The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-05-04
A DAY IN TEXAS.
Ovation rendered the President
in Front Of the Alamo.
Gets His First View of the Long
Horned Cattle.
Addressed Students Of a Colored
Normal School.
ON THE OPEN PRAIRIE
A Stand Was Erected Beside the
Railroad Track.
100000 Visitors Pour Into the
State Capital.

San Antonio, Tex, May 4.-President
Mckinley and party arrived at 2.5S
o'clock this morning The president was
up at o'clock and sat alone on the
back platform of the car reading a
newspaper. A great ovation was given
him az Ga. m, in front of the famous
Alamo building, in front of which the
president and Governor Sayers walked
with their hats off. The president re
viewed the throng, made brief speech,
reviewed the throOps at Fort sam HouS-
ton and the school and college children
and left at 1850 for Fl Paso.
Austin, Tex, May 1.-The president
had his first glimpse of long horned
Texas cattle and picturesque cowboys
on range horses yesterday. The presi-
dents reception in the Lone Star state
was continuation of the ovation ne
has received throughout the south.
Every honor was shown him and ms
party, and there was much enthusiasm.
Governor SayerS and other prominent
state officials met the president at
Houston, the first stopping place inside
the state, and accompanied him as far
as Austin, the capital. There were some
interesting features at the reception at
Austin, and a picturesque scene at
Prairie View, where the president adj
dressed the students of the normal
school on a stand erected on the open
prairie at the side of the track. He
advised the colored people to learn to
do one thing well.
Minute stops were also made at
Hampstead, where the president shook
hands with a number of people; at
Brennan, the home of Colonel Ged-
dings, one of the presidents old col
leagues in the house of representatives.
and at EIgin, at each of which places he
spoke a few words At every station
along the route there were cheering
crowds.
The feature of the day was the re-
ception accorded to the party at Austin,
which. like New Orleans, had never be-
fore had the honor of entertaining a
chief magistrate of the nation. The city
was profusely decorated, and in the
evening there was a brilliant illumina-
ton of Congress avenue.
Austin never before held such crowds
of people. They came from every direc-
ton, some hundreds of miles, and lit
orally sWamped the hotel accOnlmOda-
tions of the city 1t was estimated that
over 20 900 visitors were here. AS the
population of Austin is only %. 600, the
tax upon its facilities can be imagined
A procession headed by a fine mill
tary bard and consisting of fifteen
CON panies of state militia and the con-
federate veterans and Grand Army of
the Republic organizations, marching
side by side, escorted the party to the
east portico of the magnificent capitol
building where the president addressed
sea of enthusiastic people.
ADDRESS AT AUSTIN.
The president said
or generous welcome has greeted me in
my journey from the capital of the ma
ton than that which now greets me at
the capital of Texas. I am glad to be
in this city. named in honor of the
pioneer of the American colonization in
Texas. located in the county of Travis,
called in honor of him who fell at the
Alamo whence came no message of
defeat.
Texas is no longer a battlefield of
contending armies The weapons used
are no longer those of war, they have
long since given way to the implen ents
of peace and husbandry, employed in
the development of rich resources in
which this commonwealth abounds-
She has historic past, noble past
Her statesmen We're among the noblest.
the ablest her soldiers among the
bravest. She has before her a mighty
future Her battles to be waged here
after are for trade and commerce and
education and material development.
Her possibilities are too vast to admit
of prophecy. God has given her every
thing for the comfort and happiness OF
man and for the employment and use
of his highest and best faculties. Today
it was my pleasure in the city Of