The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1907-10-04
It IS AT THAT PLACE HE MEET
WITH DEEP WATERWAYS
CONVENTION.
At Cairo, ILL.,, Yesterday, He Deliv-
cred Speech to Citizens of Three
States Assembled at Conjunction
of the Mighty River and Bounda-
ries Of Three Great States.

New Madrid, Mo-, Oct. 4.-The
president spent the entire afternoon
in a leisurely run down the Missis-
sippi river from Cairo to NewMadrid,
His boat, the Mississippi, slowed up at
New Madrid, but the delay was brief.
New Madrid is place of history,
and not the least interesting feature
of its history is found in the associa-
tion of the name of Nicholas Roose-
velt, great-uncle of the president, who
stopped here in 1911, when he
brought down the first steamboat
that ever ran on the waters of the
Mississippi or Ohio, and it was here
that Nicholas Roosevelt turned up
the Mississippi instead Of down. It is
related that this change was influ-
enced by the great New Madrid
earthquake, which occurred at that
time.
At places the river banks were
fringed with people, but they were
generally too far removed from the
boats to permit any demonstration
except the waving of handkerchiefs.
The fact that there have been sew
eral efforts by congressman, govern
ors and others to discuss the third
term question with the president
since the beginning Of the tour be-
came known yesterday, but the presi-
dent has discouraged all such at
tempts. He was told Of at least two
delegations that would be instructed
for him regardless Of his attitude.
During the afternoon a report
gained currency that the Columbia,
which started from Keokuk as an es-
cort to the Memphis, had gone
aground on sandbar, but there was
no confirmation of the rumor except
the absence Of the vessel.
The president and delegates to the
{ deep waterways convention accom-
panying him are scheduled to arrive
at Memphis this afternoon about 4
4 o'clock, and the. president will make
the final speech of his trip at this
place.
Roosevelt's Speech.
Cairo. H., Oct. 4The following
is the speech OF President Roosevelt
delivered here yesterday:
Men of Illinois, and You, Men ol
Kentucky and Missouri:
i am glad to have the chance tt
speak to you today. This is the hear
Of what may be called the Old West
which we now call the Middle West
using the term to denote that greal
group of rich and powerful states
which literally forms the heart o
& the country. It Is region who's
people are distinctively American II
all their thoughts, in all their way
OF looking at life; and in its pas
and its present alike 1t is typical Q
our country. The oldest men presen
can still remember the pioneer days
the days Of the white-tilted OK wag
on, Of the emigrant. and Of the lol
cabin in which that emigrant frs
lived when he settled to his task a
q pioneer farmer. They were rougl
days, days Of hard work, and tn
people who did that work SCENE
\ themselves uncouth and forbiddin
to visitors who could not look belo,
the surface. It is curious and amus
ing to think that even as genuine
lover Of his kind, a man normally s
q # free from national preiudices .
Charles Dickens, should have selecte
the region where we are now stand
ing as the seat Of his forlorn Eden
In Martin Chuzzlewit. The acountr
he SO bitterly assailed Is now once
the most fertile and productive pol
tions Of one Of the most fertile an