The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-26
WAS CROWDED TO THE DOORS
LARGEST AUDITORIUM IN DENVER
FILLED by GOV. ROOSEVELT.
Overflow Meetings Mt other Halls
Addressed by the Governor-Made
Special Feature of Discussion
OF Democratic Inconsistency.

DENVER. Colo. Sept. 25-Coliseum
hall, the largest auditorium in the city.
was crowded TO the doors when Chair
man Uzzeli called tonights meeting to
order and introduced Gov Roosevelt.
"Parson' Uzzell. by invitation. preached
10 the Rough Riders at their first annual
reunion at Las Vegas. N. NJ
During his address Gov. Roosevelt de-
elsred that there was no more excuse for
the breaking of n promise made upon
the stump than for breaking one made
In private life. II was just as bad, he
said, for the people 10 demand promises
impossible of fulfillment as for the can
didate to make them.
Taking up the matter of trusts. he said
that in common with every individual
and with every institution in the last
four years trusts had fiourished When
prosperity came every section and every
class had felt It. Undoubtedly he said.
many OF these vast combinations of capt.
tai had evil tendencies
Good weather for crops he said sis
also good for weeds. While am willing
to do all I can to destroy the weeds /
am not ready TO pillow up the crops TO do
IT."
The trust is a new evil he declared and
we must feel our way to find how best
to root II out.
The governor spoke OF the action of
the two parties in New York state in
relation to trusts holding that while the
Democrats had denounced trusts in a
feroeious manner. they. had done moth
ing to rid the people OF them while the
Republicans had in the past two years
put nnnn the statute books n franchise
taxNlaw which had added nearly 10000
90 TO the tax rolls OF the state
Democratic Inconsistency.
The New York state Democratic con-
vention, he said, recently adopted plat
form declaring against expansion and in
favor Of labor. and then nominated man
who Is an ardent expansionist and life
long opponent of trades unionisn.
speaking pf laws IN tho interest Of labor
the governor said that manufacturers in
Massachusetts and New York were NOV
Ing their factories TO South Carolina be-
cause the labor laws in the states first
named were 80 much In favor OF the
workmen. while in the latter state they
could work their employees az many hours
as they desired and need take less steps
for their protection.
The states where labor is best protected
he declared, are those which usually elect
Republican executives and legislatures.
After referring briefly to the expansion
Issue Gov Roosevelt closed with the de-
caration that where once the American
never be pulled down"
He then drove TO the Broawday theater
where another immense crowd awaited
him. Here his address was more brief
He afterwards spoke to a third meeting
at Windsor hall.
CoiOrado's Governor Rebuked.
Al the Broadway theater tonight Gov.
Roosevelt said In part;
II have Just received a letter, purport-
ing to be from the governor OF your
state, written upon official paper. request
ing me somewhat at length to state my
position on the currency question, and
asking why should not state IL In Dem
yer. as well az in Chicago. and Mlwau-
kee. IL is perhaps unusual in the chief
executive Of a state TO attempt to dictate
to n visitor within that state the subject
upon which he shall speak. / am not
aware that such course has ever been
followed before. but most certainly there
Is no question that my opponents can
ask which am not more than willing
to answer. In no matter what portion OF
the United states IL is put.
Il Will suggest to the governor that
hereafter he will do well to read the LETT
ters Of acceptance of candidates, II he
had read my letter. which was published
In Denver exactly as In New York or Mil
waukee. he would have found his ques-
tons already answered. But. without
regard 10 that. let me state that OF
course I stand now. as | have always
stood. on the platform OF my party. /
am fer protective tariff the gold stan
dard, expansion and the honor of the
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