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Show NEW DAY FOR SOUTH. Charleston Exposition and Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Visit Has Opened Up Eyes of the Southern People. Washhiffton, April 2." Tho rrcildent received a tlctesntlon tonsUtlnc of mem-horn mem-horn oC tho Merchants' nssoclatlon of New York, tho Clmmbpr of Commerce nnd Cot ton Exchange, lucompanled by Indies, Tlio delegation ts on Its wnj home from a visit to tho Charleston exposition, nnd numbered n bruit fort William V KInjr, thalrmm of tho de!ei.atlnn fmm the Mtr-iliaittH Mtr-iliaittH ndsoclutlon. luldressoi tho rn.U ilent, sijfnff, am on if other thlnRH, Durlnj? our tay In Charleston vo were ileepl touched bj tho many conlltil ami feelliuf txpreHslons c received and which ou uioumd b our Mult to tho expojl-llou expojl-llou At a Uinquct which we attended, every ono who Hpnke tspuko most feellnnly nf jou I betlevt! th ir cru8ltlon la a new day for tho South." ritnsiUKNTB unsroNbii Mr Klne ladles nnd Ocntlcmen I np-preclite np-preclite vry much uur Mult to nte mil 1 nm clad jou wero down nt Charleston I was deply touch d by the reception I met there a reteptlon not pirsonal to mo but Klven to mo an ri pretfentliiK the Nation tn whkh nil of im belong, nut nil tho purls nf which and the h Ulceus of nnj pirt of which aro mnttcrn of prlda for iver) ono nf us ver where "I feel lu thn slronkCKt wa that nothing can be. moiu Importuut than tho building tip nf thn preat Industrial oranliation of tho bouth Just jtiich orpnnu itloni nn we rejrtsent hem todi 1 thank ou fur cul.lnff on me ou represent I odlon nf tho kind that havo in ido New iorks greatncHS what It Is " n rtt?ards what Mr, Klnj? Fa hi con-lernln? con-lernln? the expitsslnns used by the people peo-ple of Charleston about me, 1 inn onl eny tint 1 am Rolnp to do m best to htrvo them and tn do all that I can In kicplnt; up tho wnnd rful proxperlt), material ma-terial und moral, of our count ri " |