Daily Nevada State Journal (Newspaper) - May 19, 1903, Reno, Nevada NEVADA STATE JOURNAL ROOSEVELT EDITION TUESDAY MORNING RENO NEVADA MAY 19 1903 TUESDAY MORNING RENO WELCOMES PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT A NEVADA IS LOYAL TO THE CHIEF Political Barriers to be Scaled by ders of Friendship P Heartily Unite to do Honor to the tive of the Republic Honors Worthy the Man and A Chief His Station I Mr Roosevelt and His Duties Toward the Great West T Nevada AsKs Little 4 for That Which It J Gave the Nation i 11 iL LARGE CROWD GREET PRESIDENT Two Bands Dis- course Music Along the Line of March All Business Houses to Be Closed ing tHe Exercises ELCOME Theodore Roosevelt President of these United States Welcome to Nevada and thrice welcome to the City of Reno We look up to Mr Roosevelt as the Chief Executive of the world's greatest power You are one in whose hands repose a and a power greater than that of any other ruler No we do not look up to you but gaze at you fair in the face for you are and you desire to be but an American citizen upon whose shoulders has been placed the duty of directing the welfare of eighty million people Again President Roosevelt welcome to our city Ij and State May your Excellency use his eyes and ears to good advantage while here in order that may know of a certainty that Nevada is no rotten borough no decadent commonwealth no weakling in of States We want to see and hear you Mr President but we also desire you to sec and hear or at least to see us to gain impressions that will assist you in studying the needs of this State and this people Nevada is asking and is promised thing at the hands of the Federal Government We want the waters of our rivers stored and conserved that there be neither springtime floods nor summer droughts We have never asked the government to dredge these streams and we have no harbors on which to expend the money of the nation Nevada has asked nothing in all these years It has gone for- ward industriously and patiently producing year after year wealth wherewith the nation has been en- riched Nevada has poured forth one billion and one half dollars with little or no return The mines of Nevada have built palaces by the Golden Gate and on the Island of Manhattan Nevada has enriched many and now the Battle Born State asks of you that you who arc of the West and arc of us be a guardian of our best interests Look about you to-day as your train is whirled through the foothills Note the broad expanse of verdant fields sec the snow capped mountains clad in forest As these arc so would many others in the State become if the flood waters were ed But we must not preach irrigation to you too long this morning What we want at your hands is not our business to-day What The Journal desires to emphasize is the fact that Nevada welcomes the man Theodore Roosevelt May your visit be a pleasant one You have turned aside and come hundreds of miles across the great western barrier range just to say good morning to us This is something no ever did before and the honor and the HOME Try to Be There and Help Swell the Big Throng T IS NOT the pomp of royalty nor the greeting acclaim to an hereditary ruler that will awaken the echoes in every street alley nook and corner of Reno to-day It will not b e the voice of sub- inspired by a spirit of obedience itself evoked by generations sion to monarchical rule and super- belief in the Divine right of kingly exercise of power that will to do you honor and regret only the fewness of the hours that you can spend among us Partake of our hospitality Mr President It has SCENES OF THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP Partake of our hospitality Mr President It has Not alone do Reno and Carson greet you to-day scores if not for unfriendly legislation Not only the a three fold token of friendliness The mines are idle on the Comstock and the mills are miners are mingled in the multitudes but your gooa ward yourself as a man a recognition of that most silent The men who delve for the good white metal friends the cowboys and your warmest admirers honorable position which you occupy and an out- are mingling in the crowds that listen to your words those who fought with you in the war tor LAiDa s pouring of the natural hospitality of the State Where you see one of them to-day there would be dom All bid you welcome and God speed come the chosen leader of the American people to our beautiful Riverside City to-day The reception of Roosevelt will be a spontaneous ing from the hearts of a free and independent people a voluntary tribute of respect of true hearted and al Americans to the Chief Magistrate of their nation This tribute will not be paid to Mr Theodore velt but to President Roosevelt the choice of the people of States for the highest and most honorable position that is held to-day by any person on the face of the earth and one which will bear the names of its occupants further into futurity than that of any King or Potentate that ever inherited a crown or claimed to wield a scepter as the representation of a power higher than exists on earth or is of earthly creation or origin It is most gratifying to every patriotic citizen the absence of all manifestation of partisan feeling which has attended the preparations for the reception of our distinguished guest and which we hope and believe will be continued until he shall have finished his visit among us and is again beyond the borders of our com- We are confident that not an act will be committed nor a word spoken by anyone that will in the least disturb the harmony of the day or create the slightest cause for reminiscence of unpleasantness in the mind of the president in connection with his short sojourn in our beautiful little city Although his stay among us will be of short lion the president will be afforded an opportunity of estimating to some extent our agricultural resources by personal observation of the cultivated lands in of his line of transit and the exhibition at the rooms of the Chamber of Commerce will furnish him a fund of information the products cultural and mineral from every county in the State His visit to our University will convince him that uur educational interests are not neglected in this tion of the wild and west and that in that re- spect the smallest State in the Union will compare favorably with the largest and is fully prepared to furnish its full proportion to the aggregate collection of the youth of the country Welcome the coming speed the parting guest President Roosevelt is assured amost sincere and cor- dial welcome on his arrival and his departure will be accompanied by the acclaim God Speed from the lips and heart of every man woman and child in Reno The State feels the honor that is being bestowed upon it to-day On rare occasions a president has passed through the commonwealth but never has one graveled hundreds of miles to visit our city
