The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-09-24
SOUNDS THE NOTE.
Roosevelt Says the
Ohio Issues Are
National.
SITTING BULL, NATIONS HERO.
Teddy Says He Deserves
Praise as Much as
Aguinaldo.
SITTING BULL, NATIONS HERO.

Akron, Sept. 29-The republican state
campaign was opened here today with
one Of the largest crowds known in
the history of politics in Ohio BY
noon the town was already well filled
and it is thought there were $4,000
visitors in Akron
The parade moved at 2 O'Clock. It
was in six divisions and in charge of
capt. A. Wagner as grand marshal.
Inc most conspicuous features were the
escorts of Col. Roosevelt and Judge
Nash, the one of veterans of the Span
lsTAmerlcan war and the other of
veterans of the civil war.
The meeting was held at Grace Park,
within whose confines fully $4,000 peo-
pie gathered, only a small portion of
whom could get within range of the
voices of the speakers
Gov. Theodore Roosevelt spoke in
part as follows:
! come to speak to you because we
recognize throughout the nation that
the contest this year in Ohio is not and
can not be anything but a national
contest. 1t Is idle to say it is local
yes, and worse than idle, it is dishonest
to make such an assertion. when the
democratic platform lays its especial
stress upon national questions If a
party raises an issue which it knows is
a false issue, merely for the hone of
CARRYING an election then that party
SHOWS in the most striking way that 1t
IS the enemy of the country and unfit
to be entrusted with its government.
This Is Just what the democratic
party in Ohio have done at this time,
and Just what its leaders, national and
local. from the top down, are doing
when they speak of expansion, on trusts
and on Gree silver. 1t is the sincere
peHet OF all right-minded men who have
the welfare of the nation close at heart.
that the position taken by the Ohio de-
IlQcracy, speaking in reality for the
national democracy in this campaign.
is one destructive of national prosperity
al nome and of national honor abroad
Moreover, it is impossible to avoid the
conviction that their leaders know that
this is true, but are willing to plunge
the country INTO any disaster, provided
only they can persuade a sufficient
number of dupes to put them where
they can crafty their greed for office
their thirst for power ! should not
use such language in an ordinary POI
htical contest. / use it now as I should
have used il had been alive during
the years of the civil war.
Shaking of the Philippine rebellion
Mr. Roosevelt said: When an insur-
rection broke out in Luzon, it had to
be put down exactly as an Apache out
break would be put down. The presi-
dent acted as he was bound by his oath
OF office to act To have followed the
advice of the men who wished him to
bow down to insurgent sayagery would
have been treason to the nation He
would have been subject to impeach-
rnent had he failed in his duty had he
failed to employ every adequate means
to reduce Aguinaldo, just as his pre-
decessors employed every adequate
means to reduce Geronimo and Sit
ting Bull. And, by the way when
our opponents erect their Pantheon of
saints and heroes. earnestly recon-
mend them to put beside the bust Of
Aguinaldo the bust of Sitting Bull, One
is Just as much entitled to recognition
as the other and the men who now
give aid and comfort, by speeches and
Platforms. to the one, stand not so very
mlHch above those men who at one time
sold cartridges to the other. If one was
A patriot, then the other was, and we
ought to leave the country claimed by
the one now we should restore to the
descendants of the other the country we
took from thenl> % years ago.
No! This nation must be true to it's
mighty destiny. This generation must
not finch from its allotted task. and
must show itself worthy of the mighty
men who in the great civil war saved
the union, so that now the sons of the
men who wore the blue and Of those
who wore the grey, stood shoulder to
shoulder under the glorious banner
which from henceforth wherever it
floats. marks a stride in adj
vance towards the reign Of peace. pro-
\ gress, Justice and orderly liberty
throughout the world.