The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-25
Tells the People of Rawlins that Re-
publicans VIII Keep All the
Promises They Have Made.
BIG CROWD AT CHEYENNE
WHERE THE GOVERNOR WAS GIVEN
AN OVATION AT TWO MEETINGS.
Senator Hanna at New York Head
quarters-He Says Apathy Is
Fast Disappearing.

LARAMIE. Wyo., Sept. 24.-The first
stop of the day was made by the Roosevelt
party at Rawlins at 3 o'clock this
morning Governor Roosevelt spoke at the
opera house for three-quarters of an hour.
He called the attention of his hearers to the
economic condition of the country now and
asked them to compare it with what it was
four years ago. He said further:
There are unquestionable evils connected
with our great, extraordinary, complex and
wonderful industrial system; .unquestion-
ably there are grave abuses connected, not
merely with the individual, but especially
with the corporate fortunes that have been
made. There is every reason why we should
strive intelligently and fearlessly to cut out
these evils and there is even more reason
why we should be careful not to kill the
patient in cutting out the disease Act fear
lessly. / never have advocated timid ac-
ton. Act intelligently, too. Remember
this: That what we have TO say to you is 10
be gauged strictly on how IL corresponds
with what we do. A promise to the pub
lie should be kept as sacredly as a promise
made by private individual and should
hand you should no more ask from pub
lie man a promise that 1t is impossible to
keep than you should ask 1t in private life.
When you ask promise In public life you
what they mean. and you should limit them
to promising only what they can per-
form"
Governor Roosevelt made a brief stop at
Hanna. Three hundred and fifty miners
besides number of men. came out to listen
to his speech. When this place was named
Senator NJ. A. Hanna was a director of
the Pacific Coal Company, whose mines are
here. Governor Roosevelt reminded his
hearers of the times four and six years
ago when. be said, it was difficult for min
ers to get work, and asked them to COM
pare those times with the present, when
all were employed and all obtaining good
wages and asked "If they wanted to
change back again to the hard times from
which they had emerged with so much
difficulty"
Laramie was reached this afternoon.
The Governor said in part:
Il do not appeal to you primarily as Re-
publicans. / appeal to you as Americans.
1 appeal to you as citizens with whom the
welfare OF the Nation is greater than any
other consideration TO stand above any
thing that is merely partisan. There are
two interests In this campaign. One is the
interest TO our well-being-the interest OF
the material prosperity of this country.
The other is the question of national great
ness-the question of the Nation doing it's
duty as a great Nation. Here in this State
and in this city whose name concentrates
the events of the old pioneer days of strug-
gle and of risk and hardship, Ii surely is
unnecessary for me TO call TO your attention
II is and how 1t has moved forward, onward
and upward Thomas Jefferson was the
author of the consent of the governed
doctrine, but he did not try
to push to ridiculous
and fantastic conclusion his theory as 10
get the consent of the dwellers in Louisi-
ana before the American people could take
it. 1t was right emphatically that we
should deal justly with those found in the
land, but 1t would have been folly and
weakness for this Nation to have halted In
its westward growth because OF some
fancied scruples as to our right 10 intro
duce the spirit of civilization into these
waste places of the earth. Afterward
we acquired from Mexico what is now
California and New Mexico. We also ac-
quired Alaska. The acquisition of all this
territory was opposed by men who used
the same arguments in that day that are
used by our opponents now"