The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-05-12
THE PRESIDENT.
Is Now Out of the Woods
and Is Making
Speeches.
A BANQUET At DENVER

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Denver, Col, May S.-President
Roosevelt, after travelling through the
mountains all day and making half
dozen or more speeches, concluded tn.
evening here at banquet at the
Brown Palace Hotel and another
speech. The crowd in this city was the
most enthusiastic of the trip. Fully
10000 people lined the streets and
sent up one continuous salvo of cheers.
One feature of the welcoming parade
was an enormous flag. kept in motion
by score of small boys.
In fact, enormous flags seem to be
exceptionally numerous in Denver.
Outside of the banquet given by the
chamber of commerce there was no
ceremony, other than an informal re-
ception to the local committee by the
president Naturally the feature of
the presidents reception in the capitol
city was the banquet which was at
tended by all of the higher dgnitaries
of the state and county government.
The chief speech of welcome was de-
livered by Democrat, United States
Senator T. NJ. Patterson, who made
hit with the distinguished guests by
some of his unique remarks. Among
other things he said: The few Of us
who voted for another candidate at the
last election, if not ready to take on
sackcloth and ashes, are at least will
ing to admit that probably the great
majority were wiser than the small
minority in selecting the man they
did for president"
Senator Patterson then praised the
president for his declaration, immedi-
ately after the result of the last elect
ion became known, that he would new
er again be a candidate for chief eX-
eCutive of the nation. This, he said,
pleased the conservative element and
did away with the cry, that the man
on horseback was to reign" Such
voluntary remuneration of the greatest
Office in the world, he added, brought
to President Roosevelt the confidence
and affection of the entire American
people and placed him in a position
where he could perform his full duties
redress and wrongs of the masses and
compel the predatory rich to keep
within the limits of law and also to
urge such new laws as were needed
to overcome injustice that he could +.
not strike. Senator Patterson declared |
that RooseYelt's name will be spoken
IN Wi nf
Washington and Lincoln, as among /
the greatest and most deserving of /
the worlds benefactors. He then I,
praised the president for his advocacy |
of irrigation and for his straight-for- |
ward Americanism.
In conclusion he said: 1--WE feel that |
the experiences of the presidents out !
ing have intensified his patriotism and
turned his mind more than ever to the
reforms in which he must take to lead
or doom them to present failure.
Whether 1t be to secure policy !
that in dealing with the claims of |
foreign governments against other A. |
merican governments will remove the |
constantly increasing menace to peace /
from the Monroe doctrine while that /
doctrine shall be preserved in all it's |
vigor, or to grapple with the trusts that |
are fattening upon the extortions prac- |
ticed upon the people which they are |
helpless to resist, and that are over |
turning our social and industrial sys-
tens, to replace them with the degrad- !
ing conditions of the feudal times or |
to secure laws that will insure fair !
rates upon transportation lines and |
drive out determinations against ship |
pers and localities bring to justice !
those who are unfaithful to public |
trusts and elevate the standard of duty
owed by man to man and by the
citizens to our common country; we
know that he is gifted with the moral
courage, the intellectual force and the
physical prowess to wage unceasing
and unfinching battles and, being in
the right, with the help or God and
the, common people, to win battles and
save his country. My friends, before
we separate let us subscribe to the SEN
timent made common property by the
gentle and princeless Joseph Jeffer-
son: The President, God bless him.
May he live long and prosper"