Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-27
GIVE ROOSEVELT
ROUS|NG WELCOME
CHEYENNE TURNS OUT ENMAssE
TO GREET ROOSEVELT, THE
COW MAN.
CATTLE MEN, SOLDIERS AND
INDIANS PASS IN REVIEW
Gigantic Parade in Which 10000 Take
part Feature of Rooseveit's Visit on
Frontier pay-Witnesses Western
Sports and Delivers Address IN
Which He Lauds Progress Made.

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sands who gathered at the station mere
today to meet Roosevelt's special tram
did not come to greet former presl-
dent of the United States they came
to cheer Theodore Roosevelt, the cow
man, who ran a brand on the Little
Missouri years ago; the former oroncno
"pee.er'' and Dakota deputy sherlif'
and to greet him as a comrade OF 'he
range and extend to him typlca!
western welcome.
Cow punchers by the hundreds urged
their ponies along the track with joyous
yells while the Sioux and Shoshone
braves, gay in paint and war bonnets,
threaded silently thru the great crowd
to see the chief of whom they all heard
Given Typical Welcome.
Some of the Indian chiefs who had
visited Roosevelt in washington
crowded close, hoping to shake his
hand again. To complete the scene so
typical of the old west, soldiers in blue
and khaki from Fort D. A. RusseA
massed themselves about the station.
Roosevelt was greeted by Governor
Brooks, Senator Warren, General
Smith, commander of the department
Of the Missouri. and members of the
frontier committee. From the station
he was conducted TO the Industrial
Club, escorted by United States cavalry
and mounted band.
Reviews Great Parade.
From the porch of the club Roose-
belt reviewed the great parade arrang-
ed in his honor. The parade was head
ed by the regular troops from nearly
every branch Of the service, numbering
more than 5000 officers and men. Fol-
lowing the soldiers came 1900 cowboys
and cow girls. 200 Siouxs and .Shos-
homes, and their squaws and papooses.
Civic and secret societies completed the
parade which required an hour and an
half to pass the reviewing stand.
indians Recall Fight.
During the parade Roosevelt stood
at the front Of the reviewing stand
with Governor Brooks and General
Smith. When the colors were carried
by Roosevelt took off his hat and stood
at attention like a soldier. When the
cries, the colonel waved his hat at them
and to Governor Brooks he said:
"Twenty-seven years ago we shot one
of these Sioux in a brush on the plains
and the Indians shot cowpuncher.
stood OFF seventy Of them for two
hours" The colonel liked the cowboys,
but he did not think they looked quite
as they used to when he lived in the
west
Delivers Address.
After luncheon Roosevelt drove to
the frontier grounds and delivered an
address and witnessed the finals in
championship riding and roping con-
tests and frontier sports.
Directing his words especially to the
west, and remarking on its progress
and development, Roosevelt said in
part as follows:
Il have used the word progress. The
west stands for growth, for progress.
So must the whole American people
stand. A great democracy must be
progressive or it will soon cease to be
either great or democratic. No nation,
no state, no party, can stand still. It
must either go forward or go back
ward: and 1t becomes useless if it goes
backward. Therefore I greet you, men
of the west, and 1 stand for progress
as all men must stand who are pro-
gressive.
Praises the Pioneers.
THE pioneers and their immediate
successors won victory only by proving
that they possessed the great, MASTER
full qualities which lie at the founda-
tion Of national greatness There are
certain Well-me Gaming men of intel
1ectual 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. Geniu is a fine
thing for nation, but character is q
still finer thing, and tho beauty is good,
strength is an even greater good. The
men who have made this great repub-
lie OF the west what it is, and especially
the men who have turned it into a
continental commonwealth, have pos
eed in the highest degree the great
virile virtues OF strength, courage,
energy, and undaunted and unwavering
resolution. Their typical leaders-of
whom Abraham Lincoln, tho the most
exceptional, was the most typical
nave possessed keen intelligence. and
character not merely strong. but lof
ty, q character exalted by the fact that
great power was accompanied by a
high and fine determination to use this
great power for the common good, for
the advancement of mankind.
Regrets Pioneer Days Passing.
The pioneer days are over, save in
q few places; and the more complex
life Of today calls for a greater variety
OF good qualities than were needed on
the frontier. There is need at pres
ent to encourage the development of
new abilities which can be brought to
high perfection only by kind Of
training useless in pioneer times; but
these new qualities can only supple
ment, and never supplant, the old,
homely virtues; the need for the special
and distinctive pioneer virtues is as
great as ever. In other words, as our
civilixa&ion grows older and more COM
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