The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1905-04-15
THE PRESIDENT
AT FORT WORTH
Makes Broadly Patriotic Speech
Given Genuine Southern
Welcome in Texas.


ceived with genuine Southern hos
pitality by the people Of the great
state OF Texas, and he has been very
deeply touched by the generous recep-
tion given him. At Fort Worth moth
ing before had ever been seen like it.
Quoting from the associated press,
1T was genuine American welcome
warm, impulsive and sincere, at
times bursting ilto cheers that could
have been heard half mile"
The veterans who wore the gray,
and the veterans who wore the blue
were in line yieing with each other
in honoring the nations chief execu-
tive. We think the president feels
that he understands our people better
| by his trip and that he will make the
nation broader executive upon his
return to Washington. The following
excerpt from his Fort Worth speech
is the sentiment uttered by our own
immortal Lamar in his speech eulo-
gizing Charles Sumner shortly after
the war:
After all, have come to the con-
cluSion, travelling through this great
land Of ours from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, and over Maine, Washington,
Montana and Texas, that the chief
thing we need is to have Americans
know one another"
Mr.. Roosevelt does not forget to
point the people to higher ideals and
to plead for the home life at all times:
I'VE need in this country, good
laws, and we need fearless and honest
officers of the law, but what we need
most is the right type of men and
and women behind the law.'
We believe the president is sincere
and speaks out of the abundance Of |
the heart. His addresses cannot fail |
to make the country at large more pa
tri0tic and to foster the growth of |
brotherly love throughout the land. |
1t is a hopeful sign Of the times that |
we can lay aside partisan politics and
join with any man or any set OF men |
that are laboring for the beneticiepce !
Of the common country. Mr.. Bryan,
i'm his recent utteranceS and attitude
toward the present administration at
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The following is the presidents
Fort Worth speech:
"Mr. Mayor, and yOu, my fellow
citizens: l trust l need not say how
touched and impressed |
am by the greeting have received TO-
day, greeting which is such as have
received throughout Texas, and oh,
my friends, while thanking you from
the bottom of my heart for SO much
Of the greeting as affects me person.
ally, let me say that l appreciate to
Lhe full the infinitely deeper signii-
canoe of the fact that it is the greet
ing of the great state Of Texas to the
president of the United States"
,CheerS.)
Here the president was interrupted
Oy the arrival of the Confederate and
J. A. r. Camps, bearing their flags.
There were cries Of Put down the
iags: we want to See."
The president, stopping, bowed
and addressing the
1eterans, said:
The audience wants to know will
t be possible TO put the flags down.
They have misguided desire to see
ne." (Laughter.)
The flags were lowered. {
Continuing, the President said:
And now, oh, felow-A mericanS,
he rest OF you know will agree with
ne in saying that profoundly l am $
ouched by the greeting of all of you,
'et the greeting which touches me
most, because it argues to us much I
oward the welfare of the country, is
he greeting of the veterans of the
Civil War-the greeting of the men
Who wole the blue and the men who
vore the gray. (Cheers) i
PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
"Mingling together now, each of {
whom with all the courage AID SINGER 6
ty of conviction, fought for the right 9
S it was to him, and who are now T
Inited forever and forever i'm allegi- q
nee (cheerS) to our common flag and |
ur common country. There are pres +
nt other veterans. the veterans of the 6
feXican War. the men who fought TO q
ound out the work done by pioneers s
f Texas when they established the +
,epublic of Texas, the men who COM
leted the work begun under Thomas
when the Louisiana purchase
dded to our domain all the country
rest of the Mississippi and made us :. .
nightly continental nation.
And let me thank my comrades of !,
be National Guard (cheers) for the =
scort they have given me and for 8
heir part in doing the duty of keep :,
lg alive the spirit which has always =,
lade the sons of Texas the most o
)rmidable of foes, as they are the e. e.
lost faithful of friends. (Cheers.) :,
"And, oh, my fellow-countrymen, / =, =
lnnot begin to express to you how :,
impressed have been all my four days 9.
lip through Texas, when one with ~
our material growth, not only with
10 v;oxv of material prOcnoritv Svhieb