Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-10-05
N NEBRASKA.
fhe Republican Vice Presidential
Nominee Made His First Speech
at Falls City Monday.
TALKS OF FARM PRODUCE PRICES.
In Reply to Mr.. Bryan's Statement That
the Republican Party Deserved No
Credit for tho Upward Tendency of
Prices, Roosevelt Said His Party Should
Have CredIt for Promises FULFILLED.

Falls City, Neb., Oct. 2.-The special
train bearing Gov. Roosevelt's party
reached this place at 500 o'clock Mon
day. The morning was rainy and the
ground water-soaked, but the inhab-
itants of the place were at the sta
ton to hear Gov. Roosevelt. Many
wagons and carriages brought farm
ers and their families in from the adj
joining country. Gov. Roosevelt said:
Il noticed the other day that Mr.. Bry-
an said the republican party had no
right to claim the benefit of the fact
that pork and wheat and corn had
gone up. He was speaking of hogs
said four years ago that if it's policies
were adopted those articles would go
up. It's policies were adopted and they
have gone up. You can proportion
the responsibility between the evil
dence and the republican party as
you choose, giving the republican
party it's share"
At Tecumseh, the meeting was held
in the courthouse square. Gov.
Roosevelt said in part:
want to call your attention to one Of
two phases of this contest. There are
the great civil war. They received the
undying gratitude of their countrymen
and conferred undying honor upon the
flag. Naturally when the call to arms
came in 1898 in a community like this,
you sent your sons promptly to the front
No wonder that you raised your company
instantly and that it was not able to take
one in ten of the men who were ready to
volunteer and who were sent off in the
Second Nebraska from this town. Now
II f0 RI h9 he in
Washington do not undo the work done
by your sons ind brothers in the Philip
pines. Your governor has recently Spok-
en- of the soldiers of the regular army as
$15-a-month "hirelings.'' have fought be-
side these 'hirelings'' at Santiago. I saw
the First, the Third and the Sixth white
cavalry and the Ninth and Tenth colored
cavalry go up the hill. I saw them
leave behind them 300 dead and wounded
''hirelings;" 300 men who have shed their
blood for the honor of the flag; 300 men
who died that we might be proud that
their country still holds in honor the flag
and the reward is that these men should
be sneered at as "hirelings.'' When you
sent your regiment to the Philippines its
colonel died. He came from the regular
army. It was Col. Stotzenberg who wrote
can history who conferred honor not on
ly on your state but on all the nation. Is
he to be referred to as only s'hireling?"
It is but few weeks since Mr.. Bryan
himself spoke or our soldiers as a num-
dred thousand men walking about in idle
ness. Woe to the country that has lost
it's capacity to appreciate the sacrifice of
the gallant souls who do and dare and
die for it's honor and it's glory. OF all
ungenerous things the most ungenerous
is to deny the proper merit of honor to
the soldier, whether volunteer like your
selves or the regular as Col. StotZenberg
was. Woe to the nation which refuses to
give the proper need of praise to such
men.