Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-29
7. R. RIDES THIRTY
MILES IN SADDLE
After Attending Divine Service
Former President CanterS
Across Wyoming Plains
COWBOYS WARMLY GREET HIM
Asserts He Is Able to Continue
Horseback Trip, but Returns
in Automobile
ASSOCIATED Press)

(Associated Press)
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 2S.-on
tough, wiry COW ponies, Theodore
Roosevelt rode 30 miles across the
plains of Wyoming today. He wanted
to get back once more among the
cowboys in their own country and min
gle with them as he did in the old
days, 27 years ago, when the lure of
the west brought him out here, a
young man, from the east.
He visited the sheep ranch of Sen
ator Warren, and returned to Chey-
enne tonight, more enthusiastic than
ever about the wonders of the west.
Colonel Roosevelt began the day by
going to the First Congregational
church. Early in the afternoon he
mounted his horse. He had a relay
of three mounts, and he rode like a
cavalryman. When the ride was over,
he said he had enjoyed every minute
of it, and was not bit stiff or sore.
Lieutenant Thompki..s, of Fort d. A.
Russell r. S. an Tassle, who owns
ranch near Cheyenne, and Nathan
Baker, a ranchman, accompanied him.
They cantered across the plains,
stopping now and then while the col
onel talked with some COW puncher,
acking him how things are nowadays
l.. the cattle country.
AS it began to grow dusk they came
to the ranch of senator Warren, where
they stopped for supper.
Everybody turned out to welcome
Colonel Roosevelt with q cowboy yell,
and the colonel shook hands all
around.
Colonel Roosevelt spent two hours
hn
ride back to Cheyenne on horseback,
but as it was dark, he decided to make
the return trip by automobile.
II am really very much impressed
by what 1 have seen here" Colonel
Roosevelt said. "The frontier day cele-
| bration yesterday was remarkable.
want to call attention to the fact that
the majority of the people who took
| part in the events yesterday are peo-
pie from this section, and not COW
punchers who have been 81 years with
shows. They are the real thing.
People sometimes feel regret be-
cause they think under our civilization
we are getting too soft. That ex-
hibition was a great lesson of courage
and such other admirable qualities as
We're displayed"
Colonel Ro- sevelt will leave Chey-
enne at 4:30 tomorrow morning for
Denver. he is to spend the day there,
and speak to the Spanish war veterans,
the legislature and the livestock asso-
citation.
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main to be kept. He alludes to the
provisions to regulate the issue of
stocks and bonds by interstate rail-
roads, to which he says the Demo-
cratic minority in the senate gave its
solid opposition on the ground that
the central government has no power
to make and enforce such regulation.
"In addition he continues, there
is the promised procedure to determ-
! inc how preliminary injunction shall
| issue without notice and when. In
substitution for this the Democratic
platform proposes an amendment to
| the existing law which would create
privileged class of lawless work
men and would seriously impair the
power of the courts of equity to do
justice.
"Then there is the measure to pro-
mote the merchant marine engaged In
foreign service, to which in previous
| congresses the Democratic party has
always opposed an almost solid front.
| There is the measure forbidding the
acquisition of stocks by one railway
company in competing lines and
there are also those bills, already re-
ferred to, to secure further safety APP
pliances on railways and 20 establish
basis for workmen's compensation
NATIONAL HEALTH BUREAU
"There is also the promise of the
Republican platform to make better
provision for securing the health of
the nation. The most tangible and
useful form that this can take would
be the establishment of national
/ h11r nf include
health agencies of the government
now distributed in different depart
ments.
FINALLY, the Appalachian forest re-
serve bill, which passed the house by
a Republican majority, is on the cal
endar of the senate and will probably
pass at the coming session of this
congress.
"In view of what the present Re-
publican congress has done in the full
fllment of its promises and in view
of the standard that it has set in re-
spect to the sacredness of party
! pledges, I have no hesitation in urg-
| ing all who are in favor of the per
| formance of the remaining pledges,
who are in favor of progress, in favor
! of practical conservation, in favor OF
economy in government, in favor of
| the Just regulation of railways and OF
| Interstate commerce corporations, in
favor of a bureau of health, in favor
of a proper limitation of the power
of equitable injunction, and who are
| in favor of measures to promote the
merchant marine. engaged in foreign
service, to vote for the Republican
candidates for congress-, in order that
their wish for all this progressive
| legislation may be gratiied.
I'm closing, it may not be inappro-
pirate for me to invite your attention
and that of all those engaged in advo-
eating the Republican cause in the
coming election to the fact that it is of
| the utmost Importance to make this a
campaign of education, to facts and to
clear away the clouds of misrepresen-
tation that have obscured the real is
sues and have made 1t difficult to
secure for the Republican majorities in
congress the real credit due them from
the country for the tremendous task
they have accomplished.
IF this is brought clearly home to
all voters and especially to the young
men now voting for the first time, and
they become impressed, as they ought
to be, by this record, with the differ
ence i'm the governmental efficiency and
capacity of the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties, they will enroll them
selves with the party of construction
and progress, rather than the party OF
obstruction and negation, and result
ing legislation of the Sixty-second con-
gress will vindicate their choice. Sim
cerely yours,
"Hcn. William B. Mckinley chairman
congressional committee, 1888 Broad
way New York city