The Portland daily press., 1900-10-18
A DAY OF TRIUMPH.
Governor Roosevelt In
State Of Ohio.
lie Spoke Last Night at Cleveland
To a Large Crowd.
And Scored David B.
Hill and Croker.
Fourteen Speeches Were Made
Yesterday.

Cleveland, Ohio, October 17.-This has
been day OF triumph for Gov. Roose velt
in Ohio. Tonight the city of Cleveland
gave him reception rivaIlng any SINH
lar demonstration ever made here.
Only one incident marred the evening,
notwithstanding reports circulated early
In the day that an attempt would be
made to break up the proposed meeting
at Newburg. 1t was here that mob
standing some distance away, threw
rock at the Governor, as the latter was
leaving the tent in company with Ma
tionaI Committeeman Herrick of Ohio
and others. The rock struck the Governor
on the head but his hat protected him
and he was not hurt. Quickly the Cover
nOr's companions closed a round him and
hustled him into passing car on
which he was borne away. There
was an Immense parade to do honor to
the candidate for Vice President. From
the Union station, riding In a gorgeously
decorated carriage drawn by four white
horses, in company with Governor Nash
and Senator Foraker, Governor Roose-
veIt was escorted to large tent on Mar
celine avenue, Newburg, the iron-work-
ing district, where he addressed a large
audience on the subjecU of prosperity.
His speech was very brief, consisting of
part OF that delivered by him an hour
later at Central armory in Bond street.
AT the tent the Governor was followed
by Col. Curtis Guild, Jy., who made an
exhaustive address. Senator Foraker
opened the meeting at ths armory and at
the close OF his address Governor Roose.
velt was introduced.
In the course OF his speech here tonight,
Governor Roosevelt said:
"No one with common sense is SO fool
ish as to desire the destruction of capi-
tai. Every reasonable man understands
and believes that overgrown corporations
should be subjected to rigid supervision
and when necessary to restriction. Mr..
Bryan's declared remedy for the evils
which exist in such corporations is the
destruction of the industries concerned,
bearing down in one common ruin en-
ployer and employed. For example, sugar
is manufactured by such corporation.
Mr.. Bryan favOrs the destruction of the
sugar refining beet sugar, and cane sugar
growing Industries of the United States
by the Introduction OF free foreign re-
fined sugar into this country. 1t would
probably destroy the corporations he de-
sires to destroy. 1t would also destroy
every man who raises sugar beets or
sugar cane, or works in sugar refinery.
1 have asked him to state which of the
commoditieszmade by pig corporations he
specifically desires to have made free. Ao-
cording to his statement and the Kansas
City platform ne would have all of them
made free. He would have such commo-
dit1es as American worsted cloths made
by the American Woolen company ex-
posed to the free competition of European
wOrsted clothes, not only driving Ameri- [
can working men from the wooden and
worsted mills Of the United States but de-
pr1ving every Ohio farmer of an Ameri-
can market for American WOOL Mr..
Bryan's policy would include free steel
rails. free glass, free china and pottery
and the exposure of the American work
ingman as we'll as the American capital
ist, TO unrestricted competition with all
the nations of the world. even with the
on of the Chinese labors, which
makes silks ana porcelain and grows rice
and wool to compete with the products of
American labor.
''We are opposed to correcting an evil
by the utter destruction OF the industry
in which evil exists, Our method OF deal
ing with these evils is to correct the cor
p Grafton laws which permit such evils to
exist. The national government under
the constitution has at present no power
to deal with these great corporations. We
have In New York Mr.. Croker, Mr..
Croker denounces trusts and he 1s one of
the largest stockholders in the Ice trust.
Mr.. Croker's rival in his loyal support OF
Mr.. Bryan is Mr.. David B. Hill. He is
against trusts in his public capacity, but
in his private capacity he Is the retained
counsel of the big corporations in the
effort to break down the franchise tax
law Now, gentlemen, the first thing
you want is sincerity; Is making what
you say on the sump good or that stump,
and ton of oratory does not count so
much as q pound of performance.
''Again on the prosperity issue, A
little while ago Mr.. Bryan said that he
put the man before the dollar, and not
the dollar before the man Four years
ago he had the man so far in front of the
dollar that he could not get hold Of it.
(AppIause. What we have been doing
is to put the man and the dollar together
and let the man decide whether the dollar
should be In front or behind" (Applause.)
Yhis was the fourteenth speeoh which
Roosevelt made in Ohio todays