Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-19
THE ROOSEVELT SHOW.

tention to the superiority of conditions
now as compared with
Four Years Ago.
Four years ago. gentlemen, and espe-
cially those or you who work In the
factories and in the mines. how much
chance OF success did you have in a
strike Tor higher wages? Yet just such
strike has succeeded in Pennsylvania
now. Do you recollect six years ago
in Wheeling. when you had Coxey s
army and free soup kitchen? If you
want thin soup free you can have it by
voting for free silver. If you want a
continuation of your present prosperity
you'll have to vote 10 continue in Of
flee President Mckinley (cheers) and
to continue the policy for which he
stands? Our opponents, Mr. Bryan and
his supporters, ask you to give up your
present prosperity; they ask you to sur
render the honor of the flag; they ask
you to give up that spirit of orderly
liberty under which this republic
should ever stand; and they ask you to
give it for what? For militarism and
imperialism
Militarism! / saw men today wear
ing badges which showed that they
were Union soldiers in the late war.
lns Kentucky | saw distinguished sol
diers who had worn the gray, such men
as Joe Wheeler and Fitzhugh Lee. You
saw on the battle field, my soldier
friends, more men engaged in one day
than there are now regular soldiers in
the entire army of the United States.
Coming II haPn rndaU N syfo-
ton to the grounds, | met several OF
these threats to our liberty. One Of
them was in my own regiment at San
tiago. There was one colored man who
had fought in the Twenty fourth In
fantry, and a white man who had
fought in the Third Cavalry, whom
commanded. Regular soldiers, these
two, and now both citizens the same as
you and l.
These $1,000 regulars are your own
kinsfolks. your own friends, and TO-
100000 of people are asked to be afraid
of $4,000 of them if they wear Uncle
Sans uniform. There are eighty-six
one-hundredths of a man, with CORE
spending portion Of a gun, for every L.
900 people in the United States, and If
there exists in West Virginia a single
individual SO timid as to be afraid of
that fraction OF man, that is one and
half ounces a regular soldier, want
to
Relieve Him of His Fright.
There are enough veteran soldiers to
form an army to protect him.
Il appeal to every man, if he is a
man; | appeal to every American, to
stand with us in this fight; whether he
is an fastener, or Westerner; whe-
Their he is a Northerner or a Southern
er, he now stands like all soldiers.
Whether he is from abroad or from
this country; whether his parents came
from Germany or Ireland, or whether
they have lived in America for genera
tons hack; whether she.is black or
white, Catholic or Protestant, Jew or
Gentle; l challenge the right to his
support [Cheers.l
I'VE can now get shoulder to Shout
der men of the Blue and the Gray as
they fought together in the Spanish
American war. We saw at Santiago the
Ninth and Tenth Cavalries and the
Twenty-fourth and T,wenty-fifth In
fantry, men of darker faces, bleeding
upon the battlefield, and leaving their
dead and wounded as they went up the
hill. Bryan is very solicitous about
the brown man In the Philippines, but
he hasn't word to say about govern
ment without the consent of the gov
erned When our own citizens in North
Carolina are concerned. In Kentucky
the Goebelites discriminate against the
Republicans, against the Gold Demo-
Gratis, and they even discriminate
against silver Democrats II they don't
belong to their faction. In Kentucky
the peoples rights are being violated,
and they have put Governor into Of
fee by force.
Bryan comes to Kentucky to
speak, for whom? The people who are
ruled by fraud? No. On behalf of those
who prevent our institutions, and do
the foulest wrong that can be commit
ted to our institutions. I'll tell you
what is the paramount issue. 1t is
Organism. [Applause.l In Kentucky 1t
speaks Of anarchism and the torch; in
my State it speaks of Crokerism, with
its system of blackmail, and with it's
private ownership, and public denuncia-
ton of the ice trust; everywhere 1t
stands against civic honesty, 1t stands
against social and industrial good will.
/ appeal to you, my countrymen, to pre-
serve our conditions OF material pros
perity; appeal to you to preserve our
precious heritage of liberty; / appeal to
you to declare once and for all time,
that old doctrine that where once the
flag has been hoisted in honor, it shall
never be hauled down in dishonor."
There was demonstration OF APP
plause when Col. Roosevelt concluded
his speech. A passageway through the
crowd was opened for him by the OFF,
GERS present, and he was escorted to
his carriage In the quarter stretch, and
driven rapidly to his train. The crowd
started to leave the grounds, and before
the next speaker was fairly launched In
his address, the grand stand was prac-
tlcally deserted, and not more than
1900 surrounded the speakers plat
FORM
Mr. White stated that he would also
have to depart, and he introduced as
the next chairman, Mr.. Atkinson, OF
Hancock county, stating that he was
delegate to the National convention in
1856 that nominated John c. Fremont
for the Presidency. Before leaving,