The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-31
Gov. Roosevelt is Showing Evil
dence of Great Fatigue.
His Chest is Sore and His Voice
is Failing.
BEGINS ANOTHER DAY.
VIII Make the Run From
Rochester to Buffalo.
Rain and Mud Are Interfering
With His Meetings.

! N.
Roosevelt is feeling the strain of his
continued talking much more today
| than at any time since he started the
state tour. His chest is sore and his
voice does not carry as well as it did.
The train left Rochester at 9:30, and
making several stops, is expected to get
to Buffalo at p. m. The rain of yes
terday and last night has left the coun-
try roads in bad condition, and the days
audiences will be limited almost to the
residents OF the several towns where
the train stops
BRYAN HIS TEXT.
Albion, N. z, Oct. 31.-The sun came
out just after the Roosevelt special left
Rochester, giving promise of a pleasant
day. The first stop was made at Brock
port. Here the governor said:
Mr.. Bryan invokes the declaration of
Independence as applying to the Philip
pines Nebraska was acquired by
Thomas Jefferson without the consent
of the Indians in it, and he ought to
have known how to apply the declara-
ton Of independence, because he wrote
It appeal to you not only to see that
the president is reelected; not only that
Mr. Odell shall be made governor, but 1
wish to have in each case the president
and the governor backed by congress at
Washington and the senate and assem-
bly, at Albany. We cannot afford to let
Mr.. Bryan's principles and the present
Organized Democracy continue a form
liable danger to American political life.
1 appeal to you not merely to beat it,
but to stamp it under foot so that no
similar appeal will ever be made in our
time. w nile we can afford to differ on
questions of policy, we cannot afford, as
good Americans, to differ on the UNDER
lying principles, the lack of which makes
any party, whatever it is, q standing
danger to the country.
At Holly, where the train made its
second stop, the prospects for a fine day
had vanished, and it began to rain. New
crowd. Some of the things he said were:
"A year ago went through here
against my will without stopping, and
then 1 said 1 would come back, and
have come. We do not want to cut in
two the national honor, but cutting in
two the national debt would hurt our
honor, and so far from benefiting US
materially it would bring the most wide
spread disaster. If Mr.. Bryan's policies
ever should become enacted into law,
they would bear with an especial weight
of woe upon the very people concern
ing whom he affects to be most inter-
esJed."
Speaking on the Philippine question.
the governor said:
Mr.. Bryan speaks of polygamy in
the Sulu islands, and says it ought to
be stopped. Why, his proposal is to es-
tablish a prOtectoTate over these islands
and therefore guarantee both slavery
and pOlygamy in Sulu. He proposes to
cut himself off from the power of alter
ing pOlygamy and slavery in the islands.
but to establish a protectorate over
them which will prevent any one else
from interfering"
The train reached Albion in a pouring
rain. A crowd had gathered, however,
and listened to the governor with atten-
ton. The governor devoted most of his
time to prosperity, and said in part:
I ask you to compare conditions in
1896 and now. I don't want to take the
words of any one, but to take your own
experience right around here In 1898,
who was prosperous? There was not
anybody prosperous. No one portion of
our people can be really prosperous if
there is not a good deal of prosperity
coming to all.
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS.
Lockport, N Y, Oct 31.-At Medina
where his train stopped for twenty min
Utes, Governor Roosevelt stepped from
his car to a temporary platform The
rain had ceased and the governor occU-
pied the full time of the stop in address.
ing the crowd. He devoted most of his
attention TO Imperialism and military
ism
While the governor was talking a man
in the audience said; Governor, 1
would like to have you explain the trust
question"
what about the coal employees in
Pennsylvania ?'' said another
zone at a time said the governor.
''AS to the coal employees in Pennsyl- I
vania they have won a strike for an in
crease of wages. Do you think they
would have won that strike four years
agO2
mo, no. no. shouted the crowd
The governor then discussed the trust
question at length, referring to Mr..
Bryan's remedy of taking the tariff off
articles used by the trusts, and the rem
edy of the Republican party to get at
the evil by a constitutional amendment, !
and stated in detail the history of the
resolution to amend the constitution
which was defeated last June.
In speaking of militarism the COVER
nor referred to the posts located near
Oswego and Buffalo and said the senti- /
ment there was rather for an increase of /
soldiers stationed there. He cited the
fact that regulars had been stationed at |
the forts around New York for 11S years,
and said referring to the fact that some
had been sent to the Philippines:
Some little time ago a number of
citizens got up a petition to the war
department to increase the number of !
soldiers in these forts because the ex-
isting number was not enough to keep
the big guns clean.
Il want to ask said he at the CON
clusion of his remarks, IF any of you
here has ever seen single inperialist? |
I have never found one from the Rocky
mountains to the Atlantic coast. / have |
met lots of expansionists. I am one my
SELF
Reaching Lockport, Governor Roose-
Welt was driven in a carriage to the op-
era house, where an audience was as
sernbled that filed all the seats and
standing room. while hundreds had been |
unable to gain admission. The COVER
nor's address here was devoted in large |
part to the question Of prosperity the |
position that prosperity can not but help
even the lowest wage worker, and in |
fact help him TO 4 greater extent than |
il does some CT those who are known as