The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-10-23
Will PERS[VERE
IN HIS POLICIES
President Will Not Abate
in Furnishing Successful
Dishonesty.
8 ALL / DID WAS
TURN ON LIGHT"
Neither Demagogue Nor Re-
dictionary Can Drive Him from
Course He Deems Vital for =.
.Well-Being Of the Ma
tion-Is Fight
ing Crime.

SASt1N1LLG, Tenn. EOctODer z2.--
Never before was Nashville SO elabo-
rately decorated as 1t was to-day to
give welcome to President Roosevelt.
Bunting, flags, banners and pictures OF
the President were on almost every
house in. the uptown section OF the city,
which was crowded with people from
q radius OF hundred miles. The wea-
ther was cool and bright. When tho
special train rolled into the Union Sta
tion 1t was greeted with booming can
non. changing bells. screaming whis-
people. ~
The procession was through streets
lined with great and enthusiastic
crowds. 1t was headed by the Presi-
dents carriage in which Governor Pat
terson and Samuel Douglass. president
of the board OF trade, also rode. Then
followed battalion of the State guard,
"a company OF Confederate veterans in
uniform ,tad State and city officials. AT
one o, 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 ena-
BILE the President to view the tomb or
President James X. Polk, after which
the march to Ryman auditorium con-
tinued.
AS the President entered the audlto-
rum the immense audience arose and
gave him reception that will not soon
be forgotten. Governor Patterson well
coined the President in brief speech,
and the Presidents address followed.
President Roosevelt then proceeded in
an automobile to The Hermitage, the
home OF President Andrew Jackson,
twelve miles from the city. where he
was accorded reception. He was fol-
lowed by a long line of carriages anc
automobiles. On the return to the
Presidents train at The Hermitage
station. the party stopped at the Ten.
rlessee Soldiers Home. The Confed.
crate veterans received the President
In line, and requested hts autograph,
which was written In a register pre-
pared for the occasion.
Denies Rcsponsibility for Panic.
In his speech at the auditorium the
President said: There has been trou-.
BILE 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
] stand. legislative and executive, are
responsible for that trouble Now,
gentlemen. these policies OF mine can
be summed up in one brief sentence.
They represent the effort to punish suc-
cessful dishonesty. I doubt II these
policies have had any material effect
in bringing about the present trouble.
but II they have It; will not alter III
the highest degree my determination
that for the remaining sixteen months
of my term these policies shall be per-
severed in unswervingly.
Only Turned on Light.
IF to arouse that type of civic man
hood in our nation 1t were necessary
to suffer any temporary commercial de-
preston. / should consider the cost
but small All we have done has been
to unearth the wrongdoing. 1t was not
the fact that it was unearthed that did
the damage. All I Gid was to turn on
the light. lam responsible for turning
on the light, but / am not responsible
for what the light showed.
No material well-being can sane
this nation II 1t loses the lift toward
higher things. am we'll aware that
many such movement ais that In which
We have been engaged there are sins
,cere men who take advantage of the
movement to do away with the wrongs
of wealth. themselves to inveigh
against wealth. W
Il will permit neither the demagosue
upon one side. nor the, reactionary on
the other, to drive me away from the
course or pol icy Which I regard as
most Vital for the we'll being Of this
nation: tic "a And the thing; most import