Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-05-06
GIVEN CORDIAL WELCOME
Kansas City, No., and Kansas City,
Kan., Entertain the President
Dnring One Day.
WILD ENTHUSIASM SHOWN BY PEOPLE.
The Missouri City Has Him First and
1t Leaves No Moments Of Idlenesa
Then the Kansas City Claims Him
for Two Hours-Presented with
Beautiful Badge.

Kansas City, Mo-, May 2.-President
Roosevelt spent five hours in this city
Friday, and later was the guest of Kan
sas City, Kan, just across the state
line, for two hours.
In the two cities the president was
driven over a route Is miles long, re-
viewed nearly 10000 school children,
made two speeches, one at Convention
hall before the greatest crowd that
noted structure has ever held, and par
took of a luncheon at the Baltimore
hotel as the guest of the Commercial
club of Kansas City, Mo.
City Takes a Holiday.
! The reception. given President Roose
welt was intensely enthusiastic and it
is estimated that 10O, 900 persons greet
ed him. The schools were closed and
business generally was suspended.
The presidential party arrived in the
city from St. Louis at 9: 10 in the morn
Ing. The reception at the train was
brief and informal, and the presidents
carriage moved away for drive few
minutes later at the head of long line
Df carriages.
Greeting by Children.
The route took in five miles of Kan
fas Cty's boulevard system. Passing
first through the Pazo, the president
was greeted by over 10000 school chill
dren. Each of the children waved
tiny American flag, cheering the while,
and finally as the president passed the
Of
ing "America."
Convention hall was reached at
few minutes after II. The decorations
of the hall were profuse. Every avail
able foot of space in the hall, which
has a seating capacity of $4,000, was
occupied.
Hears Harvard Yell.
AS President Roosevelt emerged
onto the stage the current was turned
into two great electric flags that
formed part of the ceiling decorations.
Instantly the crowd broke into tre-
mendous cheering, while 60 Harvard
graduates with vigor gave their COL
lege cry, ending with the word "Roose,
yelt."
The graduates were seated in body
in the balcony and were led in the
cheering by three men who attended
Harvard at the time the president was
a student there
! Greets Blue and Gray.
President Roosevelt was introduced
by Mayor Reed. A great demonstra.
ton took place as he arose to speak
The president spoke word of greet.
ing to his audience and then greeted
specially the men who wore the blue
and those who wore the gray.
Il do not usually say anything
about our being reunited country"
he said, because it is not necessary,
OF course, we are reunited country
and in every northern audience, wher-
ever L see group of men wearing
the button Of the Grand Army of
the Republic, I am certain to find a
group of men ready to cheer every
allusion to the gallantry of the men
who wore the gray"
Good Citizenship.
Taking the lessons taught by the
soldiers of the civil war, the presi-
dent discussed the question of good
citizenship.
'In our complex relation of EN-,
ployed and employer" he said, 1--WE
can work out a really successful re-
suit only if those interested will get
together and make an honest effort
each to understand his neighbors'
Wrong is wrong just as
much if it is done by the little man
to the big man as by the big man to
the little man-to the capitalist by
the wage worker or to the wage
worker by the capitalist.
11n the long run wage worker and
capitalist will go down in common
ruin if each does not honestly try to
get on with justice to the other and
work out scheme of action which
shall be to their common advantage"
Shortly before noon a start was
made for the Baltimore hotel, where,
after a brief reception in the parlors,
> luncheon was served.
Goes to Kansas.
Kansas City, Kan, May 2.-The pres
[dent at 1:45 became the guest of this
city. Evan 81. Brown, president of tho
Mercantile club, presented President |
Roosevelt with large silk sunfower
and he was escorted to carriage dec
grated with sunAowers and silkeu /
American flags.
As the party passed beneath the
bluffs overlooking the Union depot q
salute was fired from can
non placed high above the procession.
Every whistle in the city added its
strength to the noise, and church bells |
were rung. Huron place
Was reached about 2:45, and there,
from q platform in the open, President |
spoke briefly.
Reviews school chtldrea.
Later tho president reviewed 5000
school children, who greeted him with
waving flags and cheers. The putty
was driven back: to the live. stock ex-
change: where demonstration BY, the
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