The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-20

what my mother and my aunts have
told me. It has been exactly as if I
were revisiting some old place of my
childhood. 1t has meant very much to
me to be introduced by Senator Clay.
Senator Clay has been altogether too
kind in what he said about me- Now,
I am going to say nothing whatever
but the bare facts about Senator Clay.
and those facts amount to this: If the
average man had to deal with in
public life possessed Senator Gays
firm devotion to what he deems right,
my task would be so easy that it would
not be worth mentioning. I have gone
TO Senator Clay for advice and coun-
sci and help ever since I have been
in Washington. just as 1 went to Sen
ator Cockreu of Missouri, While he was
in the senate, with the certainty that
all I had to do was to convince him
that what I wanted done was right
could not always convince hinl-but if
l did convince him that was the end
of the went that way.
1T has been my very good fortune
to have the right to claim that my
blood is half southern and half north
ern and I would deny the right of any
man here to feel a greater pride in the
deeds of every S0utherner than / feel.
OF the children, the brothers and sis
teFs of my mother who We're born and
brought UP in that house on the hill
my two uncles afterwards entered the
confederate service and served in the
man. served on the Alabama as the
youngest officer aboard her. He was
captain of one of her bFOadside 3
Founders in her final fight and when
at the very end the Alabama WAS
sinking and the Kearsarge passed UNI
der her stern and came up along the
side that had not been engaged hither-
to my uncle, Irwin Bulloch, shifted his
gun from one side to the other and
fired the last two shots fred from the
Ala bama.
Admiral BuIIoch
Games Dunwoody Bulloch was an
admiral in the confederate service.
OF all the people whom I have ever
met he was the one that came nearest
to that beautiful creation of Thack-
cray Colonel Newcomb. Men and
women. don't you think that I have
the ancestral right to claim a proud
kimship with those who showed their
devotion to duty as they saw the duty,
whether they wore the gray or Wheth-
err they wore the blue? All Americans
who are worthy the name feel an
equal pride in the Valor of those who
fought on one side or the other pro-
vided only that each did with all his
might and soul and mind his duty as
il was given him to see his duty"
The president was next driven to
the old Presbyterian church in which
his grandfather James Bulloch was
once a leading member Mr.. Bulloch
dropped dead in this church while
teaching Sunday school class in
l&49. and among those present IN the
church today were three members of
that class who were present ut the
time. The venerable pastor of the
church, Rev. DR.. E. W. Baker, offered
PRAYER and the president and Mrs
Roosevelt then shook hands with a
mum Der of the townspeople, many of
whom had known the presidents
mother.
The reception of the president at
q. 117 Of n ,,
cordial one. The people greeted him
both as president and as the son OF
their neighbor. Many were the kind
references to his mother from those
who knew her and many were the ex-
pressions of good viii toward her
distinguished son.