Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-04
EXTEND GLAD
HAND TO TEDDY
OKLAHoMA,S HEARTY WELCOME
TO GOVERNOR OF NEW
YORK.
REUNION OF ROUGH RIDERS
CAUSE OF THE VISIT.
Roosevelt Says He Feels at Home in
the Earthquakes Plea for
Patriotism.

Oklahoma, July "A frontier demon
stration and a rousing welcome from
rough riders, COW punchers and cltlzens
of all classes, white. black and red, were
accorded today to Governor Roosevelt or
New York. The second annual reunion
of Roosevelt's famous gime brought
10, 900 strangers into this little western
city. OF the 900 who originally compos-
ed the rough riders regiment ABOUT wv
were here to greet the colonel. The sur
prising part of it is that the city took
care of her guests SO well. OF course
there was some inconvenience put eV-
erybody was in the mood to take things
good naturally and the second day OF
the reunion can bedescribed as a great
success with but one distressing fea-
ture. This was an accident to Clifton
George, secretary of the local COM
mittee on reception, who was thrown
from his horse and is thought to have
sustained fatal injuries.
TIL central figure was the New
York governor and the guests of the
city We'd with each other in extending
to him a true western ovation. The
governor himself rode a black charger
in the procession, which passed through
the principal streets. He was cheered
all along the line, the cry, Hurrah for
Teddy being the prevailing sentl-
ment. He was not attired in the garb
of the rough riders but wore a plain
black cutaway coat. The brown SOM
brero and spurs on his boots alone
marked him as the colonel of his famous
regiment.
The procession was formed of members
of the Grand Army of the Republic and
the United Confederate Veteran cavalry
from Fort Reno, a band of red men in
their native garb, members of the
Twentieth Kansas, First Tennessee n
First Colorado volunteer regiment n
civic organizations of Oklahoma City
and Guthrie.
The exercises of the day were held at
the Fair Grounds and were presided over
by A. H. Clays, chairman of the local
committee on entertainment. Governor
Barnes of Oklahoma and Mayor Van
Wyckle of this city, made welcoming adj
dresses and Mrs. NJ. A. ennings of New
York sang the Star Spangled Banner.
Colonel Roosevelt rose to his feet
when the first strains of the soul-stirring
anthem were heard and soon the entire
assemblage~of 5000 people were reverent-
ly standing. The scene became dramatic
when a rough rider unfurled the stars
and stripes and waved the banner over
the governors head. A temporary inter-
ruption that threatened to result in a
panic occurred during Governor Barnes
speech. One of the supports to the
speakers stand gave way and it was
thought for a moment that the structure
might fall, but the presence of mind of
the governor and the officials in charge
aVerted an serious crush and when it
was found that the stand was solid after
all, Governor Barnes continued his
speech.
The Introduction of Governor Roosevelt
was the signal for an extraordinary de-
monstiation and at times he could
scarcely proceed with his address on ac-
count of the applause. In the course Of
his speech the governor said
Il have never been in your territory
until last night, but I feel at home here.
You are bone of my bone, blood Of my
blood n to some of you sons I am
bound by the closest ties that can bind
one man to his brothers. I nope to
come down here often and the next
time I come l hope to see you a state.
You have got free homes and now you
need statehood. know I don't nave to
say to you, least of all to those who know
me closely like my comrades here, that
l am with you heart and sou to aid you
In whatever you desire.
And l want to say, first of all to
thank the territory and city whose guests
we are, for the magnificent hospitality
extended to us, and then to say how glad
l am that we had with us men of the
First Colorado who followed General r.
wing Hale; men of the Twentieth Kan
sas who followed Funston and Metcalf
and men of the First Tennessee. men of
the different regiments and
men also of those splendid regulars who
in time of war and time of peace are ever
ready to do the bidding of our common
country. And 1 am glad to see here to-
day representatives of the Ninth and
zenith cavalry, beside whom we marched
to victory on that blood-stained morning
two years ago last Sunday.
Men of lahom it is II years since
you had Oklahoma. Why are you here?
Because you expanded into
This is not politics. This is a statement
of fact. Wherever the flag is and as lone
as there s an armed foe against it, the
flag stays there. Among the men of my
who are here today are mer
partly or in whole of the blood of the
PaWnee, the Cherokee, the ChickasaN
and the Creek, the ancient red owners OF
the soil. One of the men of that blood
promoted for ~gallantry in action from {
second lieutenant finally to a captain, HI
was shot and before his wound was heal
ed he joined us at the front. And nov
that mar has a commission in the arm,
OF the United States over in the Philip
pines. Now why was he with me-? Be
cause you had expanded over him. be
cause you had treated him with Justice
because you had made one law the sam,
Tor all men. Injustice and wrong doin,
ruin the nation that does it an anothe
thing does 1t even quicker-cowardice-
bringing and f1inching from the work O
the world when the worlds work has 90
to be done. We of the rough riders ar
proud of our colonel, the present Genera
Leonard Wood, proud of him not onl
because we remember how he formed US
not only because we remember how h
led us in the fight at Guasimas, whe
most of us had not any idea exactly no,
1t felt to be in a fight (but we found out
but we are proud of him because he ha
been an able and upright civic admins
traitor in Cuba. because we feel that GU