The record-union., 1898-09-28

(COntlnueQ from FIRST HdS0.1
While the country is full of young men
who have no such responsibilities and
are eager to enlist, you have no right
to leave the burden upon your wife of
the care support and bringing UP of
that family Roosevelt's answer was
a Roosevelt answer. I have done as
much as any one to bring on this war,
because 1 believed it must come, and
the sooner the better and now that
war is declared, I have no right to ask
others to do the fighting and stay at
home myself
THE regiment of Rough Riders was
an original American suggestion, TO
demonstrate that patriotism and in
domitable courage are common to ell
conditions of American life. The same
great qualities are found under the
slouch hat of the cowboy and the ele-
CANT imported tile of New York's gilded
youth. Their mannerisms are the We
neers of the West and the East; their
manhood is the same In that hot and
pest cursed climate of summer Cuba,
officers had opportunities for protection
from miasma and fever which were not
possible for the men. But the Rough
Riders endured no hardships nor dan
gers which were not shared by their
Colonel. He helped them dig the
bitches; he stood beside them in the
deadly dampness of the trenches. No
fioored tent for him, if his comrades
must sleep on the ground and under
the sky
In that world-famed charge of the
Rough Riders through the hail of shot
and up the hill of San Juan, their Colo
mel was hundred feet in advance. The
bullets whistling by him are rapidly
thinning the ranks Of these desperate
| fighters. The Colonel trips and falls,
and the line wavers, but in a moment
he is up again, waving his sword,
climbing and shouting. He bears a
charmed life. He clips the barbed wire
fence and plunges through, yelling,
Come on, boys; come on, and we win
lick hell out of them
The moral force of that daring
cowed and awed the Spaniards. ard
they fed from their fortified nights and
Santiago was ours. To lick hell out Of
| them is the fury of the fighting. It
expressed the titantic rage Of Wash
| ington at the treachery of Lee, and
turned the tide at Monmouth. It pierced
like bullets the fears Of the fleeing SOL
diers, and sent them flying to the front
and victory when Sheridan rode madly
up the valley from Winchester.
Colonel Roosevelt is the typical citi-
zen soldier The sanitary condition of
our army in Cuba might not have been
known for weeks through the regular
channels of inspection and report to the
various departments. Here the citizen
| in the Colonel overcame the official rou.
| tine and reticence of the soldier. His
graphic letter TO the Government and
the round robin he initiated brought
suddenly and sharply to our attention
the frightful dangers of disease and
| death, and resulted in our boys being
| brought Immediately home. He may
| have been subject to court martial for
violating the articles of war, but the
| humane impulses of the people gave
him gratitude and applause.
1T IS seldom in political conflicts
when new and unexpected issues have
to be met and decided, that a candidate
can be found who personifies the popu-
| lar and progressive side OF those issues.
| Representative men move the masses
| 10 enthusiasm, and are more easily un-
| derstood than measures. Lincoln with
| his immortal declaration, made at a
i time when to make ii insured his de-
feat by Douglas for the United States
| Senate, that A house divided against
Itself cannot stand. / believe this Gov
ernment cannot endure permanently
/ half slave and half free embodies the
anti-slavery doctrine Grant. with Ap-
! pomattox and the parole of honor to
the Confederate army behind him. stood
for the perpetuity of union and liberty.
Mckinley, by his long and able advo-
cacy of its principles, is the leading
spirit for the protection of American
| industries.
For this year, for this crisis, for The
voters of the Empire State, for the
young men of the country and the up
ward, onward and outward trend of the
United States, the candidate of candi-
dates is the hero of Santiago, the idol
of the Rough Riders-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt
Those portions of his speech relating
to President Mckinley were received
with much applause, and there was a
| vigorous reception to the tribute to
| Governor Black. When Mr.. Depew
told of the famous charge of the Rough
| Riders and mentioned Colonel Roose-
Welt, the audience went almost crazy.
! When Mr. Depew had reached the