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Show Sow Roosevelt Receives an Ovation Wherever Me Appears Kansas City, Kas., Speaking to an audience composed chiefly of work ligmen in thin city. Col. Roosevelt today to-day heartily indorsed the passage ol a federal workingman's compensation act This Is one of tho chief planki of the Kansas State platform recently recent-ly adopted. Kansas City, Sept. I Col. Kooso veil ended lil-- Kansas invasion wlib an address In Kansas City, Ko., shortly after 11 o'clock this ir.ornlow and then crossed the Kaw rher to plunge into an active day on Uie Missouri Mis-souri side. The ex-president's train arrived Id Argentine. Kas.. from Lawrence, Law-rence, at 10:3i&o'clock. Trie Colonel was taiCD by motor to the plac where he spoke and after a short address ad-dress was rushed back to his train and brought to the Fnlon Dpot hero A giant crowd greeted Hia colonel upon his arrival at tho I'nion station. As this is ibo only point at which hij tralD is to stop la Missouri on hii present trip, thousands of people froa all parts of the southwest came horc to greet him. Every hotel was Jamme with visitors last night and this morn ing, hours before his special train ar rived, the station and tbo streets along which the parade passed wort-lined. The reception committee had plan ned a compact program whereby, $li k every thing goes off per schedule, th-; t cx-pro&ldent will have one hour between be-tween C:o and 6 : 3 o'clock to hlni-, hlni-, self. Every other minute Is taken up I with speeches, receptions and motor rides. i On.? of the chief events on tho Pi"0' 1 gram wa,s to bo a rldo of 25 miles hy motor over the city's boulevard sj'3-i sj'3-i tern. ' The colonel was given a luDcheon at the Baltimore hotel at 1 o'clock i nnd he- made nn informal talk ther. At 3:30 o'clock ho will address 1 600 pupils at tho Wcstport high school. |