The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-08
Great Crowd Hears New Yorker Speak at Knoxville
NEW NAT|ONAL|sM TALKED
Roosevelt Attends Great Exposition and Later Delivers an Address to Throng of People at the
 Baseball Park

Knoxville. Tenn. October 7.--The south gave Theodore Roosevelt well come today which he described as Great, by George" Throughout the first day of his southern trip, which took him across Virginia and part of Tennessee, he received all the honors which the south can pay.
 Colonel Roosevelt started out the day with the declaration to keep as quiet as possible and not to make many speeches, because his throat. which has been troubling him. Is not yet in good condition. But wherever he went crowd was waiting for him. Each crowd was out to cheer and did cheer until he made speech. The colonel made his first speech before he had finished breakfast and kept at it until late at night, before his train left Knoxville for Rome and Atlanta. He said that he enjoyed the whole day immensely.
 The colonel talked new national ism" today. He brought into the south the doctrine which he announced on his recent western trip and empha- sized it. He defended 1t from the crit icisms which have been directed against 1t and said that 1t was not revolu- tionary, but rather was designed to put stop to things which might bring on a revolutionary movement, if un- checked. He also put in a few words about his fight in New York state. say ing he was trying to improve conditions there.
 Tt is quite job." he said, "but we are going to do it."
 Two Speeches Made
 The two chief speeches of the day were delivered at Bristol and Knox vile, Tenn. In his Bristol speech the colonel defended new nationalism' and went after the political bosses, saying that bossism was the negation of dem ocracy"
 KnoxvilIe's celebration was held. on the grounds of the Appalachian expo sition, where Colonel Roosevelt spoke fin the afternoon and again at a ban quet tonight. It was cold, damp day, with a good deal of rain, but the weather did not keep the people at home. All of east Tennessee, from the crags of the mountains and the hooks of the valleys. poured out its people and several thousands were here from Virginia. The Eleventh United States cavalry from Chattanooga, which escorted Colonel Roosevelt from the train to the exposition grounds, had its HHHuS lull III pilOtlHB Illll lilEOuSH tne crowds to the steps of the exposition hall to review a floral parade. As the former President mounted the steps the band played Dixie" and the peo- pie cheered. The presidential salute of q guns was given for him.
 The colonel stood on the steps while carriages. decked out with masses of flowers of all colors were driven through lane in the crowd.
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 men had another tussle with the crowd before they could get the colonel to the ball park, where he made his speech.
 The people had swarmed about the grand stand on which the colonel stood and there were so many of them that he was unable to make them all hear him Capt. William Rule of Knoxville intro duced the colonel.
 Lost Boy Found
 The colonel had barely made a fair start when he was interrupted by the sound of weeping. Some one spied a small boy near the grand stand who was sobbing violently. The boy was led up the steps and delivered over to the colonel, who stopped his speech. The boy explained to him between sobs that he was lost.
 Colonel Roosevelt led the small, freck- led urchin to the front of platform, where every one could see him.
 Whats your name," he asked.
 "Eccles Nelson,' said the boy.
 Where from?'
 Union county
 Colonel Roosevelt shouted out the boys name and asked if his father was in the crowd. No one claimed the boy at first and the colonel shouted his name again Then he saw @ hand wagging above the heads of the people some distance away.
 .l4 O..ro I, ed. The crowd was so dense that the elder Nelson could not reach the platform for several minutes, but Colonel Roose- welt would not go on with his speech until the boy was restored to his father
 Exposition Praised
 Colonel Roosevelt opened his speech by complimenting the people on their exposi- ton. Then he discussed New Nation alism," and the navy.
 T have just come back from a trip on the other side of the ocean," Colonel Roosevelt continued. Visiting as 1 did several different countries, there are two things that struck me; In the first place. that we have something to learn, as will be known by anyone capable of doing anything; that we have something to learn from almost each country. I haven't any use for the man who has passed the period when he can't learn.
 MY eGptTltuCc IdS diWdy6 DttH tnd II when a man gets to the stage when he cannot learn anything he Is not worth knocking on the head. We have plenty of things to learn and plenty of things which we can improve on. I have come in contact with several of them, and 1 am engaged in trying to improve my na- tive city and state of New York. It is quite job. but we are going to do 1t.
 No Backward Steps
 Tt Is not enough to say that we do not intend to do anything bad. People that do not go forward, go backward. They do not stand still. They go back ward unless they go forward. and as a people we can keep ourselves. our citi- zer ship on high plane of usefulness and achievement only by applying to the new things the old principles. the old morality that enabled our fathers in their day to arh'c.'o for our common land Our peo- pie that counted in the past. counted not oy s-..nls uuwn and glorifying them selves because their ancestors did well: : they counted by doing the job that they had to do.
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