The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1898-10-06
ROOSEVELrS RIOTERS.
Opening Of the Rough Riders Gu
bernatorial Campaign.
A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION

A REMARKABLE DEMONSTRATION
Tho Doughty Colonel Himself Had
Great Difficulty In Forcing His Way
Into the Hall-Declared 1t Romind-
ed Him of the Charge at San Juan.
New York, oct. 6.-Jammed from top
to bottom with a cheering, shouting
gang, Carnegie hall was the scene last
night of the great mass meeting that
opened the campaign of Colonel Theo-
dOre Roosevelt for governor of New
York on the Republican ticket. As
early as $3.50 o'clock the front steps of
Carnegie hall began to be crowded with
holders of admission tickets to the
meeting, and at o'clock. when the
doors were thrown open, the crowd eX-
tended half way across Fifty-seventh
street. In the first rush of people the
gate keepers were carried away as the
holders of tickets plunged up the stairs
to the gallery set apart for them.
At half-past seven the 200 platform
seats were all filed and holders of
platform seat tickets were being di-
rected to the ground floor There was
not vacant seat in the house at 8
o'clock. and the policemen just inside
the doors were struggling to keep back
a crowd that fought to get past them.
There was a crush within the house,
there was a battle outside at both the
front and rear entrance. The crowd,
just before the meeting began, extended
for a block in every direction. Men
fought each other and women scream
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death. A hundred policemen tried to
keep the people back, but were power
less to do 50. Even the well known
speakers of the night had hard time
to get into the building,
1t lacked twenty minutes of o'clock
when Roosevelt got within 20 feet of
the side door and began his battle for
entrance. His rough riders hat, show
ing plainly above the crowd, was the
signal for great cheering. Men and
women crowded close 1t took him
ten minutes to get away from the
crowd into the building. This is
nearly as bad as that charge at San
Juan hill" he said, when he finally
succeeded. President Seth Low and
former Governor Morton had been with
Colonel Roosevelt, but they were lost
in the crowd, and it took two policemen
several minutes to find them and guide
them to the hall. A few minutes be-
fore o'clock a dozen rough riders
reached the hall in body and were
sent up and across the platform to
seats just behind the speakers seats.
They were wildly cheered.
When Colonel Roosevelt appeared on
the platform the spectators leaped up,
cheering and waving hats and hand
kerchiefs. Behind Roosevelt came
Lieutenant Governor Woodruff, Chair
man Barnes, Jr., of the state execu-
tive committee, Seth Low, Lemuel r.
Quigg, Joseph II. Choate. Collector
Bidwell, General Stewart l.. Woodford
and Elihu Root. The cheering continued
without a break for more than a min
ute while the procession walked across
the stage, the band playing the while.
AS soon as he got a chair Chairman
Qugg, of the county committee, intro
duced General Woodford as chairman
of the meeting.
For almost five minutes General
Woodford was kept bowling as the au-
dience chehed. During his address he
was frequently interrupted by APP
pause The mention of Roosevelt s
name and the mention of President
Mckinley brought out wild cheers. For
the latter three cheers We're called for
and given. Minister Woodford in
troduced Colonel Roosevelt.
The crowd had cheered before, they
howled now. Colonel Roosevelt smiled
The cheers died away and he tried to
speak, only to have his first words in
terrupted by somebody calling for an
other cheer, and the din was kept up
again for several minutes. Colonel
Roosevelt finally had chance to say
'I hope you will all vote the way you
cheer"
Colonel Roosevelt was cheered al
every point in his speech, in the course
of which he made the following refer
ence to the national administration:
Il ask the people of this country tC
support the administration of President
Mckinley, if for no other reason. than
because, say what you like, the victory
at the polls of the men who are op-
posing and denouncing his admins
tration in this election viii be interpret
ed abroad as meaning, on the part OF
America, a reputation of the war from
which we have just emerged triumph.
ant. 1t will strengthen the hands OF
every hostile power which views will
jealousy our victories in the Antilles
and the Philippines; it will mean tha
the nations that now secretly and en-
Viously wish to clip the wings of oui
pride will be emboldened. 1t will result
in the partial undoing of what oul
army and navy have accomplished. Il
will mean the chance of grave com
.f
meeting obstacles when it comes tC
reaping the fruit of our triumph. Yol
could get the benefits of the victories
of Grant and Sherman only by re-
electing Lincoln, and we will gain les'
than we ought to from this war if thu
/ administration is not sustained at thes
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