The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-19
APPEALS FOR VOTES.
Gov. Roosevelt Pleads With the
People of Butte, Mont.

Butte, Mont, Sept. Ex-Governor
Roosevelt's special train arrived here
about O'Clock yesterday afternoon and
the party was greeted with a very warm
reception. The carriage ride from the
station Of the Northern Pacific to the
Butte hotel, about one mile distant was
hattering demonstration. The streets
were lined with people. At the hotel
Governor Roosevelt appeared upon the
balcony. The crowd below entirely filed
the street in front of the hotel, and for
about a block in each direction. The
demonstration was the largest that has
been seen here for a long time. Cover
nor Roosevelt was urged to speak, but
he declined, saying he would see the
people at the Columbian Gardens in the
evening"
The immense building at Columbia
Gardens was entirely filled and stand
ing room was at a discount. Governor
Roosevelt spoke here for nearly three
quarters of an hour. He spoke in part
as follows:
Il have spoken to you gentlemen
about preaching the gospel of hate. The
fouleSt wrong that can be done to our
citizenship is done by the man who
breaches that gospel. Whether he preach
es to the employer to see to it that the
protection of his own interests are
whether he seeks to combine politics and
set them against their employers, it
matters not which, it is wrong. Eight
years ago we were told that the capital
lists had grown rich; that the capitalist
had prospered and that we should down
him We got him down. The capital
lists were ruined and the wage worker
came to the verge of starvation.
That was the effect of the action of
misguided men. Now, gentlemen, the
only way to permanently secure well be-
ing in this country is to secure condi-
lions that will secure the well being of
all. Something can be done by legisla-
ton; much can be done by associations
of individuals.
Il appeal to you for the sake of our
internal well being, for the sake or the
position of this nation in the face of the
nations of the world that you stand by
us in this contest We stand at the
threshold of a new century. The genera
ton in the century that has just closed
has done a great work and laid the
foundation of our government upon
strong footing by the success of the
tinent- We have established a govern
ment under which there has been such
prosperity, liberty and power as the
world has never before seen. Now 1
appeal to you, the men who made the
west, and to you who glory in your
strength, in your courage and your pow
er, to see to it that the nation does not
act as you would be ashamed to see any
individual act; that the nation does not
shirk from the task that has been laid
out for it to perform; see to it that the
nation now realizes that when it takes
a position in the foremost rank of ma
lions it must be prepared to meet and
overcome all the difficulties that all
great powers are sure to meet. would
ask you to support US in this contest in
the first place, because in so doing you
can preserve the conditions of material
prosperity and avert a panic of disaster
that would be more widespread and
more far reaching than any which this
country has ever known, and further
more because it has been given to us to
be furnished a standard bearer who has
embodied in his policy the principles
which have led US forward to this posi-
ton among the nations of the earth;
who has embodied the broad doctrine
which has taught all the nations of the
world that the flag of our republic has
been hoisted with honor and shall never
be pulled down in dishonor."