Show I l JE T T gln T IN ix i NIB in SOUTH I Every stop step of President Roosevelt's journey through the South Sonth has the effect of winning friends Cor for him him both both there and throughout tho the nation No So similar len length th o of time In his entire public career has haR so o pro e proved the many many- sided character of the man His thorough h Information as to Irs the condition and anil the needs neoda pf t the tho people in every ery section I Is o l evident ent In his speeches nn and In the tho public acts of which those speeches are but hut the audible expression lon When hen President Cleveland traveled into the West Westa West est esta a region of or which which ho knew nothing anti and could learn nothing nothing nothing-It It was clear that his speeches had hud been cull culled from Crom the cyclopedias Para Paragraph raph after paragraph was vias found to ho bo literal excerpts from the books booles Of or himself he lie know knew nothing bud butt he had ha every faith In tho the makers of books He lie didn't tell leU the people anything untrue about their resources and their c exploits hut exploits but ho didn't toll teU th them m anything new now And ho lie didn't have havo enough Information mation to express his data in In his own language He TIc followed fol rol- fol- fol lowed lowe word for tor word what his secretaries had bad found Inthe in fn tho the bulk bulky volumes that are seen hut but rarely J studied in th the libraries l President Roosevelt finds opportunity to express the tho views he has hns long entertained based base on facts that ho he has gleaned from a Q thousand sources chiefly personal In Investigation Investigation tn- tn on the ground roun And he lie expresses his views In terms that are new and attractive to the people The toy They know he Is not cheaply quoting to them They toy know he has informed himself long himself long ago And Ana the they regard him as an interested friend speaking on the tho ground round some seine of the things s which only a 0 Pre President American in the tho very ry broadest sense of the word worl could express He lie has won the tho friendship l of th the people of oC the South Th They would give gi him the lie electoral votes of a number of southern states stales if ft ho Ito were to be bo a n candidate for or time the olilee e of ot Pr President next year Tho They reo recognize the fact that here hero i is a man as broad broach as the Iho nation And they IlD hae imae p waited long for foJ that type tp of or man No candidate who has received their vote In th past has fUll fully filled the tho requirement of or the southern P people peo peo- I. I pie pIc Tilden en didn't know the tho South South nor nor much of or an anything any any- thing else outside of York state Hancock cl poor joor man mno knew nothing outside tho the arm army Cleveland couldn't bill bi hi ll hove vo ovo there thero was any country west of or tho Allegheny hen menu moun thins Bryan had a better bettor Information than mo most which most t was trims small praise And Parker neither knew nor ut iu known But nut hero here is fR a man a Republican President who doe doi know who enters Into their sentiment who understands what tho to South needs and looks on public questions from their own point of or vI view w Ho makes them hf bigger cr Americans Americans Ameri ten cans by being with them Anti And they only wait waft nn on opportunity to express their confidence in fn him a as their choice for or the tho Presidency S Theodore Roosevelt could divide divide tho the electoral Vote oto of the Solid So South and carry In the North ever every state stal that ho he carried in 1004 I. |