The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-02
BEST OF HEALTH.
Gov. Roosevelt Denies That He
is Near Collapse.
Asked to Be Excused From
Speaking In the City.
LONG ISLAND TRIP.
For Monday He Also Wants
Stricken Out.
LONG ISLAND TRIP.
Leaves jamestown For Stump
ing Trip to Oswego.

I jamestown, N. NOV. Z.-COVeTuOT
Roosevelt was shown a newspaper to-
day in which was published a rumor to
the effect that he was on the verge of
! collapse from excessive work in the po-
litical campaign. The governor good
humoredly said his weight and general
! appearance were sufficient denial of the
report, adding that he was actually in
the best of health. It is believed that
rumor arose from the fact that the gov
ernor wrote to New York city that he be
excused from speaking on Saturday and
his scheduled trip through Long Island
Tor Monday be cancelled as he wished 70
finish his speech making in his own
nome village of Oyster Bay Monday
night.
The governor and his party left here
at O'Clock bound for Oswego with
many stops scheduled on the way.
SPEECH AT OLEAN.
OIean, N. Y, Nov 2--The Roosevelt
special made it's first stop at Rondout
where the governor spoke briefly. At
Olean the governor said in part:
I am passing through a part of the
state which can always be depended
upon to roll up great majorities for the
cause of decent citizenship. In this
campaign that is the fundamental issue.
We have a right to appeal to all men,
without regard to their party affiliations
IN the past, to stand with US now, be-
cause this is no mere party contest;
this is a contest for the fundamental
principles of American life, for orderly
liberty, for decency, honor and that
V111le patriotism which sees in the flag
a symbol of national greatness and
wishes to uphold it in the face of the
nations of mankind. More and more
during the past few weeks the effects
of our opponents appeal to disorder
have become manifest. Mr.. CrOl1er's
open 1ncltement to riot at the polls is
but a fitting climax to the Bryanite
campaign, in which mob violence at Do
litical meetings has become a recognized
A sin 11r,Vs
with this campaign is the attitude of the
very people who having opposed Bryan
four years ago are now supporting him,
although he represents every principle
which they then condemned Mr. Rol1rle
Cochran, for instance, used four years
ago stronger language than I would
now Thus, if you will turn to the New
Y YOrk World of October 80, 1896, you will
see that when an attempt was made to
break up a meeting which he was ad-
dressing, Mr.. Cochran said:
g Bryan and the crowd of lunatics
and ruffians who follow him, illustrate
their platform, which stands for anarchy
and riot
Personally I should not use the
phraseology which Mr.. Cochran is re-
ported to have employed, but the
thought was exact then, and it is equal
ly true now. The Kansas City platform
and those who uphold it stand for the
forces of disorder and of national dis
honesty, and here in this state for the
forces of civic dishonesty as well, and
when such is the case we have the right
to appeal for the support of every true
American. Our opponents throughout
this campaign have appealed not only to
class and sectional hatred, but have
striven to pander to race prejudice. We
draw no such distinctions. We care
nothing whether a man is q, banker or
a farmer, a railroad man or a mechanic,
a business man or q. day labOrer. We
care nothing whether he was born here
or born abroad. We care nothing for
a nod
that he shall be a good citizen. During
this campaign in different states I have
been championing the election of or
working the stump with men who by
birth or ancestry were some of them of
the old American stock, others of Ger
man, Irish, Scotch and Scandinavian
blood, or like myself, of Holland origin,
but we come before you not as Holland
ers, Germans, Irishmen, Scotchmen,
Scandinavians, native born or foreign
born-we come before you as Ameri-
cans, appealing to our fellow Amerf-
cans
The governor also said: ''It is perfect
ly true that no legislation, no admins
tration can by itself bring prosperity
The wisest laws won't bring prosperity
if the hand of the Lord is laid upon u.s.
If there comes drought, or flood, or fire
or peStilence, no law will save us from
disaster, and there are some people
whom nothing can make prosperous. All
that laws can do is this; they can be so
shaped, framed and administered as to
give the average man the best possible
chance to use right his own skill, thrift,
courage, resolution and business capac-
ity That is all, and that has been
done"
The governor also discussed prosperity
and imperialism When Governor
Roosevelt recited Mr.. Bryan's prophecies
at Minneapolis four years ago as to what
would happen in case the Republicans
won on the gold standard platform, he
was interrupted by a shout of But it
did not happen NO said the gov
ernor, 1--WE have gone forward, upward,
not downward" The governor ad-
dressed a large audience from a stand
in the nrincinal square here.