The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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Army of the Republic, I am certain to find a group of men ready to cheer every allu-
sion to the gallantry of the men who wore the gray.
At the Union Pacific station, at Armstrong, where he took
his train for the West, he received a delegation of students
from the Kansas City University, who presented him with a
gold badge set with pearls and diamonds, and designating him
an honorary member of the University Library Association.
CORDIAL RECEPTIONS IN KANSAS
At Lawrence, Kans., President Roosevelt left his train and
drove through the crowded streets, where the Haskell Indian
School pupils and public school children, the state university
students and members of the Grand Army of the Republic had
assembled to greet him. He made two speeches at Topeka;
one was at the laying of the corner stone of the new Y. M. C. A.
building, and the other at the Auditorium Capitol. Both
addresses were heard by immense crowds and were received
with the greatest enthusiasm. The city was profusely deco-
rated and throngs of people came from the surrounding coun-
try to assist in doing honor to the nation's PIxecutive.
At Junction City, Kans., the President made the first refer-
ence to the army since the report of General Miles, on the
atrocities in the Philippines, was made public. President
Roosevelt had among his hearers a number of troops from
F"ort Riley, who were drawn up about the station. He spoke
of the fine record of the Kansas soldiers in the Spanish war
and in the Philippines, and added:
They have added fresh pages to tne honor roll of the republic by what they have
done in the Philippines, by the courage and the soldier-like efficiency which they
have shown in these islands, and by the extraordinary moderation, self-restraint and
humanity with which they have carried themselves in one of the most difficult and
one of the most righteous contests ever waged by a civilized nation.