The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-08-11
TWO FLAGS DISPLAYED.
When Yankees and Confederates
Hob-Nobbed in the Same
Town.

i was in Richmond, Va, during the
visits OF two presidents" said a New
Yorker who travels as a matter of
business, land what struck me as most
noticeable was the display OF flags.
There was some difference in the con-
dltlons ervlroning the visitors, for one
was alive and the other was dead. The
live one was President Roosevelt. of
the United States, the other was Pres
ldent Davis, of the Confederate States.
The other day when President Roose-
welt was there don't think ever saw
so many Star Spangled Banners on ex-
hlbltion at one time. The American
nag was everywhere-in windows and
out OF them, in the hands of children
by the thousand; on the heads of
horses, Oh street cars, on every flag
pole, permanent and for the occasion,
everywhere that flag could be run up
to Haunt it's glOries in the breeze,
there it was. The very atmosphere
was faggy, and 1t was a flag that 40
years ago was a hoodoo in the town.
But times change and we change with
them. all the better for us-as rule.
"The' ether presidential visit oc-
Cured when I happened to be in the
capital Of the late G. S. A., and was
the occasion of the burial of President
Davis in the beautiful cemetery of
Hollywood. The first interment had
been at his home in Mississippi, but
the Vlrginians wanted the body re-
moved to Richmond, and they secured
permission from the family to have it
reinrerred 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 1 sup
pose it was one Of the greatest days
Richmond has known. And there was
tremendous flag display, but not of
the Star SSpangled Banner. Every
where the Stars and Bars foated in
the breeze. a.
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 was not in
sympathy with the rebellion, but that
day I 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 forget the date and nv
memory is not very sharp-but do
not recall seeing single Stars and
Stripes except the colors borne by
some of the military companies, and
they were not Haunted forth. It was
not Stars and Stripes day, and the
flag OF the lost cause was given full
liberty to do all the floating and
Haunting. am sure that never in all
the history of the confederacy were
there as many Of it's flags visible at
one time as on the day of the burial
Of Jefferson Davis in the city which
had been the capital of the govern
ment which knew no other chief than
himself. But the flag meant nothing
more than a memory, and among the
many I talked to I heard only the
opinion that, with this final recogni-
ton Of their one-time leader, the end
had been reached, and the red, white
and red must be laid away forever to
give place to the red, white and blue.
Judging from the display of Old Glory
In Richmond during President Roose-
velt's visit, guess the Virginians
meant what they said"