The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-31
0sawatOmie, Kansas, Celebrates
Fifty-Fourth Anniversary
of Historic Battle.
ROOSEVELT WILL DEDICATE
BATTLEFIELD AS PARK
Five Survivors of the Famous
Battle at Campfire Held
on the Spot.

osAwAToMIE. Kan. Aug. 3o.-Ths
was John Brown day at the Osawatomie
celebration. Tomorrow will be Theodore
Roosevelt day. and all signs indicate that
IT will prove the most notable In the
towns history.
Today marked the fifty fourth ami
versary OF the battle of Osawatomie. To-
morrow the eX-prcsident will dedicate the
battlefield state park.
The town tonight was overcroWded
with visitors and twenty special trains
were due to arrive by morning Cover
attended the Republican council at To-
peka Will come in the morning.
Todays programme was made up OF
drills. band concerts and speeches. Con-
gressman w. a. Calderhead. in spirited
address. urged that the people of Kansas
provide monument of John Brown. to
be placed in the hall of fame at Washing
ton. "to offset that of Lee"
'.soul Marching On
The burst OF applause that greeted this
Browns spirit" Is still marching on.
Congressman Calderhead also urged
that the state erect a granite wall around
the twenty-five acres comprising the IA
nous battle ground and place in its cen
ter permanent flagpole. from which the
stars and stripes shall ay at all times;
There was a campfire tonight In the
heart of the field. where the memorable
struggle took place over a half-century
ago. Here five survivors of that event
lent historic interest by recounting the
stirring times which the day commemo-
rated.
Colonel Roosevelts train is scheduled
TO reach Osawatomie from the west at
$3.50 tomorrow morning, when VIII begin
another strenuous day for the eX-presi-
dent. This will include a visit to John
Browns old cabin. a review OF the state
troops encamped here, luncheon, and
in the afternoon his dedicatory address.
~lN1 III l. 1,,lt led
his address at $50 o'clock, He is to
start at o'clock for Lawrence. where
he Will remain over night at the home
of Governor Stubbs as the lattcrs guest.
No Longer Cory Field.
The battlefield for half century
was trampled today to the hardness OF
pavement by loyal Kansans, who filled
the maze of new pine benches under
the trees and heard the speakers tell of
the states glory and praise its first
hero.
So much enthusiasm for John Brown
has been awakened that movement Tor
a statue Of the western abol!tonist in
the hall OF fame at Washington was
started by resolution al the morning
session.
From Boulevards o'erlooking both Ny
anzaS
The statued bronze shall glitter in the
With rugged lettering: John Brown OF
He dared begin; he lost. but, losing.
won
This was the last stanza Of a poem,
cited this morning. The prophetic in
scription probably will be placed on the
base OF the statue which II IS now pro-
posed shall glitter in the hall of fame.
II was here al Osawatomie that the
incipient conditions which precipitated
the civil war began. II was here that
John Brown. come out from the cast.
settled and built his cabin. organized
his forces and began his fight for free
dom. That Kansas. since that time when
she struggled with herself as to which
side she should take in the fight which
almost rent the union. always had been
turbulent state. unmistakable in her
responsibility in any national question,
was the principal point emphasized by
Joseph G.. Waters OF Topeka. the speaker
OF the day. Mr.. Waters even went so
far as TO say that ii was Mr. Roosevelts
serious handicap that ne was not born
in Kansas.
Summing up the career OF John Brown
Mr.. Waters said:
Measured by the little standards OF
men, he may have been insane. but In
the avenging purposes OF heaven he was
the chosen instrument to right great
wrong. With the torch OF liberty held
In his implacable and unrelentng hand.
he was Gods own incepdiary to purge
the land with fire John Brown sleeps
shadowed by great rock at North I5Iba
reviled and despised. he lived life apart
from man. beyond their touch. possessed
OF one purpose. and died martyr for
It's fulfillment."
4 drill by the troops Of the Kansas ma
tional guard opened todays programme.