The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-08-08
TWO FLAGS DISPLAYED.
When Yankees and Confederates
HOb-NObbed in the Same
Town.

Il was In Richmond, Va, during the
visits OF two presidents said New
Yorker who travels as matter OF
business, and what struck me as most
noticeable was the display of flags
There was some difference in the con-
ditions environing the visitors, for one
was eliye and the other was dead. The
live one was President Roosevelt. of
the United States, ne other was Pres
ident Davis, OF uhs Confederate States.
The 9th < day B hen President Roose-
welt was there don't think ever saw
so many Star Spspgled Banners on ex-
hibition at one lime The American
flag was everywhere-in windows and
out of them, in tie hands OF children
by the thousand; on the heads of
horses, On street cars, on every flag
pole, permanent and for ,he occasion.
eyerywhore that flag could be run up
to fiaunt It's glories jn the breeze,
there II was. The very atmosphere
was fiaggy. and 1t was flag that 40
years aga was hoodoo in the town.
But times change and we change with
then, all the better for us--as a rule.
-The ether presidential visit oc-
Cured when happened to be in the
capital OF the late c. S. A., and was
the occasion of the burial OF President
Davis in the beautiful cemetery of
Hollywood. The first interment had
been ~ his home in Mississippi, but
the Virginians wanted the body re-
moved to Richmond, and they secured
permission from the family to have it
reinterred there. Mr.. Davis never en-
joyed such popularity among the peo-
pie of the confederacy as President
Roosevelt enjoys among the people Of
the reunited country, but the Virgin
ians turned out in force that day to
| give him fitting sepulture, and sup
pose 1t WAS one of the greatest days
Richmond has known. And there was
a tremendous flag display. but not Of
the Star SSpsngled Banner. Every
where the Stars and Bars foated in
the breeze.
"Big flags and little flags. and all
the various flags that the confederacy
had adopted, officially and popularity,
with thousands of flag badges that
everybody wore know l was not in
sympathy with the rebellion, but that
day | wore a badge of the red, white
and red, bearing a picture of the for
mer president bordered with black II
has been ten or dozen years since
that day-I forget the date and my
memory Is not very sharp-but | dc
not recall seeing a single Stars anc
Stripes except the colors borne by
some of the military companies, and
they were not faunted forth II was
M q Stars and Stripes day, and the
fias Of the lost cause vas given full
liberty 10 do all the floating and
Haunting. / am sure that never in al
the history of the eonfederacy wSrt
there as many Of its flags visible al
one time as on the day of me buria
OF Jefferson Davis In the city which
had been the capital of the govern
ment which knew no other chief thar
himself But the flag meant nothinl
more than a memory, and among thu
many l talked to / heard only the
opinion that. with this final recogni
tion of their one-time leader, the enc
had beea reached, and the red, white
and red must be laid away forever e
give place to the red. white and blue
Judging from the display of Old Glor!
in Richmond during President Roose
yelt's visit. guess the YiFginiani
: meant what they said"