Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1900-07-06
FROM OKLAHOMA CITY.
The Rough Riders Reunion--entir
Affair a Grand Success.
ROOSEVELT ON STATEHOOD.
Special Correspondence

Oklahoma City. July S.-Roosevelt
has come and gone. He doesn't flash
IKE a meteor. He just keeps on shin
ing like a hrst-class planet. The man
on horseback is the ideal Of any people.
Roosevelt 10 certainly the ideal and
hero OF the hour. There are at least
10000 people here to-day and zach one
tried to out-holler his neighbor as
Roosevelt rode by on a praneing Ros-
inante OF the broncho type.
l had a pleasant talk with him at
his a this morning. l spoke to him
relative to his promise to help us with
our statehood movement. 1 quote his
words: Say TO the people Of New Mex
leo that 1 stand ready now and always
TO help them with statehood or any
thing else they want. Say to my old
comrades n friends whom I met at
Las vegas "a year ago, that I feel they
VIII not nede my assistance. for IL in
my judgment that the expression I'm
the Philadelphia platform relative to
the admission of the territories ia n
guarantee hat the republican party
viii admit them to statehood. 1 believe
in carrying out every pledge in the
platform and rely upon me In the keep
Ing of my word. | was a delegate to
the convention which adopted the plat
form and had I not believed in Il I
should not have voted for st."
The entire AFFAIR here has been a
success In every way. The detail wa.
not so effective as that at Las Vegas
a year since, but on the whole. the
management are entitled to credit. The
injury TO Mr.. George. the secretary,
sustained by being thrown from his
horse. served to mar the whole days
pleasure. The management had no one
who could take his place.
Mrs. Allan Capron. the widow of
The lamented captain of that name, is
mere. She Is one OF the featuresI
lovely and distinguished appearing wo-
a All women look alike 10 the
Rough Rider n COW puncher, but
Mrs Capron came In for great applause
Wherever she went. carrying, as she aid
the color Of her husbands troop.
New Mexico was honored with the
vice presidency OF the Rough Riders
association, Captain Muller, OF Santa
Fe, being elected to that place. Muller
IL a great favorite with all the officers
n men. Some OF them call him Won
Moitke. II the war had lasted, nobody
knows but what "Unser Fritz might |
not have come out a colonel at least.
Colonel Roosevelt's trip through |
Kansas. as you doubtless know through |
the Associated Press. was one contlnu- |
"a round OF crowds and enthusiasm. |
Roosevelt Ia not handsome. His smile
n grin are not captivating. He IL not
an orator,as Brutus-I mean Bryan-ls,
n yet his eccentric mannerlsms, his |
apparent sound sense and honesty of |
purpose seem to hold the crowds which |
cheer his speeches TO the echo. His |
Ideas about the honesty of public off, |
Gals are not new. but everybody seems |
TO know he Is not talking through his
Rough Rider hat when he declares that |
the hrst duty OF the American citizen |
begins at home, n that. to practice |
honesty In the administration Of all
public affairs. He is an ~expansionist |
and believes that the destiny OF the |
American people lies close to the top
or the pinnacle. He IL a man OF deeds.
HIS Rough Rider hat did not show up
here neither did his khaki uniform. He |
Is standing on his record as governor
or New York. but he Is running on his
whole record since he was a boy, and
the democratic cartoons, yet to be
drawn can't cut a Juan hill and Lat
Guasimas out OF the story.
Well. I have a enough. am much
Indebted to the Press association for
favors extended as your representative.
The press bureau is the best managed
part of the reunion. This is the con-
census of opinion of all the boys" from
New York to Denver. and there is a
car load OF them here.
II. Il. TWITCHEI.L.