Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1907-10-26
PUNISH DISHONESTY
Roosevelt Given Great We'll
come to Tennessee.
PRESIDENT UPHOLDS HIS POLICIES
Declares His Determination For Re-
Eainder OF Hiz Term Go Persevere
I'm Fight Against Crooked
ness I'm High Places.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Oct 23.-Never
before was Nashville So elaborateIy
decorated as 1t was to give welcome e
President Roosevelt. Bunting, Tags
banners and pictures OF the president
were on almost every house 10 the up
town section OF the city, which was
crowded with people from a radius of
a hundred miles.
The procession was through streets
lined with great and enthusiastic
| crowds. II was headed by the presI-
dents carriage, In which Governor
Patterson and Samuel Douglass, pres
ident OF the board OF trade. also rode.
Then followed a battalion of the state
guard, a company OF Confederate vet
Grams In uniform and state and city
officials. At one point the president
was greeted by thousands OF public
school. university and college pupils.
who sang patriotic songs as he passed.
Near the state capitol the parade
was stopped to enable the president to
view the tomb OF President James x.
Polk, after which the march TO Ryman
auditorium continued.
President Roosevelt in his speech at
the auditorium said:
There has been trouble in the stock
market, in the high financial world.
during the past few months. The
statement has frequently been made
that the policies for which I stand.
legislative and executive, are response
bic for that trouble. Now, gentlemen.
these policies OF mine can be summed
" IN f.-fr
sent the effort TO punish successful dis
honesty. I doubt If these policies have
had any material effect in bringing
about the present trouble, but II they
have II viii not alter in the slightest
degree my determination that for the
remaining sixteen months OF my term
these policies shall be persevered In
unxwervingly.
"If 20 arouse that type OF civic man
hood in our nation It were necessary
to suffer any temporary commercial
depression I should consider the cost
but small. All We have done has been
TO unearth the wrongdolng. 1t was
not the fact that it was unearthed that
did the damage. All l did was TO turn
on the light. but am not responsible
for what the light showed II is I'm
possible TO cut out a cancer without
making the patient feel for a few
days rather sicker than he left be-
fore
Il viii permit neither the dema-
gogue upon one side nor the reaction
airy on the other TO drive me away
from the course or policy which re-
gard most vital for the wsIlbeing OF
this nation"
at Roosevelta. La, formerly SIAM
boul, renamed In honor OF the presI-
dents visit, Mr.. Roosevelt boarded the
special which bore him 60 Delta and
babe adieu to the canebrakes.
The same train that carried the pres
ident away also conveyed the skin OF
the big bear slain by him last Thurs
day and the skins OF the two smaller
animals killed by other members or
the party as well as the skin presented
by the Osborne brothers.
1--WE got three bears, six deer, one
Wild turkey, twelve squirrels, one
duck. one possum and one wildcat. We
ate them all except the wildcat, and
there were times when we almost felt
as If we could eat It," This was Mr..
RooseVelts summary OF the results OF
his hunt on Bayou Tensas and Bear
lake