Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-21
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT IN GEORGIA
IL visibIy Affected when visitina
Old Home of His Mother.

IL visibIy Affected when visiting
old Home of His Mother.
ROSWELL, Ca, Oct D-Presdent
Roosevelt today carried out his long cher
ished plan Of visiting the home Of hts
mother-Roswell. Ca One Of his reasons
for coming south was that he might sec
the old homestead where his mother spent
her girlhood and which che left a happy
bride. That the visit was fraught with
many tender recollections was evident as
his carriage drove away from the old Bull
loch mansion, where his mother lived and
married. the president murmured to Mrs.
Roosevelt 81 can hardly bear to leave
here"
The president reached Roswell at 1880
this morning and was Joined here by Sen.
ator and Mrs. Clay. who were his guests
at breakfast He then entered a carriage
and was driven to the mansion. This fine
old homestead is now the property Of J.
d. Wing. a lumber merchant Of this sec
ton, who lives in It with his sister, Mrs
Wood, the postmaster OF Roswell.
Meets OLD Servants.
Here he was greeted ny two old servants
who lived on the place during his mothers
young womanhood. One OF these IL Aunt
Grace" who acted as maid to Miss Martha
DhAlOCHt WuO dLteIWhfQ became MIS-. IneO-
dore Roosevelt, and the other is William
Jackson, who decorated the mansion on
the occasion OF the marriage OF it's young
mistress. The president was deeply touched
as he shook the hands Of these old servi-
tors. In company with Mrs. Roosevelt he
then inspected the house, calling to the
attention Of the company many incidents
connected with his mothers childhood. Be-
fore leaving the mansion he posed with
Mrs. Roosevelt for picture, which in
cluded Aunt Grace" and Daddy Will
liam"
From the homestead the president was
driven to THE town park, where a stand
had been erected, from which he delivered
an address. He was welcomed to Roswell
by Charles N. Reed, q student of Mercer
university 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 we'll known fondness for having
young men identified with public affairs.
Senator A. s. Clay introduced the president,
who was enthusiastically greeted as he rose
to speak.
Address by President.
In his address the president said:
You can have no idea of how much il
means to me to come back TO Roswell to
the home of my mother and my mothers
people and TO see the spot which l already
know so well from what my mother and
aunts told me. It has been exactly as II
| we're revlsitins some old place, OF my
Childhood. II has meant very much TO me
TO be introduced by Senator Clay. Senator
Clay has been altogether too kind in what
nothing whatever but tse bare facts about
Senator Clay and those facts amount to
this this II the aXerase man ! had to deal
firm devotion to what he deems right my
task would be so easy that 1t would not be
worth mentioning ! have gone to Senator
ever since have been In Washington Just
as ! went to Senator Cockrell of Missouri
tainty that all had TO do was to convince
that what wanted done was right--I could
not always convince him-but II did con-
vince him that was the end of 1.-THE went
that way.
It has been my very great good fortune
half southern and half northern. and /
would deny the right OF any man here to
feel a greater pride In the deeds OF every
the brothers and sisters Of my mother who
were born and brought up in that house on
the hill there. my two uneies afterward en-
tered the confederate service and served In
the confederate aripy. One, the younger
man, served on the Alabama as the young
est officer aboard her.
He was captain Of one of its broadslde 81
FOUNDERS in its fnal night and when at the
very end the Alabama was sinking and the
up along the side that had not been engaged
hitherto, my uncle, Irving Bulloch, SHIFTED
his gun from one side 10 the other and fired
the two last shots fred from the Alabama:
James Dunwoody Bulloch was an admiral
in the confederate service. OF all the peo-
pie whom l have ever met he was the one
that came nearest to that beautiful creation
OF Thackeray--" Colonel Newcomb" Men
and women, don't you think that have The
ancestral right to claim proud kinship
with those who showed their devotion to
DUTY, whether they, wore the gray or
are worthy who feel an equal pride in the
valor OF those who fought on one side or
the other, provided only that each did with
all his might and soul and mind his duty
as ii was given him to see his duty.
Meets Family Friends.
The president next was driven to the old
Presbyterian church, in which his grand
father, James Bulloch, was once a leading
member. Mr.. Bulloch dropped dead in this
church while teaching a Sunday school
class in 1s49 and among those present in
the church today were three members OF
that class who were present at the time.
The venerable pastor of the church, Rev
Dr.. w. e. Baker. offered prayer and the
president and Mrs. Roosevelt then shook
hands with a number Of the townspeople,
many of whom had known the presidents
mother.
The reception Of the president at the old
home OF his mother was a cordial one The
people greeted him both as president and
as the son Of one Of their neighbors. Many
were the kind references to his mother from
those who knew her and many we're the
expressions OF good will toward her dis
tinguished son.
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