Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-28
ROOSEVELT WITH
HIS OLD FRIENDS
Former President of the United States
at Frontier Day Festivities at
Cheyenne.
GREETED BY HIS OLD COMRADES
Reviews the Scenes of Years Ago
Upon Western Plains.
CLASPS HANDS WITH COWBOYS
Greatly Interested, Watches Roping
Contests and Races.
PAYS TRIBUTE TO REMINGTON
West Turns Out Its Thousands, VINO
Cheer Their Idol as He stands
ana watches the Passing
show.
Reviews the Scenes of Years Ago
Upon Western Plains.
LASPS HANDS WITH COWBOYS
Greatly Interested, Watches Roping
Contests and Races.
'AYS TRIBUTE TO REMINGTON
ny HOMER DAVENPORT.

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Telegram Unto the midst OF picturesque
setting representing the old frontier days
of the west, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt,
former president of the United States, made
triumphal entry today. shook hands with
old friends, looked upon the old scenes.
reviewed a parade and delivered a speech,
not to mention eating luncheon rendered
him by public spirited citizens OF Cheyenne
IA dinner given by the governor of the
state and whooplng, uproarlous greeting
from cowboys. soldiers and Indians.
The west is near to the heart Of the
former president and he showed 1t plainly
in his speech and his Joyous manner of
entering into the spirit OF the occasion. He
applauded and used every word in his
| emphatic vocabulary in expressing his
pleasure over the scenes of the afternoon
when he watched COW roping contests and
bucking broncho competitions and COW
pony races, all incidental to the annual
celebration of Fronuer day
In his speech the former president dwelt
upon the debt which the nation owes to
Frederic Remington, the artist who per-
petuated in bronze and upon canvas the
| typical scenes OF the old west when cow
boys galloped over the plains, and wild
steers and buffalo were as plentiful as
chickens and pigs are tooay.
Tribute to Remington.
| Colonel Roosevelt spoke of the lost op-
portunities of early artists and then re-
ferred to Mr.. Remington by saying:
But in our generation for our good
aortune great artist arose who was ca
pable Of seeing and recording the Infinite
lpicturesqueness of tha life Of the plains
and the Rockies. OF course speak of
Frederic Remington"
The biggest and best OF wild west shows
marks the passing of the goldendays The
sheep man and his hereditary foe the
lranchman, now shake hands over barb
wire fences and the long grades that lead
up to the summit OF the Rockies have lost
their romance OF roundeups and sta1npedes
Instead, railroad tracks cut UP the plains
and the foothills and the most romantic
Of the rocky buttes are seen through
strands OF telephone and telegraph
wires. But the passing OF the west has not
dimmed Colonel Roosevet's love for Il.
His memory OF the old days when he ran
ranch in upper Dakota will ever be green
and consequently his affection for western
men, manners and institutions will live
with him throughout this natural span
From the time Colonel Roosevelt's party
left New York Tuesday morning until the
big show was over today, 1t has been one
great ovation. Whether the ovation was
given by mass Of people or by a few.
1t was always full measure.
Arms and Elbows Cut Ice.
The greetings of Colonel Roosevelt some
how seem to be different from those given
to other public men. In the demonstrations
for Colonel Roosevelt, arms and elbows
cut much ice, hats turn to fails and lunEs
give forth tones that are unmistakabLe
The folk OF the country seem to consider
him entirely different though he considers
them all the same-sound citizens
When he scanned the audiences in north
ern New York and said:
Il like the stock Of which you folks ara
made, there was no doubt in the minds Of
his hearers that he meant what he said.
and as the echoes died down one was con-
vinced that he stood better with them tlan
the bosses, and that II Vice President siass@
man, Barnes anu wooorurt were An 10
weigh in against him they would fare
bauiy,
Theodore Roosevelt seems to be inspired
by the local color in which he finds him
SELL If he addresses an audience of busi-
ness men, as was the case at the public
breakfast rendered him in Buffalo he talks
on matters pertaining to business, but in
a different way.
For instance, at Buffalo he told his audi
ence that 1t was their duty TO keep the
waters of the Great Lakes pure that linen
must not pour their sewage into their drink
Ing water"
All through Ohio and the middle west
/ the crowds were frantic to see at close
range the man who had stirred up so much
interest In few years. He seems TO look
! like he were plucked from the audience ba-
! fore him
Take Him at His Word.
When he told the mass of trainmen at one
stop that he was a member OF the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Firemen he looked
like one OF them and they took him at his
word
At Chicago he was a typical Chlcagoan
but west OF that he seemed to lit even
more closely into the environment in which
he found himself As the country flat
tened and the prairies commenced to tinge
with wilder life, the colonel took on the
changes gracefully as a ptarmlgan does at
the beginning of winter.
! 1t is this faculty he has OF being Just the
man for the place that peases the masses
so. Confronted by a mixed mass he stands
alone as one Theodore Roosevelt the man.
that never fails to please the people That
he possesses the personality with the power
OF Napoleon is certain.
An old woman tottering under theIweight
OF IS years said TO her grandchildren at
Cleveland:
We'll, l saw him perfectly Now I am
satisfied as didn't calculate on hearing a
word"
At another stop some girls were so hilari-
Gus over having shaken his hands that
young men were trading on the handshake,
getting II secondhand from the colonel.
frst-hand from the blushing girls.
Just Passing incidents.
These were only passing incidents noticed
In the throngs that cheered the man. who
The little and big bosses OF New York state