The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-25
nv wILL T. sHnEHAN.

Tuskegee, Oct. 2l-(Special Corre- spondence. .)-Theodore Roosevelt, Pres ident of the United States, saw today: not only the splendid exhibit, atfansed for him at the Tuskegee Normal Insti- tute, but he saw the rural South nere in Tuskegee as he saw It nownere else and as he will see It In no other place on his Southern trip. And in thought of inspiring address before the students of the Tuskegee Institute he occupied the historic position of the Southern white men, that In his hand is the solution of the race question.
 He was given here an insight into the way life is lived in the country dis tricts of the South, its customs. its tra- ditions and its people. And the view he got embraced not only the negro on his native heath but 1t embodied as we'll the gentle and refined life Of the old South. the life of the Southern town repeated in it's refinement, in It's culture a thousand times in the small Ter towns of the South. He saw what the Tuskegee Institute was doing and 1t deeply Impressed him. but he saw as well the sort of people who make up the fine citizenship Of the older Southern towns.
 For these reasons, at least, President Roosevelt received impressions in Tus- kegee that he might not possibly re- ceive in the larger cities of the South. That he noted and observed them may not be doubted. for there are few men who are so observant, as the brilliant and versatile President of the United States.
 Cordial Reception in Tuskegee.
 A cordial, a sincere welcome was given him by the white people of Tus- kegee and Macon county. in simple, but picturesque and beautiful way It was within the shs41ow of the historic walls of the Alabama Conference Fe- male College that the greeting was extended him. It. needed not the wide spreading platform of cotton bales on which he was greeted and from which he spoke to make the occasion truiy Southern. It was even so In it's open hearted welcome, in the quiet beauty of white, blue and crimson decorations that quiet sort of scheme Of colors that somehow shows so distinctly Southern in it's indefinable southern atmosphere.
 And when he had been greeted, when he had spoken he was hurried to the grounds of the Tuskegee Institute where he reviewed an impressive ln- Gustrial parade, an altogether fine ex- hibit, it matters not from what angie of a view q man may have looked at it. It made d deep impression upon the President and it so impressed the oth- CTS who witnessed the splendid line of floats, seventy-stx in number, typl- flying the work of the school in every department. And from the reviewing stand the President was rushed to the .nstitute Chapel, two or three hundred yards away, where he delivered one of the important addresses on his Southern tour.
 It was here that he gave express sion to his views on the negro ques- ton and upon the pressing need for ducation and especially negro educa- eon.
 Problem Fer The south.
 He spoke, too, his views on the duty of the white men to lend helping hand to the negro, not only for the negros good, but for the good Of the white man. Nor did he fail to remind his negro hearers that the negro prob fem was the problem of the Southern white man, who was the man in whose ! hands It's solution lay.
 He gave emphatic expression to the deep ip,pression made upon him by the parade of seventy-six industrial floats.