The Washington times., 1903-05-03
PRESIDENT ROBBED
OF GOLD SUNFL LOWER
Thief Snatches 1t From
Pocket of Committeeman.
SPEEDING THROUGH KANSAS
Path Strewn With Flowers by Abilene
School Children--A Canard
Nailed.

SHARON SPRINGS. Kan, May .
President Roosevelt's special train sped
: across Kansas today. and thousands of
the folk who spend their lives upon the
prairies listened TO his speeches.
They came from the towns adjacent %
the railroad, and from the fat reaches
of country that stretch miles without
number toward the rising and setting
sun. They came in buckboards. on horse
back. on mules, and on the railroad. All
were enthusiastic, and cheered to the
echo The Presidents sermons on Good
citizenship and good husbandFy.
Committeeman Bereft.
Ii leaked out today that the President
missed a pretty little souvenir at Kan
sas City yesterday. The local commit
tee had a silver and gold suniower to
hand him as he entered the State. Be-
fore the committeeman who had the to-
ken could deliver himself of the SOU
venir and the speech, some pickpocket
got in his work. and took the sunhower
away.
The President and his party will spend
Sunday at Sharon Springs. In the morn
ing he will attend church and listen 10
sermon by a Dutch Reformed minister
brought here for that purpose. In the
afternoon he Will probably take a horse
back ride.
Root Leaves Party.
IN the course of the days run the
President was accompanied by Senators
Long aud Burton and Representative
Bowersock. Secretary Root rode into
the State with him, but left the party at
Salina to return Fast.
Mr.. Root made one or two speeches
from the. rear platform of the car Ely
sian, in which he praised the work of
the Kansas troops and urged his hearers
To preserve the martiaT splrlr and the
siaews of the lam - prep4Tsti j FER
war, which was certain to come sooner
or later.
Strew Path With Flowers.
At Abilene. the home of Senator Bur
ton, the school children of the town
strewed flowers in the Presidents path.
AT Victoria. little settlement of Rus
SLAMS. more school children gave him q
floral greeting. Al this place the little
girls came up to the car one by one,
and handed up their offerings, some in
baskets. some in prettily decorated
vases. When they had finished, the Pres
ident's car looked Lille florists shop
Victoria preserves many OF the old
world customs. and when the President
spoke from the rear o the car. his au-
dience was divided b. sexes, the men
on one side, and the women on the
other side of the tract The President
was especially pleased with this reeep-
tion, and told the farmers how glad he
was that they were p,ospering with
their crops, far out there on the plains !
The Home Life.
Most OF the speeches the President |
made in the course of the cay were repe-
titions OF his former uuerances. He |
prophesied that as long IS the people |
cultivate the cardinal virtues of hon
esty, decency, courage and common |
sense they will continue TO proper and |
become in time the most powerful ma
tion in history Every maa must work
for himself and his family. then for
his neighbors. for 1t is only by prov t
ing himself q good man in tie hone that
he can ever be worth his salt 10 the
nation
The President received many dis
patches asking about his alleged harsh
criticism of his reception at st. Louis.
He was quoted in many papers this
morning as saying:
My party was not treated even de- /
Gently al st. Louis The members were /
not given even enough to eat
Criticism Denied.
The President wired President Fran
els. of the Exposition, that he was
treated with all confederation at the |
worlds fair city, and that he had not !
given any such Interview