Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1899-07-03

Milwaukee, June 29.-'He won with
our boys in blue, and he'll be our
president, too" Thus ran one Of the
banner inscriptions displayed yester-
day in Milwaukee's flower parade, in
which Gov. Roosevelt was the center
attraction. But this apparently did
not interest the governor half as much
as did that other, displayed every
where, and on every lip, "Our Teddy. ;"
The governors part in the flower pa
rade was to lead it in the undecorated
carriage of Capt. Fred Pabst, accom-
panied by President Hackett, Gov.
Scofield and Lieut.. Ferguson. He was
driven to where the parade formed and,
preceded by mounted escort and a
band, started on the carriage journey
through the ranks of 100000 specta-
tors drawn up on both sides
of Grand avenue and Prospect avenue.
In the hats of hundreds of men were
little white cards on which was print
ed: "Teddy, 1904" Time and time
again the shout went up from the
street corners and crowded Office win
dows: Roosevelt for PRESIDENT"
The governor was on his feet nearly all
of the time in the carriage. He kept
constantly bowling. There were SO
flower decked vehicles in the parade.
AS soon as it was over Roosevelt was
rapidly driven to the station where he
took a special train for New York.
Five hundred bulls and bears forgot
the fortunes of stocks and cereal war
fare and turned their attention to Col.
Roosevelt at 1890 Wednesday. The
pit of the chamber of commence was
crowded with greybeards and youths
gathered to hear and to cheer the
words of Roosevelt. They fairly shook
the old building with their shouts OF
approval and when the chief. executive
of the empire state had finished, he
was fairly carried off his feet on his re-
turn to the carriage that had whisked
him down from the Milwaukee club.
ACCOMMODATING Gov. Roosevelt was
Gov. Scofield, Acting President b. 2.
Hackett of the carnival association and
Lieut.. Ferguson.
The speech of Gov. Roosevelt was
most vigorous. He admOnished all
good Americans to stand by the presi-
dent in putting down the strife in the
Philippines and spoke of closer union
of Germany, England and America in
the orient Gov. Roosevelt was pre-
sented by James A. Dryden, one OF the
veteran members of the board, and this
is what the governor said:
Mr.. President and Gentlemen: It
has given me great pleasure to come
to Milwaukee to see you. I had not
expected when [ left New York that
l should turn from my course, but l
assure you that | am glad to have
made the change in the route. l am
glad to be the guest of citizens OF a
state which has always shown herself
patriotic-patriotic in time of war and
patriotic in time of peace. We are now
standing at the end Of the nineteenth
century in time when very serious
problems confront us. We are con-
scious of the fact that we can face
these problems. 1t is time for de-
voting the best thought toward the So
luton of these problems. [ speak,
now, to you men of the commercial
pursuits of the great middle west, who
will take an especially prominent part
in the work. [ know that you will be
equal to the task before you. But we
have those home problems that are al
ways with US and I want to say word
in relation to them. 1t is our duty
to get into public life men of cour-
age, or common sense and common
honesty. Public men must have those
qualities; no amount of generosity can
atone for the lack of any one of these
elemental qualities; no one of them
must be wanting; no two of them must
be wanting. I don't care how brave a
man is, if he is natural born fool he
isn't worth knocking in the head. If
a man is lacking in common honesty,
he is not fit for public life, no matter
how brilliant he may be. I have been
up to your Deutscher club have had
a good time" (Laughter).
A Voice: "Did you have beer up
there, Teddy?"
II think I took glass or two,"
quickly replied the rough rider, as he
passed his hand deity across his fore
head, and the crowd roared. IT would
say further" he continued, ''that after
being up there, should like to become
a missionary for the promotion Of
'Gemuetlichkeit' daughter and ap-
plause).
Turning to serious matters, we have
two coasts, the Atlantic and the Paci-
f1c, and we have grave problems that are
rising to confront us, especially toward
the Pacific We should take equal in
terest in all of these problems.
While there is a single armed foe
raising a hand against us there in the
Philippines, we have the right to de-
mand that every honorable citizen
stand behind the president in his eff