The daily sentinel., 1908-05-21
BRYAN CHEERED ROOSEVELT
ROOSEVELT CHEERED BRYAN
Gov. Buchtel Talks interestingly of
the Distinguished Gathering at
the White House Last Week
Never To BE For
gotten Scenes.

governors ana other great men
of the nation at the White
House last week, Gov. Buchtel,
in an interview Mt his office in
| the state house in Denver, said
in part:
For the first time in the history
of the republic the governors of all
the states were invited by the presi-
| dent to attend a conference for the
consideration of matters of supreme
Importance to the people of the
whole nation. Possibly half dozen
OF the governors were not present.
The members of the cabinet and the
justices of the supreme court were
in attendance at quite all the ses-
sions. Various public officials con-
nected the departments of the inter
ior and agriculture We're present as
the discussions were concerning mat
/ ters with which they are constantly
employed. Four general subjects
were considered, namely. forests.
water minerals and land. All the
men in the conference were seeking
points of contact and not points of
divergence. If any one came upon
discordant note, by -inattention. no
one gave it any attention. The notes
OF concord were vigorously applaud
ed. / sat for three days where
could stretch out my hand and touch
the president and Mr.. Bryan and Mr..
Carnegie and John Mitchell and
James j. Hill, with the governors of
nearly all the states sitting within
radius of 25 feet from the front
row of chairs. 1t was indeed worth
a journey across the continent to see
Mr.. Bryan and John Mitchell and
James j. Hill and Andrew Carnegie
and all the governors applauding
vigorously and shouting in approval
of what the president was saying.
This happened not once, but many
times. Then it was quite as delight
ful to see the president and all the
governors applauding with equal
vigor while Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Hill
and Mr.. Carnegie and Mr.. Mitchell
were speaking. The conviction seized
all minds that this republic will live
forever when men who have been
counted as opposed to each other
were discovered to be in perfect
agreement in matters which are fun
damental to the public welfare. While
the talk was mostly about material
resources, yet the necessity of moral
and spiritual development was em-
phasized from time to time and that
note always brought out applause.
THE first social function was the
presidents dinner on Tuesday night.
The governors and the supreme court
and the cabinet and the special
guests were at that dinner After
the dinner the whole company went
out on the west terrace, where an
hour was spent in general CONVERSE
iion. Each guest had now oppor-
tunity to make the acquaintance of
all the other guests. No one ever
saw n more democratic gathering.
The only place on earth where such
company of distinguished men,
thoroughly democratic in spirit,
could be brought together, is at the
White House in Washington. All
questions were open and all were
discussed with freedom which be-
longed to the nobility of these emf
nent men.
"At one moment | saw Roosevelt
and Bryan facing each other, In
friendly debate, with three justices
of the supreme court, Fuller, Brewer
and Holmes, and two cabinet officers
and fear governors listening. At the
next moment the groups were chang
ed about and you saw a dozen differ
ent groups, all in jolly good humor.
No one ventured to tell story un-
less he was sure that it was good
one. But there were stories in
plenty.
From Chicago to Washington our
Colorado people were with the vice
president and Mr.. Bryan and Gov.
Johnson of Minnesota and Gov.
Burke of North Dakota. You may
be sure that there We're no skeletons
at that feast.
"The social function Wednesday
night was the dinner of the WASH
ington board of trade, where speech
es were made by the vice president,
the speaker of the house, the COVER
nor of Virginia, Representative John
Sharp Williams and some others.
THE social function Thursday
night was the reception to the whole
conference by Clifford Pinchot. This
reception was a great crush because
so many were invited, and no house
is ever big enough when everybody
is invited.
"The final social function was
Mrs Roosevelt's garden party. to
which everyone was invited at on
Friday afternoon.
"The resolutions which the confer
ence adopted were all general and
not specific. 1t was desired to avoid
any .unseemly controversy. The pur-
pose of the conference was TO arouse
the attention of the nation to certain
startling facts about the waste Of our
natural resources
"The proceedings of the confer
ence will be published by the govern
ment printing office. Indeed the ad-
dresses were all given out in printed
form at the close of each session.
Each state legislature will doubtless
be discussing, next winter. the ques-
tions which were considered at this
conference. I am sure every COVER
nor will have considerable section
in his next message on the serious
questions which this conference was