The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-21

The Colonel Concludes Day.
speechmakfng I'm Ogden at Night.

OGDEN, Utah, Sept Ex-Governor Roose-
welt limited the number OF his speeches to-
day to FIVE. including the night meeting at
this place The special train left Pocatello
at o'clock this morning and arrived at
Ogden at in the evening, where a stop
was made for the night. At Logan the first
stop of the day was made, and here the
meeting was held in the Mormon Taber-
nacle, mile from the station. At Brigham
City Governor Roosevelt spoke I'm the open
air from the band stand. The meeting at
Ogden was held In the opera house. There
was large and apprecfative audience at
the opera house tonight TO hear Governor
Roosevelt's speech II was well received.
the audience responding repeatedly with
cheers. He said in part:
In 1896 we took definite and unrnistak-
able position upon the issues or the day,
formulating our position on the financial
and economic questions so that IL could not
be misunderstood. promising prosperity
with the policy for which we said we
talked Our opponents prophesied disaster
the result OF following those plans. I
ask you to Judge our promise by our per-
forsnances and their prophecies by the
actual events, We have done exactly what
we said we would do, and now stand for the
continuance of the same financial and
economical policies which we championed
four years ago. We are advocating the
same policies which have brought us pros
perity; you Will see that the prophecies of
our opponents have been falSified by the
events. We have the right TO ask you to
nix these policies which have worked so
well, that you distrust the men whose
prophecies have so signally failed"
Expansion Discussed mt Logan.
OGDEN. Utah. Sept. 2O.-At Logan this
morning the Roosevelt party, escorted by
the local committee. left the train and pro-
ceeded 10 the Cache Mormon Tabernacle,
where addresses were made by Mrs. ]. FL
len Foster. Governor Roosevelt and others.
The Tabernacle was well filled and Gov
ernor Roosevelt spoke in part as follows:
I'VE are not any worn out race, content
to rest on the memory of what has been
done by those who have gone before US.
uSe In pride OF ancestry and admit that
we of this day are not able to do deeds
ourselves. On the contrary We take the
greatest pride I'm the deeds of the men who
went before US; and / feel that the very
tact that those deeds were done must spur
us on to deeds also.
1T Is great thing TO have material
greatness. il Is a great thing to be able 10
point to the hardships and sacrifices neces-
sary TO develop the resources of great
country; but there Is something that lies
back of and even above material develop
ment- 1t is greater thing TO have the
men and women themselves. Each genera
tior has its allotted task and as we do
that task so do we not leave heritage OF
honor TO those who come after us? Now,
why are We here to-day? Why am 1 able
to speak to you? Because your fathers
were not tlmid weakings.'
On the issue Of expansion he said:
I'VE have never had a movement for ex-
pansion in this country where there were
not q large number OF excellent people who
held up their hands in horror and pre-
dicted the death OF the country. Right
after the revolutionary war some people OF
the seaboard Atlantic States objected
strongly to taking in the Ohio valley One
of the foremost statesmen of my own State
predicted what would happen il the white
savages were going TO take possession of
the Ohio valley. when under the control
Of the national government i, New
Yorker, am now running ticket that
has at its head a representative of one of
the States which that excellent New York
gentleman thought would be peopled by
white savages-Ohio. Then we came to the
Mississippi. and a lot of excellent people
said IL meant ruin to the land and the
dissolution OF the government If we
stretched over the Mississippi.
when President Jefferson. In 1903, ac-