The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-04

now constituting the state of Kansas.
This portion of his speech was every
where followed by cheers.
AT ANTHONY.
Anthony, Kan. July 4.-Governor
Roosevelt's special train reached here
at 8 O'Clock and the governor addressed
a good sized crowd at the station. re-
ferring particularly to the fact that this
was the morning of Independence day.
The night trip from Oklahoma City
was made without special incident of
any character. About two miles south
of Oklahoma City the train was halted
very early in the morning, SO that the
governor and his party might take
breakfast quietly. The governor Will
make brief addresses throughout Kan
sas today and is expected to reach St
Joseph, No., at 7:30 tonight Quincy,
Ill, be reached tomorrow morning and
Chicago tomorrow night,
At Kingman the governor said:
"On this day, the Fourth of July, |
am glad to speak in Kansas which sent
so many of her sons to follow the flag
in the great years that tried men
souls from 1861 to 1865. Two stations
back we passed by Anthony, where one
of my own regiment lies buried, Kan
sas man, who was with me and who
gave his life down in Cuba. He was
not only good soldier but he was a
good man and 1 can drop the adjective
and say a man. It seems to me it strikee
the keynote in the national character
to which We must aspire. You men
who wear the button that shows you
fought in the great war, deeply though
we are indebted to you for the yaIor
which preserved the nation when men
We're actuated by malice and by.foreign
levy, we owe you even more Tor the
lesson you have taught in peace. Other
nations have produced great armies
that followed great generals like Grant,
and Sherman to triumph in civil war.
but too often in the past the man who
restored the unity of a country and put
down rebellion was the man who after
wards riveted the letters on the wrist
of free men. It is the peculiar glory
and honor of this land that when you
came back from the war you came SIM
ply to do your duty as other free men
did their duty in the work of making
this nation in peace what it should be
in war. You must have two qualities
to make this nation great-that quality
or rather that group of qualities which
we call by the names Of honesty and in
tegrity and in the next place courage,
the quality of manlineSS.,
At this point the train started and
Governor Roosevelt waved his farewell
with the expression: "Wen, 1 wish
you'd go on, I would like to make an
hours speech"
Good bye, governor, we will follow
thusiastic auditor as the train pulled
out amid vociferous cheering.
At Hutchinson the governor was hand
a bulletin of the reported massacre OF
the foreigners in Pekin. He expressed
himself as very much shocked and dis
tressed at the report of such terrible
news and agreed with reporters sug-
gestion that it portended 1.-The end of
China as China is now and China as a
nation that does not expand" He adj
ded: IF this report is confirmed, I shall
certainly have something to say about
it in my speeches. I wonder If the anti
expansionists would like to make the
Philippines into the kind of country
that China is. The truth is that we
world until civilized nations have in
some shape expanded over the barbar
Gus ones, or until these have become
civilized"
The governors address at Hutchinson
was of a patriotic character, touching
no where upon politics. He was ac
c cTdU Of 2 600 sneaking in the public
square of the city.