Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-17

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sponsible for his raising Of a regiment
for Cuban service. So you see. CON
tinued the governor, you are respons-
ible, possibly, for the fact that | am
candidate for vice president of the
United States. 4
Governor Roosevelt speaks without
pretense Of oratorical f1ourishes or
rounded periods. Il am not an orator, 4"
he said !, and want to speak to you as
neighbor to neighbo or Z He drives home
facts simply and directly, as he might
set nails in a board and drive them
home one after the other. Notwith
standing the strain upon his voice by
the making of six or eight speeches a
day, his enunciation was clear and his.
manner or making of an argument
telling. He said:
In speaking as I must to so many
different audiences it is not possible to
dwell upon all the points that should
like to make. There are. great many
issues thatsI should like to discuss in
this campaign, but there are only two
issues that shall dwell upon tonight.
Both Of these issues are raised by our
opponents. The platform enunciating
the policies for which we stand is so
simple that it needs no defense. $ Y
otr,IxY =.
thai you take our word unbacked by
deeds for anything. We do not need
to have to ask you to take anything on
faith. We simply say: Look at the
four years that have gone by. 4 Look
at our old party's history and see what
we have done toward bettering the con-
ditions at home and toward preserving
civic good faith and toward upholding
the honor of the flag abroad, as you
men who are now the older among us
did in your youth. They upheld the
honor of the flag and the renown OF
the nation in times of great peril What
we have done is to be taken as an earn
est of what we intend to do. We ask
you to judge what is the party of the
future by what we have done in the
immediate past ~. 5sz. .@
Two years ago ran for governor in
New York. Against me they had put
up Judge Van Wyck, who was a special
protege of Mr.. Bryan and a bosom
friend of Mr.. Croker. Now, Mr Croker
and Mr.. Van Wyck were severe upon
corporations. They said they were
down on corporate ons;; that they were
against them. / said was no more
against corporations than l was
against red-headed men. l am going
to do Justice to red-headed men. If he
is a bad man will cinch him. ii If
he is a good man, / will stand by him.
II a corporation does its duty and acts
squarely it is all right, and will stand
UP for it. II it don't do so I will make
it do its duty if |. have the power. Now,
youfsee. i have the advantage Of talk
ing the way I did because I could keep
my promises. I made the kind Of
promises that could be kept On the
other hand, if you simply go into a
general denunciation with a whoop and
a hurrah and promise the millennium
you will be hampered by the fact that
you cant keep your word.
II got elected. came to dealing
with these different aggregations Of
property. / made up my mind that
some OF these corporations were escap-
ing their just share of taxation. They
were putting the burden off upon the
private individual and getting rid Of
it themselves. We got law enacted.
There are defects in it. of course, but
the result SO far has been that we have
put on the assessment roll for taxa
tion something like $500, 900 900 Of corr
porate property that had previously
escaped taxation. That was some
thing tangible You never can accom-
plish everything at once. n That was a
long stride in the right direction a
longer stride. than had been taken by
the democratic party in all the years
put together that they have had con-
troll Of the municipal government Of
New York city.
Continuing Governor Roosevelt ar
raigned the leaders Of the democratic
party for striving to stir up class
against class. section against section.
It was necessary, he said, for the whole
people to progress. There must be no
classes, no sections. Eight years ago
the democratic party leaders had urged
people to vote against some men and
some corporations because they were
getting too prosperous. They must Be
pulled down. They were pulled down,
but the people went down too.
He cautioned against the making Of
promises BY campaign orators which
could not be kept. ton Of oratory
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