The news & observer., 1905-10-27

blance of this yell. The President
seemed pleased with the effort.
The President spoke substantially
as follows:
THANK Heaven we are free now
from all the danger of territorial an
tagonisms. Now we must see that
there shall never come any antagon-
sms of the classes or antagonisms be-
tween capital and labor. Treat each
man according to his worth as a man.
Don't hold for or against him that he
is either rich or poor. But if he is
rich and crooked hold it against him :;
if not rich, but crooked, then hold it
against him. But if he is a square
man stand bv him. Distrust all who
would have any one class placed be-
fore any other. Other republics have
fallen because of the unscrupulous
rich or the unscrupulous poor who
gained ascendency. who substituted
loyalty to a class for loyalty 70 the
people as a whole
Bestiality and Lyncl,iags
Referring to the negro problem.
which Governor Davis had alluded, the
President said:
THE worst enemy of the negro race
is the negro criminal and above all the
criminal of the hideous type so often
hideously avenged. Every reputable
colored man owes the duty to himself
and to his race to hunt down that
criminal. Now as to the white mans
side: Now to avcnge one hideous
crime by another is to reduce the
avenger to the bestial level. Another
thing which makes this lynch law q
abhorrent is that three fourths of the
Games for which it is invoked are for
others than that against the women
of the country. Governor, you and
and all others in authority owe it to
our people to drive out the reproach
and the menace of lynch law in the
United States.
I'VE can afford to be divided en-
questions of mere partisanship for
comparatively the difference in tar
iff and the currency are of no con-
sequence. If after all the real ques-
ton is that of decency in the life Of
the home and honesty in public life.
1t makes little difference in the long
run whether a Democrat or a Repub-
lican is President. but it makes every
difference to have all our public Off
Gals honest and clean. The candi-
date is the candidate of the party, but
the President, if he is worth his SAT-,
is the President of the whole peolple
You cannot get good public life unless
you have good private life"
The Presidential party passed
through the streets densely packed
with cheering men, women and chiE-
dren. to the Albert Pike Consistory
where the luncheon was given.
Judge U. NJ. Rose, formerly presi-
dent of the American Bar Association
in an address said that President Roo
seyelt had proved himself the Presi-
dent of no political party, but the pres
ident of every man, woman and child
under the protection of the American
flag. The President joined in the ap-
plause which greeted the remark.
He Speaks Again.
The President was wildly cheercd
as he rose to respond. He spoke rs
follows:
The President in his address dis
cussed certain legal abuses by which
criminals escape punishment. He
said:
1--WE urgently need in this country
methods for expediting punishment,
methods for doing away with delay,
methods which will secure to the pub
lie an even chance with the criminal.
At the present the right of appeal is
in certain cases abused as to make it
a matter of the utmost difficulty uiti-
mately to punish a man sufficiently
rich or sufficiently influential to COM
mand really good legal talent
''If the law is reasonably speedy and
reasonably sure, it takes away one
great excuse for lawlessness. II some
horrible crime is committed and the
people feel that under the best Cir
cumstances there will he an indefinite
delay in the punishment OF the crimi-
nal and that the punishment will be
even when the time for adj
ministering it comes, then a premium
is put upon that kind of law breaking,
w M "A
menace to the law.
Il earnestly hope that some sub
stantial improvement shall be made
in the direction of securing greater
expedition and greater certainty in the
administration of justice, especially to
the administration of criminal JUS
tice."
AS the President sat down the cur
tain back of where he was seated as
cended. and a tableauX was presented.
boys, each attired in Il
sailor suit formed a group. which
spectacle won the Presidents ap-
pIause.
He rose and said he believed his
knew how he felt about the
navy of the United States. The Navy
of our country, he said, was the Unit
ed States "big stick which would
never be used against the weak unles.;
lliS wan put lIlCHlSClNCS III pOSl-
tion like a bad child wherein chas-
tisement was necessary. He added
that the "big stick" would be kept in
such condition that the necessity for
its use against the strong would never
arise.
Lieutenant Governor Lee responded
to toast "The State of Aransas' and
the Presidential party went to the
Rock Island station along a route
which was lined with people. The
special train left for Memphis at four
o oclock.
Half loaf is better than loafing all