The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-08
ROOSEYELTS FIGHT OVER.
RIM ISSUES or THE CANVASS, ne sara,
ARE NOW WITH THE PEOPLE

A~ttest-Twenty Thousand People Assem-.
BILE In Jamestown and n Like Number in
Dunkirk and Greet the Colonel with
Wild CheorinE-At All the Other sta
tionS Whore stops Were Made the PEG.
PIE Came on Foot, on Horseback and In
Teams to See and Cheer tina Candidate.
DuNKIRK. Nov. 7.-Col. Roosevelt closed his
campaign in the Dunkirk Opera House tonight
with these words:
The fight Is over. The issues have been
sharply drawn. righteous against unrlghteous.
courage against cowRrdice. honesty against
dishonesty. State and National issuos alike
divide on these same lines. They have been
plainly set forth. The people understand them.
With the people is the issue"
No he laid his case before the jury. To-day's
representation of the jury WIS n whoopinE big
one, big at every little station and tremendous
ut jamestown and Dunkirk Tho population
OF jamestown is about 10000. There were
10000 people on the streets by a conservative
estimate. All of tho 10000 were not James,
town people. Of course. Folks came IN teams
and on excursion trains from o~verywhers
within five miles. And Dunkirk was like
jamestown. Such crowds, such wild cheering,
such determination to hunt out every regis
tered man and see that he votes, such scorn
and hatred for Croker had not been met with
by Col. Roosevelt in this campaign.
Tonight the sun went down on raie blue
skies and clenr cut. blood red and golden
clouds. II Is the surest sign for clear weather
In the morning. The snow that has been melt
ing on the corn shocks has SO dampenod thrm
that the most thrifty farmer will be tempted to
stay at home and work. Everything promises
a great vote. Among hills covered with q thin.
white snow blanket the last campaign train OF
this year went whirling through AlleRany,
Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. It had
already been demonstrated that rain could not
dampen the enthusiasm Of the upstate voters
for the cause for which they will go to the polls
tomorrow. To-day has proved that snow aud
singing cold winds cannot chill them either
in their faith or in their works. 1t was so cold
that at each station all the women and as many
of the mon a. could get in crowded into the
waiting rooms Of the little brown painted sta
tions and got what comfort they could out of
the stoves. The rest Of the men marched up
and down the platforms. swinging their arms
and auarrelling over the size OF the majority
that the county will give Roosevelt. When the
train whistled as it approached, the station boz
came like q beehive that had been hit with Q
brick. The people came piling out head ever
heels, fighting mad. because they were afraid
the train would start before they could see the
candidate and hear him speak. In numbers
they exceeded the crowds that gathered at
towns OF the same population in Allegany
county when Col. Roosevelt went through the
other side OF 1t two weeks ago In pleasanter
weather and at more reasonable hours.
The county committeeman who travelled
with the train were themselves astonished al
the reception Col. Roosevelt received. They
expected a great deal when they persuaded the
State Committee to let Col. Roosevelt come up
here. The Chautauaua committee started it.
They had confidence that their county and the
neighboring counties OF the oil belt would give
their normal majorities for the Republican
candidate without any further effort, and not
withdrawing the Hoffman House consiRnments
Of currency that have been coming into his
territory In trunks, barrels. bales and satchels.
But they wanted to rebuke this barefaced ins
suit to themselves and the Republicans they
represent with a singing blow to the people
VIII offered it. They asked the State Commit
tee to send Col. Roosevelt up here with q spea
cial train.
1T isn't so necessary. answered the Repubs
lican managers. that we would be justified Ia
going to that expense"
Then we stand 1t ourselves said the ChauS
teuquans. You send Col. Roosevelt to Hor-
nellsville and we will attend to the special train
and all the rest of It,"
Right well have they kept their promise.
backed up by their brethren in the other two
counties. Frederick p. Hall. Chairman OF the
Chautauqua County COMMITTEES. with Assom-
blyman Fred Nixon aud a number of their COS
workers met Col. Roosevelt on the arrival Of
the 800 train from New York. There was also
n big delegation representing AlleGany county.
headed by j. B. Jones. the Chairman Of the
Allegany County Committee. Judge Jerome ..
Fisher OF jamestown. Senator John LaughIin.
and William H.. Hotchkiss OF Buffalo. besides
several people from Cattaraugus.
Col. Roosevelt's speeches, as was to he exc
pocted at this time in the campaign. dealt with
the same old issues. State and national. which
he has been throwing out at the Democratic
debaters since he was nominated. But, though
the arguments were the same. the form in
which no put them was varied from time 20
time and the forcefulness with which no de-
liyered them he has not surpassed since ho
took the stump, 1t WIS noticeable that these
voters up here, who have waited 30 long for the
candidate, appreciated his coming even more
than have the other country audiences he has
addressed. Every time he has laid down q
principle before them they have taken it ZIP
with a shout, Young men without benrds, old
men with long gray whiskers, men in the uni-
form Of the Third New York, and Rrizzlcd
soldiers OF the civil war have taken of their
hats and swung them over their heads
until they whirled themselves ont OF their
tracks in responding to his pledges for in
honest administration and his attacks upon
the Tammany plot 10 seize the state. with
the same fervor they cheered his appeals to
them to remember that though the DEM
ocratic party pretends not TO know where the
silver issue Is. 1t is not dead, but waiting.
Every reference to President McKinley's name.
II is proper to mention, has been greeted
with shouts. cheers and applause, equalied
only by those given to Col. Roosevelt himself.
There was a queer note In the applause all day.
a booming note. like the explosion Of the old
fashioned kind OF cannon crackers. 1t was
caused by the ~clapping together of hands that
were covered with big leather gloves and nit
tens, 1t was only one sign OF the many that
tended to show the fair and foul weather ear
nestpess Of Republican sentiment In this far
end OF the State.
With his last speech before he arrived at
Dunkirk tonight Col. Roosevelt has made i2T
speeches from the rear platform OF campaign
trains. not TO speak Of the greater number he
has made in halls and from trucks and hacks
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