The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-28
Former President Greets Thou
sands of Cowboys and Plains
men at Cheyenne.
SCENES THAT RECALL DAYS
OF THE 0LD-TIME FRONTIER
In Characteristic Speech, For
mer President Praises Nerve
and Energy of Pioneers.
BY HOMER DAVENPORT.
BY Leased Wire to The Tribune.

By Leased Wire to The Tribune.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Aug. 27.-Into
the midst of q picturesque setting rep
resenting the old frontier days Of the
west, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, for
mer president of tho United States,
made triumphal entry today; shook
hands with old friends, looked upon the
old scenes, reviewed parade and de-
livered speech, not to mention eating
n luncheon rendered him by public
spirited citizens Of Cheyenne; dinner
given by the governor Of the state and
whooping, uproarious greeting from
cowboys, soldiers and Indians.
The west is near to the heart Of the
former president and he showed it
plainly in bis speech and his joyous
manner Of entering into the spirit OF
the occasion.
The guest Of honor sppiauded and
used every word in his emphatic vo-
cabulary in expressing his pleasure over
the scenes Of the afternoon, when he
watched COW roping contests and buck
ing broncho competitions and cow pony
rides, all Incidental to the annual cele-
bration of frontier day.
Warm Praise for Remington.
In his speech the former president
dwelt upon the debt which the nations
owe TO Frederick Remington, the ar
fist who perpetu<Sed in bronze and up
on canvas the typical west, when cow
boys galloped all over the plains, and
wild steers and buffalo were as plenti-
fY1 oh rclr ,>,<
Colonel Roosevelt spoke Of the lost
opportunities Of early artists and then
referred to Mr. Remington by saying:
But IN our generation, for our good
fortune. great artist arose who was
capable of seeing and recording the
infinite picturesaueness of the life OF
the plains and tho Rockies. OF course,
ssppeak, of Frederick Remington.
The biggest and best of wild west
old days. The sheepman and his
hereditary foe, the ranchman, 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 round-ups and stampedes.
Instead, railroad tracks cut up tho
plains and the ot-hils, and the most
through strands of telephone and tele-
graph wires. But the passing of the
west dimmed Colonel Roosevelt IS love
for it. His memory of the old days,
when be run ranch In upper Dakota
was ever groen, and consequently his
affection for western men, manners and
institutions will live with him through
out his natural span.
Colonel Roosevelt started his speech
by saying that, after leaving the jungles
OF Africa, the first invitation he ac-
cepted was the one inviting him to this
city.
Fervent Love for the West.
81 was glad it was so,' said he, "be-
cause L have peculiar feeling for the
men and women Of what used to be
called the far west, and especially for
those of the cattle country
From the time Colonel Roosevelt g
party left New, York Tuesday morning
until the big show was over today, it
has been one great ovation Whether
the ovation was given by mass OF
people of by few it WAS always in full
measure.
The greetings to Colonel Roosevelt
somehow seem to be different from
those gwen to other public men. In
the demonstration for Colonel Roose-
velt, arms and elbows cut much ice,
hats turn to fails and lungs give forth
tones that are unmistakable. The folk
Of the country seem to consider him en-.
tirely different though he considers
them all the same-sound citizens.
When he scanned the audiences in
northern New York and said: "I like
The stock of which you folks are made,'
there was no doubt in the minds Of his
hearers that ho meant what he said and
IS the echoes died down one was con-
ginced that he stood better with them
than the bosses and that if Fice-Presi-
lent Sherman, Barnes and Woodruff
we're all to weigh In against him they
would fare badly,
Affected by Local Color.
Theodore Roosevelt seems to be in
'pired by the local color in which he
inds himself. If he addresses an audi
.nce of business men as was the case
It tho public breakfast rendered him
n Buffalo. he talks on matters pertain.
ng to business, but in n different way.
For instance, at Buffalo he told his
audience that it was their duty 10 keep
he waters of the great lakes pure. and
hat fmen must not pour their sewage
nto their drinking water
All through Ohio and the middle west
he crowds were frantic to see at closer
ange the man who had stirred up SO
luch interest IN few years. He seems
0 look like he were plucked from the
udience before him.
When he told the mass of traipmen
( one stop that he was member of
he Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire.
len he looked like one Of them and
hey took him at his word.
At Home in tho West.
At Chicago he was q typical Chica-
oan but west of that he seemed to
{ even more closely into the environ
lent in which he found himself. AS