The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-08-27
A DAY FULL
OF INCIDENTS.
President ROOsevelt's Journey
Lies Across Three States.
He Spends the Night in Blaine's
Old Bedroom
TRIBUTE TO TOM REED.
Tells People of Portland That
Country Needed Him.
Quarter of a Million People
Turned Out Along the Route.

Augusta, Me- Aug. 27.-President
Roosevelt on the trip from Boston here
passed through three states, Massa-
chusetts, New Hampshire and Maine,
delivered eight speeches and received
the plaudits of a quarter of million
people. The greeting which has marked
his progress through New England has
been fiattering in the extreme, ana thls
last experience demonstrated his pop
ularity perhaps more than ever before.
Everywhere at the regular steps ana
the smaller stations along the road the
people were strenuous IN their eHortS
to catch glimpse of him or to hear MN
speak, and at Haverhill, Mass. this de-
lire assumed such a form that the
crowds completely OVERRIDE the police
and surrounded the presidents car
riage, making it difficult for it to ad-
vance,
The days journey was not without its
Incidents As the president was about
to board his car at South Lawrence,
Mass, after delivering his address, TIE
leader of the band stepped up and maze
himself known to him He said his
name was Banan, former cowpuncher
and barber at Medora, N. D., where the
presidents ranch is located. The presl-
dent Immediately recognized him and
greeted him as an old friend The man.
evidently desiring the president to know
that he had profited by his advice. given
him some years ago, said to him;
You told me to get married and settle
down, and I did l have got six children
myself" which afforded the president no
little amusement
While on the way through the streets
of Portland, his carriage was stopped
and he was presented with an album
containing views of the city. He stood
up in his carrige and briefly thanked
the donor, Captain Charles F. Dam. He
has been the recipient of many floral
gifts, and where the admirers were I'M
able to get near enough personally to
hand them to him, they threw them
over the heads of the crowd into his car
rage.
Conspicuous among those who board
ed the train at Old Orchard to extend
welcome to the president was Congress
man Littlefield, of Rockland. His visit
was brief and the conversation turned
on other subjects than trusts. Mr.. Lit
tlefield declined to comment on the pres
idents last Boston speech, pleading that
he had not finished reading it
When Danville Junction was reached.
the president was greeted by Postmas-
ter General and Mrs Payne, Mrs Gar
ret A. Hobart and Mrs. Charles Emory
Smith Mr.. Payne accompanied the
president to Lewiston.
Some stops were made which were not
In the itinerary. AT Lisbon, Lisbon
Fails and Brunswick, Me, immense
crowds gathered and the president, in
response to their clamorous calls, was
obliged to appear on the rear platform
and say a few words.
AlCnOugn the DAY was q nara one on
him, the president gave but Slight signs
of fatigue. Last night he was the guest
of Governor Hill, who met him at the
depot and escorted him to his residence,
where the president, in response to
urgent requests spoke for forty-five
minutes from platform erected near
the front of the Blaine residence. He
said in part:
at would be difficult for any man
speaking to this audience and for any
one in front of the house in which
Blaine once lived to fail to feel what
ever of Americanism there was in him
stirred to the depths. 1 knew Mr.
Blaine quite well when he was secre-
taIy of state, and have thought again
and again during the past years how
pleased he would have been to see SO
many of the principles for which he
has stood approach a fruition.
He felt that this republic must take
a great part among the great nations
of the earth The last four years have
shown how true that feeling of his was
He had always hoped that we would
have peculiarly intimate relation with
the countries south of US He could
hardly have anticipated no one could
have, the Spanish war and its effects
In consequence of that war Americas
interest in the tropic islands to ou1
south and the seas and coasts sur
rounding those islands is far greater
than ever before. Our interest in the
Monroe doctrine is more concrete thar
ever before. The Monroe doctrine is
ciinply StdttIil6Ilt OF our very urIf
belief that on this continent the ma
tons now existing here must be left t.
work out their own destinies among
themselves and that the continent is liz
longer to be regarded as colonizins
ground for any European power. TIL,
one power the continent that car
make that doctrine effective is. o
course, ourselves: for in the world al
vances given doctrine likely to inter
fere in any way with other nation
must possess power to back it up i
she wishes the doctrine to be respected
We stand firmly on the Monroe doc
trine, and the events of the last min
months have rendered it evident tina
we shall soon embark on the work O
excayating tie isthmian canal to con
meet the two great oceans-a work des
tined to be probably the greatest engi
neering feat of the twentieth century,
greater engineering feature than ha
been ever successfully attempted o.
nations of mankind and if it is the big
gest thing of its kind to be done I ar
glad it is the United States that is t
do it"
The governors house has become his
toric because of the fact that it was tn
home of James G.. Blaine. and the presi
dent occupied the Identical bedroom
used by that statesman.
Before his departure President Roose
welt will have visited every congress
sional district in the state, the principa
city in each district, and the home cit
of each of Names United States sen
ators.
At Portland the president spoke a
follows:
Mr. Mayor and you. my fellow citi
zens. men and women of Maine:
Il wish to say a word to you in recog
milton of a great service rendered. no
only to all our country. but to the en-
tire people of democra tic government
throughout the world, by one of you
citizens. The best institutions are n
good if they won't work
IF you build the handsomest engin
and it won't go, its usefulness would b
limited. Well, that is just about tn
way that congress had become at tn
time when Thomas Bracket Reed wa
elected speaker We had all the ma
chinery, but it did network. That wa
the trouble. and you had to find som