Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1902 — PRESIDENT VISITS CHARLESTON. [ARTICLE]

PRESIDENT VISITS CHARLESTON.

Mrs. Roosevelt and Two Cabinet Members Make Up the Party. The first tour of a President of the United States to South Carolina since the Civil War began when President Roosevelt, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt, two cabinet members and others, including a delegation of newspaper correspondent*, left for Charleeton to be th* guest of the South Carolina Interstate and West Indian Exposition Company. Had President McKinley lived he would undoubtedly have made a visit to the exposition, in pursuance of his plan to cement more strongly the steadily increasing friendship between the South and the North. In accepting the Charleston invitation President Roosevelt not only carried out the ideas of his predecessor, but followed his own inclination. In characteristic Southern hospitality the exposition managers of the city of Charleston made elaborate preparations for the entertainment of the presidential party. Much of the first day war occupied with a tour of the harbor, during w-hich Fort Sumter and other points of historic interest were visited. A banquet was served in the evening. At the same time Mrs. Roosevelt was given a reception by the lady managers of the exposition. Wednesday was President’s Day at the exposition grounds. In the afternoon the party went to Summerville, S. 0., where the night was spent. Leaving Summerville Thursday afternoon, the President and his guests reached Washington Friday morning.