Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1905-04-14
SPENDS DAY WITH
OLD COMRADES
PRESIDENT ATTENDS REUNION
OF ROUGH RIDERS.
WELCOMED TO SAN ANTONIO
Pays Tribute to the Blue and the Gray
and Urges the Importance Of
Living Worthy Lives in
His Address.

San Antonio, Tex, April 8.-With
the city covered with patriotic EN-.
blems, a display of flags Of all sizes
likenesses of the president in many
windows and the streets and plazas
filled with cheering throngs OF PEG.
pie, Theodore Roosevelt could not mis-.
| take the hearty welcome accorded him
in San Antonio Friday. Enormous
crowds of people greeted him along the
route of the procession from Fort Sam
Houston to Alamo plaza, where an adj
dress of welcome was delivered and a
response made. The people felt that
| they had as their guest not only the
president OF the United States but a
man toward whom the people of San
Antonio feel especially friendly on &C.
count of the fact that it was here that
the regiment was organized with which
his name has become synonym.
The president was delighted with the
reception accorded him. He was kept
busy bowling right and left acknowl-
| edging the outbursts of enthusiasm. 1t
is approximately seven years since
President Roosevelt left San Antonio
with his Rough Riders. "No human
being dreamed that after that would
return as president of the United
States" he said in a short address at
| the depot.
| A Busy Day.
1t was busy day for the president
1t began with the reception at the
train. This formality was soon over
and the president and party proceeded
to the parade grounds Of the post
where the troops in Fort Sam Houston
were reviewed. This interesting cere-
mony over, the start was made for the
city. From the moment the procession
of troops, carriages, police and Rough
Riders swept out of the gates Of the
post into Grayson street until the pres
ident entered the gates of the fair
grounds to go into camp with the
| Rough Riders, he was the recipient Of
the greatest ovation ever witnessed
here.
| The most spectacular scene of the
day was at Travis park. The presi-
dents reception here by 5000 school
children was the most inspiring fea-
ture of the programme. All the way
the crowd cheered and the children
sang America" while the band played
the national air.
On the Alamo plaza within the
shadow of the old Alamo, which the
president in his speech said had seven
years ago filled him with determi-
nation to do nothing to reflect on the
heroes who died there, he was greeted
in manner which profoundly touched
him. His arrival was the signal for
a burst of cheering which lasted until
after he had taken his seat on the
stand, and which was renewed when he
arose to respond to the address Of well
come by City Alderman Kirkpatrick.
The Presidents Speech.
The presidents speech was fire.
quently punctuated by applause. He
made characteristic address. He
was pleased that San Antonio agreed
with him in his ideas on race suicide.
He noted with satisfaction the atten.
lions Texans are paying to education.
The law of the worthy life, the effort
in cause worthy of striving for was
his theme. His reception throughout
Texas had touched him. He said:
II know that the rest of you will
not grudge my saying special word
of acknowledgement to two sets among
your citizens; first, to the men Of the
great war. to the men who wore the
blue or wore the gray in the days that
tried mems souls. My fellow citizens,
infinitely more important than any
president, infinitely more important
even that the reception to any presi-
dent, is what is symbolized by seeing
the men who fought in the union army
and the men who fought in the con-
federate army standing mingled to-
gether, fellow Americans, one in devo-
ton and honor and loyalty to the
country. shoulder to shoulder as fell
low citizens of the mightiest republic
upon which the sun has ever shone
Indeed the man would have poor
heart, poor spirit, who would not
be thrilled by such a meeting as this,
by such sight as you accord me to-
day, you of the gray, you of the blue
all one under the flag of this reunited
country. (Applause).
Lesson Of the War.
sit has always seemed to me that
one of the greatest lessons taught by
the civil war was the lesson of broth
erhood. You, my friends who wore the
blue; you, my friends who wore the
gray, each of you when he went for
ward to battle. what he was concerned
with about the man on his right hand
. and the man of his left, was not what
the mans ancestry was. not as to how
he worshipel his Maker, not as tc
what his profession was or his means
; What you wanted to know was
whether he would stand pat. (Ap.
plause) If he did you We're for him
and il he did not you were against him
The same thing that was true in the
great war is true in time of peace
This government is emphatically a
government by the people. for the PEG
pie. of the people. tApplause).
Now. besides applarding that senti
meat lei u: live up to it. 1t has two
, sides to it, In the first place it ap.
plies in a dozen different directions
1t applies, for instance, In reference t,
creed. We have right to ask tina
our neighbor do his duty toward Go,
and man; but we have no business t,
dictate to him how he shall worship
his Maker and no business to discrim
mate for or against him because o
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