The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-19
PRESIDENT WARMLY
 WELCOMED IN SOUTH
CHEERED TO THE ECHO BY THE CITIZENS OF RICH
 MOND, "A.

Speaks to One of the Greatest Multi
 tudes Ever Assembled in That City
 Pays Fine Tribute to the VaIOr and
 SeIf-sacrifce of the Soldiers of the
 South as We'll as the NOrth-The
 Panama Canal-KindIy Aid RecOm-
 mentled to UpIift Peoples of Islands
 Interest fin Preserving Peace There.
 Richmond, Oct. 1S.-Roosevelt day in Richmond broke with lowering clouds but by 10 o'clock the bright sun shone in clear sky. Business was practical ly suspended at 11:30 o'clock and nearly the whole population was on the street gathered at the station or lining the sidewalk along the route announced for the procession. The decorations of the buildings, public and private, were pro- fuse, in many instances portraits of the president being displayed. At 12 o'clock sharp the presidential train pulled into the main street station, in which the reception committee had gathered Governor Montague, Mayor Mccarthy and Captain w. H. Curtis boarded the presidents car and formal ly welcomed him to Richmond. When the president was escorted to the speakers stand in Capitol Square.
 The procession was headed by de- 1 tail of police and consisted of the Yir- ginia Military Institute cadet corps, Seventeenth regiment Virginia infan- try, Richmond Light infantry Blues, 1 Citizens mounted escort, the president, the governor and mayor in carriages and the reception committee and city council in carriages. The line of march was through some of the prin- cipaI streets to the western part of the city and return to the capitol square,
 Along the route the president was enthusiastically cheered. When the procession arrived at the capitol square the president and party called at the executive mansion and paid their re- spects and then repaired to the speak CTS stand, which was faced by one of the greatest multitudes ever assem- bled in Richmond. Mayor Mccarthy presented the governor, who in a brief and most complimentary speech, the sentiments of which were cheered to the echo, introduced the president, who spoke as follows: @
 The Presidents Address. I trust I need hardly say how great is my pleasure at speaking in this his toric capital of your historic state the state than which no other has contrib uted larger proportion to. the leader ship of the nation; for on the honor roll O those American worthies whose greatness is not only for the age, but for all time, not only for one nation, but for all the world, on this honor roll Virginia's name stands above all oth- ers.' And in greeting all of you, I know that no one will grudge my say ing a special word of acknowledgment to the veterans of the civil war. A man would indeed be but poor Amer ican who could without a thrill witness the way ill which, in city after city in the north as in the south, on every public occasion, the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray now march and stand shoulder to shoulder, giving tangible proof that we are all now in fact as we'll as in name reunited people, a people infinitely richer because of the priceless memo ri:s left to all Americans by you men wka r''sht in the great war. Last Mal.. y I spoke in Brooklyn, at the uG of the statue of a north- ern gsEl 4nder the auspices of the Grand Arl.y of the Republic, and that great audience cheered every allusion to the valor and self-devotion of the men who followed Lee as heartily as they cheered every alIusion to the val or and seIf-devotion of the men who followed 8Grant. The wounds left by the great civil war have iong healed, but it's memories remain. Think of it,
 Continued on Eighth Page.)