Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-11-01

place of meeting. He was in a carriage
with former Senator Fassett and at
several points along the route was
pelted with eggs and vegetables and
greeted with the vilest epithets, while
the police looked on quiescently. The
campaign club from Corning was also
assaulted and a bitter fight ensued. In
the places of meeting the governor
had no Interruptions. After it was
over he said it was the conduct of
hoodlEms.
The Days Campaign.
Elmira, Oct 30.-ROosevelt finished
the first day of his second weeks
campaign in this state by the invasion
of the home of the democratic candl-
date for governor, John B. Stanchfield.
Nearly a thousand rough riders formed
in the parade line and escorted the
governor to the New Tivoli theater,
which was crowded to the doors with
an enthusiastic mass of humanity
anxious to welcome the vice preSiden-
tial candidate. 1t is estimated that
fully 10000 people from near by towns
were here. Several overflow meetings
were necessary to permit the COVER
nor to make himself heard. Roosevelt
also spoke to a packed house at the
Lyceum. At Ithaca the greatest en-
thusiasm CT the entire trip was man
tested, both in the city and at the
train. A trolley car was III Walting
for the party at the depot, and as it
passed down Main street toward the
meeting place it passed through lines
of students exhibiting the widest en-
thusiasm. A parade was formed with
three bands and a great crowd of stu
dents and citizens. Roosevelt paid a
compliment 20 ono co1,c2c man, a son
of Richard Croker, by refusing to do
as he has generally done at other
stops, make a personal attack upon
the Tammany leader. In an hours
speech he did not mention the namu
of Croker
1t was about an hour after the gov
ernor arrived at the stand before he
got we'll into his speech, the boys in
sisting upon singing college airs to
| campaign words, and giving their yells.
| The governor won the hearts of the
student body when in his Introductory
remarks he said: II am glad to be
with you this afternoon. | want to say
| that the on the sixth of November next
| hope to see the republican party win
| by a greater score than you whipped
Dartmouth with last Saturday, % to 6.
| The speaker had to wait fully five
minutes before the tumult ceased. His
references to sports interspersed
! throughout the speech elected great
applause from the student portion OF
the audience. In closing he said:
Il want you to apply this football mot
to to civil life. Don't foul, don't shirk
but hit the line hard In other words
act decently and honestly, but don't
commit any act Of trickery Don't do
anything of any kind whatsoever for
purposes of political gain that will
smirch the name of an American citi-
zen. Don't foul On the other hand,
don't shirk. If there exists a class in
a community for which I have little
use, it is the class of timid, good, good
people who are mighty good in their
own parlors, but don't come out TO do
a mans work in the world"
The governor yesterday at all of his
stops, especially at Elmira, devoted
himself principally to defense of the
national administration. He said in
part: L wish to appeal not merely to
republicans, but to all good citizens to
stand for the reelection Of President
| Mckinley, and the election Of O'Dell as
| governor. l call your attention espe-
! cially to the fact that in the state as in
the nation we, unlike our opponents,
are a party of performances, not of
mere promises. Our opponents are apt
to talk about the great things they
will do on behalf of the wOrkingmen,
against the trusts and big corpora
lions. We make no impossible prom
Uses; we take no attitude of
discriminating vindictiveness, but
what we promise we do.
During the past six years
we have put upon the statute books
and have enforced better and wider
laws in the interest of the wage work
err and for proper regulation and CON
troll Of great corporations than our op-
ponents everputon during the time
they had control in Albany.
when the history of the closing
years of the nineteenth century comes
to be written, McKirley's figure will
loom larger and larger. No other
president since Lincoln: no other
president for over a generation pre-
ceding Lincoln, has had to face such
great tasks, CT has faced them so we'll.
He came to the presidency as a man
on whose behalf much had been prom
ised and he made every promise good.
We said if he was elected he would put
the economic and financial policies Of
the government on such plans as.
would ensure prosperity. This has
been done. The gold standard has
been maintained and not only is our
credit perfect, but from a borrower
we have become a lender nation.
The tariff policy of the country
under Mckinley worked fully as we'll
The balance of trade is now enormous
~ in our favor. the excess of exports
over imports having grown so great
that the former has nearly doubled the
latter. The farmer, wage worker and
business man have all prospered to an
unexampled degree. At the same time,
while thus UNFOLDING the interests and
good faith of nation at home, McKfn-