Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1907-05-30
President States
Views in Memoir
ial Day Speech
GUEST OF INDIANAPOLIS
Where He Participates in
Unveiling Of Monumentto
General Lawton.


Indianapolis, Ind, May 30.-A Big
Four train carrying President Roose-
velt Vice President Fairbanks and
memabers of the Presidential party ar
rived here at 10: 40 a. m. The party
was met by large reception commit
tee and driven to the home OF Vice
President Fairbanks, where luncheon
was served.
10000 School Children Greet Him.
At place of the Monument unyeil-
ing nearly 10000 school children were
massed to greet the President All
business was suspended and every
building in the city was decorated in
the national colors Following lunch
con at Vice President Fairbanks home
the march began to the court house
grounds for the main ceremony, the
unveiling of handsome monument to
Major General Henry Lawton.
Procession Two Miles Long.
The procession moved for two
miles through solid mass OF people
Surrounding the monument the streets
were packed for many squares. The
weather was pleasant. On the plat-
form were seated Mrs. Lawton and
her three daughters. The program in
cuded an address by Governor Han
ley, the reading of poem by James
Whitcomb Riley and President Roose-
velt's address.
Trip Continuous Ovation.
The Presidents trip was continu-
GUS ovation all the way from Belle
fontaine, Ohio, where he first ap-
peared in public today, TO IndialsAllis
At alhs the statiees great crowds
pressea around the Presidents cal
and at several places the President
made brief remarks and everywhere
he shook hands with as many as
could get near him.
President Talks on Railroad Situation
President ROosevelt's address
which was the principal one OF the
unveiling ceremonies, while devoted
in part to Major General Lawton, and
the observance of Memorial Day, was
in the main devoted to the all absorb
ing topic of federal supervision and
control of the railroads of the coun
try. While in no way displaying any
antagonism to the railroads or Their
interests but at the same time max
ing it clearly understood tina. the
time for regulation OF the common
carriers had come, PRESIDENT Roose
welt spoke in part as follows:
Pays High Tribute to Dead Soldier
''For more than one reason am
peculiarly glad that this year l speak
on Memorial Day in the State OF In
diana. There is no other class OF ouI
citizens to whom we owe so much as
to the veterans OF the great war Tc
them it was given to perform the one
feat with which no other feat can be
compared, for to them it was giveI
to preserve the Union. Moreover
you men who wore the blue, blessed
beyond the victors in any other wal
of recent times, have left to YOU
countrymen more than the materia
results of the triumph, more ever
than the achieving the triumph Itself
You have left country so genuinel!
reunited that all of us now, In what
ever part of this Union we live, have
a right to feel the keenest pride, no
only in the valor and self-devotiol
of you, the gallant men who wore
the blue, but also in the valor and self
devotion of your gallant opponents
who wore the gray. The hero whose
monument we today unveil, by his
life bore singular testimony to thu
completeness of the reunion. Genera
Lawton in his youth fought gallantly
in the Civil War. Thirty-three year.
afterward he again marched to war
this time against foreign foe, ant
served with distinguished abilit!
and success as general officer, botl
in Cuba and in the Philippines. Whel
he thus served it was in an arm,
whose generals included not onl.
many of his old comrades in arms
but some of his old opponents also
as General Wheeler and Genera
Fitzhugh Lee. Under him, botl
among the commissioned officers an
in the ranks, were mar men whos
fathers had worn the blue serving
side by side with others whose faith
ers had worn the gray; but all Ameri
cans now, and nothing but Americana
all united in their fealty and devotion
to their common flag and their com
mon country, and each knowing onl
the generous rivalry with his fellow
as to who could best serve thescaus
for which each was ready to lay dow
life itself. To General Lawton 1t be
fell actually to lay down his life;
tragedy, but one of those noble TRACE
dies where our pride rises above ou