Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-25
DIXIE DAY is
CELEBRATED AT
SEATTLE FAIR
S0UTHERNERS GATHER AT A.
Y. P. EXPOSITION
GOVERNOR eILcHRIsT OF FLOR
IDA ORATOR OF DAY
Speaks of Racial Conditions as They
Exist In California and COM
pares Golden State
with South
tBy Associated Press.l

<O EATTLE, Aug. 24.-Nearly all the
- southerners in the northwest, ex-
~ lies and travellers, took part in
the celebration of Dixie day at the
Alaska Yukon Pacific exposition.
There were speeches, receptions re-
unions and all the bands played
"Dixie" whenever they had a chance
to tumultuous cheering.
The United Confederate veterans
were banqueted at noon in the Nilkko
cafe with Governor Albert w. Gilchrist
of Florida as the chief guest.
At 2 o'clock the southerners assem-
bled in the Natural amphitheater
where with each person wearing his
own state badge and miniature cot
ton boil, they held informal recep-
tions. grouped under their respective
state banners.
Addresses of welcome were made by
President J. e. Chilberg and other ex-
position officials, and then the COVER
nor of Florida was introduced as the
orator of the day.
Governor Gilchr1st said in part:
"What means this phrase we hear
The new SOUTH? 1t is associated with
the hum of machinery and the move
ment of busy hands and quickly NOV
ing feet. Some people have an idea
that the south is lazy, indolent,
sleepy The south has been a Sleep
ing giant, but vt sleeps no moreP
Shows Prosperity in South
Governor Gilchrist cited statistics
showing the material prosperity of the
south-its rapid increase in wealth
and population. He referred to his
message of April, 1909, in which he
named George Washington, Robert e.
Lee and Abraham Lincoln, all south
erners. as the greatest men America
has produced. The governor paid a
tribute to Lincoln. and continued;
president Taft. undoubtedly worthy
the high office of president of the
United States, in a speech in Phila-
delphia April 26, looked forward to
division of the parties of the south
so that there shall be tolerance of po-
lltical opinion there so that in their
state governments there shall be more
than one political creed to be Sub
scribed to and supported.
He Furthermore said: Il am quite
confident that my motives are likely
TO be misconstrued, and that I shall
have attributed to me rather more po-
litical policy than patriotic desire.
Speaks of Racial Question
ain this connection it would be we'll
to remember that we have a racial
pueStioh anu thit ehi9 -.
permeates our political affiliation. In
stead of discussing the race question
as It exists in the southland, I will
invite your attention to It as it now
exists in your own territory, the golden
west, with which you are more
familiar. 1 presume that there is none
in California, or elsewhere. but who
will be glad to receive the higher and
better class OF the Orientals. But there
has heen some objection in California
toward receiving an excessive number
OF their laborlng element. 1t is need
less for me to invite your attention to
the various measures introduced in the
legislature of California during the past
year. Consider the indication of the
feeling there, as judged by these pro-
posed measures. Then suppose that
there were enough of this element in
that state to represent one-third to