The Portland daily press., 1900-10-16
Spoke in COVingtOn to Enthusiastic
Gathering.
Questions for Bryan to
Answer.
Vice Presidential Candidate Goes
Into Ohio Today,

Covington, KY, October 15.-Address-
ing one OF the largest crowds that has
ever assem- mbled in this city to listen to a
candidate for public Office, Governor
Roosevelt tonight closed his cam paign
In Kentucky and tomorrow VIII proceed
on his tour of Ohio. The Vice Presiden-
tial train reached Covington at 8 80 p.
m.
The governor was given the most re-
spectful attention during his speech. He
said in part:
"We have reached q stage in the cam
paign when our opponents are engaged
in busily explaining either their actions
or their words. Mr.. Jones, the chairman
OF the Bryanite Democracy. has just been
explaining that he is not connected with
trusts, because the cotton bale trust is
not trust. Or course, using the word in
It's technical sense, there Is no trust in
the country. Using the word IN the
popular sense, the sugar company. the
Standard Oh Oopmany and the Cotton
Bale company are all trusts.
ION Saturday in Ohio, Mr.. Bryan tried
to defend himself for what he had said
about our army. He first Of all stated
that had changed my position since my
Detroit speech which is simply not so.
stand precisely where stood then and
Mr.. Bryan either knows this or ought
to know it. Our regular army is infni-
tesimal in size compared with the popu-
Iation At present we have an army Of
100, 600 nan, $4,000 of whom are regulars,
and it was concerning this army that
Bryan spoke when ne stausd that the
object OF getting 1t was to terrorize the
laboring men when they make just de-
mands, by placing it in fort in great
cities. 1t is possible to stigmatize too
strongly such statement. It does not
contain a scintilIa of truth, it has not
particle of foundation; it can only ap-
peal to thoroughly base and unworthy
passions
In conclusion, the Governor said:
''AIr. Bryan has not answered whether
or not he will pay the interest on the ma
tional debt and the pensions of the vol
unteers Of the civil war in gold or in sill
yer II elected. He has not answered
whether no viii refuse to receive the cleo
toral votes of North Car Olina because OBJ
tained for him by a fagrant violation of
the doctrine of the coneent of the gov
erned which he so ardently champions
when he seeks to apply 1t to Tagal ban
dts on the other side of the globe. He
has not answered the question why he
supports in Kentucky a faction OF the
Bryanized Democracy which seeks TO de-
prive white men as well as black, ex
Confederate as well as ex-Union soldiers,
gold Democrats and silver Democrats as
we'll as Republicans of the right to cast
their vote as they wish and to have them
counted as cast. He has not answered the
question as to whether they Will condemn
Mr.. Croker and Mr.. Croker's associates
for themselves being stockholders in
the Ice trust and doing all they can TO
prevent its dissolution, while in public
he politically denounces trust. Let Mr..
Bryan answer these questions as have
answered every question he raises; and
then 1 will put him some more
1t was the tenth speech Governor
Roosevelt had made since morning, the
first being at Lexington where Col. w.
Q, p Breckin ridge and Judge Durham,
both ex-confederate officers. put the crowd
in the best OF humor in jointly intro
ducing the Governor. Then at Winches-
ter and next at Mount Sterling other
large crowds greeted the arrival of the
train, providing parades, Morehead,
Ashland, Greenup, South Portsmouth,
Vanceeburg and MaysviIle in successive
order paid tribute to the Governor 8 pop
ularity in Kentucky and the crowd gath
ered at the depot heard betrayed no di-
minutlon of desire to see him,