The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-18
ROOSEVELT AT HELENA
Speaks at Capital and Other
Cities ID Montana.
REPLIES TO MIR. BRYAN
CANDIDATE Is WORKING HIS
WAY TOWARD SALT LAKE.


welt special arrived at this place at
o'clock today, where the night was
spent. Tomorrow morning the party
viii leave for Butte, making short stops
at Basin, Boulder and Clancy. An even
ing meeting is arranged at Butte for
tomorrow night, at which the governor
viii speak He will proceed from this
place to Dillon, Lima, Pocatello, Ida;
Ogden and Salt Lake City.
Two meetings were held here this
evening, one at the Auditorium and
the second meeting at the opera house,
so as to enable as many as possible to
hear him. Even this arrangement did
not permit all to hear who wanted to
get in.
c. M. Webster. chairman of the state
Republican committee, called the meet
ing at the Auditorium 10 order. Sen
ator Carter presided and speeches were
made by Hon. John Proctor Clarke,
General Curtis Guild jr., and others
Former Governor Richards, Former
Senator Lee Mantle and judge Dewite
from Butte Joined Governor Roosevelt
today at Billings to escort him to Butte
The Alice band, uniformed as rough
riders, escorted the governor through
out the Gay on DOdrQ the Special TRAM
Replies to Bryan
Governor Roosevelt al the Audito-
rum tonight spoke in part as follows:
In recent speech at Chicago Mr..
Bryan is represented to have spoken as
follows: Can 100, 600 soldiers in a cOun-
try like this take charge and change
the form of government? No. But the
fact that d people like ours permit this
bodies no good to American institutions
If 100000 soldiers are permitted to walk
about in idleneSS where one soldier
would do. what are we coming to?'
"A hundred thousand soldiers in idle
ness Think of these words being Spok
en- by a candidate for the highest office
in the gift of the American people, of
the men who have passed a year of
such grinding toll and desperate fight
ing in the Philippines that we here can
form no conception of all that they
have dared and riSked and endured.
Some of them no longer walk about in
idleness. Lawton no longer walks
about in idleness. Liscum no longer
walks about in idleness- Reilly no
longer walks about in idleness-
'IdleneSs. Was Leonard Wood idle
when for the first time in 300 years
he cleaned a Spanish city Mas he idle
when he fed and clothed and schOOled
the child of the recOncentr adO? Were
Generals Macarthur. Wheaton and
Young idle when they drove plunderer
and murderer before them that under
the shadow of our flag the SCARED will
derness might again become a fruitful
land? Was Chaffee idle when, eagerly
Obeying the presidents command, he
led the march towards the Forbidden
City?"
Speaks at Billings.
The Roosevelt special arrived'at Bill
linGs at o'clock this morning and re-
manned until $50, when it started on
its journey TO Helena. At Billings this
morning the party left the train and
proceeded to a platform erected in the
station park, where the governor made
short address TO the people. There
We're excursions present from Red
Lodge, from Butte, from Helena and
other places adjacent The inha bitants
of the city of Billings also turned out
en- masse, making a large audience.
Governor Roosevelt said, in part:
Now, 1 ask your attention to the
history of this state. As early as 1903
the title of Montana rested in the
hands of Spain. The title was SPANS
just as much as the title of the Phil
ippines was. Then Spain, distressing
the movement westward of our people
and rightly fearing they would be Un-
able to withstand the push of the sin
envy frontier shoulder, wished to inter
pose between us and Oregon and Mex
leo and what are now the states of
California, Colorado. Texas and Idaho,
wishing to interpOse between them and
ourselves a formidable barrier. passed
the country over to the great Napoleon,
then at the zenith of his power. Then
as now, there were people who OBJ
jected to the nations expanding, and 70
the nations stretching westward
Then. as now, there were people who
distrusted the genius of this nation.
but the feeling was so strong that it
forced the hands of our statesmen.
and it compelled the great Napoleon TO
sell to us under the name of Louisiana
all the country from the mouth of the
Mississippi to the mouth of the Column
bia.
1.-THE Democracy always has to have
some hero or heroine outside of the
country. AT that time it was the
kanaka queen l am q little shaky
about her name, it was something like
Queen Liluikolina- At present they
have dropped Queen Liliukolani and
taken up Aguinaldo. Eight years ago
they refused to take Hawaii They
wished TO give it back to the Kanaka
queen If we had put her back again
upon the throne we could not have
kept her there except by an armed
force. So it is with the Philippines
now If we turn those islands over to
the different tribes who viii fight for
the mastery among themselves, if we
did what MI Bryan proposes to do,
give them into the hands of a Syndi-
cate of Chinese half breeds. with Agui-
naido at their head to work their
wicked Will upon the weak inhabitants
of the islands, we would have such
anarchy and confusion that it would
inevitably happen that some stronger
power would step in to do the work
that we would have shown ourselves
too weak and too unworthy to perform.
Ten years hence the Democrats will
realize that when your sons and
brothers of your Montana regiment
and the other regiments from the Da-
kotaS and from Minnesota and from
Oregon. Washington. California. Utah
Idaho and Colorado went over to the
Philippines. and some of them lost
their lives there. that their success i'm
posed ;pon us solemn duty"
Talks at Other Points.
At Columbus a short stop was made
and a brief speech was delivered from
the rear platform of the car by Gov
ernOr Roosevelt
At Livingston Governor Roosevelt
was escorted TO a stand near the sta
ton. from which he spoke briefly.
During. the day short stops were
made at BOZeman. Manhattan. Logan
Townsend and Winston, at most of
which five-minute talks were made nv
Governor Roosevelt or some of the