Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-21
THE 10Th IN CHARLOTTE.

Most of the Yorkvllle people WIN
went over to Charlotte to participate
in the goth Of May celebration, return
ed last night and this morning, and
while many of them are pretty well
broken up by the strenuous discom-
forts occasioned by the overcroWding
and the rain, all are agreed that the
celebration was the biggest thing OF
the kind that has ever been witnessed
in this part Of the country.
The features Of the day were the
presence Of the president, a great tri-
umphal procession in which the people
generally, trades and industries were
represented, and a tremendous rain
that came near washing everybody
away, and seriously interfered with
the complete success of an altogether
memorable occasion.
There Is no reasonably accurate way
Of estimating the number OF people
who were in the city. 1t Is fact that
they had been coming in by the train
load for two days previous, and every
train that arrived yesterday morning
was crowded to the platforms. Then
thousands poured in by private con-
yeyance. The visitors must have cas-
lily numbered $4,000 or 10000, possibly
a great many more; but because of the
rain which commenced in the early
morning and continued with but brief
intermissions all day, all the crowd was
never seen together at any one time.
The president arrived from Wash
ington at about 10 o'clock, and was es-
corted to the Hotel Selwyn by a COM
mittee of distinguished citizens, ac-
companied by strong guards of regu-
lar cavalry and infantry. He held
quite q reception at the hotel, shaking
hands with hundreds Of people, and
during lull in the downpour later on,
was taken to the reviewing stand at
about 10 o'clock to review the monster
procession, and deliver his address,
The parade was about four miles
long. 1t was made up Of infantry,
cavalry carriages, floats, automobiles,
in passing the reviewing stand.
President Tafts speech was entirely
appropriate to the occasion. He made
it clear that he did not question the au
thenticity of the Meeklenburg declar-
alton, and he discussed at length the
principles that prompted that famous
document. The most significant ut
terance the president made in a politi-
cal way is embodied in the following:
THE Federal judiciary to my mind"
said the president, sis the strongest
bulwark we have in all this country to
protect our institutions Of civil liberty.
And there is no greater duty resting up
on the chief executive Of this nation
than that Of the appointment of a man
to that position who will strengthen 1t to
all the people at large. The Federal
judiciary should be as much appreciat-
ed in the south as in the north and II /
have an opportunity to make any fur-
ther appointments In the south 1t will
continue to be my duty to make such
appointments as will appeal to all the
people, whether they are Republicans
or Democrats, and 1 ask all citizens,
wheher they be Republicans or Dem
ocrats, to accept the appointments
made as men, If they are men, who will
carry on their high duties with an eye
to the administration of justice, to ac-
cept them and congratulate the people
on the appointment and not make use
of them for any political or partisan
argument or partisan appeal"
While the parade to the grand stand
was begun during a cessation of the
rain, there was another heavy down.