Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-04-27
IOWA 5 BIG RECEPTION
Entertainment Planned For
Roosevelt Party Will Make
Up Strenuous Day
MESSAGE TO IOWA REPUBLICANS
MESSAGE TO IOWA REPUBLICANS
Not Anticipated That He Will do Any
thing to Revive What For Time
Appeared to be fractional Strife
Dedication Address to be Given at
ottumwa.
special to Times-Republican.

| Special to Times-Republican
| Des Moines, April 27.-The people of
the southern part of the state of Iowa
I are all expectancy with regard to the
visit of president of the United States
this week. 1t will be quite an event.
More than thirty years have elapsed
since president has visited the capi-
tai of Iowa. When President Grant
came early in the '70s to attend re-
union of the Army of the Tennessee
and to greet thousands of the men who
| had only then recently served under
| him in the war, 1t was an occasion
Hong to be remembered. When Presi-
dent Roosevelt comes to Des Moines
he will be greeted by several hundred
lof the young men who have served in
La war in which Roosevelt as
lieutenant colonel, took a conspicuous
lpart. So far as known, only one who
twas actually a member of the regiment
| in which Roosevelt was an officer, will
be here to welcome the president to
Iowa. But the reception promises to
| be a great one. In the city of Des
Moines the program is, in brief, to
welcome the president and his party
at the railroad station, to place the
whole party in a carriage and give
them a drive about the city, then to
make a stop at the Auditorium where
the president will say a few words
| to the Shriners assembled, thence to
the state capitol where he will speak
in the open from an elevated stand
and address all VINO can get near
enough to hear. The parade will be
unique. 1t will embrace the governor,
member of congress, mayor of the city.
1.-The fine array of aldermen of the city
and city officials, down to the smallest,
the members of the committee appoint
ed to arrange for the reception. repre-
Sentatives of the churches, Swedish
Americans, Afro-Americans and a few
others. The drive will be about six
miles in length, going to the western
and northwestern parts of the city. The
school children will be massed in a
long line. The reception in the Audi
house, the G. A. r. and the three mill
tary companies will be conspicuous.
The president will be in Des Moines
two hours, though the carriage drive
will have to be made at a high speed
to allow Of any speaking in this time.
1t is expected that many thousands will
be in the city from outside just to get
a glimpse of the president and his party
along the way, and almost the entire
population OF Des Moines, If 1t is a
fine day, will turn out.
President Roosevelt and his party
will be given strenuous day in Iowa
without any question. He is not only
to have a carriage ride in Des Moines
and deliver two or three speeches, but
he will have a long ride over the best
railroad tracks of the state. He will
come from over in Nebraska early
Tuesday morning and the special train
will be at Shenandoah atsdaylight. The
president and party will be formally
Welcomed and officially, to the state
of Iowa by Governor Albert b. Cum
minis and party of state officials and
others. who will leave Des Moines Mon
day evening on special train over
the Burlington. They will breakfast
at Clarinda and Immediately after
wards they will be received by the
presidential party. This viii occur be-
fore the public meeting at Clarinda.
The state party, headed by Governor
Cummins will consist of the governor,
Lieutenant Governor Herriott, Speaker
Eaton, Senators Dolliver and Allison,
Congressman Hull Mayor Brenton.
Chief Justice Bishop, all the elective
state officers, Chairman Spence of the
republican committee, Secretary Briar.
and the following: j. D. -Whisenarld,
Des Moines; III. w. Byers, Harlan: A.
b. Funk. Spirit Lake; S. F. Prouty, Des
Moines; George w. Sewers, Oskaloosa;
Harvey Ingham, editor Register and
Leader; N. r. Kendell, Abba and Ora
Williams, newspaper correspondents.
The party will occupy private car
and sleeper and they will be run
special ahead of the presidents train,
and will accompany the presidential
party until it leaves the state at Keo-
kuk. After leaving Des Moines at a
o'clock the two trains will be run to
Oskaloosa, where the president is to
deliver the dedication address for a Y.
NJ. c. A. building. then to Ottumwa
where the party will remain over night.
The stops at Clarinda. Van Vert and
Osceola in the morning will be brief.
The two trains will go to Keokuk early
Wednesday morning where grand re-
ception is planned, participated in by
the governors of Illinois and Missouri
and by six companies of the Fifty
fourth regiment. l. N. G. 1t will
thus be seen that in the thirty-six
hours the president will be in Iowa he
will be kept moving at a lively rate.
Unfortunately. he will travel largely
over branch lines of railroad where the
riding will be little rougher than
might otherwise be.
What will the president say in his
speech in Des Moines? There was a
time not far remote when this question
gave much concern to the leaders of
republicans, tho among state officials
and those having to do 1'!th state poll
tics; but it is not anticipated now that
the president will say anything that
will tend in the least to revive what
appeared to be factional strife In the
state of Iowa among republicans. His