Show GLAD TO SEE TED f KANSAS CITY GIVES ROOSEVELT AN OVATION Great Crowd Welcomes the rat r-at the Union Station ns Ho Journeys noys Through to Oklahoma Kansas City Mo July 2Goy Theodore Roosevelt of New York was given n remarkable reception In this clay today The Governor on his way from New York to attend the annual reunion of the rough riders which takes place this week at Oklahoma City Ok arrived here at about 030 a m and arrlec for half an hour Democrats and Republicans Repub-licans alike united In giving him a vociferous welcome and in shaking his hand until he was glad to quit When the Santa Fo train Iowly backed Into the shod and Gov Roosevelt Roose-velt smiling and spectacled was seen on the platform a perfect roar of cheers wen up from the 7000 people assembled Hello Teddy Ray for Roosevelt Teddy step off and talk to the Democrats Demo-crats yelled enthusiastic members of the crowd The Governor laughed at L the last remark but refused to talk politics The Instant the train stopped a rush 1 was made for the platform to shakef Gov Roosevelts hand and It took tho united efforts o a score of policemen 1 stationed around the car to keep th i crowd from degenerating Into a perfect per-fect mob For twenty minutes the Governor was kept busy shaking hands with enthusiastic en-thusiastic men and women who succeeded suc-ceeded in crowding up to the car platform i plat-form Several members of the roughrider rough-rider regiment attired In khaki were among those at the station and to these the Governor gave an especially cordial cor-dial greeting The crush during the struggle to shake Gov Roosevelts hand was terrible terri-ble and several women fainted In the crowd No one however was seriously hurt Just before the train carrying Gov Roosevelt and his party reached Kansas Kan-sas City today the Governor met and exchanged pleasantries with Congressman man John J Lentz of Columbus 0 I who was Journeying to the Kansas City I convention on the same train in the course of a very brief conversation Gov Roosevelt stated It as his opinion that i it would be Impolitic for the Democratic Demo-cratic convention to weaken on the silver I sil-ver question Tho people do not like a nulttpr was the way the Governor expressed it Mr Lent Conceded that It would weaken the party to take any I backward step on silver I |