Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-08
milwaukee ENTHUSES
OVER GOV. ROOSEVELT
Rough Riders Colonel Rides at the
Head of the Great Floral
Parade.
CHEERED As NEXT PRESIDENT
The Whole Cream City Turhs ous
TO Honor sour" Teddy--On
His Way Home
Again.

Milwaukee, June 3o.-"He won with
our boys in blue, and he will be u
president, too" thus ran one = the
banner descriptions displayed in n
Milwaukee flower parade of which
Governor Roosevelt was the center OK
attractions. But this apparently did
not interest the governor half as
much as did that other displayed ev-
crywhere and on every lip: Our
Teddy" The governors part in the
flower parade was to lead it in the UNI
decorated carriage of Captain FREQ
Pabst, accompanied by President
Heckeet and Governor Scofield and
Lieutenant Ferguson. He was driven
to where the parade formed and,
preceded by a mounted escort and
band, started OF a carriage journey
through the ranks of 100000 spec
tators drawn up on both sides OF
Grand and Prospect avenues. h
marshal of the day was former Gov
ernor George Peck, and as he rode up
and saluted the governor before the
parade started the latter said, with
impulsive enthusiasm:
Really, I'd like to stay here and 60
on a bender"
Mr.. Peck laughed, and replied:
And be p~ardoned out by the gov
ernor."
To which Governor Roosevelt re-
Piled: Wouldn't that be a great one
on the governor of New York; par
doned out by the governor of Wiscon-
sin.
Photographers by the score leveled
cameras at the governor, little girls
and young women ran out to the car
rage and threw in clusters of roses
and punches of sweet peas until 1t was
a bower of flowers. In the hats OF
hundreds of men were little white
cards on which were printed: Teddy,
1904" Time and time again the shout
went up from street corners and
crowded Office windows: Roosevelt
for PRESIDENT"
The governor was on his feet nearly
all the time he was in his carriage.
lie was kept constantly bowling.
Once, when he had a breathing spell,
he said:
This is the ~iolliest fun 1 ever had"
The cheering at every point of the
line was tremendous, and old Har-
ward graduates seemed to be stationed
at every corner, for the shout was o n
tinually going up, "Rah, Rah, Rah,
Harvard" This especially delighted
the governor, as his fondness for Har-
ward is only exceeded by his regard
for Oyster bay and Mrs. Roosevelt.
Early in the day the governor visited
the Deutscher club. lie spent a few
moments there, and then was taken to
the Press club, where he wrote his
nome on the wall and made q short
speech. Then he went to the Milwaukee
club, where a breakfast was given him.
Many prominent people were present,
including Lieutenant Ferguson, Gov
ernor Scofield, Ex-Governor Peck, May
or Rose, S~enator-elect j. V. Quarles,
Congressman Theobald Often, Major
Moses Harris, Captain Davis of the
Morrill, and Captain Hodgson of the
Fessenden.
The governor made no speech at the
breakfast. His health was drunk and
he briefly responded with thanks. The
board of trade committee then called
for him and he spent ten minutes in
the pit and made a short speech, In
which he called upon every citizen to
stand by the president, who was up
holding the honor, the glory and the
greatness of the flag, no matter what
their individual ideas may be regard
ing the Philippine question. After the
members of the board had shaken
hands with him he was driven to the
Pabst breweries and then to the resi-
dence of Captain Pabst. Following
this came the flower parade. While at
the hotel the governor was called upon
by Henry c. Payne, and was in confer
ence with him for a few moments.
Milwaukee ended the governors
swing around the circle, and during his
Journey he ignored the politicians and
cultivated the people.
"I return to New York." he said,
"more conscious than ever of what the
heart of the American people is"
Last nights carnival feature was {.
grand exhibition fire run by the Mil
waukee fire department, under the di-
rection of Fire Chief James Foley.
The event was a brilliant success.
There were twenty-eight pieces of APP
paratus in the run of little over one
mile. Over 100000 people witnessed
the spectacle.