The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-26
President Roosevelt Authorizes
Statement Regarding Ohio.
Says He Had Nothing to DO
With Raising Issue.
ASKED NO SUPPORT
The Contest Over Endorsement
Not of His Seeking.
Now That It Has Come He Ex-
poets Support Of Friends.

Wana WaIa. Wash. May 26.-Secre-
tary to the President Loeb while here
gave out the following statement:
In speaking of the sudden political de-
velopments in Ohio, the president said:
Il have not asked any man for his sup
port. I have had nothing whatever to
do with raising the issue as to my in
dorsement- Sooner or later it was bound
to arise, and inasmuch as it has now
arisen, of course those who favor my
administration and my nomination viii
i indorse them and those who do not Will
i oppose them
| The president also said he was deeply
touched by the action Of President Nc
Kinley's home county, in which Canton
is situated, in instructing SO heartily in
his favor. Nothing could have pleased
him more.
President Roosevelt's address before
5000 people from southeastern Washing
ton from the steps of Whitman Me
mortal building was voted by men ac-
eompanying the president one of the
finest efforts he has made since crossing
! the Rocky mountains.
Emerging from the plains of eastern
! Washington into the valley of the Walla
/
are profuse, seemed to inspire him. He
used finer rhetoric and was more thor
oughly enthused than on most OF his
western speeches. There were about
II, 600 people here from outside points to
see the president. Excursion trains
practically depopulated the country for
fifty miles around.
The feature here was the splendid
/ parade in which all the militia of Walla
WalIa marched with the splendid color
ed band and Thirtieth battery field ar
tillery, trailing cannon and four
| WheelerS.
The presidents speeches here took up
1 the educational work being done by
| Whitman college, educational standards
of the country, "reminiscences of G. A. r.
men, the resources of Washington and
the moral standards people should fol-
low TO make great men and women and
consequently great republic He was
particularly pleased with the presence
of Whitman students maSSed in front OF
the speaking platform.
The students gave the Harvard yell
and President Roosevelt asked for its
repetition. The large array of civil war
veterans. both Confederate and Union
men who marched together, pleased the
president.
The president was introduced by
Mayor Gilbert Hunt. On the platform
We're Senators Ankeney and Foster, the
mem bers of the party, and many prom
inent local people A significant fea-
ture was the presence of Governor Nc
Bride in a carriage containing Levy
Ankeney. President Roosevelt was en-
tertained by Senator Ankeney at his
home. only a select party of about two
dozen being present Governor Nc
Bride was among the guests present
The president left at 10 O'Clock last
night for Wallace, Idaho.
Wallula, Wash, May 26.-When the
presidents party arrived in PascO they
greeted a ~
people. A welcome was, given the party
by Charles T Hudson, of Connell. The
president responded in a general talk
on irrigation, stating that through the
assistance of the national irrigation act
all the so-called barren wastes, includ-
ing those surrounding Pasco. would un-
doubtedly be irrigated; that the ma.
tional reservoirs would be constructed
to conserve the supply of water now
going to waste in the Columbia and
Snake rivers. and the barren waste
would be changed to a veritable garden
of Eden.
The president was presented with a
box of assorted fruits grown about four
miles from Pasco. as a testimonial of
what PascO land would do under irri-
cation. The president spoke for a lit
tie over 10 minutes. The eastward
journey was then resumed.
About 500 people, including many
school children, met the presidential
train at Wallula. The president made
a brief address, directed largely to the
school children, in which he encoura ged
them to keep on striving to secure an
education. He spoke in COMPLIMENTARY
terms of the resources of the country
and its possibilities if irrigation could
be secured Flowers We're presented
him BY the school children. After Il
stop of about ten minutes the journey
to Walla Walla was resumed.
Pasco. Wash. May 26-The presidents s
train ghded down the charming Yakima
valley. His first speech was a t Cleelum
in the Cascade mountains. One thOus-
and coal miners had come down fro1a
Roslyn At North Yakima the presi-
dent spoke on irrigation to an enthusi-
aStic audience of 1000 DeODle He
dwelt here on the Importance of irriga-
ton and of the approval of the act of
the last session of congress. A feature
of the crowd here was the presence of
hundreds of Indians from the Yakima
reserva ton.
At Ellensburg the president spoke Is
minutes on good citizenship to 5000 peO-
pie. First of all he said. Let me greet
r those whom I know. others will not
grudge my specially greeting, men OF
the @. A R and the representatives OF
those who did even more than the men
of the civil war. the women. (Cheers
= and applause-) For while the men went
to battle to the women fell the harder
{ task of seeing husband or lover, father
/ or brother going to the war. she her
self having to stay behind with the
load of doubt. anxiety and uncertainty
ana Ollen the nara u1IlCdlLy OF U4dAlIS
/ both ends meet in the household while
. the bread winner was away
! The president asked that Captain
: Steinman of the First Washington regi-
] ment be presented to him at the close
D of the speech. While speaking he re
ferred to Steinman's company having
been the heaviest sufferer among tht
volunteers in the Philippine campaign
j. When Steinman was introduced tn.
/. president grasped his hand and said
al a
t you and your company; your compan.
= was a crack-a-fack and I am mights