The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-13
SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT
..TEDDY' TELLS WHY THE REPUB-
LICANS WON LAST WEEK.
The People Had Faith in Mckinley
and Were Opposed to Swapping
Horses in Midstream.

NEW YORK, Nov. 70. - Governor-elect
Theodore Roosevelt was the guest of honor
at banquet rendered him tonight by mem
bers of tie Republican Club at their home,
on Fifth avenue. The guests table was
presided over by Chauncey M. Depew, pres
ident of the club. Mr.. Depew, before in
PRODUCING Colonel Roosevelt, said:
1.-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 fighting
and shooting. Now comes the fulfillment of
our pledges and our ability to meet the
expectations we have raised. The election
demonstrates, in the transfer of the House
and the Senate of the United States to Re-
publican control, that tho people wisely
adopted Lincoln's famous maxim not to
swap horses while crossing streams. The
Cuban 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 Nc
Kinley. The voters have decided that he
has so far done so well they will leave to
him the settlement of these questions in
which the future of our country is so deeply
involved. The Republican party for the
eminent for distant possessions and alien
races, is facing difficulties which will make
or mar its fortunes in 1900. But the party
which reconstructed the Union of the States
and which inaugurated the policies which
have made our country supremacy great and
prosperous has the initiative, the heredity.
the experience and statesmen to make these
new conditions work for liberty, humanity
.0P 1frx1 oY1H har mi
ness of the people wherever the flag floats"
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke at length, his remarks
being principally devoted to state questions
He said in part: There are some points
upon which we can congratulate ourselves,
and one is that the victory last Tuesday was
won, as every victory in American politics
worthy of the name must be won, by the
men acting together as Americans; nothing
else but as Americans. as of every creed,
of every race and origin. We won because
Protestant and Catholic and Jew and gen
tile, wage worker and employer, manufac-
turer, merchant and farmer, men OF all con-
ditionS of life, came together as American
citizens, and nothing else, to work for the
welfare of the common state and common
nation. 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 seventh son of a
seventh son to propheSy what 1t Will be
from anything they have SAID on TINS cleo
ton. Nobody can question where we stand.
We stand squarely for honest money, for
dollar that is worth one hundred cents,
based upon gold.
I'm national matters we also stand for up
holding the policy of the peace commission
appointed by the President to try 20 secure
an honorable peace out of the war we waged
last summer. We have heard much loose
talk about expansion and about imperial
ism. | 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 gong
to let these islands go back under the
tyranny from which we have relieved them,
nor are we going to let them sink into saw
age anarchy So far as l am concerned,
personally, / would welcome the Inhabitants
of the Island of Cuba and the Philippines
showing themselves able to manage their
governments as they should be managed,
and | trust that within a reasonable time,
the sooner the better they shall so show
themselves; but that we can let the future
take care of. Our present duty IS TO see
that they are we'll administered, that lib
erty, order. justice. that honesty prevails
i'm the administration in these islands, and
that can only prevail as long as the policy
of the President is sustained