The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1905-10-26
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
At ROSWELL, GA,
He visits the Home Where
His 1Otf1er was FLAIR
ried.

/ place last FRIDAY.
The Gem City Band, Mr. G. E. Hem
derson, leader played popular and
| patriotic airs, and an ovation was given
that viii be memorable in the history
of that town Sheriff w. I. Frey with
mounted police was there to see that
the President had the proper safeguard
| President Roosevelt carried out his
long cherished plan Of visiting the home
of his mother Roswell, Ga. One of
his reasons for coming South was that
he might see the old homestead where
his mother spent her girlhood and
which she left happy bride.
The President reached Roswell at
1880 a. M, and was Joined there by
Senator and Mrs. Clay who were his
guests at breakfast. He then entered
carriage and was driven to the man
sion. Mr.. j. b. Wing, a merchant,
| owns the old mansion and lives in it
| with his sister. Here the President
was greeted by two old servants who
lived on the place during his mothers
young womanhood. One of these is
aunt Grace" who acted as maid to
| Miss Martha Bulloch, who afterward
became 4.rs. Theodore Roosevelt, and
the other is William Jackson, who dec
grated the mansion on the occasion of
the marriage of its young mistress. The
President vas deeply touched as he
shook the hands of these old survivors,
In company with Mrs. Roosevelt he
then inspected the house, calling to the
attention of the company many Incl
dents connected with his mothers
childhood. Before leaving the mansion
he posed with Mrs. Roosevelt for pic
ture which included Aunt Grace" and
Daddy William"
From the homestead, the President
was driven to the town park where
stand had been erected from which he
delivered an address.
The President was welcomed to Ros-
well by Chas. NJ. Reed, student of
Mercer University, of Macon, who in
the course of a well chosen address.
said the only reason he could see for
the selection Of himself to deliver this
welcome was because of the Presidents
well known fondness for having young
men identified with affairs. Senator
A. S. Clay introduced the President,
who was enthusiastically greeted as
he arose to speak.
THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH.
Senator, and you, my friends, whom
it is hard for me not to call my neigh
bors, for : feel as if you we're:
"You can have no idea of how much
it means to me to come back to Ros-
we'll, to the home of my mother and of
my mothers people and to see the spot
which l already know SO well from
what my mother and my aunt have
told me. 1t has been exactly as if I
were revisiting some old place of nv
childhood. 1t has meant very much
to me- to be introduced by Senator CLAW,
Senator Clay has been altogether too
kind in what he has said about me.
Now am going to say nothing what
ever but the bare facts about Senator
Clay, and those facts amount to this:
Ii the average man 1 had to deal with
in public life possessed Senator Claws
firm devotion to what he deems right
my task would be so easy that it would
not be worth mentioning. l have gone
to Senator Clay for advice nd counsel
and help ever since I have been in
Washington, just as went to Senator
Cockrell, of Missouri, while he was in
the senate, with the certainty that all
l had to do was to convince him that
what wanted done was right could
not always convince him-but il did
convince him that was the end of it.
he went that way.
"Oh, my friends, hardly like to say
how deeply my heart is moved by COM
ing back here among you, Among the
earliest recollections / have as a child
in hearing from my mother and my
aunt, Miss Annie Bulloch, as she then
was, about Roswell, of how the Pratts,
the Kings, the Dunwoodys and BulIochs
came here first to settle; about the old
homestead, the house on the hill about
the Chattahoochee, about all kinds and
sorts of incidents that would not inter-
est you, but interested me a great deal
when was d child All those stories
OF the childhood of my mother taught
me what a real home life, real neigh
life, was and should be. Looking
back now at what | learned through
those stories of the childhood of nv
mother, my aunt, my uncles, can un-
derstand why the boys and girls of
Roswell of that time grew up to be
men and women who were good SER
wants OF the community, who were good
husbands, good fathers, good wives and
good mothers; how it was that thew
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