The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-25
PRESIDENT IN JERSEY
Mr.. ROOSEVELT ADDRESSES AND
PRAISES NATIONAL GUARD
Discants Upon Their Duties and Says
They Should Have Improved Arms
Military CONTINGENT Refuses to Rec
ognize the Authority of the Presi-
dents Secret Service Guard.

SEA GIRT, N. J., July "a. = No
president ever received a more sincere,
heartfelt and patriotic welcome than
that accorded today to President
roosevelt by the people of New Jersey.
From the time he landed on New Jer-
sey soil at the Atlantic Highland pier
at 1885 this afternoon until he left in
MS launch for the war yacht MayfloW-
er, anchored several miles off the pier,
at 3:15, he was the recipient of a con-
tlnuOuS ovation.
The president, on invitation Of Gov
FRANKLIN Murphy, extended, through
Senator Kean. visited the encampment
of the Second brigade of the national
guard of the state at Sea Girt. Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Gov. Murphy and
staff reviewed the, troops in camp, the
president being mounted on a mag
n1tcent chestnut bay. At the conclu-
sion of the review Mr.. Roosevelt was
escorted to a stand adjoining the pa
rade ground and there addressed the
assembled troops and the multitude
which had gathered and which num-
bered nearly $4,000.
Addresses Citizen Soldiers.
In opening his address the president
said:
"a man is of use as a national
guardsman for just exactly the same
~~S~NSAA'
and that is. if he gets to work with his
whole heart to do his duty for the time
being, to make himself thoroughly
proficient in the line of business he
has taken up. A national guardsman
who joins only to have a good time
pretty generally does not have a good
time and certainly makes a poor hand
at being a guardSman.
Il earnestly hope and believe you
will never get; into battle; but if you
do 1T is. going to be mighty important
to hit the other fellow; and you are
going to be able to do it largely in
consequence of the way you have put
in your time, knowing your rifle until
it is part of yourself, until you can
handle 1T, take care of it and use it.
Il think that much help can be given
to the national guard of the states by
the action of the United States gov
eminent. I want to see the national
guard armed with the best and most
modern weapons.
Il think that our people have not al
ways appreciated the debt they were
under to the national guard. A man
who goes into the national guard and
does his duty fairly and squarely there
puts the whole country under obliga-
ton to him.
State and Regular.
most generous support from the ma
uonal guard for the regular army of
the United States. But that army is
and of necessity must be so small that
in the event of serious trouble in the
future the great bulk of our troops
must come, as in the past they have
come, from the ranks of the people
themselves; and in forming those regi-
ments the good done by the presence
in them of men who have served faith
fully in the national guard cannot be
Overestimated.
mo doubt some of you were in the
Snanish-American war"-a voice. Yes,
many of u.s."
''The only trouble with that war was
that there was not war enough to go
around
A voice: "You got your slice"
II did," continued the president. II
was one of the lucky ones"
At 3:15 the presidential party again
boarded the special train, and amid the
cheers of the thousands started for At
lantic Highlands, arriving at the pier
at o'clock. AT 4:05 the party left for
the Mayfiower in a steam launch.
The arrangements for the reception
Of the president at Sea Girt were ex-
cellent in the main, but for almost two
hours Mr.. Roosevelt was without his
usual guard of secret service officers,
five of whom were with him on the trip.
The military contingent absolutely re-
fused to recognize the authority Of
badges or passes of the secret service
operatives, and in two instances the
soldiers used their bayonets against the
operatives to enforce the commands Of
their officers.