New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-20
PRESIDENT IN SOUTHLAND
CROSSES THE C4ROLINAS.
Discusses Railroads and Forestry at
Rdeigh-PreSents Prize.
By Telesraph 70 The Tribune, ]

Charlotte n. c. Oct 19-President Roose-
velt-s second day in Dixie period of dusty
Toll Of sightseeing OF cheers. of footing whistles
end ~ brief band concerts composed impair
TALLY Of Northern and Southern war tunes
Yesterday the aristocracy of the Confederacy
turned itself loose and claimed him its own
in sptrit and in blood. To-day the tilers Of
,ha cotton fields made him welcome to their
humble homes with almost much vigor Of
demonstration. II the crowds at Raleigh. at
Durham at High Point. Greensboro and Char
lo-+e were not so loud in their cheering as those
at Richmond. the fact was explained by the
geography. He talked to slow moving country
folk to-day, men and women who had travelled
scores OF miles behind rawboned horses. over
half picked fields Of cotton, TO see him. They
are not a volatile people in the old north State,
br+ their approving faces even more than their
shouts Of approbation showed how near the
President IS TO their hearts, and in the course
Of time, when they have digested his words for
months or years. the sermons he preached them
will bear frut-
At Durham he greeted the workers who make
a large proportion OF the smoking tobacco that
fs consumed in this country. At High Point he
talked to the furniture makers. And at Little
Lexington he spoke TO three hundred orphan
children vvh, sang him songs and waved flags
Just as merrily as though they had an equal
start In life with the youngsters OF the finest
homes Lexington, by the way. is the seat or
Davidson County, the only one in the whole
State Of North Carolina that turned in ma
jority for Roosevelt last fall while electing the
Democratic candidates by the accustomed para
lying proportion.
Charlotte the last prearranged stop on
the schedule. and this evening the Presidents
train is rolling through South Carolina To-
morrow morning he will awake in Georgia and
will spend the entire day in the State. begin
ming with a visit to Roswell. the home Of his
mother.
A pretty incident Of the day occurred at ChdI-
lotte When Mrs Stonewal Jackson, widow
Of the great Confederate chieftain, came to the
train 10 pay her respects to Mrs Roosevelt
Mrs Roosevelt not only left the train to see Mrs
Jackson. but insisted upon returning the call
then and there. Accompanied by several OF
Mrs. Jacksons friends. she made the little trip
10 the home of the venerable lady. which Is
within q couple of blocks OF the station. ana re-
maned for about fifteen minutes. Mrs Jackson
and her friends returned to the train with Mrs.
Roosevelt and bade her goodby at the steps of
the private car Signet.
The citizens Of Charlotte are in fever Of in
dignation tonight because they had so little
Of the Presidents time. They assign the fact
70 the deep laid plottings Of the people OF
Raleigh and Colonel Andrews. vice-president OF
the Southern Railway. In an open letter Mayor
McNfnsh of Charlotte charges Colonel Andrews
with working for Raleigh. Colonel Andrews as
serts that he had nothing DO with the sched-
ule and the town goes TO sleep this evening
as Two hostile camps, one supporting the Mayor
and the other backing the railroad man.