The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-10-09
He Just "Does Ordinary
Things That No One
Else Does. y
WARM WELCOME
GIVEN IN DIXIE
In His Uncle Remus" Speech,
Ex-President Explains to the
South What His New Ma
tionalism' Means Will
Keep on Preaching
"Humdrum" Things.
[specIal to The Times-pispatch.

Atlanta. Ga. October s.-Theodore
Roosevelt ventured TO tell in a speech
to-day why 1t is that he has achieved
distinction in his public career. The
secret of 1t. the ex-President explained
In talking to boys of the Berry In
dustrial School. a Rome, liz that he
does ordinary things that no ono else
does"
The main difference between him and
others who try to do things, he went
on to elucidate. is that he carries on,
his effort further than they. That
was all.
The ex-President came to Dixie land
In torrent OF rain that did not let
UP from the time his train whirled into
Georgia until he reached this CITY.
Colonel Roosevelt got drenched as he
went about the Industrial School
grounds at Rome. and he did not have
an opportunity to put on dry clothes
until he reached the Piedmont Hotel
here.
The Southland gave the colonel a
spirited welcome. and claimed him,
because his mother. Martha Bullock,
was born In Roswell, Ga. as one of
Dixie's sons.
Lauds "Uncle Remus.-
at Rome the ex-President, besides
Industrial school and telling them how
to be proper citizens. delivered a
speech at the dedication of monu-
ment erected by the Sons of the Con-
fedsrate Veterans to the women of the
South.
At Atlanta he talked to conserva-
ton delegates In the afternoon and
urged the South to take care of Its
resources. In the evening he spoke
at the Uncle Remus" memorial cele.
bration, and lauded Joel Chandler Har-
ris. son of Dixie. who became fam.
Gus for his dialect tales OF the South
told by the Fictitious Uncle Remus.'
In his Uncle Remus" speech the
colonel also toon occasion once more tc
defend his New Nationalism., which
1t appears, the South does not exact
ly understand. While the e1-Presi-
dent has strong following in Dixie
there are many who do not yet know
whether his New Nationalism" means
turning the country upside down, OF
what It's all about, anyhow. So the
colonel thought it was UP to him to
explain 1t some more.
Atlanta was keenly disappointed
that Governor Hoke Smith saw fit tc
keep away from the two auditorium
gatherings that Colonel Roosevelt ad
dressed. The Governor had been In
vited to sit upon the platform at the
Conservation Congress and again a,
the Uncle Remus" celebration, but
although in town lie stayed away.
Colonel Roosevelt reached Rome a,
8 o'clock this morning. and was taken
through deep mud to the Berry In.
dustrial School. where the boys gave
I, 80 ,ria T,,i
him, Judge Wright. of Rome, dwell,
has achieved. II have often wondered
said Judge Wright, what the senti-
ments of the young Roosevelt would
have been toward the blue and gray
had he been able to enlist in the
bloody days. | have wondered IL his
mother would have dressed him in the
gray or his father In the blue.''
Never Considered II.
After the school boys, under inspira-
ton of leader who almost tied him
self into knots, had delivered them
selves of more cries. the eX-President
told them that he had never considered
whether he would have Worn the blue
or the gray. His mothers two broth
ers wore the gray, he said, although
his father was from the North Then
the colonel told how 1t was that he
had been success in life.
Now am going to do to YOU what
I don't think have with any other
audience" the Colonel said, "and thai
is to speak little about myself per-
sonally."
The boys cneered and the colonel
held up mis- nand. exclaiming, wait
don't think you will find 1T amounts
to so much when you hear 1t was
suggested by what Judge Wright said
when he spoke Of my having been
successful" he went on. Now, in SO
absolutely ard solely from doing the
ordinary things Of life that any man
could do, but that nobody does do. l
won't say tnat nobody does do it, but
that so many people don't do 1t to the
point that they ought to.
among my intellectual opponents it
is often stated as matter OF COM
plant that I preach what is common
place and humdrum. / do. and so 1 in
tend to do. Honesty, courage, decency.
tenderness and force are the kind Of
things want to see developed in the
American man and the American wo-
man and therefore in the American boy
and girl. / never got anything In my
life by an unusual display Of genius
OF even by an unusual display OF talent.
Whatever / s;ot has always come from
doing a number Of things Just as hard
as / knew how"
Theodore Roosevelt Tonight dis
claimed any responsibility for the
tariff plank in the New York State
Republican platform, In doing so ne
replied to criticisms which have been
directed against him, particularly by
some of the so-called Insurgent Re-
publicans In the West. to tho effect
that he talked one kind OF politics
N the West and another Kind In the
Iast. THIS criticism was Hlsed largely
On the fact that while he did not In
1orse the Payne tariff law in any OF
us Western sp pe, 7, the tariff plank
commended the bill, Colonel Roosevelt
made 1t clear In his speech tonight
nat he had not indorsed the Payne