The Washington times., 1910-09-05
Colonel Aids AT Cornerstone
Laying, His Reception
Unaffected BY Rain.
PREPARES TO FIGHT
OVER CONSERVATION
Hears Of Hostility Toward Pinchot
AT St. Paul and DOns
Battle Garb.
By JOHN SNURE.

FARGO, y D.. sept 5--CoL Theodore
Roosevelt began the last week OF his
swing OF more than $3.50 miles with an
address al 1890 this morning az the lay
Q ing OF the cornerstone Of the new Car
negte library building at Fargo College,
9 Congregations Institution OF import
ance n the valley OF The Red river OF
the North.
He. spoke i'm the presence OF large
audience This being Labor Day. much
. Of the coioncTs time vas given over 20
Labor Day observance Early this
morning there was parade Of the
various organizations o. Fargo, headed
. by the former President Following the
. parade was the Labor Day address by
/ Colonel Roosevelt. in which he dealt
with important labor topics.
Fargo's reception OF Colonel Roosevelt
was OF the Warmest kind Last nlrnr.
after large, enthusiastic thronEs mad
met him at the Great Northern station
and followed him TO his hotel. the wal
d0rf- they swar1ned into the hotel in
such numbers that ne was OBLIGED 70
appear on the stairway leading 10 his
room and make a short address
Crowds Give Welcome.
Today Fargo IS crowded with visit
ors. al anxious 70 set a gIimpse of
roosevelt and Chce-IG- hir when
ever he aFpedrs- II is clear that tlI-
NorthW est is not less ardent than
Sucn Sta- -es as Iowa. Kansas. and Ne
1I-t7-l4 IN Ils devotion 10 the former
PRESIDENT 4 Cpll and DRIFTING rain
Enlcn started early this ruo-nfu-.
tended TO interfere with -g. F-arr-o
prog fs-I.l- out crowds hunted up UNI
1Et-ias- anu Ecr out in spite Of un-
peasant weather
IN = box put in the cornerstone OF
Jhe Library building this morning
l.ie4e was placeu q portrait Of Colonel
EDOSeEeiL IN academic can and -r1v--,
aS ne received his decree from Clv-
IcFd University, and also q portrait of
FEeSldent Larr- One OF the Roosevelt r
editorials In the Outlook dea7ire- v.-f-1-
tsural Life was also placed ia the
cornerstone
Greeting BY Children
4 welcome 10 Fargo by 100 little
chiIdrer- all carrying big Teddy
bears pleased the colonel immensely
The little ones were all seated on the
moor OF his suite at the hotel when
iie reached there. and he spent fifteen
minutes greeting them
EecoHectons OF his da-s on the ranch
7Vere brought back 10 the colonel tCTs,-
1LeE ne Hld 2 long visit with SvIVauuS
%-4 dcSeGI A- Ferris. who rode rEe
souri, tv enty-five wears M Ty-1a- ---
E5iuEiet definitely decided 20 zror AZ
E.stfSo on MS -rIpr ne wrote 10 the FER
rs protnefs- asking then to Tuee- him
mere Throughout tOdaE-s celebration
ne Two ranch mates Werc righr beside
me colonel and throughout Fargo's
---pGr Day program ne SaHdwfched in
T-anchinS talk wita his two c-onies.
UndeTcurrent Of Politics.
While the program OF the da,- is -r,-
ceedlng without undue excitement IN
5cr the surface politics Is seething. To-
morrow the colonel VIII he III ST PauI
al The conservation congress E0lsayeIr
admirers are expecting him 70 get z
-reaIer reception thar FreSiden- taft
and VIII be disappointed # }le does not
word reaches here that Clifford Pin
chot and James r Garfield are in 4
desperate fight at s. Paul 90 control
the congress for their IDEAS of conse--
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