The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-02-14
Notable Speech By the
 Chief Executive.
APPEALS TO THE NORTH
South Not Alone Responsible
 for Conditions.
In Masterly. Effort at Lincoln Dinner in New York, the Nations Head Submits His Views of
 the Situation.

New York, Feb. 1s.-President Roose- welt received an enthusiastic welcome at Jersey City on the arrival of his special train. from Washington th4s af- ternoon. A crowd that had waited m the ferry house for half an hour joined in cheering with another that had gath cred in the Pennsylvania train shed while the President and his party were escorted through the station to the ferry boat which carried him to West Twenty-tnird Street. The trip was marked by no incident. One stop was made. at Philadelphia, and the Presi- dent remained quietly in his car throughout the trip. With the Presi- dent were Police Commissioner McAdoo, William Murphy. chairman of the Re- ception Committee of the Republican Club, and Secretary Loeb. The rest of the party, consisting of Mrs. Roosevelt, Secretary and Mrs. Taft, Mrs. Cowles, Mir. and Mrs. Emlen Roosevelt and Dr. c. F. Stokes. U. s. N.s entered other car riages. Followed by two carriages con taining secret service men and central office detectives and surrounded by a troop of mounted police. the President was driven rapidly across town to Fifth Avenue and thence to the Repub- Iican Club in West Fortieth Street. The
  tous to catch a glimpse of the. Presl- dent, and he was cheered all along the line.
 Both at Jersey City and on the New York side the police precautions were on a somewhat more extensive scale than at any previous visit of the Pres ident to this city. At the railroad sta : ton in Jersey City, there were large number of uniformed police and plain clothes men and on this side, In ad~ alton to the mounted squad. Commits sioneT McAdoo had ordered out many policemen and detectives.
 The Public Reception
 The President. arrived at the club at { o'clock. The reception lasted two hours. during which time nearly 500 persons greeted the President.
 At the close of the teception, the RwssIdens drove, accompanied by the same escort, to the home of his sister, Mrs. Douglas Robinson. in Madison Avenue. Here. after brief rest, the President dressed for dinner and was driven to the Waldorf, where he arr rived at 7:30 and became the guest of the Republican Club at Its Lincoln dinner.
 AS the guest of honor at the Lincoln dinner President Roosevelt made a speech on the race problem. He ap- pealed to the North to make It's friend ship to the South all the better pc" cause of the embarrassment of condi- tions for which she is not alone re- snonsible." declared that the heartiest acknowledgments are due to the min isters, law officers, grand juries, pub lie men and great daily newspapers n the South who have recently done such effective work in leading the crusade against lynching." and said that the problem was to "so adjust the rela- tions between two races of different ethic types that the backward race be trained so that It may enter into the possession of true freedom. while the forward race is enabled to preserve unharmed the high civilization wrought by its forefathers."
 Following the President, Senator Deliver of Iowa responded to the toast Abraham Lincoln" MT. George A. Knight of California spoke on The Republican Party" and James M. Beck former Assistant Attorney General of the United States, on The Unity of the Republic"
 The dinner was held in the main banquet hall of the Waldorf Astoria and in the number of guests and elab- orateness of decorations is believed to have exceeded. any function of It's character ever held in New York.
 Thirteen Hundred Guests.
 The guests numbered more than 1900 and not only crowded the main ban quet hall, but the Astor Gallery. the Myrtle room and even the foyer on the second floor. the whole of which was used. Among the guests were 216 women who dined in the Astor gallery.
 In the main banquet hall the gal leries were almost entirely hidden by forsythia and laurel, and the tables were laden with Sunset, La France, General Jacquiminot and American Beauty roses. On the walls were fes- toons of American flags and the coat of arms of the States. Back of the speakers table was a large oil paint ing of Lincoln, draped with American flags and surmounted in electric lights with the famous motto: With malice toward none; with charity for all
 In the distinguished company at- tending the banquet were men promi- nent in all the higher walks of life. Among those who sat at the Presidents table were Secretary of War Taft, Eli hu Root, Whitelaw Reid, B. B. Odell Jr, Senator J. P. Deliver, oscar Straus, Andrew Carnegie. Lieutenant General s. B. M. Young (retired). Gen eral o. O. Howard, Brigadier General F. D. Grant. Rear Admiral Joseph B. Coughlan. James NJ. Beck, Nicholas D. murray Butter, PreSident or the Co., lumbia University. and General Gren- vile M. Dodge.
 The speech of President Roosevelt was in full as follows:
 Mfr. ROOsevelt'S Speech.
 Tn his second inaugural, in a speech which will be read as long as the memory of this nation endures, Abra- ham Lincoln closed by saying:
 With malice toward none: with charity for all; with irmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves. and with ali nations"
 Immediately after his reelection he had already spoken thus:
 The strife of the election is but human nature practically applied to the facts of the case. What has occurred in this case must ever recur in similar cases. Human nature will not change, Tn any future great national trial, com pared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong. as silly and as wise. as bad and as good. let ,,a kNaraforA GtudV tha Fuafdaufse nF