The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-08-28
COWBOYS GREET
/ COL. ROOSEVELT
FORMER PRESIDENT SPENDS AN
EXCITING DAY AT cHEY.
ENNE CELEBRATION.
RODE BIG WHITE HORSE
went Once Around Halt Mile Track
and Then Addressed Thousands
That Focked to See
the Celebration.

Cheyenne, Wyo.,. Aug. 27-Coonel
Roosevelt saw all that the west today
mad to show him in the way of deeds
Of skill and daring, and he said that
the spirit of the west is still alive.
AS Roosevelt watched the cowboys
at work. heard Indians yell and saw
the familiar sights of more than
twenty years ago, when ne was a
plainsman, the spirit of it came over
him again and he climbed down from
the flag draped reviewing stand and
mounted a big white horse. He gal
loped around the half mile track OF
Frontier Park and past the crowded
grand stand, dismounted after onq
lap, smiling his delight and went back
70 his place to see the rest of the
fun.
BY the time Roosevelt arrived here,
shortly after o'clock this morning,
the celebration was under way. They
net him at the station with band
and an escort of cavalrymen An ex.
hibition at the park followed, and
then came the dinner which Governor
Brooks gave the former president. A
smoker at the Industrial Club and a
theatre party, both of which Roose,
welt attended, wound up the day.
The celebration at the park, which
Is set In the midst of the brown
plains of Wyoming, mile and half
north of the city was the star attrac.
tion.
The sun was baking the plains with
a fierce heat when Roosevelt ap.
peared. He rode In an automobile
from Cheyenne, although some of the
cowboys were expecting he would
appear in chaps and sombrero on ii
= horse. After the cowgirl half mile
race dozen cowboys picked up the
reviewing stand after Roosevelt had
descended from it and carried II
across the track, so that the crowd
might hear the coonels' speech,
which came next.
The governor introduced him ana
for half an hour he talked to the
crowd He spoke Of the old west
now fast passing away. and the men
developed. He told OF the people of
the new west, that must preserve
those same characteristics If the ma
tlon is to endure. He urged them to
be progressive and remember,
whether he be east or west, every
man must be true American,
1T will be bad day for America
the end OF America-if the average
American loses the quality OF being
a dead game man." he said. That
caught the fancy Of the cowboys, who
cheered wildly.
After Roosevelt finished his speech
there was potato race on horse
back. participated in by two teams
followed by an attempt to break
vicious cow pony called San Creek
and number OF other unbroken
mounts These events we're watched
with keenest interest by Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt's Address.
when, at the close of my hunting
trip in Africa, | reached the borders
of civilization, the first invitation l
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 it was so. because ! have a
peculiar feeling for the men and
women of what used to be called the
Far West and especially for those
of the cattle country. For number
of years | lived on 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 Stock Growers 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 feel
ing as to work with ones fellow-men
at their life tasks, and to learn to
know their feelings by actually shar.
ing 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 aspra-
tions OF the west.
"A hundred years ago, when men
spoke of the west they meant the
country between the Alleghanies and