The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1905-11-03
NEW ORLEANS WAS CROWDED
The Largest Crowd in the History Of
New Orleans Turned Out Last
Thursday to Welcome the
President.

The following was published in the
Times-DemOCrat of last Friday and is
fair review of the president on this,
his last southern visit:
The reception given President RoOse.
welt by the people of New Orleans
fairly dubbed over with enthusiasm.
No one could doubt its genuinenesS,
or that it came from the heart. The
president was greeted throughout his
southern trips by immense crowds of
cheering people, who proved by their
welcome their allegiance to the Union,
their recognition of the high Office he
fills and their regard for him as a
man. Everywhere he has been well
coined and applauded, and his journ-
ey has awakened spirit of patriot
ism which shows that the spirit of the
south to the Union is as strong and
true as that of any part of the country.
But none Of the cities which have
mad him as their guest has burst forth
into such overwhelming enthusiasm as
New Orleans displayed yesterday. 1t
was almost embarrassing at times,
and frequently swept away the care
fully arranged program for the recep-
ton. The military parade was almost
Swamped by the hundreds of thousands
of lOokers-on that crowded and OBJ
structed the streets, and the thrOng in
St. Charles street and at Lafayette
Square in front Of the City Hall was
so immense as to be actually danger
Gus to life and limb. The president
appreciated the situation, and, with
excellent judgment, cut short his
speech there. Had be made q longer
address, it is almost certain that Sc
riOus accident would have married the
day.
The president has placed New Or
! leans under obligations to him not
only in wishes but in deed. When the
application was made to him for such
assistance as he could give through
the United States Marine Hospital
Service, he gave it with a pr emptiness
! that was of untold benefit. He pro-
missed that DR.. White should be de-
tailed to look after the fever, not
simply to crush it out after it arrived,
but to help, as far as he can, to- see
that it does not enter again, certainly
t9at it does not become rooted here.
Perhaps no man of high position,
who has visited New Orleans as a
guest, has been SO 0utspOken, has
shown his true nature, his personal
characteristics, as fully or as openly
as Mr.. Roosevelt has done. He is
democratic to the core, and, therefore,
just the man to win popularity; and
he showed a marked emotional side
which may come from his southern an
cestry and which seemed to make him
appreciate the emotional nature of the
southern peOple-Which our northern
friends declare is so marked and which
is certainly characteristic of New Or
leans. The cheering crowds, the wild
almost turbulent enthusiasm which
displayed itself along the line of
march, the sweep Of thousands which
upset plans, set the police at naught,
and interfered with the parade, were to
him as genuine displays, very differ
ent from the -and-dried, perfuuct-.
DRY cheering that greets the average
visitor Or orator 1t is, perhaps, just
as we'll that the president was not
treated to the same strenuOusness that
was displayed in New Orleans, for it
would have taken sturdy man to
have stood it all'for the eight days of
his journey.