The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-22
PRESIDENT WINS
HEART OF DIXIE
AS HAS NO OTHER
Roosevelt Enters Upon Another
Triumph in His Tour
! of South.
SEE sECTIONALIsM'S
COMPLETE: DOWNFALL.
Washingto11ians Note, Too, the
south's Condemnation Of
Vardaman.
By w. w. Jeemane.

Washington, Oct: 21.-.Washington
ID taking a lively interest in the presi-
dent IS south trip because that trip is
making good the many confident pre-
dictions made here before he went
away-prediction that his reception
would be more cordial than that ever
before extended by the south to re-
publican president. III.
9 Fresh from an international triumph
absolutely unique in character and the
universally Of the applause with which
It was hailed, the president has now
entered upon a triumph no less remark
able but in an entirely different field.
The enthusiasm with which he is being
greeted in the south is a tribute that
be may well consider as filing the cup
Of his satisfaction to OVERLOOKING.
L Welcomed Everywhere.
A short time ago, the south, strange
" preoccupied with the incident Of the
Booker Washington luncheon, seemed
arrayed in unbending hostility to Mr..
Roosevelt. Today he is welcomed,
wherever he goes in the states Of the
south, with an enthusiasm with which
no national character has been greeted
= in that region since the days Of Andrew
Jackson and Henry Clay. ~:
cations with the south, he stood by with
Armness and dignity during all the
time the storm against him was blow
ing, ara if he has captured the south
now it Is felt here that it has not been
by any political Cancellation, but be.
cause he has lived down dislike that
record of manly and able conduct
which has outweighed thousandfold
the things the south had against him.
Death of seetionalis1n.
Washington Is taking note Of an
other important piont in connection
with the present trip. That trip il
stamping upon the effeteness Of section
- alism as it has not been stamped upo1
before. .l r ~
Since 1885, when Cleveland becam
president-the first president since tn
civil war who was in fact president o
the entire countryside sectional issu
has been an anachronism. MeKinle.
carried forward the work begun b
Cleveland, and now Roosevelt is en-
gagged in the task of finally destroyinl
the power Of the old appeal to passion
and prejudice-of showing that tn
bloody shirt is now the thinnest o
rags and the rebel yell the faintest o
shrieks
Mr.. Roosevelt's task is the easier be
cause of the universal confidence an
respect he has been able to inspire.
The south is as thoroly in accord wit
his major policies as any section G
north. This is notably true of railroa
rate and insurance matters. Hithert
Che south has held aloof from republ
can administrations and opposed r
publicar legislation solely on the groun
that they were republican. Preside1
Roosevelt's politics, however, a,
neither sectional nor partizan, and tt
south Is beginning to understand tn
- fact.
Awakening Conscience. ...
Public men in this city are tnte
ested, further, in observing that Cove
nor Vardaman is being roundly d
nounced by prominent southern men
his attitude Of unfriendliness to tt
president. It is seen by southerne
that Mississippi is the only state of t.
old south in which the president, duri,
'4@ this trip, will not make a stop or Z
liver an address. The meeting Of co
federate veterans in that state la
night, which resulted in a biting
raignment Of Vardaman, strikes pub
sentiment in Washington as an irdie
tion of an awakening conscience ame
southerners that will greatly assist t
president in his work Of sblotting O
49,, sectional animosities.