Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-17

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dredths of soldier in the United
States to every thousand Of the popu-
3lation. Making the application clearer,
he said that in the probable twelve
hundred people Of the audience there
would be just one soldier If the proper
ton were carried out. He did not see
any great cause for alarm in that
Major White, the republican candidate
for lieutenant governor, was one Of the.
North Dakota soldiers, was on the.
stage Governor Roosevelt said he,
would represent the proportion Of the.
soldiery to the audience. He saw no
signs of alarm on the part Of the audi
ence because this ogre of militarism
was present X laughter1. Jefferson
who he said knew something about the
declaration Of indepe dence which the
democrats are quoting for the first
time llaughter) had Increased the army
when he was president and the proper
ton Of soldiery was greater then than
now. He was an expansionist, too,
and so was Monroe and so was Jack
son, and Jackson had some reputation
as democrat, too. The kind Of gov
ernment we wanted. said the speaker,
was the kind that would best enable
every man to develop and bring out
the stuff that was in him. No legis-
| lation he said would overcome the laws
Of nature, or the natural talents or ca
I pacities of people. No legislation
would make all men prosperous.
4 Alluding briefly to the reviling Of
President Mckinley for his administra-
ton Of the government of the Philip
lpines, Governor Roosevelt drew atten-
4 tion to some G.. A. r. men in the audi
ence. and said that they remembered
4 when four years of war was fought un-
i der Abraham Lincoln, whom the dem
ocrats quote now, and whom the fire
in-the-rear democrats reviled worse
than Mckinley was attacked now.
The men who are leading the assault
4 upon the administration" said Cover
nor Roosevelt '*are the political heirs
OF the men who attacked President
Lincoln then. - And now these same
fpeople and their descend ants are laud-
ing and quoting Lincoln, where then
they saift the war was failure, that
Lincc,,l was seized with ambition to
Ebeta king, and where they had attacked
Thin in language SO cruel that he would
not quote it. "a. II
/ Concluding Governor Roosevelt said
that the nation stood on the threshold
Of century big with possibilities.
I Let not the first step in that century
Ibea backward one, in the hauling down
Eof the American flag. We must be a
nation of strong men, ready to do our
work in the onward march Of the
world, not cravens or weaklings, seek
ling to escape our duty. Where the
flag has been raised with honor, it
must not be pulled down with dis
honor. iS !, d
T Governor Roosevelt's address was
clean, logical and effective, devoid of
any appeal to prejudice or passion. He
was loudly and continuously applauded
at it's close. 3 II & sE.ls ~ y 25S.sss
| Senator Hansbrough introduced then
Curtis Guild. jr., OF Boston. who is a
finished and eloquent speaker. Mr.
Guild paid a tribute to the character
of Governor Roosevelt. whom he has
known since college days, and whose
upright honesty, determination and
courage had brought him to the first
place in American politics Mr.. Guilds
address was devoted largely to pictur-
ing the evils of attempts at class preju-
dice and of the union of the north and
south he told in sketch from the late
war where soldiers from the north and
soldiers from the south joined in south
Tern and northern songs, and mingled
as brothers under one flag. He ridi-
culed the comparisons of the demo-
Gratis in setting Aguinaldo beside
George Washington as patriot.
EQuoting from authorities on the Phil
|ippine islands, he showed how .Aguin-
aldo had sold out his revolution to the
Spanish authorities for money. t.He
was worse than Benedict Arnold, !, said
Mr.. GUILD, because Arnold staid
bought Aguinaldo had changed sides
four times within year in his deal
ings with his own people and the Span
ish.
Former Senator Wilson from Wash
ington was the last speaker. He gave
reasons for the faith that was in him
ass publican. Mr. Wilson is a whirl-
wind He stripped the democratic
party Of its pretense and sham and
gave fact after fact ana figure after fig-
ure to prove the prosperity OF the past
four years. He showed how the ma