The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-28
HEARTY RECEPTION
To be rendered to the
President.
Committees From the City Business
Organizations Met Yesterday.
Roosevet's Tour May Have Po-
IiticaI Significance.

Raleigh will give President Roose-
welt the warmest reception he ever
received in the South. and his visit
here viii leave a taste in his mouth
that he will never forget. Every
county in the State will send <cores
of people to see and greet him. and
his welcome will be cordial and hearty.
The plans have not yet been perfected,
although il was thought this would
have been done yesterday at the meet
ing of the committee as appointed by
the local business organizations, the
mayor, secretary of the State Fair and
the Governor, IN the executive Office,
but nothing was done except 10 ap-
point a subcommittee, consisting of
the Governor, mayor and secretary of
the Fair, to complete all preliminary
arrangements and prepare the pro-
gramme and submit it to the presi-
dent Governor Glenn Will head the
North Carolina delegation, which Will
visit Washington early in october to
call on tho President Governor Glenn
will also accompany the President to
every point the President visits i'll
North Carolina.
Mr.. Roosevelt Will arrive in Raleigh
Thursday morning, october 18th, at
seven o'clock, and after tho reception
in the city, be driven to the FIR
grounds where he is scheduled to de-
aivcr an address at eleven o'clock.
The President will leave Raleigh at
one O'Clock, and will make talks at
Durham, Greensboro and Charlotte.
arriving in the latter place about $50.
HaS T. Political Significance?
A dispatch from Washington by
reliable correspondent, says that Presi-
dent RoOsevelts tour of the South,
planned for October, has great signifi-
canoe IN - bearing on tho coming
session of Congress. The correspond
cnt says:
Mr.. Roosevelt is about to make an
appeal directly to the South for the
support by it's Senators and Repre-
scntatiVes of his policies in reference
to domestic and foreign affairs. The
President has long planned this trip
to the South. He ~>haS dreamed of
uniting the two sections Of the coun-
try, in a common impulse. with HIM
self. if not the leader, at least the ar
bitratOr. In the opinion of many
members of his own party it is high
time the President took such e step.
if the history of the next Congress is
to be different from the last In the
last session of the y-eighth Con-
gress he attempted more than any
other President and accomplished
less, and he met defeat at the hands
of his own party.
The prospects arc that there will
be shown the same hostility in both
branches of Congress to Presidential
policies in the next session. He will
need all the votes he can marshal be
they Democratic or Republican, to
carry through his schemes with refer
oOCp to thoSc matters.
Ratification Of the agreement with
the Republic of Santo Domingo.
Adoption of a Venezuela policy.
Prevention of the investigation of
the campaign fund of 1904 by the
passage of a bill prohibiting campaign
in the future
Prevention of the investigation of
the Panama Canal and the passage
of a law needed by the administration.
Passage OF a bill empowering the
Interstate Commission to establish
railway rates when existing rates are
fora1 to be unreasonable.
Prevention Of an investigation into
the affairs of the Agricultural Depart
ment and the Weather Bureau.
Passage of legislature for the Phil
ippines, which will be recommended
by Secretary of War Taft