The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-16
REATAUDIENCE
Hears Gov. Roosevelt at Coving
ton, Kentucky.
He Aims His Talk Directly at
Col. Bryan.

Covington, Ky. Oct. 16-Addressing
one OF the largest crowds that has ever
assembled in this city to listen to a can
didate for public Office, Governor TheO-
dore Roosevelt last night closed his cam
paign in Kentucky. and viii proceed on
his tour of Ohio. Long before the gov
ernors arrival here court house square,
IN which the speakers stand had been
erected and decorated, was congested
with men and women anxious to hear
him. Though the audience was not so
enthusiastic as that which gathered at
Lexington or that at Mount Sterling or
at Ashland, or at Maysville, the gov
ernor was given the most respectful at
IentiCn, and he was interrupted ire
auently with applause or by persons
who made friendly comments upon the
salient points OF his speech
It was the tenth speech Governor
Roosevelt had made since morning, the
first being at Lexington, where w G. p.
Breckenridge and Judge Durham, both
ex-cOnfederate officers, put the crowd
IN the best of humOr in jointly introduce
ing the governor. Then at Winchester
and next at Mount Sterling other large
crowds greeted the arrival Of the train,
providing paradeS- MOOrehead, Ashland,
Greenup, South PortmOuth, Wanceburg
and MaysvilIe in successive order paid
tribute to the governors popularity in
kentucky, and the crowd which gath
cred at the depot here betrayed no
diminution of desire to see him
Early in the day Leslie CoOmbs, chair
man of the Republican state commit
tee, had received dispatches from Gov
1nStOn, informing him that Republican
leaders here were apprehenSive that an
organized effort would be made to break
up the meeting. Mr.. Coombs hurriedly
transmitted his information to the gov
ernor, Whereat the latter smiled broad
u and assured the chairman that there
could be no possible danger OF serious
interruption on his tour in Kentucky
To insure absolute tranquility and to
provide against any display of hostility,
Chief of POice Pugh and the sheriff OF
this county doubled their forces All
such precautions, however, proved to
have been unnecessary, for beyond $50
lated instances Of gOod-natured badln-
age and the footing of a few tin horns
the meeting was as peaceable as a mat
lnee
The governors speech was brief. After
the speaking Governor Roosevelt was
escorted by the First Voters club OF
Cincinnati to the Grand hotel IN that
city. where an informal reception was
held
In his speech Governor Roosevelt
Il wish to appeal to you, men of Ken
lucky, in the name of civil liberty ]
regard the currency as an important IS
sue; regard our prosperity as an I'M
portant issue; but more important than
anything else is the right of every man
TO cast his vote as he chooses and to
nave II counted as cast w t can anu u
10 differ on questions Of policy; but we
can not afford to differ on the funda-
mental rights Of American citizenship
6Applause).
IN the state Of Kentucky every man
Is in honor bound to stand up and see
that there is no condOning of the often
ses Of those who violate the will Of the
people There should be favoritism for
none and discrimination against none.
It wish on this point, to appeal not
only to Republicans, not only to gold
Democrats not only to those silver
Democrats who from high and conscien-
tious motives are with US in this con-
guided men who have upheld the other
side in the wrong that they have done,
men who are misled by the shibboleth
of a party name
I'VE have reached a stage in the cam
paign when our opponents are engaged
in busiiy explaining either their actions
or their words. Mr. Jones, the chair
man of the Bryanite Democracy, has
just been explaining that he is not con-
nected with trusts, because the cotton
bale trust is not trust OF course US
ing the word in a technical sense, there
Is no trust in the country. The sugar
trust and the Standard Oil trust are not
technically trusts at all, but simply great
corporations. So the cotton bale trust
is in the same sense Of the word, not a
trust, but a corporation. But Of course
all this is mere quibbling. Using the
word in the popular sense, IS we gener-
ally do use 1t, all these corporations are
trusts. It is sheer hypocrisy to speak
OF the steel trust, the sugar trust and
the Standard Oil trust and then to deny
that the cotton bale trust, the ice trust
and the whisk trust combines are in the
same category.
On Saturday last In Ohio. Mr.. Bryan