Gilpin observer., 1903-05-07

on" He ate slight breakfast in his
car in addition and then worked at af-
fairs Of state on the journey to Dem
yer.
Arrived in Denver at 1925 and spent
two hours and forty-fve minutes, trav-
cling more than six miles, addressing
10000 people and responding to the
cheers and acclaim of $4,000 more
along the streets.
He took dinner on his train and
arrived at Colorado Springs at
3:40 where he made a twenty-five
minute address to another immense
crowd.
Pueblo was reached at $50. The
President went to a stand near the
tracks at Mineral Palace park and
spoke to another enormous gathering
Then he drove mile through the
streets to the Union depot, receiving a
tremendous ovation, and left for New
Mexico.
In all, fully $4,000 people heard the
President speak during the day, and
100000 Coloradoa1s cheered him as he
passed through the streets.
He was in the state twenty hours in
all. Perfect weather continued through
the trip in this state.
Upon emerging from the depot at
Denver, as he was escorted to his car
r1age, the President was confronted by
memorable scene. The court in front
of the building was filled with a mass
Of humanity that had awaited his COM
Ing for hours with patriotic patience.
Down the vista of the street SO far as
the vision could carry the pavemer'
was packed with crushing crowd.
But it was a quiet crowd, thoroughly
imbued with the spirit or respect, and
the cheering was of modest volume.
Amid the Haunting of flags and to
the stirring strains of martial music
the procession moved up Seventeenth
street toward the capitol
The terraced grounds were packed
from curb to capitol, and on the
steps of the building was a waiting
multitude. 1t is estimated that there
were $4,000 people in the crowd that
listened, or tried to listen, to the Pres
ident on the capitol grounds.
The grand stand was over the lower
flight of steps between the capitol and
Broadway.
On one side of the stand were the
children of the North Denver high
school. on the other members of the
hereditary societies. In front were
the G. A. r. posts, the Spanish-Ameri-
can war volunteers and lining Lincoln
avenue were the guard of honor, COM
posed of High School cadets and a
company of the National Guard.
The Presidents chair on the grand
stand was decorated with flowers Be
fore he began his speech he was pre-
sented with a beautiful silk flag by
Mrs. S. NJ. Casper on behalf of the
Daughters of the Revolution, and re-
sponded with a few charming words of
thanks.
Col. Charles L. Cooper, U. S. A., in
charge Of Fort Logan garrison, pre-
sented President Roosevelt with a
large photograph of the Rough Rider
camp at San Antonio, which was re-
ceived with many expressions Of de-
light
Governor Peabody stepped forward
and welcomed the President on behalf
of the state. He said:
1T is my honored and most pleasant
duty to introduce to you the President
of the United States, an American citi-
zen. honored as a citizen. soldier and
author. the most beloved OF our peo-
pie. Theodore Roosevelt"
President Roosevelts address was as
follows:
Mr.. Governor, Mr. Mayor and all
ClllZSuS. 4NOW III BTtcIIuB
all of you to-day wish to say a special
word of acknowledgment first to the
men of the Grand Army (Applause) To
the men to whom we oweit that we have
to-day either country or President.
(Applause.) The men who have taught
us by their lives, by their services in
war and in peace, how to carry our
selves alike in war and peace. I greet
you first of all: and then the rest of
you will not grudge me greeting spe-
cially, in the second place, my own
comrades of the lesser war-the men
whose deeds in the remote Orient
followed with such keen interest, and
with the pride taken in them by all
good American citizens. Applause.)
l am glad. indeed. to have x chance OF
coming back to Colorado. and to speak
to you as chief executive Of the Nation.
Il know your people well. l have
been with them before: have visited
the state on more than one errand.
uaughter.)
II have visited it on business. and
then again not on business. Qaughter.)
1T is a great pleasure, indeed. to
come to this great state of the plains
and the Rocky Mountains, this state
with a great past already and with a
future infinitely greater even than its
past.
But aside from this general and
greater interest. Colorado is serving
special interests. which shares with
the group of states Immediately around
1t. and to my mind one OF the best
pieces of legislation put upon the stat
ute books of the national government
of recent years was the irrigation act
(applausc). an act in which we declare
1t to be national policy that exactly
as care is to be taken of the rivers and
harbors along the lower courses. SO on
their upper courses care Is to be taken
by the Nation. and the irrigating work
to be done in connection with them.
"Under that act beginning has been