesson of broad Amercanlsm, an 1 Americanism that should teach every man I that he Is no true American unless the welfare of each of his countrymen IS dear l to him. and that without the slightest re- 1 gard as to where that countryman lives.
 .Gentlemen, l was reading the other l day a speech made by Abraham Lincoln
 a couple days after he was reelected to l the presidency. and 1 cannot quote It | fully. but 1t ran somewhat like this, As 1 long as I have been in this office, have never willingly planted thorn In any mans bosom. I am gratified greatly that ! -
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