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Show NEW DAY FOR SOUTH. Charleston Exposition and Roosevelt's Roose-velt's Visit Has Opened Up Eyes of tho Southern People. Washington, April K Tho President received a delegation consisting of mem-bera mem-bera of the Merclunts' association of Now York, the Chamber of Commerce and Cotton Cot-ton Exchange, accompanied by ladies, The delegation Is on Us wuy home from a ltlt to tho Charleston exposition, nnd numbered about fnrtj. Wllllnm V. King, ihilrmun of tho delegation from the Mcr. chants' nssneUtlnii, addressed iho Presl. dent, saving, umong other things, "During our stay In Charleston wo wero deeply touched hi tho muni eonlial and feeling expressions we recclvpel and which ou nroused by your visit to iho exposition exposi-tion At a banquet which wo attended, every ono who spoke, spoke most feelingly nt ou 1 believe the Ir exposition Is a new da for tho South," pih:sidi:nt'S rusponsr Mr. King, Luilles and Gentlemen I np. Frecllle vir much sour visit to me, mil am Blatl sou vvrro down at Charleston 1 was di e'pU touched bv tho reception I met thcie a reception not pirsonal to mp, hut given to tno ns rpprpsonllng the Nation to whlih all of us belong, und all Iho parts nf whlih and the success of anj part of whlih aro matters uf pride for evrrs one of us even where "I feel lu the strntiEest was that nothing can be tnoru Impnrtiirt than the hulltllnv tip nf tho great Ind .tint organizations of tho boulh Just such organuntlons as wo ret resent here tnd is. 1 thank sou for railing on me You represent hodlis of ttm kind that havo mado New orks greatniss what It Is. "As rigards what Mr. King nld con-cernlng con-cernlng the rxpresalons used by tho pro. i lo of Charleston nbotit me, 1 can only wiy that I am hoIiib to do my best Jo sirvo them and to do all that I can In keeping up the wonderful prosperltj, ma-terlal ma-terlal and nioial, of our country" |