Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-09-08

Syracuse, n. Y, Sept S.-Cleap
skies. bands of music, the local mill
tary company, an unprecedented dis
play of flags and patriotic decora-
tion and the unbounded enthusiasm of
vast throng greeted President
Roosevelt at $3.50 a. m, when his spe-
cial train rolled into the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western station.
The president came to open the state
fair, TO view the Labor day parade
and the parade of the National AS
sociation of Letter Carriers VII
him on the train were his secretary.
William Loeb. Jr.. Jacob A. Riis of
New York. newspaper representatives.
secret service men and the heads of
the operative department of the Della
ware. Lacka awanna and Western. The
run from New York was very com
Portable and was without incident
The president was met at the train
by a reception committee consisting
OF Justice Frank H. Hiscock. James
NJ. Gilbert. State Superintendent of
Insurance Francis Henricks. Hendrick
S. Holden. Mayor ]. B. Kline and
Francis L. Bason, president of the
chamber of comerce. They visitel
with the president in his car a few
minutes. while the local police and
secret service men cleared away the
crowds and prepared for the march
to Hanover square, where the presi-
dent reviewed the labor parade.
Escorted by Soldiers.
The Forty-first separate company
presented arms as the president ap-
peared and then. headed by the New
York Letter Carriers band, escorted
the president and committee to the
reviewing stand The president re-
ceived an ovation from the densely
packed throngs.
In the square about the reviewing
stand there were fully 25 900 persons.
Every window in the buildings facing
the square was filed with people. Up
on the stand beside the president and
the reception committee were Sena-
tor Chauncey NJ Depew. Bishop P. A.
Ludden of Syracuse and influential
citizens.
There was never before such a dem
onstration by organized labor in this
city. Fully 5000 men and women
were in line.
The Labor day committee as It
reached the stand. sent its chairman
to greet the president and to pin a
badge upon his coat. The president
expressed his pleasure in few words
and the line began to move Union
after union uncovered as it reached
the stand. Now and again the presi-
dent shouted compliments to a fine
looking body of men From start to
finish his attention was never divert
ed from the workingmen.
"They are the power behind the
throne remarked a Syracusan to the
president. as the men marched by.
Exactly. The power behind the
throne. Exactly, And it makes one
proud to think he is an American to
see these men," replied the president.
At 1880 o'clock the line had passed
and the party was driven to the train
and departed for the state fair, where
the president made lengthy address.
Among other things he said
Prosperity of the People.
"If circumstances are such that
thrift. energy, industry and fore
thought enable the farmer, the tiller
Of the SOIL on the one hand. and the
wageworker, on the other, to keep
themselves. their wives and their
children in reasonable comfort. then
the state is well Off and we can be
assured that the other classes in the
community will likewise prosper. On
the other hand. II there is in the long
run lack Of prosperity among the
two classes named. then all other