The Portland daily press., 1898-11-14
labor organizations for their respective

labor, organizations for their respective
parts in the campaign. He expressed
hope that the leaders of the organization
and the independent Republicans might
come together aud this sentiment was
loudly applauded. Col. Roosevelt, In
part, said:
al am going to open what I have to say
to you tonight by asking you to drink
with me two toasts. In the first place,
think we all should realize the debt this
state owes the debt that the decsnt peo-
pie of the great cities owe, to the spien-
did Republican vote of the country dis
tricts. I give on behalf OF the Repu bll-
cans of the city of New York toast to
the men of the country who won the VIC
tory last Tuesday.
ssAs the second toast, I propose to drink
the health of those honest Democrats ana
honest Independents without whose aiu
we could not have won. Those gentlemen
did not come to us because they wished
patronage, or because they wished once.
they came because they believed IN
what we said, in what we promised. They
believed that we should have an asbolute-
ly honest administration at Albany. That
administration shall be as clean as
hounds tooth. l want you to drink With
the understanding that when you drink
the toast you pledge yourselves TO support
me under all circumstances to keep the
administration just as honest as any al
ministration ever was kept from top to
bottom.
ssI want to say Just two or three words
about certain bodies of fellow citizens TO
whom feel under peculiar debt ana an
the first place to the men who wear the
buttons Of the q A. Il. The most touch
ng experience / had in the Whole cam
paien was to see in ev9ry little town az
which we stopped, the veterans OF the
great war, come out, driving in twenty
or thirty miles perhaps, to extend the
hand OF comradeship to me, and they
came out because they thought the case
warranted all of the Influences they had
being spent for, the right
"Next TO the support Of the soldiers OF
the great war and that OF my fellow vol
unteers of this war, the thing most
appreciate Is the way in which so many
of the leaders Of organized labor came
forward to our support.
.'It shall be my partic ular aim TO Keep
in touch with the wage workers ana Win
their represen satives till find out what
they need, what they want and II 1 can
not oonscientiously agree with them IN
what they wish, / shall say so, as should
to any other organization. II I can con-
scientiously agree with them. l shall be
only too glad to try to see the effect given
to their wishes.
ain national matters we stand for
upholding the policy OF the peace comWls-
sion appointed by the President to try
to secure an honorable peace out OF the
war we waged last summer. We have
heard much loose talk about expansion
and about imperialism. do not ask you
to declare yourself about any general
policy. All l ask is that you face the
fact. We are in Porto Rico; we are in
Manila. We have responsibilities In
Cuba. We are not going to let those is-
lands 40 back undsr the tyranny from
which we have relieved them nor are We
going to lat them sink into savage anar-
s,hy. Personally, trust that the iDhabi.
tai,ts Of Cuba and the Philipppi1es will
able to manage their governments as they
should be managed. Our present duty is
10 see that they are well administered,
that liberty, that order, that Justice, that
honesty prevail in the administration OF
these islands and they can only prevail as
long as the policy Of the President Is
sustained.