Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1899-07-01

claims of glory, and take pride in the
name and fame of New Mexico. / am
an American as you are Americans,
and you and / alike have the right to
claim aB our w every acre and rod
of country, from Maine to Oregon,
from Florida to California. Gap
plause.) All / shall say is If New Mes-
leo wants to be a state you can call Oh
Inc and / will go to Washington to
speak for you or do anything you
wish" (Great ~applause.)
Colonel Roosevelt's address was cut
short by the rain, which put a stop to
the amusement of the daylight pro-
gram.
Aside from the presentation the ev-
ening program consisted OF the rendi-
ton of a part of Haydn's Creation"
by the Las Vegas Oratorical society.
At midnight Colonel Roosevelt left
over the Santa Fe road for Chicago.
lie will arrive there Tuesday evening.
Journey Through Kansas.
Hutchinson, Kan., June 24.-Fun-
ston's Kansas welcomed Governor
Roosevelt IN royal manner yesterday
as the Santa Fe train sped westward
with him and his rough riders to Las
Vegas. And the colonel of the rough
riders told Kansas what he thinks Of
Funston and his demons
lie was barely out of his berth at
Marcelline when the people began to
greet him. The run across Illinois
had been very pleasant, rain cooling
the air.
Out of the hills and forest about
Marcelline came the negro mann
miles," the old Uncle Toms and the
white folk to cheer the fighting leader
of the rough riders. One old woman
just catching a glimpse of his face
through the car window, could only
exclaim with undisguised admiration,
well, I'll be switched" and the gov
ernor was saying just about that time:
II do not mind this being looked at
and cheered. | like TO know what the
common people think of what we did
and how we did it. This fighting
business has been a good thing for
the whole country"
At Carrollton a committee Of ten
from the Knife and Fork club of Kan
sas City, led by A. b. Cotton, the presi-
dent, boarded the train. Each man
carried a cluster Of flowers and Gov
ernor Roosevelt was soon decorated.
The club is a delightful factor in the
social and thinking life of Kansas
City.
The committee formed a circle
about the governor and clamored for
a chat on the Cuban campaign. He
gave it off hand, ending with the as
sertion:
81 was Disguised with congress be-
cause it did not pass the army reor-
ganization bill. Our army is in just
the condition that E%ngland's was at
the time of the Crimean war. 1t bad
ly needs reorganization"
Praises Funston.
81 wish to come out to Kansas he
said, when Funston comes home.
(Cheers.) Nothing would please the
rough riders better than 10 meet here
in Kansas with the Twentieth Kansas
and your gallant Funston and cele-
brate his glorious deeds. He is not
fighting Spainards, but | guess there is
not much difference in what is re-
quired to be done in either case-just
manifest common honesty, common
decency and common loyalty. Your
greeting touches my heart, for | have
really only come all this distance to
meet my old rough riders. Last sum-
mer | spent before Santiago and last
winter at Albany-both were pretty
hard jobs, but | did the best | could"
Up out of the sea of faces before him
came a brown hand In salute and the
cry of a voce:
"Oh, colonel"
"Why old fellow-why, Schneider,
Is that you? I'm glad to see you.
Shake" And before the multitude
Roosevelt and former Rough Rider
Schneider grasped hands as men who
had fought side by side.
"What's the matter with Kansas?"
said the governor as he returned from
the Blossom house reception to his
train. AS if to answer the question,
William White. the editor OF Emporia,
and the author of the famous whats
the Matter With Kansas" editorial,
came in and said: ave have got eX-
cursion trains running into Emporia
today just for the purpose of showing
y 'u 4 D''DiNs H'NNA
II am glad to hear it," said the gov
ernor ut does me good to get out.
Do o know that in February alone l
answered 4.s54 letters. That is what
| got for staying at home, Isn't Funs-
ton a bully fellowT'
GIaddcns an Old Veterans.
The train Stacked for water at
Uadora and an old man called for
Roosevelt. As the governor stepped on
the platform this old man said:
Il was in the civil war and my boy
was with you at San Juan"
"What was his Nance
Rugby"
What, Fred Buggy? There wasn't
a better boy in my regiment"
The labor-worn features of the old
man lightened up, and he went away
full of joy.
A Grand Army man In he crowd at
Lawrence, the next station, yelled:
Roosevelt and Funston in 1904" This
evoked a mighty cheer.
A very old man, with shaking hands,
saluted the governor and said: my name
is Langston and my boy fought under
you. God bless you"
The governors eyes grew moist as he
turned to Goodrich and said: THAT is
the second old man that has told me
that. How many fathers were watching
the rough riders last year?'
"a MiddIing Good American"
A band was playing at Page City n
the governor had to say TO the cheering
Kansans:
you come out TO see me because you
think me a middling good American. |