The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-11-14
HIS PARTY ON TRIAL.
Depew Says Next Two Years VIII
Make or Mar It's Fortune.

New York, Nov. 14-Governor-eIec
Theodore Roosevelt was the guest OF
honor at a banquet rendered him Satur-
day night by the members of the Re-
publican club at their home on Fifth
avenue. The guests table was presid-
ed over by Chauncey NJ. Depew, presi-
dent of the club. Mr.. Depew, before in.
PRODUCING Colonel Roosevelt said:
The Republicans are satisfied with
the popular Endorsement on Tuesday OF
their principles. and with the success
of their candidate We are done with
the fulfillment Of our pledges and the
test of our ability to meet the eXpecta-
lions we have raised
The election demonstrates, in the
transfer Of the house and the senate of
the United States to Republican con-
troll, that the people wisely adopted
Lincoln's famous maxim not to swap
horses while crossing streams The Gu
ban problem, the Porto Rican situation,
the conditions in the Philippines have
come to US under the administration
and wise policies in peace and war Of
President Mckinley The voters have
decided that he has so far done 50 wen
they leave to him the settlement of
these questions in which the future OF
our country is so deeply involved
The Republican party in the next
two years in the untried field Of gov
erning far distant possessions and alien
races is facing difficulties which will
the party which reconstructed the union
Of the states and which inaugurated the
policies which have made our country
supremely great and prosperous has
the initiative the heredity the expert
ence and the statesmen to make these
new conditions work for liberty, hui
mainly and the glory Of our country
and the happiness OF the people Wherev-
er the flag floats"
Mr. Roosevelt spoke at length, his re-
marks being principally devoted to
state questions He said, IN part:
There are some points upon which
we can congratulate ourselves, and Ons
is that the victory Of last Tuesday was
won. as every victory in American poll
tics worthy the name must be won, by
the men acting together as Americans
nothing else but as Americans. We
won because Protestant and Catholic,
Jew and Gentle, wage worker and en-
plOyer, manufacturer, merchant and
farmer, men of all conditions of life.
came together as American citizens, and
as nothing else, to work for the welfare
of the common state and common ma
ton.
we met every state issue. We met
every national issue. But whatever
may be the stand of the opposition on
the silver question, we must be the sew
enth son of the seventh son to prOphesy
what it will be, from anything it has
said on this election. Nobody can queS-
ton where we stand We stand square
y for honest money for a dollar that Is
worth 100 cents, based upon gold.
In national matters We also stand for
UNFOLDING the policy of the peace COM
mission appointed by the president to
try to secure an honorable peace out OF
the war waged last summer.
I'VE have heard much loose talk
about expansion and about Imperialism.
I do not ask you TO declare yourself
about any general policy. All ask Is
that you face the fact We are in
Porto Rico; We are in Manila We
have responsibilities in Cuba; we are
there. We are not going to let these
islands go back under the tyranny from
which we have relieved them, nor are
we going to let them sink into savage
anarchy.
$50 far as am concerned personally,
I would welcome habitants of the is
land of Cuba and the Philippines show
ing themselves able to manage their
governments as they should be man
aged, and trust that, within a reason
able time, the sooner the better, they
shall see how themselves. But that
we can let to the future to take care
Of Our present duty is to see that
they are well administered. that Hber-
ty. order. justice, that honesty prevails
in the administration OF these Islands,
and that can only prevail as long as the
policy of the president is sustained