Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-01
ROOSEVELT AT BOSTON.
Cheered to the Echo at Enthusiastic
Republican Rally.

Boston, Oct. 31.-The only arguments
to be publicly spoken for the Republi-
can party in Massachusetts during the
present campaign were made, tonight,
through the medium of the annual din
ner of the Republican Club in Music
hall, and the speakers were Hon. The
odore Roosevelt, governor Of New
York: Hon Henry Cabot Lodge, Junior
senator from Massachusetts; Gov.
Roger Wolcott and Lieut.. Gov. Geo. w.
Murray Crane, and Speaker John l..
Bates, nominees of the party respect
lively for Governor and Lieutenant
Governor.
After consideration of the material
part of the dinner. Mr.. Hayes babe the
guests hearty welcome on behalf of
the club.
The first response was from Gov.
Wolcott, who was followed by Lieut..
Gov. Crane and Hon. John l.. Bates.
The reception given to Gov. Roosevelt
was a grand one, and his remarks.
which were entirely upon the Philip
pine question in its briefest sense, were
repeatedly interrupted with applause.
He said he liked to come to Massa-
chusetts to draw inspiration. 1t gave
him peculiar pleasure because the Re
publicans had combined to a marked
degre to qualities-belief in civic right
eousness and sanity in working to see
that righteousness take SHAPE. He said
the Massachusetts Republicans when
they fix their eyes on the stars do not
forget to keep their feet on the ground
They never forget the sense of higher
ideal or loss of consciousness in get
ting that ideal by practical work.
The great difficulty in answering the
arguments Of ntiexpansionists. he
said was their use of loose invective
and their misrepresentation of facts.
The people who a year ago denounced
the war with Spain are the same who
now denounce the Philippine war.
They hold Aguinaldo as an ideal, as
they believe the Maine was blown up
from the inside. one belief is as ra-
tional as the other.
He said that Congressman LentZ re
Gently claimed that the mantle of
Washington and Lincoln had fallen on
Coy. Altgeld and that of Patrick Hen
~ on Aguinaldo, declaring that it was
quite appropriate that the man who
pardoned the bomb throwers of the
Chicago riots should be canoniZed with
the man, WrO freed by our efforts, is
now fighting the men under our flag
The speaker said the peace advocates
in the North during the Civil War were
responsible for the draft riots, were
the fathers of the men who now pratt
tie for peace which would mean the
hauling down of our flag and the
writing of a page in history which
would make our children blush with
shame We earnestly wish for peace,
but not an ignoble peace.
Continuing. he said: We have got
to put down the instruction; if we are
men we can't do otherwise. When it
is done we would take a man, like that
New Englander-Dr. Leonard Wood
ANA start it on the way to peace and
prosperity"
referring to the present conditions in
cuba. he maintained that had not the
war been fought the island would have
been desolation from one end to the
other. Coy. Roosevelt said that those
who claim that the war is Mckinley's
war forget that he divides the credit
with Congress. which ratified the peace
treaty. which took the Philippines and
provided the sinews with which to put
down the instruction.
He compared the many Indian wars
to the war in the Philippines. and said
that if the President did not use every
means in his power to restore peace in
the PHILIPPINES he deserved impeach-
INIT.
After Gov. Roosevelt concluded he
was repeatedly cheered. The conclud-
ing speaker was Senator Lodge and in
opening he referred to his return home
after six months in Europe. of the
mcagreness of American news reaching
him and of the general antipathy of
Europeans to America and its people.
lie further said that all the great ques-
tions of the day We're issue in his opn-
inn and Of them our position in the
Philippines was the greatest.
The dinner closed with the singing
Of America"