Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-05
Roosevelt Special Reaches In
dian Territory Where Warm
Welcome Is Extended
HOLIDAY At MuskocEE
Excursion Trains Are Run From All
Directions and President is Greeted
by a Large crowd-severaI Short
Speeches Msdo to tho Waiting
Crowds Today.

Vinita. l. r., April S. President
Roosevelts train arrived here a few
minutes late, and departed south at
9.1O. The train passed thru Par
sons kas., at Z: 35. There were five
thousand persons at the station. The
president appeared on the rear plat
form of the car and made a brief
speech.
The president In his speech at Par
sons said: II am so glad to be again
in the sunnower state. From the be-
ginning l have believed in your peo-
pie, and l am more than grateful for
the way your people showed your be-.
lief in me last November. 1t is not
possible for any man in any position
to promise that things will seem
right. All that he can promise is that
so far as is in him lies he will do his
part towards making them right. This
can promise and do. 1t is In one
stage of life as 1t Is in another. Right
here see one Of the men who fought
in the great war. All that he could do
in that war was to do his part
well, to do all that lay in him we'll.
And that is what each one can do, in
whatever position he is called to be.
1t is because of what you and the av-
erage man and woman of Kansas have
done that Kansas Is so great state.
and it is what eve.J. man from pres
ident right thru has got to do IL the
country is what it should be.
There is nothing peculiar in the
qualities you need In the government
that differentiates those qualities from
the qualities you need in having one
private man deal witt. another IL n
man is to be an advantage to u COM
munity in which he lives, he must be
a decent, square dealing man. who
does fairly by his neighbor, who takes
care of his family. The same qualities
in another sphere must be applied In
public life If he Is to amount to any
thing, honesty, decency, courage and
common sense"
South McAlister, /. r., April s.
The presidential special made short
stops at Wagner and Muskogee, the
president briefly addressing large
crowds at each place. His talks Were
DTlllClpduy Oll lue luGSltOLl VI Sldlc,
hood for the territory and good citi-
zenship. At Muskogee the president
was received by a local committee
headed by Pleasant Porter, chief Of
the Creek Nation. Excursions were
run by all the railroads and not for
years have so many full blood Indians
Of all nations visited the city. Ter
ritorial mounted guards and hun
dreds of deputy marshals constituted
the guard Of honor
Muskogee, /. r., April 5.-President
Roosevelt paid tribute to the people
of INDIAN Territory and commended
them as eligible for statehood in a
brief speech at Vinita, where a stop
of two minutes was made. The little
city was more profusely decorated
than any place thru which the presi-
Dental train had passed. The station
was decorated with flags and bunting
and an immense sign suspended at the
point where the train stopped, bore
the words: "Welcome to Our Presi-
dent AS the train slowed down a
salute was fired. Hundreds of people
pressed about the train.