The Topeka state journal., 1900-10-01
ROOSEVELT OUT EARLY.
Begins Speaking at $500 in
Bryan's State.

Falls City. Neb.. Oct. 1.-The special
train bearing Governor Roosevelt's
party reached this place at 8;20 today.
The morning was rainy and the ground
water-soaked, but the inhabitants of the
place were at the station to hear Cover
nor Roosevelt. Many wagons Rnd car
riages brought farmers and their fam
lilies in from the adjoining country. Gov.
Roosevelt said:
7 noticed the other day that Mr..
Bryan said that the Republican party
had no right to claim the benefit of the
fact that pork and wheat and corn had
gone up. He was speaking of hogs at
the time The Republican party said
four years ago that if its policies were
adopted those articles would go up; its
policies were adopted and they have gone
up. You can proportion the responsible
ity between the evidence and the Hs-
publican party as you choose, giving the
Repu ublican party its share
MEETING SPOILED BY RAIN.
Beatrice, Neb., Oct. when the spec
ial train bearing Mr.. Roosevelt arrived
at Auburn a heavy rain was pouring
and the outdoor meeting which had been
arranged for was impracticable. The
meeting was held in the opera house
which was well filled. Governor ROOSe-
yelt said in part:
During the past four years your
home products here have increased 40
per cent; your beef products have in
creased 90 per cent and yet we were told
four years ago there would be hard
times if the Republican ticket was elect
ed. The value of your houSeho4 goods
has gone up 20 per cent; mortgages nave
been reduced 20 per cent and your saw
ings account has increased by 35 per
cent. Now you should Judge our oppo-
nents by their prophecies, not one of
which has come true and judge US by
our prophecies, which have been full
filed"
At Teeumseh the meeting was held in
the court house square. Governor Roose-
velt said in part;
Il want to call your attention to one
or two phases of this contest. There are
doubtless among you men who fought IN
the great civil war. They received the
undying gratitude of their couEtrymen
and conferred undying honor upon the
flag. Naturally when the call to arms
came in 1898, in a community like this,
you sent your sons promptly to the
front. No wonder that you raised your
company instantly and that it was not
able to take one in ten of the men who
were ready to volunteer and who were
sent off in the Second Nebraska from
this town. Now / ask you to see to it
that the men in Washington do not undo
the work done by your sons, and broth
ers in the Philippines Your governor
has recently spoken of the soldiers of
the regular army as fifteen dollars
month hirelings. I have fought beside
these 'hirelings' at Santiago.
i saw the ElISLs LnE 1IlTQ ana NA6
Sixth white cavalry and the Ninth and
Tenth colored cavalry go up the hill. I
saw them leave behind them 800 dead
and wounded -hirelings, three hundred
men who have shed their blood for the
honor of the flag; three hundred men
who died that we might be proud that
their country still held in honor the flag
and the reward is that these men should
be sneered at as 'hirelings'
when you sent your regiment to the
Philippines its colonel died. He came
from the regular army It was Col.
St0tsenburg who wrote new name on
the honor roll of American history, who
conferred honor not only ON your state
but on all the nation Is he to be re-
ferFed to as only a shireling.' 1t is but
a few weeks since Mr.. Bryan himself
spoke of our soldiers hundred thou
sand men walking about in idleness- Col
Stotsenburg no longer walks about in
idleness. The men who were in the Phil
ippines who stayed there, no longer walk
about in idleness. Gen. LaWton no long
er walks about in idleness, nor does
Lsiscomb, or Riley who died at Tien
Tsin. They have rest where their COM
rades from 1861 to 1855 who gave their
lives for their flag have found rest.
Woe to the country that has lost its
capacity to appreciate the sacrifices Of
the gallant souls who do and dare and
die fer its honor and its glory. OF all
ungenerous things the most ungenerous
is to deny the proper merit of honor to
the soldier, whether volunteer like your
selves, or the regular as Col. Stotsenburg
was Woe to the nation which refuses to
give the proper meed Of praise to such