Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-28
PRAISE FOR VETERANS
President Roosevelt Addresses
Old Soldiers in Reunion at
The Weirs, N. II.
Soldiers Of Civil War Given
Credit for Greatest Service
TO Country.
Biz Crowds Greet the Chief Ex-
ecutive on Trip Thru New
Hampshire.

Nashua, ~ H, Aug es.-For the
nrst time since beginning his toul
Of New England, the president last
might slept aboard train. He remain
ed up until late hour talking over ole
times With "Blf Sewall. his former
guide, whom he insisted should accom-
rany him to Ellsworth and back tc
Bangor. In all probability the presi-
dent will return TO Maine in october
for a hunting "trip.
Early this morning at lSittery June
tion. Me- the train was boarded by
Gen. Ayling. of Concord. y. H.. Secre-
tary of State Pearson and George II.
Moses, representing Governor Jordan.
of New Hampshire, who extended the
president a welcome TO that state as
soon as the train passed the boundary.
in his anxiety to respond 10 the greet
of the people at Clermont. q small sta
aion. the president who had not fiuish-
ed dressing. rushed 10 the door of his
car wrapped in an overcoat and bowed
TO the little gathering.
AT Wyndham Junction the populace
WAS astir early and as the train APP
preached the station q salute was fired
and a rousing cheer went up as the
president appeared on the rear plat
form.
The train reached Nashua on time
and the president and party We're es
corted to the carriages and all proceed
ed to the city hall. At the station and
along the streets. and massed around
the platform which had been erected in
front of the city hall, were thousands
Mho cheered necessarily from the time
the presidents train appeared until he
begun to speak 10 the great assembly
The president occupied about ten min
utes with his address Witharawng
from the platform the president. re-
ception committees and those who were
with the president resumed the car
1iages and proceeded 10 Nashua June
Hion station. The ovation to the pres
dent was continuous and as the train
drew out prolonged cheering followed
Manchester. y. H.. Aug. 2S.-rhe
presidential salute By a battery OF New
Hampshire state militia, mingled with
the cheers of q great crowd greeted the
president as the train reached here AS
many of the men on the reception COM
mittee We're personally known to the
president the exchanges of courtesies
were unusually cordial. The president
WaS escorted TO a barouche and Il drive
thru the industrial and business Sec
1ions began at once The carriage was
drawn by four handsome horses on
one of the bridges the two lead horses
became unmanageable and had to he
taken out Another delay occurred
when the procession was held up by
passing freight train. AT a point oppo-
site Merrimac common the presi lant.s
carriage was brought To q stop and the
local camp OF Spanish American war
veterans rendered the president A s:t.
aute and their commander, Col. Vim.
Sullivan, stepped forward and present.
ed him with 4 bouquet of roses In ac-
cepting them, the president spoke for
ten minutes. He was enthusiastically
cheered at the close of his remarks. fol-
lowing which the line OF march was
taken up for the depot. where the pres-
sdent boarded a special train for the
Weirs
The Weirs. N. H.. Aug. 2s.-Fully a.
600 people Joined in Welcoming the
president of the United States on his
visit to the encampment of the New
Hampshire G. A. r. here TO-DAY. The
train arrived a few minutes after noon.
Governor Chester b. Jordan and Con-
gresham Frank ID. Currier. who
boarded the train at Concord, We're
with the presidents party. The Man
chester battery signaled the arrival of
the train by the first gun of the pres
Dental salute. The escort WAS made up
of two companies of the national guard.
together with a large number of civil
war veterans, drawn up at the station
The column escorted the president to
Hotel Weirs, from the steps of which
the president held the review. After
luncheon the president WAS escorted to
the camp grounds, where the Speaking
occurred.
The president said:
'Any American who has phpper
sense of the relative proportion OF
things must realize that to the men
who fought for the union in the dark
days of the civil war there is owing n
greater debt of gratitude than to any
others. Great We're the deeds YOU did
and vital the need of doing them.
Many We're the lessons taught the
rest of us, both by what You accom-
plished In the war and by the Way in
which, when the war WAS over you
turned to the work of peace with the
same spirit which led YOU to triumph
on the tented fields. During the life
time of our republic each generation
has had its allotted task. The states
man and soldier, the man i'm public life
and the man in private life. each has
had work TO do for the nation. We have
moved forward swiftly or have Stun
bled and halted according as the work
as whole was Well or i'll done Ne
have encountered many crises of inn
portance and from time TO time have
been brought face to face with great
problems upon the rightful solution Of
which much of the nations welfare de-
pended TO you alone il WAS given to
face with victorious valor one crisis in
which not merely the nations well be-
ing. but the nations life was nj stake. |
TO you it was given to solve one prob |
lem which, If not solved Alright. meant
death for our people. All the work of
the men who founded this republic |
would have gone for nothing had you