The Sentinel=record., 1909-11-05

putting into that great law, either by actual effort pr direct influence, al- most all that was worth anything to this portion of the country at least, | it can be seen that he appears to be assuredly headed for the very high est place which his friends in their admiration and love had assigned him from the beginning.
 i T rejoice exceedingly. my country men. that he has come to visit us to- day My pride Is involved told him as I sat beside him on that ever-me- morable trip to the classic city in last January that while he had looked upon the walls of the great sky scrapers in Atlanta anu tasted the inimitable specimens of that city. skill in cook | cry; that while he ahad rested on the wonderful sand hills of the glorious I old southern city of Augusta, where he played golf with the common peo- pie and played politics with the chief men of the nation; that while he had | now visited the shades of the classic city where the university sits en- thronded in her majestic glory as the oldest of all state colleges in the | Union; yet, I assured him that there was still left something for him to see in Georgia.
 T told him that the subject was not yet exhausted, for that down in the center of the cotton belt. by the l green fringed Ocmulgee was the city of Macon, the central city, the city of 1 colleges and universities, whose streets are said to be laid out wider perhaps than those of any ether city on earth; whose sunshine, according i to the United tSates weather bureau, Is at times warmer than that of any other city in the nation, and whose skies, only now and then dappled with clouds, glowing like the isles of l the sea, reflect the warm welcome of the sunniest hearts, of the noblest people, in the happest homes in all this wide, wide world, to those she would honor and exalt--and I hoped that he would some time come to see us. w
 He said he would.
 And. my countrymen, he is here today Your president president of this whole nation, and the only one who ever went out directly from your midst to take the oath of this high office upon him.
 Will you welcome him as our na. tfon's great head. with every fiber of your lcyal hearts responding. and lay at his feet the allegiaice of a loving 1 and admiring people?
 Yea, yerily--I thank God that I have lived to see the time come when the nations ruler since the war, in season of profound peace. with no polrtical exigency upon him, and no great compelling emergency to sway him, but only pursuant to a plan of national visiting, has deemed this southern city of ours of sufficient i'm. ! portance on the map of the govern. ment to warrant him in making them a part of his itinerary. He selected the proper time for his visit, for here in this great state fair he can see at a glance the epitome of all that Geor. gia is. and all that Georgia can do.
 MT President, have heand you say once that you know the the southern people, that in the great court over which you once presided. whfi9e jurisdiction included two south. ern states, you had learned to under stand and appreciate their character at it's real worth.
 You know. sir, that we have not i been much of a factor in the councils of the national government since the war. We have occupied rather an off side position, so to speak-7a kind of orlhaaage. as it were
 But l rejoice, as one whose mem ory and service go back to the days of the eos. that you, as the repre- sentative. head of this nation, have thought 1t worth while to bestow on us this evidence of your esteem and appreciation, making us feel as you do by your visit, that we are still re- garded as part of the American Union
 MT President. love begets love.
 These southern peoples hearts re. spond to any appeal of this kind 1 quicker. than that of any other people on the earth.
 An angel was once sent to destroy an iceberg. He summoned a thous- and men, and with picluaxe and shovel tried to cut it down But the north wind blew every night and restored :, all that he had destroyed in the day.