The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-09-21

| OF America, not only supreme in this
| continent as the elder among you dld,
but to go forth in the face Of the
| world tn make cur country in the century
| that is TO come stand towards the Ola
! World as it has stood toward this con-
| tinent in the century that is closing.
Each generation has its allotted task. and
as We do that task. so do we or do we not
| leave a heritage OF honor 20 those who
come after us.
| Growth of the West.
Now, why are we here today? Way
/ am I about 10 speak to your Because
your fathers were not tirnid weakings;
| because the men and women Of the mid
| die OF the nineteenth century came OUT
| into this Western country driving your
| white topped prairie sehooners with the
| slow OK trains or mules or horses But
| you have all seen the women and the
! smaller children In the wagon and the
/ larger tow-headed lot walking alongside.
| and the zig hcys driving the cattle. But
| you know II ali. You came out here with
| your cattle and household goods to make
| homes and build up great common
| wealths In the words Of lowell 20
pitch new states as the Old World men
/ pitched tents Now. how did you do III
Lid you do IL by seeking 10 have an easy
| time by making UP your minds II you
| came TO any difficulties you would shirlS
them and see II you could not get some
| thing setter than the reward that is to
be got in the end, Is that the way the
| West has teen built up? No. IL is not
| The West has been built by the men and
women who have been willing to face
the rough conditions involved in the sit
| uation and 70 overcome them"
Issue of Expansion.
On the issue Of expansion he said;
1--WE have never had a movement for
| expansion in this country where there
were not large number Of excellent peo-
pie who held up their hands in horror and
! predicted 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 pos
session of the Ohio valley when under the
| control OF the national government !.
/ New Yorker. am now running on 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
lot OF excellent people said II meant ruin
| TO the land and the dissolution of the gov
eminent Il we stretched over the Missis-
sippi. When President jefferson In 1903.
acquired. by treaty and purchase, the land
beyond the Mississippi. all that region be-
yond the Rocky mountains. he acquired II
just exactly as President Mckinley ae-
quired the Philippines. and then number
: or eNCeponT gentlemen SAID tnat meant
the final ruin of The country. senator
from Col Guilds own state OF Massachus-
etts said that If the worst come TO pass,
and should ever have states beyond
the Mississippi, that no man could mag
Inc the horror that would come and the
confusion that would follow when we saw
senators and representatives from the
banks Of the Missouri and Red rivers Now
the Missouri and the Red river countries
are pretty well in the East. That was in
1911. You will find the speech in the
D Conversational Ctpbg of that daN. hut we
went on. Their came the Mexican war,
and any number of people said that II we
stretched on TO the Pacific that. of course
our country would come to an end. The
idea Of taking In what are now the states
of Idaho. Oregon and California was suf-
ficient to make them despair OF their coun-
try.
Great state of Idaho.
~ have Just passed through Id.ho. Of
which MS great man as Daniel Web
ster said that the land was only NJ for
cactus and Jack rabbits. We see what Il Is
today. For the last forty years, through
combination Of events. the Democratic
party has been forced into a position OF
the party that hung back We have to
take II along. You see. II is IN the same
nation. and u has 70 come. II does not
want to come. but II has 30 come Each
time II has got forward IL has found il
was not nearly as badly on as " expected
90 be. six or eight years ago Hawaii, I'M
der President Harrison wished 10 be an
nexed to the American nation. and the
American flag was hoisted Then came IN
President Cleveland, with a Democratic
administration, and 10 use their own
language. they hauled down the fng. We
have hoisted II again since, and for keeps
this time
.'The Democrats. IN iusiifying IN con-
gress the action Of the president used tho
same arguments they have used against
our keeping the Philippines az the present
moment In the first place. they objected
because, being republic. we were not
ftted 90 do the work that other great ma
tons do, that We were not htted TO DO
es.A To- 4.
could not venture outside ~ the con-
tlnent. In the next place. "a bring In the
islands would he 20 bring IN an ollgarchy. T"
open-Air Meeting.
Al brigham CITY an open mir meeting
was held. and the speaking was done from
the band stand. in the center Of the VIII
lage. mile from the station, Speeches
were made by John Henry smith and
Gov Roosevelt. IN concluding his re-
marks here GOV. Roosevelt said;
Il ask YOU TO support the man whom we
have nominated because the Promises we
have made have squared with our per
formances because The prophesies of evil
20 which our opponents have given utter
Z auce have been absolutely fslSined hv the
% the material conditions Which have "a
well secuTgd our wg8 hCing in the past
! four years and above ara beyond am Tor
the sake ~ the destiny NJ Tho greatest
T. republic upon which the sen has ever
shonc. for the sake ut proving az the bee
ginning 81 n new century that America
intends "a he what flfe boasts SHE "a. the
leader Rmong nc PEOPLES % mankind. and
that ne na'iors ~ the world SHAH knoN
that We have taken 40 backward step"
! Great crowd at Night.
Taert Was o largo aud spprec.atlvo au-
diencs AZ me apera house this eyeninE
, Co hear Gov EoaEeyaits speech II was
Weii rtreiFeA. thc audience rcsaout.ns
4 repeatedly with rheers He sald lu part
I'm 1875 we took 1eanite and unmjs-
fAbabir position upon ere Issues ~ tbs
ga. 3ofmu thns eur b}sitinn on the