Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1912-05-09


Senator Matthias at once communicated
the news to US, and also ordered posters
printed announcing the fact. The post
were printed and some of them posted
and an advertisement placed in the paper.
Due notice of the matter was also pub
lished in the Baltimore American.
Some of Frederick S influential citizens
desired that Col Roosevelt should come
to Frederick. and got busy and without
persuasion the headquarter' committee
changed the route and places at which
Mr.. Roosevelt would travel and speak,
and hence Thurmont was missed.
After leaving Baltimore Saturday
morning, the train bearing Mr.. Roosevelt
and his party stopped at Westminster,
Nav Windsor, Union Bridge, keymar
and Walkersville, enroute to Frederick,
arriving at Frederick several minutes
late or at 1872.
At the Northern Central depot a crowd
If about 1000 persons met the Roosevelt
rain. The crowd was kept from the
rain by guard of police and those on
the private coach We're allowed to alight
and go to the automobiles which carried
them to the Courthouse The former
President was one Of the last to alight,
and when he appeared on the platform,
he was greeted with loud cheer from
the hundreds of persons who pressed for
ward to catch a glimpse of him. He was
escorted to the automobile of Mr.. f. f.
Osborn, and at once took his place in the
rear seat beside Senator John p. 1. Ma
thias of Thurmont, who had met him at
the car. A slight delay was caused while
other persons took their places in the
automobiles furnished to carry them to
the courthouse.
The procession marched through church
street to the courthouse, where Mr..
Roosevelt delivered his address, and then
marched down Court street to Patrick,
to Market and to the Baltimore and Ohio
depot. The parade was formed as fol-
lows: l.. F. Carter, chief marshal, assist
ed by Chester Hauver, and ten aides; a
platoon of Frederick police afoot; the
Braddock Heights Band members of the
local troops of the Boy Scouts of Amer
lea in full uniform; the Yellow Springs
Band, and automobiles.
When Mr.. Roosevelt came out on the
broad top step of the courthouse entrance
he was greeted with burst of cheering
from the crowd in front of him, which
ceased as the chorus of school girls, Wav-
ing small American flags, and led by fifty
students from the Woman's College I'M
der the direction of Miss Elinor Marley,
broke into the opening bars of "The
Star-Spangled Banner.
While the girls sang the Colonel and
the men on the steps in the crowd stood
with barred heads. Mr.. Roosevelt gazed
steadily and with kindling eye upon the
group of fresh. faced choristers, listening
to the inspiring lines of Francis Scott
Key and the stirring music of Durand.
Mr.. Roosevelt was introduced to the
audience by Mr.. Reno S. Harp, who had
been presented by Republican County
Chairman Dennis. Very simply and UNI
atfectedly Mr.. Harp said:
Il have the honor to present to you
the ex-President of the United States,
the greatest living American and the
next President of the United States. y
Then the crowd cheered with will.
There was comparatively little cheer
ing during the course of the speech, which
Mr.. Roosevelt delivered in a clear but
somewhat husky voice, showing the
strain he has been under during his cam
paign in Maryland. The audience realized
that the Colonel's time was limited.
Every man and every woman in it want
ed to hear all that he had to say and
they were not willing to sacrifice much
of it even togive vent to their enthusiasm.
When Mr.. Roosevelt waved his black
hat at the crowd in farewell he was pre-
scented by George Schroeder, court crier,
with big cluster of large pink carna-
! tions which the ex-President lifted to his
glowing face and then bowed his acknowl-
edgment and appreciation of the grace
full act to the crowd.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his party had only
six minutes to catch the train and with
the Colonel in the van he dashed out the
back door of the courthouse to the wait
ing automobiles which whirled them to
the station. The crowd streamed out
after the automobiles and when the Col
onel climbed onto the back platform of
his car the Baltimore and Ohio depot was
thronged with crowd that cheered al
the slightest provocation until the trar
pulled out.
Among the prominent men in the
Roosevelt coach who accompanied the
presidential aspirant on his tour through
Maryland are: Hon. Regis H. Post, form
err Governor of Porto Rico, who is the
personal escort to Mr.. Roosevelt; Mr.
Frank Harper, private secretary tt
"Teddy"; Mr.. J. w. McGrath, his ste
nographer and clerk; Mr.. Chas. D. Wag
aman and Mr.. Gist Blair, Republican
candidates for nomination as Congress
man of the Sixth Congressional Distric
of Maryland; Mr.. j. w. Wolfnger and {
party of Hagerstown men who heard thu
former President speak in Baltimore; Mr.