Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1910-09-09
GOVERNORS BOLT
THE CONGRESS
ADVOCATES OF STATES RIGHTS
ACCEPT DEFEAT AND REFUSE
to STAY LONGER.
PINCHOT IN COMPLETE CONTROL
Ex-Governor Pardee, of California,
Heads Resolutions Committee
E. v. Robinson and j. A. Du-
bois Named for MINI.


Saint Paul, Sept. 6.-This city has
as her guest today the country's most
distinguished private citizen and the
people of the Gateway to the North
west" are doing everything in their
power to make his stay pleasant.
Col. Roosevelt came to St. Paul
from Minneapolis in an automobile at
speed that was dazzling to say the
least. He had arrived in the town
made famous by it's flour mills from
Fargo, at 7:15. After breakfast in
Minneapolis, the former president,
accompanied by Governor Eberhart
and Mayor Keller of this city and
Governor Stubs of Kansas, started
for ST. Paul.
When the former president struck
the business district of the city and
saw from every building fiuttering in
the breeze yards and yards of bunt-
ing; saw the thousands of American
flags and the Autograph pictures Of
himself and President Taft he dis
played his approval in true Roose-
veltian fashion.
When the automobiles drew up at
the St. Paul hotel there was a crowd
there to great the former president
that filled the streets for more than a
block in every direction. There were
cheers and shouts of Teddy" as the
ex-president stepped from the car.
The police of st. Paul never had
harder battle in their lives than they
did to keep back the good natured
mob that was determined to get at
least a glimpse of the colonel. They
pushed and they hauled; they laughed
and they wept and the officers needed
every ounce of their great strength to
keep the people from grabbing Col.
Roosevelt and lifting him to their
shoulders.
Col. Roosevelt has been in many
such crowds before and he took the
demonstration in good humor. The
finest suite in the new Saint Paul
Hotel, the same one that was Occu-
pied by President Taft yesterday had
been set aside for the former presi-
dent and his party.
Col. Roosevelt held an impromptu
reception in his rooms at which were
present a dozen or more governors,
United States senators, members OF
the lower branch of congress, officers
of the National Conservation Con-
gress. James r. Garfield, former sec
rotary of the interior, Clifford Pinchot
whom President Taft deposed as Unit
ed States forester and prominent citi-
zen of ST. Paul including the mem
hers of the local Conservation Con-
gress committee.
Shortly before 10 o'clock the former
president was again led through the
throng outside the hotel and taken
to the great st. Paul auditorium,
everyone of the $4,000 seats of which
was filled when he entered. Up went
a mighty cheer as the nations former
chief was recognized as he stepped
on the platform. It was several min
utes before the cheering subsidized.
Mayor Keller welcomed the visitor
Eberhart did the honors for the state.
Again there was deafening applause
as Col. Roosevelt stepped forward to
speak, but the noise subsidized at the
raising of his hand The colonel was
forced to halt several times as he
snapped out his opinions on the great
question of conserving the country's
resources. AS he finished the final
sentence: "The supreme task of our
day. the indispensable condition of
National efficiency and National well
fare, is to drive the special interests
out of our public life The great
auditorium rang with shouts and hand
clapping. The cry was taken up by
the great crowd that remained outside
unable to get into the building and the
great structure fairly trembled.
This afternoon the former president
goes to the state fair ground to adj
dress a crowd there. He speaks from