Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-05
ROUTED OUT EARLY
5000 Shouted for Roosevelt
Before Breakfast
AT PARSONS, KANSAS
PRESIDENT HURRIEDLY DRESSED
AND STEPPED INTO VIEW.
Immense Crowd Cheered and Demanded
Ready Executive Re
sponded-Tribute to State.


welt was routed out before breakfast today
The Presidential special stopped at Par
sons, Kan, at 7:3O o'clock to change en-
gines and crowd of 5000 persons gathered
around the private car Rocket and at
trated the attention of the occupants by
shouts of Where is he?" Several negroes
called: I'VE have been waiting since 4
o'clock to see you"
The President hurried his dressing and
stepped to the rear platform, where he was
cheered. The citizens of Parsons had sent
to the car huge bunch of American beauty
roses, which was placed on the breakfast
table. The crowd not satisfied with
merely seeing the President. and, in resonse
to a demand for a speech, he addressed the
people briefly
The President in his speech at Parsons,
said: Friends, 1 will just bid you good
morning. l am so glad to be again in the
Sunflower state From the beginning 1
have believed in your people and am more
than grateful for the way your people
showed your belief in me last November. 1t
is not possible for any man in any position
to promise that things will seem right.
What Any Man Can Promise.
"All that he can promise is that SO far
in him lies he will do his part toward
making them right. This l can promise
and do 1t is in one stage of life as it s in
another. Right here l 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 well. And
that is what each of US can do in whatever
position he is called to be. 1t is because of
what you and the average man and woman
OF Kansas have done that Kansas is so
great state; and it is that every man,
from the President right through, has got
if cOuntry is to be what IL
should be.
ITO you people in Kansas, to you in
whom I believe so much, there are just one
or two things l could say in this brief
moment There is nothing peculiar in the
qualities you need in government that
differentates those qualities from the
qualities you need in having one pri-
vate man deal with another If a
man is to be an advantage to the com
niunity in which he lives he must be
decent. square dealing man, who does
fairly by his neighbor and who takes care
of his family. The same qualities in an
other sphere must be applied in public life
if he is to amount to nything-honesty, de-
cency, courage and common sense"
Cheered at Muskogee.
MUSKOGEE, l. T., April 5.-President
Roosevelt paid a tribute to the people OF
Indian territory and commended them as
eligible for statehood in brief speech at
Vnita where stop of two minutes was
made at 9:OS am. The little city was more
profusely decorated than any place through
which the presidential train had passed.
The station was decorated with flags and
bunting and an immense sign suspended at
the point where the Presidents train stop
ped bore the words, Welcome to Our
President" AS the train slowed down
salute was fired. Hundreds of people, on
foot and horseback and in vehicles of all
kinds, pressed about the train.
The Presidents reference to statehood
was enthusiastically applauded. He spoke
as follows:
to be today in the Indian terriotory, which
/ earnestly hope will soon be part of a
great state of our Union" (Cheers)
First Visit to Territory.
II have never had the good fortune to
be in the territory before; but 1 had the
great good fortune to have some of your
sons in my regiment; and better and braver
men never rode a horse nor handled
rifle. Cheers.) All l need say today of
them in speaking to you of the great war,
is that we tried in he little war to show
that we had some u the spirit that the
men had who fought in the great civil war.
You will soon be part of one of the great
states of the Union for surely we will see
Oklahoma and the Indian Territory ad
mtted into statehood), and when that takes
place you will be at the outset a great
state. Then it will lie with you to
sfhat kind of state you will make of it"
Stopped at Wagner.
A stop not on the schedule was made at
Wagner. Several hundred people were
waiting about the depot platform. 1t had
been intended that the train should slow
down in order that the citizens might see
the President. The train stopped long
enough, however, for the President to talk
to the people on the question of statehood
for the territory.
The President said 1T was here in this
territory that no small part of my regl-
ment was raised, and you, my comrade
there, who fought in the big war knows IT
means a good deal to have men with you
in the trenches. 1 take the most exerme
interest in everything that concerns your
welfare. 1t will be but a short time now,
probably, when in conjunction with Okla
homa you will become a great state. 1t is
going to rest with you, upon the way In
which you handle yourselves, whether you
will be proud of that state or not There
is not anybody that can help US do more