The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-08-27
FIRST SEES
A PRESIDENT
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orchard, where the special train made
It's first stop, after crossing the state
Hne, thousands of persons from all
parts Of York and Lower Cumberland
counties, had gathered The halt was
prlef one, only twenty minutes, but the
president, after receiving a tumultuous
greeting, spoke briefly before the Jour
ney was continued. Upon his arrival
In this city the president was joined
by Senator w. p. Frye and, after
speaking briefly to great crowd in
Railway square, was taken for a drive
about the city.
Greeted by Salute.
1t was 2:1O when the presidential
party reached Portland from Old Or
chard, Me-, where Mr.. Roosevelt spoke
briefly. AS the train arrived at Union
station salute of tWenty-one guns
was fired by the Portland naval re-
serves. President Roosevelt was met
by Mayor Boothby and introduced to
Thomas B. Reed, Judge William l..
Putnam, Judge Clarence Hale, ex-Gov.
Henry III. Cleaves, Gen. Joshua L.
Chamberlain, James III. Baxter and ex-
Gov. Frederick ROBBIE.
The president was escorted to a
platform just outside the train shed
and spoke for fifteen minutes to a.
| crowd that filled the great square. The
president said:
Mr.. Mayor, and You, My Fellow
Citizens, Men and Women of Maine: /
wish to say word to you in recogni-
ton OF a great service rendered not
only to all our country, but the entire
people of democratic government
throughout the world, by one of your
| citizens. The best institutions are no
good If they won't work I do not care
7 how beautiful theory is. If it won't
fit in with the facts it is no good. If
you build the handsomest engine and
1t won't go it's usefulness would be
limited. Well, that is just about the
way that congress had become at the
time when Thomas Bracket Reed was
elected speaker. We had all the ma
chinery, but it did not work. That was
the trouble, and you had to find some
powerful man who would disregard the
storm of oblequy sure to be aroused
by what he did to get it to work.
Praises Thomas B. Reed.
Such man was found when Tom
Reed was made speaker of the house.
Now we may differ among ourselves
as to policy. We may differ among
ourselves as to what course govern
ment should follow, but if we possess
any Intelligence we must be unit. If
government cannot go on it is no gov
eminent. If the legislature cannot en-
act laws, then there is no use of mis-
| naming it a legislative body, and if
1T is according to principle the ma
Jorlty is to rule, some method by which
it can rule must be provided. Govern
ment by the majority in congress had
practically come to stop when Mr..
Reed became speaker. Mr.. Reed, at
the cost of infinite labor, at the cost
of the fierceSt attacks, succeeded in
restoring that old principle and now
through congress we can do as well
or ill, according as the people demand,
but at any rate we can do something
eve will be that much ahead and
we owe 1T more than to any other one
man to your fellow citizen, Mr.. Reed.
And it is a great thing for the city,
a great thing for any man, to be able
to feel that in some one crisis he left
his mark deeply scored for good in
the history Of his country, and tom
Reed has the right to that feeling.
Nov a word or two more. was
greeted here not only by your mayor,
not only by other men standing high,
but by you, General Cunning to Gen.
Joshua L. Chamberlain, to whom it
was given at the supreme moment Of
the war to win the supreme reward of
a soldier. All honor to the man, and
may we keep ourselves from envying
because to him came the supreme good
for mighty deeds done in the mightiest
battle that the nineteenth century
saw-Gettysburg.
Two Kinds of Greatness.
There are two kinds of greatness
that can be achieved. There is the
greatness that comes to the man who
can do what no one else can do. That
is a mighty rare kind, and of course it
can only be achieved by the man of
special and unusual qualities. Then
there is the other kind that comes to
the man who does the things that
every one could do, but that every one
does not do. (Applause.)
ITO do that, you first of all have
got to school yourself to do the ordin-
airy commonplace things.
Now, General, was a very, little
time in my war; you were a long time
in yours. I didn't see much fighting,
but I saw lot of human nature. I
recollect one young fellow who came
down to join a cavalry regiment. He
was filled with enthusiasm, thinking
he was going to look all the time like
my friend who welcomes me over there
(pointing to q man dressed in khaki
uniform, mounted on a dummy horse),
and whom want to thank for coming
to meet me. After three days the
young man came down to me and said,
Colonel, l wish to make complaint,
sir. / came down here to fight for my
country and the captain has put me to
work digging kitchen sinks Gaugh-
ter.)
Il asked the captain about it and he
said, yes. The captain was a large
man from New Mexico and he explain
ed to that excellent youth that he
would go on digging kitchen sinks and
that when the fighting came he should
have all the fighting there was, but at
present his duty was to dig kitchen
sinks. In other words he had to do the
small duties that were done, and there
by best fit himself to do the big duties
that might come in the future
incidents of the Trip.
AUGUSTA, Me-, Aug. 26.-President
Roosevelt today passed through three
states, delivered eight speeches and
received the p1audits of a quarter of a
million of people.
The days journey was not without
It's incidents. AS the president was
about to board his car at South Law
renee, Mass, after delivering his adj
dress, the leader of the band stepped
up and made himself known to him.
He said his name, was Banan, former
COW puncher and barber at Medora, N.
d. where the presidents ranch is To-
Gated. The president Immediately
recognized him and greeted him as an
old friend. The man evidently desir-
ing the president to know that he had
proffted by his advice given some
years ago, said to him:
you told me to get married and
settle down and did. have six chill
dren myself" which afforded the
president no little amusement. While
on his way through the streets Of Port
land his carriage was stopped and he
was presented with an album con-
tanning views of the city He stood up
In his carriage and briefly thanked the