The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1907-10-17
BODYGUARD is NOT REQUIRED.
Personal Safety Of President on Soil Of
Tennessee. An Eloquent Welcome By
GOyernOr Patterson.
Governor Patterson.

SSAAARSAAO0 4 AOoANAOht AtOO6ONOAu Oh hAp
way down the Mississippi agree that +
no more graceful, fitting or eloquent 7
address of Welcome has been made at |
any point that that delivered by Gov !
ernor Patterson here today. Especial {
emphasis of the praise and appreciation !
is laid upon the governors eloquent,
stirring remarks concerning the per-
sonal safety Of the chief executive on
the soil of Tennessee, the absence Of
any necessity for bodyguards for the
president in the south and the freedom
OF that section from all forms of an
archy. Governor Patterson's speech
in full was as follows:
Mr.. President: It must be pleasing
for you to know that your presence ex-
cites the spontaneous good will OF our
people, and that the greeting we have
given you is not only to the president
but also to Theodore Roosevelt the
man.
To be in name the president of the
mightiest nation that man has created
for his use and glory udder Divine
guidance, is enough for mere ambition
to covet, but to be in fact the presi
dent of all its people is the greatest
distinction, reaching above and beyond
the insignia Of rank and power.
Those who rise to heights, unlike
those who live in private station, can
not escape censure however unreason-
able on the one hand or adulation
blind on the other, for as the flight of
the eagle towards the sky will be OBJ
served by many, there are few to note
the movement of the sparrow near the
earth.
AS the twenty sixth president of the
republic, you have shared the fate of
all your illustrious predecessors, but
whatever OF praise or lame has come
to you, and shall not pretend to ad-
measure either, the balance of settled
opinion will be that your services to
the country have been extraordinary,
that the circle of your influence and
personality have been world wide, and
that your place in history is prominent
and secure for all time.
: You have come to express your in
terest in a stupendous project, full
. worthy the highest form of American
genius, which, if consumated, will be
the browning commercial achievement
of all time, and will link your name
with immortality, not as one who holds
exalted station, but as one who has
used exalted station to perform exalted
deeds.
IN THE NAME OF TENNESSEE.
n The seven wonders of the world have
7 excited universal awe and admiration,
3 but it is another wonder that one or all
Q of these has human use. To dig the
: Panama canal, and to inaugurate a
: policy that will insure deep water from
r the great lakes to the Gulf, will be a
: nobler accomplishment and worthier
] than all the wonders of the ancient
world, and the blessings will flow to all
mankind.
: In the name of Tennessee, whose
8 western border is washed by the great
o river which has born you to her chief
3 commercial metropolis, l welcome you
i as her honored guest.
8 / speak of race of men high bred,
: brave and true as ever tracked the will
derness or founded a commonwealth.
For men strong in faith and pride or
race-men in whose veins flow the
: purest strains of pioneer blood-men
who fought for the flag and against the
9 flag, and gloried in both-men who
have never bowed, and never will, to
the feet of power-men who have at
times been your fercest critics, but
: who would be your frmest friends
: should danger threaten the person Of
Q the president or menace the safety OF
u the union.
!, Tennessee shuddered when the we'll
beloved Mckinley fell, and freely did
: the tears of sorrow fall on his bier, and
u genuine was the grief at his untimely
: and unhappy fate. Deep was the pas
sion that one could be found in the i'm
J, age of man TO do this foul act OF murder
Q and treason to the state. Fierce was
y her resentment that from the disorder
Q cd centers Of the old world could be
Q transplanted and grated a hideous
growth on the fair tree OF the republic,
: and clear and strong was the oath she
Q took for law against lawlessness, for
; liberty against license, for the flag
: against oil its foes without and within.
NO BoDYGUARD NEEDED.
: You need no bodyguard in Tennes-
see, Mr.. President, to protect your
person and high Office from violence,
: for every man throughout her length
u and breadth 10 your defender.
0 Yoa need none on southern soil
;. wherever you may go, for please God,
d here the serpent of anarchy has never
y been Matched, nor has the red flag been
i raised, the awful symbol of disorder
K and universal hate, and if the day
+ should GENE when it is necessary to
q kill the one, or to tear down the other,
: to exterminate the foul crew which
}, threatens authority and menaces gov.
: eminent itself, the south will be equal