The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-09-22
CHILLY AT sALTAIR.
Small Crowd Heard Roosevelt at the
Resort.

Resort.
Luncheon was hardly disposed of be-
fore it was time to go TO the lake.
Governor Roosevelts car ard the Pull
man for the newspaper correspondents
who travel with him, was attached to
the train leaving the Rio Grande West
ern depot at 40 O'Clock. Ten coaches
for the public made up the balance of
the train and all were fairly well
filled.
At the pavilion a small crowd had
preceded Roosevelt. The battery band
was there making music for dancers
and there was plenty of room for
everybody. Enough people were on
hand though TO set Up a yell for the
candidate as he walked through the
center gate with Governor Wells. The
pair made a run for the Office of Man
ager Miller, reaching their goal after
being held up twenty times for intro
auctions.
Bathing tickets were purchased and
the New Yorker prepared for plunge
in the briny. Governor Wells accom-
panied him with an unconcealable
shiver. Others followed him and quite
a party waded out to the fireworks
platform west of the pavilion. Fifteen
minutes was enough of this sort of
thing. The bathers, including the guest
of honor, wore a purple tinge when
they came out. but a brisk rub down
A hve-minute reception came before
the Speechmaking. The crowd was not
sufficiently large to enthuse anybody.
Instead of the 5000 or 5000 who were
expected. less than 1000. according to
the Saltair management, assembled on
the dancing floor to hear the oratory-
The space wasn't half filled and even
in the section that was occupied, a lib
eral sprinkling of vacant benches could
be seen.
Major r A. Grant, who had been
shut out of every other feature of the
ceremonies, including even a place on
the reception committee, was accorded
the chairmanship. He was introduced
by Chairman Caliister of the state
committee as a man who had made a
gallant record in the Philippines.
The appearance of Governor ROoSe-
welt on the platform with Major Grant
was the signal for a prolonged demon
stration. 1t was nearly a minute before
the applause subsidized sufficiently for
him TO be heard and at almost. every
sentence through his brief speech he
was cheered vociferously.I
''Mr. Chairman and you, my fellow
citizens" Governor Roosevelt began, 81
cannot tell you how L have enjoyed
coming TO this state All morning 1
have had such good time that 1 for
got Twas a candidate.
There are other reasons why / am
glad to be here When the call to arms
came, Utah, as was to be expected
from q state settled by pioneers who
drove their ox-drawn wagons through
the wilderness. Utah sent her best and
braVeSt men to the east and to the
west. Your batteries had the great
good fortune to get into the Philippines
| and to earn great glory not only for
you but for every American citizen
worthy of the name.
Your cavalry didn't have the same
good fortune because there wasn't
enough war to go around But if the
chance comes again, and I sincerely
hope it won't. and I have anything to
do with it, Utah's soldiers shall all be
in the front. And before L leave this
subject 1 want to say 1 was glad to
have quiet little ride with some of
your cavalrymen today because they
looked like own brothers to the men
from Arizona and New Mexico and
other points that fought in my regi-
! ment in Cuba
Colonel Roosevelt said he wanted to
touch on just one of the issues of the
| campaign. He. declared that Bryan had
| said 100000 soldiers were walking about
| the Philippines in idleness Il took
| lunch today with some soldiers of the
regular army, all of whom were with
me in Cuba One of them will be lame
all the rest of his life as the result of
| a shrapnel wound. You read in the
| papers today how g band of our men
| were attacked in the Philippines by
many times their number and of how
one-thSrd of them were killed or
| wounded. Do you think these men
4 were walking about in idleness p -
Don't you think those men are en-
| titled to better treatment for / 1eir SER
/ vices than to have it stated that they
| are walking about in idleness?" There
welt went on. After speaking of the
| reports of the Philippine commission.
| he said: "Out there all party lines
| cease and the Democrat wonders that
/ l. -
! against the American flag
Then the colonel started to appeal to
every man lin whose blood the red
veins flow" He caught himself with a
smile and changed it to gin whose veins
| the red blood flows" What has been
! gained by the blood of our brothers
| shall not be forfeited by craven weak
ness he went on. Some of those
! men fought under you. Mr. Chairman
| They fought that the flag might go for
ward, and it shall not go back.
! I'VE ask all Americans, and espe-
| cially you of the west, who characterize
| all that is most typical of American
! ism, that this nation shall not abandon
| its duty, and that il shall make it ap-
parent 10 all the nations of the world
| that where the American flag has been
hoisted it shall never be hauled down -
Colonel Roosevelts conclusion was
/ more vigorously applauded than any
! other portion OF his speech, for it was
| really the most eloquent point he
/ reached. After the cheering. had sub
! sided. Chairman Grant introduced Sem
/ ator Carter of Montana
! Major Grant got tangled on the name
and called Senator Carter Senator
/ Clark The crowd enjoyed the chair
1 mans confusion. but nobody was more
| tickled than the man from Montana.
| He was smiling broadly when he began
/ 20 speak. 1.-The only apprehension /
/ had when your chairman mistook my
/ name" said he. was that you would
! require me to build 400 miles of rail-
road before this meeting adjourned.
| Now, the great question with me IS
| how ID get over the 400 miles of rail-
roa i between here and Butte without
| walking
Senator Carter said Governor Roose-
| Welt spoke to a Utah audience Just as
] he would to New York crowd, but he
/ should have recognized the higher de-
! gree of civilization maintaining out
| here. He called attention to the fact
that Governor Roosevelt, in one of his
messages to the legislature, had rec
( commended sthe passage of law pro-
/ Tiding for female suffrage. IF such a
/ law is enacted" continued Mr.. Carter
/ ~ think the women would come nearer
/ controlling Tammany and the thugs OF
the Five Points than all the men have
! been able to do in this generation"
= Going on with his speech Senator
/ Carter fool<. M MANY political 0ueS-