Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-10-15
FORAKER HELPING ROOSEVELT
Ohio Senator Addressed Big Repub-
lican Meeting at Buffalo
Last Night.

Last Night.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Oct 1.-THE Repub-
lican campaign in Erie county was opened
tonight by meeting addressed by Sem
ator Joseph B. Foraker. Of Ohio; Lieuten-
ant Governor Timothy L. Woodruff. of
Brooklyn; Congressman D. S. Alexander.
r 3. Mahany and n. W. Norton
Music hall, the largest auditorium in
Western New York, was comfortably filed
with an audience generous in its applause.
Hon. Loran Lewis, of Buffalo, a former
justice of the supreme court, presided.
Upon taking the chair Judge Lewis said
that the state and national issues could
not be divorced; that there had never been
president who so well filed the office
as President Mckinley, and that DEM
ocratic victory in the state would be re-
Election upon his administration.
Senator Forakers train was late. and
Representative Alexander made a short.
patriotic address. in which he denounced as
impossible the conducting of a state cam
paign independent of national issues .It
is not question of who will go to Albany"
he said. "but whether he will uphold Will
lam Mckinley. Fellow citizens, followers
of the flag, do not be blinded by state is
sues. which are but the dust in this cam
paign."
Senator Foraker was presented to the
meeting at $40 o'clock. and was received
with great cheering. He spoke in part as
follows:
IF anyone thinks an apology is neces-
sary for my coming from Ohio to New
YORK to speak in a state campaign 1 would
say that at this time more than at any
other time, we feel that your state is our
state. We have but one flag and one des-
tiny. At your approaching state election
m
we'll as state officers. Your representatives
In congress will lesislate for US as we'll as
for you. l have personal interest in this
election, because since the convention of
1854. 1 have known Theodore Roosevelt.
and in the closer acquaintance of later
years I have come to know him as a big.
brave, true, typical American.
of the thousands of brilliant men in
your state you could not have chosen a
man better qualified to head your state
ticket than Colonel Roosevelt. 1 rejoiced
at his nomination and / want to rejoice
again at his election.
Il want you to elect Roosevelt and re-
elect your Republican representatives in
congress, because a failure to do so would
be to fail to indorse the administration of
President Mckinley. Before his adminis-
tration is half through he has won, not
only the admiration Of the people of this
world. His administration Is one that will
worthily go on record with the administra-
tions Of Washington and Lincoln
DO not be blinded by the dust of local
issues. when the Endorsement of this great
administration is at stake
Senator Foraker said that tariff discus.
sion was unnecessary as the experiences
under President Cleveland's administration
had settled the tariff matter for fifty years.
by the return of the great balance of trade
to our shores.
The war, he said, had wiped out old
heresies.
I'VE are standing on a broader plane"
he said. land are dealing with more heroic
questions
Our purpose rs regards Cuba was to
turn it over to the people for their own
government and that promise will be re-
ligiously kept. This is not saying by
great deal, that Cuba will not come into
the United States. When she sees Hawaii
and Porto Rico already in with their
sugar and their tobacco, she will have to
come in as a matter Of self-interest."
The history of the war Senator Foraker
declared to be one of the brightest chap
ters in American history and foremost
in the charge at San Juan hill was the
gallant Roosevelt, who heads your state
ticket"
Someone from the audience had said that
Dewey was a Democrat. Senator Foraker
replied: II don't know whether he Is or
not. but If l was betting man I'd bet that
he was not
Senator Foraker spoke of the necessity
for the completion of the Nicaragua canal,
so that the navy could be transferred from
one side of the country to the other with
out going around the Horn. An increased
army and navy he declared to be neces-
sity. and avowed his purpose, as senator
of the United States, to help to that end.
Il hope we have the Philippines" he
said. Il mean by that that I hope that
the commission now settling the matter in
Paris will insist upon our having every
one of them-there are about 400 of them
in aii-and when We get them we will
have islands to burn"
.It's good, safe plan,'' said the SEN
ator. ito keep what you take. There is
nothing truer than the word sspoken BY
the president yesterday: Trade follows
the flag In the last four or five years the
world has changed front from the Atlantic
to the Pacific
The Chinese trade is wanted by the Unit
ed States, the senator said, land the Phil