The sun., 1903-05-08
ROOSEVELT IN CALIFORNIA.
OUT or DESERT INTO LAND or
ORANGES AND POPPIES.
Gov. Pardec ana Delegation OF the Leg.
islature at Odds-secretary Moody
Joins the President. who speaks
on the Influence Of the Indiy

! tIo ANVCtiies uIltT udTk,
large delegation of Mojave Indians
/ had been sitting up nights for six weeks,
devising ceremonies with which to greet
the Great Father and at last decided that
an Indian brass band should play a Hot
Time in the Old Town Tonight when
the President arrived, The train went
through at 2 o'clock in the morning and
did not stop.
The President appeared for the first time
on the rear platform at Barstow, a little
railroad settlement in an irrigation desert.
| The President spoke as follows.
This is the ,hrst time have ever heon to
California and I cannot say to you how much
! chn tell YOU now with absolute certainty that
/ Will have enjoyed 1t to the full when get
through.
have felt that the events Of the last five
or six years have been steadily Fastening
the day when tn" Pacific will loom IN the
and have wished greatly to see thes, mar
Nelloms commmnti"s growing np on the Pa
cltic slope There are plenty OF things that
to YOU seem matters OF course that ! have
read about and know about from reading.
and yet when | see them they strike me as
The way tn" railroads have been thrust
across the deserts until now We come to the
S9TdIr ." h@t fwondeS1 owr Sna the
strikes me more than anything else as ! 90
through M ths fonntry county Ns SAC said have never never
and the states ,ot the great plains ! know
quite as well as Know the Eastern seaboard.
have worked with the men. played with
them. fought with them. ] know them all
through.
The thing that strikes me most as go through
the country is the essential unity of all Ameri-
cans. Down at bottom we are the san me people
all through. !Aprlsnse That is not merely,
my good fortune have been thrown into in
i innate relationship, into peIsSSnal friend
patons @ and " my s iath is sn frm ut' that we shall
here in America, BECAUSE, think that the
the. prime thing in getting him to get on we'll
with the other average. American Is to have
sa sow sna rS to S oa al % the shs Il asps e
from the others standpoint lApplause.
am speaking here to the men who have
ment of this country. railroad men. the ranch
ers. the peore who have built up this country.
Such % development Ga D so soetRns San be done
by the administration OF law. but in the last
analvsis we have to rely upon the average
Back Of the law STANDS the man. jus. e1-
gun that counts most-more than the gun.
:. . 50 It is with the men and women. 1t is
nothing an take the place OF his own quail
Of the Of the
The law, can do something. but the law never
yet made fool wise or coward brave or
The law can endeavor to secure fair show
for every man SO far as 1t Is inthe wit OF man
TO Se ef I to he # "ss hsI
is in him. and if the stuff isnot in him you
beSe S get the i f@4e t Of s % con1 PaSSss Sss.
| believe in the men and women whom we
are developing in the country -,
California. THANK you for coming out here
to greet me-, ! wish you well with all my
heart for the future. Cneers and applause.
.Teddy's Terrors.7 an exuberant Los
Angeles organization, came down from
their native town to escort the President
through the State, beginning at Redlands.
They wore exceedingly bright bandannas,
blue shirts, sombreros and huge revolvers
in holsters and bore pleasing device on
their yellow banner portraying a stout
spectaced man with generous display Of
teeth riding a cinnamon bear with great
recklessness.
They surrounded the Presidents carriage
whenever it moved through the streets
throughout the day.
Gov. Pardee and a delegation from the |
Legislature came down o Redands to meet
the President. They came on separate |
trains The Legislature refused to let the !
Governors staff ride on its train, so the !
Governor r"' : train IF his own. The rela- |
tons between tn. two delega, ions were not !
pleasant when they came together at Red
lands
The Legislature insisted on having Grove
johnson as a spokesman of its own after
the Governor had finished speaking. When
he said that the President was doubly well
come Mr.. Roosevelt was seen to smile.
The President spoke for nearly half an
hour. paying special attention to the chorus
of school children who sang 4The Star
Spangled Banner TO him from stand
erected opposite the hotel balcony, where
he stood
Over roadway strewn with rose petals
he rode to Smiley Point, the show place
of the city, where tropical trees and flowers
were fairly heaped on one another in their
profusion The people did not lose the
opportunity of impressing upon the Presi-
dent that the knolls of Redlands were but
sage brush. ridges and desert lands before
irrigation came to them ten years ago. In
that time rose trees have grown so that in
places they almost shadow the streets and
gum trees have shot up ninety feet into the
air
Ancient San Bernardino, nearly lost in
something very like Eastern hustle, was
the next town to turn out Its thousands to
meet the President. Secretary Moody
joined him there. He will 60 all the way
up the coast. inspecting the navy yards as
he comes to them.
The train was taken five miles bevond
Riverside station and then the President
and his party drove back through con-
tinuous orange groves. There was great
and an electric illumination
IN town and a speech.
Tonight the President and his party
we're entertained at a banquet. just as
he President entered his suite in the Glen
wood Hotel all the lights in that wing Of the
,otel went out. Until the burned-out
switch was discovered. the President had
lute as restful a time as he has had since
eavng Washington. except for the band
,f the "Terrors" which insisted on serenad-
ng him in the darkness.
In speaking to the veterans at Redlands
he President referred to President McKin-
ey's visit two years ago Tomorrow.
A little later, at the Smiley Library, he
passed a bronze bust commemorating Mr..
visit.
CONVICTED OF DYNdMETING.