The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1903-04-04
CROWDS HEAR PRESIDENT
First Real Stop Of Trip is Made
at Chicago.



Hope of Saving Monroe Doctrine.
May Become International Law if
This Country Stands by 1t Firmly.
Chicago, April Silk thousand peo- |
pie, in a hall the seating capacity OF |
which is but 5000, gave enthusiastic
greeting to President Roosevelt when |
he stepped upon the stage at the Audi
torium last night. The great building |
has held many throng, but none
that was more unstinted in its ap-
plause From the floor to the roof
it was packed to it's utmost capacity. |
Every seat was occupied and although
the aisles were kept clear, all the
space in the lobbies and on the stair
ways was taken, and even the passage
ways leading to the hall from the low
er floor were jammed with hundreds
of men who were utterly unable to
hear word of the presidents address.
All that came to them was the roar of
applause from within and with such
loyal lungs did they accept their cue
that several times they were giving
vent to cheers when those on the In
side had died away, and the president
had resumed his address. Twice dur
ing the evening Chief of Police O'Neill
was compelled to send word to the
patriots without the door that they
must cheer in better time, or he
would be compelled to clear the stair
| way.
When the president escorted by the
members of the local committee, ap-
peared on the platform he was met
with great enthusiasm, the vast crowd
/ rising to it's feet, and supplementing
its hearty cheers with waving pro-
grams and fiuttering handkerchiefs.
The president acknowledged his re-
ception with repeated bows, and at
once took his seat between Franklin
MacVeagh, the chairman of the COM
mittee, and Mayor Harrison, who was
to deliver the formal address of well
come. AS soon as his voice could be
heard, Mr.. MacVeagh, in a few words,
| announced that the nations chief
executive would be made welcome to
the city by Mayor Harrison, who then
spoke briefly, extending to the presi-
dent hearty welcome and expressing
the pleasure felt by the people of
Chicago at his visit, and offering to
him their best wishes for happy
and pleasant trip during his two
months OF vacation.
The president bowed his thanks to
Mayor Harrison and to Mr. MacVeagh
who introduced him to his audience,
and expressed his pleasure at the cor
dial reception extended to him upon
the first stop of his long trip and then
turning directly to the audience in
front of him, proceeded in his pecu
liarly energetic manner to deliver his
address. The address throughout was
received in the most cordial manner
: and with as much approval for the
. manner in which 1t was delivered as
for the matter for which it contained
The address, in part, was as follows:
THE Monroe doctrine is not interna
tional law, and though | think one
day it may become such, this is moi
necessary as long as it remains 6
cardinal feature of our foreign pol
: icy and as long as we possess botf
!; the will and the strength to make i
: effective. This last point, my fellow
!; citizens, is all important, and is one
. which as a people we can never af
ford to forget. believe in the Mon
$ roe doctrine with all my heart ant
= soul, but | would infinitely prefer t.
. see us abandon il than to see us pu
Y it forward and bluster about it, anl
t vet fail to build up the efficient fight
e ing strength which in the last resor
can alone make it respected by an,
d strong foreign power whose interes
t 1t may happen to be to violate il.
o Wen, in the last two years an
a happy TO say we have taken lon
/ strides in advance as regards on
i navy. The last congress, in addirio,
i to smaller vessels, provided nine 0
n those formidable lighting ships upo
/ which the real efficiency OF any nav
1. in war ultimately depends. 1t pre-
d vided, moreover, fer the necessary at
dition of officers and enlisted men t
IS make the ships worth having. Near
@ while the navy department has see
II to it that our ships have been cor
stantly exercised at sea, with tn
great guns, and in maneuyers, so tha
their efficiency as lighting units, bot
individually and when acting togethe
has been steadily improved"
8 Articles of merger were filed in tn
n state department at Harrisburg, Pa
s. by all the large coke companies in til
u Connellsville region, which have bee
e absorbed by the H. c. Frick Coke con
pany, with capital of $20,OOO,OOO.