Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-05

BELLE tOOftCf1E AdA'
rankin DELANO ROOSEVELT, scion
of a famous family, stepped across the
Threshold of the Nations highest once
Yesterday and Out West" old-time
cattlemen who remember when Teddy,
the original Roosevelt, rode the Ilimlt-
able ranges as Dakota cowboy TOOK pafticu1Ai
interest in the inaugural
Recent news dispatches from Albany ana
washington served as appetlZers LOT oiu yaii
and old memories. More than tnat' Inc III
aup,,ral was a time ripe for political renecuon.
for it meant that the West, this time as wen
as the East" had spoken. 1t meant that the
interest of more than score OF agrarlan
States. shaken by farm strikes and depressed
markets. were at stake in the great lnterha-
tional upheaval In the last analysis II meant
the west, sincere in its political faith, dld
much to elect Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Therein lies story.
It was % years ago this March that tnls
same West inherently Democratic, ever tena-
cious in its fight for the principles OF a 1alr
deal elected the first Roosevelt. The essen
tjal differences between the inaugural OF
Franklin D. and his predecessor, IT. r., came
oniy in the physical aspects OF the event, he
result largely of the mems ulameulcany OPP
posed environments of middle life. Franklin
is a product of the East, educated In eastern
schools a disciple of Eastern business, Gov
ernor of an Eastern State. IT. r." although
starting his life in much the same mold. at
an early age moved West, there to launch
home in the great cattle country OF the then
Dakota Territory. There, late one afternoon
early in 80 young Teddy alighted from
rickety stage coach into the muddy streets on
Medora, a raw range town. 1t was the peglh-
ming of a colorful career.
same ambition that doubtless fired his Later
relative continued in the cattle business out
West for several years, operating Two large
ranches the Elk Horn and Chimney butteS
Here his name became prominently hnkeo
with such typical Western characters as Hell
Roarin Bill JONES' Granville Stuart OF the
Montana Stock Growers Association, the
MARQUIS de Mores owner of a great stage lme
and Seth Bullock famous Black Hills pioneer
Inuring himself to the hard, raw conditions Of
the new country, survivor OF the ghastIy
Winter of 'S6 that wiped out most OF the cat
tlemen young Teddy continued TO hang on
and in those years acquired feeling for the
pulse of American democracy that remained
with him throughout the years.
And then the scene shifted and young
ct. R." was back in the East and into politics
once more 1t was but few years after he
left the old ranch home in Medora, that he
was elected President Of the United States,
defeating Alton B. Parker by an electoral vote
of 1886 to 140, and popular plurality OF about
two and a half million votes. 1t was not I'M
like the vote the later Roosevelt achieved.
That vote, also cast in an era Of turbulent
national affairs, an era OF trusts and money
changers, was construed then as distinct
triumph for the conservative wing of the Re-
publican party.
So it happened that a call for "7:3O Satur-
day morning, March 4, 1905" had been left
with the clerk Of the old National Hotel IN
Washington, where 81 cowboys, most Of them
had
sembled preparatory to taking part in that
historic inaugural parade Of % years ago.
Recalled today in Belle Fourche, S. OAK, for
many years the most famous cattle town IN
the country, that inaugural must have been
unique in the annals Of Washington.
The West had come to shake hands with
the East. It had sent its true representatives,
Capt. Seth Bullocks cowboys. Later in the
day these men, 1000 miles from home would
pay signal tribute to a brother in the saddle
Theodore Roosevelt, twenty sixth President OF
the United States
THE IDEA for the inaugural delegation from
the West started when Capt. Seth Bull
lock, Deadwood, lifelong friend of the new
Executive, conceived the Washington trip as
something to distinctly honor an old comrade.
Described to a newspaper man in New York
q week later by little Henry Roberts, is, the
youngest cowboy in the outfit the story of the
famous inaugural expedition ran like this
I'VE shipped the horses on February 20 and
sent couple of men to take care of them.
We started a week later, 62 Of us, in special
sleeping car, four men in section. Pretty
crowded can tell you, but we didn't mind,
because we were going to see Mr.. Roosevelt
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