Evening star., 1900-09-21

Made Five Speeches Yesterday in
Idaho and Utah.

Md0e rive speeches 1ebterOay
Idaho and Utah.
Governor Roosevelt made five speeches
yesterday including night meeting at
Ogden. Utah. The special train left Poca-
tello at o'clock in the morning and ar
rived at Ogden at in the evening, where
stop was made for the night
At Logan in the morning the Roosevelt
party, escorted by the local committee, left
the train and proceeded to the Cache Nor
mon Tabernacle, where addresses were
made by Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster, Governor
Roosevelt and others. The tabernacle was
well filled and Governor Roosevelt spoke
in part follows:
We have never had movement for ex-
pansion in this country where there were
not a large number OF excellent people who
held up their hands in horror and pre-
dicted the death of the country. Right after
the revolutionary war some people OF the
seaboard Atlantic states objected strongly
to taking IN the Ohio valley. One OF the
foremost statesmen Of my own state pre-
dcted what would happen II the white
savages were going to take possession OF
the Ohio valley when under the control or
the national government l. New Yorker,
am now running on ticket that has at its
head a representative Of one Of the states
which that excellent gentleman thought
would be peopled by white savages-Ohio
Then We came to the Mississippi, and
lot Of excellent people said 1t meant ruin
to the land and the dissolution of the gov
ernment II We stretched over the Missis-
sippi. Whom President Jefferson, in 1903.
acquired by treaty and purchase the land
beyond the Mississippi and all that region
beyond the Rocky mountains he acquired
1t just exactly as Presiden: Mckinley ac-
quired the Philippines, and then number
OF excellent gentlemen said that meant
final ruin Of the issue. Now the Missouri
in the east. That was in. 1911, Then came
the Mexican war, and any number of peo-
pie said that II we stretched on to the Pa
cifc our country would come to An end.
THE idea Of taking in. what are now the
states of Idaho. Oregon and California was
sufficient to make them despair Of their
country. l have just passed through Idaho.
of which as great a man as Daniel Webster
said that the land was only fit for cactus
and Jack rabbits We see what 1t Is today.
Six or eight years ago Hawaii under Presi-
dent Harrison, wished to be annexed to the
American nation, and the American flag
was hoisted. Then came in President
Cleveland with democratic administration.
and. to use their own language, they hauled
down the flag. We have hotSted 1t again
since, gentlemen, and for keeps this time"
At Brigham City an open-air meeting was
held. and the speaking was done from the
band stand In the center Of the village. In
said:
Il ask you to support the man whom we
have nominated because the promises we
have made have squared with our perform
ances; because the prophecies of evil to
which our opponents have given utterance
have been absolutely falsified by the events
because your desire of the maintaining of
material things which have 80 we'll secured
our well-being In the past four years. and.
above and beyond all. for the sake of the
destiny OF the greatest republic on which
the sun has ever shone. for the sake OF
proving at the beginning Of new century
Ao IN 1Ho Vk al aho Nm Qf0
she Is. the leader among the peoples OF
mankind. and that the nations Of the world
shall know that We taks~ no backward