The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-10-23
Confederate Veterans Act as Escort.
 ---s-- A SHORT VISIT MADE TO ANDREW JAcKsoE's HOME President is Presented With an Old Hickory Stick.
 --s---- Two Addres.es Were Made by Natiop's z Chief Exscativs AleaE sane Iine. as Used ia yicks-
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 Nashville, Tenn, oct. 22.--Never be- fore in it's history has Nashville been so elaborateiy decorated as # was to- day as a. welcome to President Theo- dore Roosevelt. Bunting. flags, ban ners and pictures of the President -adarnaa almost eyary house n the nn- town section of the city, which is crowded with people from a radius of a hundred miles, and the reception he was accorded was of the old fashioned kind.
 The weather was cool. bright and bracing.
 The special bearing the President and his party reached the union station at 9 o'clock this morning amid the boom ing of cannon. ringing of bells. blow ing of whistles and the cheering Of thousands who had gathered to do him honor. The President was met at the depot by reception committee from the Board Of Trade, who were introduced by Governor Malcolm R. Patterson. af- ter which Mir. Roosevelt and those acc companying were escorted from the train to their carriages, where the parade was then formed, the chief ex- ecutive's carriage heading the process sfon
 The President had as his hosts in the carriage Governor Patterson, Sam uel Douglass. President of the local Board of Trade, and Hon. M. c Lattas Assistant Secretary to the President
 Directly following the Presidents < carriage were other members of his party. Then followed q battalion of the Tennessee State Guard company Of Confederate Veterans in uniform. a and city officials and citizens in car- riages. When the President reached Broadwad and Eighth Avenue he was greeted by thousands of children Of the public schools public university and colleges.
 Each pupil waved tiny haBs and the sight was one Of the most inspig- ing along the line of march. preeE4 dent Roosevelt was deeply affected and bowed his acknowledgement to them time and again. At Walnut Street thousands of university students were lined up, who gave the college yell as the President passed. On the way to the Hermitage the President and party passed through the campus of Peabody College for teachers, of which MT. Roosevelt Is q member of the Board of Trust. A short stop was made when the President was greeted by ex- Governor James D. Porter. Chancellor. to which brief response was made by Mir. Roosevelt.
 A O0nfanne0 Ovation.
 As the procession proceeded through the gaily decorated streets of the up- town district the President received pne continued ovation from the thous- hnds that lined the sidewalks. One teature of the parade that was partic- ularly pleasing to Mir. Roosevelt was the presence of the company of gray and grizzied Confederate Veterans in line. It was a compliment which he deeply appreciated.
 On Sixth avenue near the State Cap- itol. the parade was brought to a full stop in order to enable the President to view the tomb of President James K Polk. after which the march to the auditorium was continued As the President entered the auditroium the immense audience arose and gave hin, welcome that he will not soon for get. Governor Patterson welcomed the President in brief address, when Mir. Roosevelt spoks as follows:
 noosevelt's Auditorium Speech.
 TMr. Governor. Mir. Mayor. and you, my fellow citizens. my fellow Amer jeans, men and women of the great his- toric Commonwealth of Tennessee. lCheers) It Is Indeed a pleasure to De here today in the Capital of this great State to say word of greeting to it's citizens gathered together n sn- nessee's history dates back to the for- nation of this as an independent na-
 The hardy backwoodsnnan of fha Piedmont Counties of Virginia and the Carolina's had crossed the divide and settled on what were then known las the Western Waters. before the first Congress met. And this city was founded in the very middle of the rey- olutionary war for while our people on the seaboard were winning independ ence. the people west of them had be- gun the great historic task of the American Nation. the conquest of n continent (applause and cheersl, and critical moment in the struggle for American independence when all of the Southern States lay under the heel of Cornwallis's army and word was brought to the British leaders that the backwater men had crossed the mountains with the men of tue West ern Waters. the mounted 'iiiemen of Tennessee had come across through the defles. had won the battle of Kings Mountain. and raised again tae stand plause.) It is great anl nOhIe birth and the after life Of the State proved worthy of It. (Apulnuse.J
 T recall no other city wh gre voI have the tomb of one President within it's borders. and the tomb of another but little way outside. (Applause.l ) And Tennessee and the SoIth of Ten nessee. from the day whsn the State borne their part well and wIseiv and bravely in the affairs of our Nation. have come down on this IT'D. Friends. primarily in connection THth the nla- terial development of this county l wish to see the great artery Of the Mis- sissippi and It's chief ssiuentS made navigabie highways. open 70 all the people of the United Stltos IS only waterways can be- (Applausel I ba- lieve that development wt,i prove of immediate benft to all the States ad- jacent to the Mississippi. believe 1t will prove of ultimate benefit to all the States beyond the Mississippi, be- cause I am convinced that m the long run, disregarding minor exceptions due to exceptional circumstances. that in the long run if YOU better my DOT tion of the American republic the ben- eft in the end diffuses itself over the entire republic. (Applause
 ultimately as a nations we shall 70 up or down together. and that fact should be kept in mind, not only as we deal with moral And spiritual inter- ests which must lie back of material