The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-14
Roosevelt Will Sosn End Hunt
 and Start Home
OLD VIEWS HAVE CHANGED
Presidents Opinion of Southern Peo- pie Is Not What It Was When He Excorlated Southern Leaders
 In Magazine Articles.

Washington, October 1s.-(speciai.)- from his two weeks outing and feel ing pretty fair-to-mlddlin the Presidents remaining speeches in the south are ex- pected to be in his most felieitous vein, The President has the happy faculty of getting right down to the heart of his audiences and can always get a hurrah. That the receptions he will receive in Mississippi and Tennessee will be enthu- siastc ones, goes without saying, and yet no criticism approaching in severity that of Theodore Roosevelt has ever been heaped upon the most distinguished sons of those two states. Jefferson Davis, Richard Buchanan, and l.. c. c. Lamar of Mississippi, he has most bitterly as- sailed, and the great Andrew Jackson of Tennessee. has been made out by him as most unfitted for the presidency. But the political correspondents who have. been following the President, say he could carry Tennessee, and, if it were not for the negro. he would also get Mississippi.
 Views Are Changed.
 That the President has greatly changed his opinions since he was a frequent con tributor to the magazines must, therefore, be evident from the sub-joined article which appeared in the North American Review over his signature.
 "The mass of the northern people now feel no bitterness whatever towards the gallant ex-Confederates of the south. We readily acknowledge that they honestly thought their cause just and we have nothing but praise for their heroic con- stancy and brilliant courage Yet we feel sure that history will call the War of the Rebellion to be both of all modern wars the most important and also the one in which the dividing lines between right and wrong were sharpest drawn. Tory of 1176 had far more right on his side than had Confederate in 1S60 Doubtless most tories firmly believed their cause right and after the Revolution they should have been treated as soon as possible like their loyal feilow-cit- izens. But had this been done excep- tions would. of course, have been made in some cases-as ill that of Benedict Arnold-and those of the men who, under Johnson and Butler took part in the Cherry Valley and Wyoming massacre.
 When Lamar of Mississippi secretary. of the interior under Cleveland, half masts the flag out of respect to the un- savory memory of ex-Secretary Thomp- son tRichard Thompson of Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior under Buch- anan), we feel quite indignant as our forefathers would have been at a sim liar tribute to a follower of Butler or Johnson. So with Jefferson Davis, who enjoys the unique distinction of being the only American with whose public character that of Benedict Arnold need not fear comparison.
 An item appeared recently in the pa- pers to the effect that a certain office seker was relying largely upon 8 letter in his favor from Davis and as Mir Lamar has long posed as tho professional apologist of tho latter, the item was very probably correct. Now a revoiu- tionary patriot might have been very lib- eral minded indeed and yet he would scarcely have cared to see a cabinet off cer appointed to whose good graces a letter from Benedict Arnold would have proved a passport
 Crack at Andrew Jackson.
 Of Andrew Jackson the President has written:
 "Jackson's administration derives q most uuenviable notoriety as being the one under which the spo1lS system be- came for the first time grafted on the civil service Of the nation. Appointments were made with little or no attention to fitness, or even honesty, but solely because of personal or political services. In 1929 the public service was as it had always been, administered purely in the interest of the people, and the man (Jackson), who was styled the cham pion of the people, dealt that service the heaviest blow it ever received
 "The two great reasons fer Jackson's success through his political career were to be found In the strength of the feel ing in his favor among the poorer and least educated classes of voters, and in the ardent support given him by the low politicians, who, by playing upon his prejudices and passions, nodded him to their wishes, and who organized and per fected in their own and his interests a great political machine founded on the spells system. Jackson liked Van Buren because the latter had served him both personally and politically-indeed Jack son was incapable of distinguishing be- tween a personal and political service"
 One of the features of the Presidents return trip will be his visit to the old Jackson home-The Hermitage-near Nashville and his remarks there as well as at Vicksburg and other Mississippi points are awaited with interest