The daily sentinel., 1910-08-27
ROOSEVELT TALKS To GREAT
CROWD Of WESTERN FOLKS
Tells Cheyenne Throngs What Western Pio-
neers AccompGshed---Urges Monu-
ment to Remington
GBy Associated Press. ]

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Cheyenne, Wyo., Aug. 27.-Wyom-
ing today extended to Colonel Roose-
welt the first of series of demonstra-
tions that have been planned for him
in the west. From all over the state
came men and women, to Join in well
coming the colonel back to a country
with which he became acquainted
more than quarter of a century ago.
Many events in which the old and
new life of this western land were
prominent were planned for his en-
tertainment.
At the station here, to meet Colo
mel Roosevelt, We're Governor b. b.
Brooks, Senator Warren of this state.
Senator Borah of Idaho tone of the
insurgent senators who has been in
close relations with Colonel Roose-
velt) and many men who are promi-
nent in the political affairs of the
state.
Drawn up in front of the station,
as an escort of honor, was the 9th
cavalry, the United States Army ne
gro regiment that co-operated with
the Rough Riders at Santiago
Some of the men in this regiment,
who were in the Cuban campaign,
came forward to meet the ex-presi-
dent. One of them. who was warmly
received by Mr.. Roosevelt. was the
soldier who carried the message at
San Juan hill ordering portion of
the Rough Riders to lay down while
the Calling guns were allowed TO
play upon the Spanish forces.
A parade through the streets of
this city, headed by the distinguished
guest in an automobile began the
day of festivities. Everywhere there
We're crowds of men, women and chill
dren, cowboys and cowgirls on horse
back, and straying Sioux Indians
waiting to see the visitor.
When Col Roosevelt arrived at
Frontier Park at 1880 o'clock Capt.
Hardy, crack marksman. was en-
gagged in making portrait of the
colonel with bullets on, big targets.
The crowded grandstand with hun
dreds of cowboys and cowgirls drawn
up on horseback in front of 1t pro-
vided an audience of several thou
sand people to hear Col. Roosevelt's
address and to witness the, games.
The colonel was greeted with cheers
and was soon presented to the assem-
blage by Governor Brooks.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke in part as fol-
lows;
When, at the close of my hunting
trip in Africa. | reached the borders
of civilization, the first invitation |
accepted was this, to visit the capital
of Wyoming on the day when the peo-
pie of the frontier came together to
commemorate their achievements; |
was glad ii was so, because | have
peculiar feeling for the men and wo-
men of what used to be called the
Far West and especially for those
of the cattle country. For a number
| OF years | lived on a ranch on the
Little Missouri. sharing work and
| play. good fortune and bad fortune
with my neighbors; working on the
| roundup, serving as delegate from
the Little Missouri roundup district
to the Montana Stockgrowers' asso-
| citation, and even at times acting as
deputy sheriff at my end of the coun-
try. | count those years as among
the most valuable of my life, because
nothing breeds such community of
feeling as to work with ones fellow
men at their life tasks, and to learn
to know their feelings by actually
| sharing them. The man of the West.
throughout the successive stages of
Western growth, has always been one
of the two or three most typical fig
ures-indeed, | am tempted to say,
the most typical figure-in American
life, and no man can really under
stand our country and appreciate
what 1t really is and what 1t promises
unless he has the fullest and closest
| sympathy with the ideals and aspira-
tions of the West. The prime reason
for this is to be found in the fact that
the Westerner is so good an, Amer
lean. He is an American first and
foremost; for this Is the great lesson,
friends. that all of us need to learn
and to keep, the lesson that 1t is un-
important whether man lives north
or south, east or west, provided he is
genuinely and in good faith an Am
erican, that feels every part of the
United States as his own, and that he
is honestly desirous to uphold the in
terests of all other Americans in
whatever sections of the country they
may dwell.
The pioneers and their immediate
successors won victory only by prov
ing that they possessed the great,
masterful qualities which lie at the
foundation of national greatness.
There are certain well-meaning men
Of intellectual cultivation, but lacking
mental and moral robustness, who
complain continually that they find
American life. and especially the life
of those American communities
emerging from the pioneer stage,
crude and without genius or beauty
Genius is fine thing for a nation
but character is a still finer thing,
and though beauty fs good, strength