The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-04-26
Unique Exhibition Of Riding at Edge
mont Which Was Arranged by the
Black Hills Pioneers.
PRESIDENT WAS PLEASED
AND SHOOK HANDS WITH PERFORM
ERS WHILE TRAIN WAS MOVING.
Rear Platform Speeches Delivered In
Three States-N0table Tribute to
the Trail Blazers.

ALLIANCE, Neb., April 25.-President
Roosevelt completed a hard day to-day
with a fifteen-minute stop at Alliance this
evening. Capt. Seth Bullock, superintend-
ent of the Black hills forest reserve, who
joined the President at Gardiner yesterday,
left the train here. President Roosevelt,
who has great admiration for Captain
Bullock. invited him to accompany him on
his trip to the coast. Captain Bullock was
forced to decline the invitation.
During the day the President travelled in
three States and made number of ad-
dresses both from the rear platform of his
car and from stands erected for the pur-
pose. The most unique demonstration of
the day and the one that undoubtedly
pleased the President most was the cowboy
show at Edgemont. s. D. The demonstra-
tion was arranged by the Society Of Black
Hills Pioneers and consisted Of exhibitions
of cowboy riding. Special trains brought
in large crowd from the surrounding
country, and they were all at the station
with three bands Of music to greet the
President AS his train pulled in the cow
boys yelled, the bands played and a salute
was fired. The exhibition stand was but a
short distance from the depot, and after
the President had made an address the
boys began bucking the horses, and only
horses that would buck were ridden by
the cowboys. The President partook of
luncheon at the mess wagon. The only
disappointment of the day was the failure
of the prize bucking horse of that section
to perform. This horse has a record as a
champion bucker, and but few people can
ride him. To-day, however, he was as
gentle as a kitten and greenhorn would
not have had much trouble in keeping on
his back. AT the conclusion of the exer-
cises the cowboys formed an escort to the
train, and after it had started they dashed
alongside the Presidents car and he shook
hands with many of them from the win
dow.
referred to the work accomplished by the
early pioneers, an ''honor to all good citi-
zens," he said. But honor most of all to
the men who took the lead in tanning the
the men who first of the world marked out
the earliest highways, the spotted line, the
blazed trail. the men who first on horse
and drove their cattle up to feed upon the
ranges from which the buffalo had not
yet vanished. To you from the Black
hills, who, coming here in 1876, or at the
time Immediately around that date, have
developed the wonderful mines of that re-
gion, have built up In what was then an In
dian haunt. a wilderness. cities like Dead
wood and Lead, it has fallen to your lot
to see one of the great epoch feats of the
century. You are among that body of
men who conquered continent for a race
and a people; who did your full share in
making the nineteenth century the most
wonderful upon which the sun has ever
shown. The pioneer days have gone, but
the need of the old pioneer virtues remains
the same as ever: [Applause.I You won
and you could only win because you had
in you the stuff out of which strong men
are made. OF the day of 1876 here in the
Black hills the hope of the weaklng or
the coward was small, and now the man
who will do decent work here must be
the man that has got the stuff in him.
At New Castle, Wyo., where a half hour
stop was made earlier in the day the Presi-
dent was escorted 10 the speakers stand
along a pathway strewn with flowers and
lined side by school children, who
waved miniature flags and seemed to enjoy
the Presidents speech as much as their eld-
ers. The stand from which he spoke was
gayly decorated, stuffed bear and deer
standing on either side and a large stuffed
eagle surmounting the top. In opening his
address the President said he wished pub
licly TO express his acknowledgment for
the way in which the Wyoming senators
and congressman have co-operated with him
In Washington. He referred to the irriga.
ton law passed at the last session of Con-
gress, and said he believed much good will
come from 1t, as the government will be
able to undertake enterprises which IL
cannot be expected that private cap-
ital will undertake, and the government
will be able to try experiments from the
result of which private capital may be
able to learn much. He then spoke on the
subject Of good citizenship. saying that
what counts most il the honesty. the cour-
age. the common sense and the capacity for