The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-06
ROOSEVELT AN ISSUE
His Defeat Would Mean Reputation
of the War.
AS VIEWED BY HIMSELF
ROUGH RIDERS FURIOUS
CHARGE UPON THE VOTERS.
Opens Ills Campaign With a Spread
eagle, Territorial Expansion
Speech-Success of the Democrats
Would Be Reputation of the War
With Spain-Foraker Speaks.

New York. Oct. damned from top
to bottom with a cheering, shouting
throng, Carnegie hall was the scene to-
night of the great mass meeting that
opened the campaign Of Colonel Theo-
dore Roosevelt for governor of New
York. The hall quickly filed, and so
great was the jam outside that Colo
mel Roosevelt and the other speakers
had to have the assistance of the po-
lice in forcing their way into the hall.
-Four overflow meetings were held.
General Stewart WOOdfOrd presided,
and his fYe-minute speech was inter
rupted by wild cheers when Roosevelts
and Mchlnley's names were mentioned.
Colonel Roosevelt was received with
tremendous outburst of cheering. His
speech was devoted almost wholly to
national affairs. He asserted that the
time had come when the nation must
assume new position among the ma
Of isolation, he pointed to the fate of
China. The great American republic
has mighty mission, he said, and he
added: we must dare to be great
and we must realize that greatness is
the fruit of toll and sacrifice and high
courage. The guns of our warships in
the tropic seas Of the West Indies and
the knowledge of new duties. Our flag
Is proud flag, and it stands for lib
erty and civilization. Where ii has
once fioated there must and shall be
no return to tyranny or savagery. We
are face TO face with our destiny, and
We must meet it with a high and reso-
Lutte courage. Let us live in the har-
ness, striving nightly; let US rather
run the risk of wearing out than rust
ing out.
1 should ask the people of this coun-
try TO support the administration OF
President Mckinley, if for not other
reason, than because say what you
like, the victory at the polls OF the men
who are opposing and denouncing his
administration in this election will be
interpreted abroad as meaning. on the
part of America, a reputation Of the
war from which we have just emerged
triumphant. II Will strengthen the
hands OF every hostile power which
views with jealousy our victories in
the Antilles and the Philippines; it will
mean that the nations that now Sc
cretly and enviously wish TO clip the
wings of our pride, will be emboldened.
It Will result in the partial undoing of
what our army and navy have accom-
plished. II viii mean the chance of
great complications and the likelihood
to reaping the fruit of our triumphs"
Colonel Roosevelt also dwelt upon
the necessity of maintaining a strong
army and navy, and in conclusion re-
ferred to the money question by de-
claring that no step should be taken
which might seem to again open the
question so happily settled at the last
election" Above ell, he said, there
must be nothing that would have the
20 No Of
on the question of a sound and stable /
The speaker added: IF by your votes |
you put in power men who fail to meet !
this issue-and TO dodge it is quite as
dangerous, and very much meaner 1
than meeting it in the wrong way-you
will have struck a blow at your own
well being"
Seth Low. Joseph Choate and Lieu (
tenant Governor Woodruff also spoke.
Senator Mark Hanna occupied a box at I
the meeting.