The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25
SOUTHERN WHITES MUST
 SOLVE THE RACE PROBLEM
In Speech to Negroes of Washington's School, President Makes Clear His Views on the
 Future of The Blacks.

He had shown his pleasure and his appreciation of the showing of the ne- gro students as they passed in the parade before him as he stood on the reviewing stand.
 In the chapel he turned to Booker Washington, Principal of the Insti- tute. T cannot find words, MT. Wash ington, to tell you how deeply I have been impressed, how much I have been pleased with what have seen here. I had expected much. but had not ex- pected as much as l saw Before l what 1t was doing. I stood for the Tuskegee Institute. Now that I have seen 1t, now that I have known what 1t is,. I will stand for it more than ever."
 He was given a wildly enthusiastic greeting on the Institute grounds. A great crowd of negroes had assembled, the students and working force Of the Institute and thousands of negroes who had come in on foot. in every manner of vehicle and on excursion . ,s. .han .raiss. 900 negroes on the ground and the throng embraced every type of negro that could be found in the South. The country negro, the city negro, the edu- cated negro. the ignorant negro and the prosperous negro stood shoulder to shoulder to cheer Theodore Roosevelt.
 Tn the City of Tuskegee.
 The ancient and cultured little city of Tuskegee wore a gala dress to honor the President of the United States. The town is famed for its hospitality, and it is famed for the educated and refined people who make up its small but high class citizenship, for Tuskegee was a famous educational center nearly half century before brick was laid for the great stretch of handsome buildings that now form the Negro Normal ln- stitute, in the outskirts of the town
 The people who were so cordial in their greeting to the loved and lament ed Mckinley was no less warm and sim cere in the honor they paid the Presi- dent of the United States. The town was swathed In red. white. blue and starry banners. Especially handsome were the decorations of the old Thomp- son home, the home from which went Charles W. Thompson, Democratic Con gressman, and J. o. Thompson, Repuhli- can referee for the President in Ala bama. A costly new court house is being erected on the public square. and this, too, bore it's ornament of bunt- ing Across it's walls, in great letters, was the single word. Delighted" At the entrance of the public square tall and graceful arch had been erected upon q base of piled up cotton bales Across the square a similar arch with d
 were gay with flags and bunting.
 Campus of Female College.
 The spot selected for the greeting or the President of the United States is one of the most beautiful in the state, the campus of the Alabama Confsrence Female College. The curved walks, the splendid shade trees. with the bun walls of the historic old institution in the back ground. never. perhaps, pre- sented a handsomer picture. It was generally understood that the reception here was exclusively for the white peo- pie of Tuskegeel and of the State. From the wide gate at the northern end or the yard a rope had been stretcheo s around the walk to a,point in front O, the platform. A detail or ~, ! gnardsnen from Company "K," the Tuskegee company, formed an escort oi honor for the President from the oepo' to the college campus. .. ,n A huge platform had been built m