Show ROOSEVELT IX IN DIXIE President Speaks to the Followers of Lee President Roosevelt's recent tour through the South was one continuous ovation from the people of Dixie In fact his visit has been heralded as being being being be be- ing as triumphant as the return of any Roman emperor Dixie was cap cap- by the Rough Rider President At Richmond the old Confederate Capital the greeting extended to him was unusually cordial After Alter much uch parading and speech-making speech the President President Pres Pres- ident was taken for a drive through the residence section In the center of this section is the great equestrian statue of ot General Robert Hobert E. E Lee At this point occurred a scene of the Presidents President's Presidents President's Pres Pres- ident's visit which will probably be remembered when all others have faded into oblivion Surrounding the Lee monument Is Isan isan an iron fence inclosing a circle of lawn The crowd was thickly grouped around this circle Inside standing upon the base of ot the monument and wandering about upon the lawn were seventy-five seventy broken tottering old men clad in gray and carry carryg g small Con- Con flags Many hobbled upon crutches and n nearly arly all leaned upon canes Here and there an arm or a leg was mussing m The voices of the old men were low and they paid no heel heed to the crowd around them They were waiting for the President of the United States he was to drive past the monument From time to time a little old man climbed upon a pediment pediment ment and stood like the very incarnation incarnation incarnation nation of the Lost Cause shading his eyes and gazing toward the coming of the great the powerful the world- world renowned successor of Lincoln and Grant It was such a sight as this which greeted the President when hl hiI carriage carriage car CHI e dashed up to the monument Before the old men realized it the President was facing them and shouting shouting shout shout- ing Come closer With confused exclamations exclamations ex ex- the old men hobbled forward forward forward for for- for for- ward with small pretense of or march march- ing They had almost forgotten the F r t 11 r rI I Grout Group STATUE of ot Confederate Con nn OF GENERAL Veterans Waiting LEE AT to RICHMOND See the President nn r old marching orders order In their th their lr confusion They simply huddled forward to the fence The line was not reformed Then th the President the South Ignoring the crowd behind him He i spoke only to the wearers of the gra gray He lie spoke poke as the President of a reunited reunited reunited re re- united country His voice seemed as the voice of a nation speaking to the followers of Lee The he veterans devoured every vigorous vigor vigor- ous syllable of the Presidents President's address They returned his earnest gaze with l looks of unmistakable good will and loving friendship Somewhat abruptly the President stopped waved his hat It was to them like the balm bahn of Gilead and shouted Good by and good- good luck good by they shouted Good by and a moment later President Roosevelt Roose Roosevelt velt was out of ot sight |