The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-11-08
BROKEALL RECORDS.
Remarkable Campaigning Tour Of
Gov. Roosevelt.


owego, N. Y. Nov. s.-Theodore
Roosevelt, republican candidate for
vice president, completed Friday
night at this point one of the most
remarkable campaigns ever made py
a candidate of any party in the Unit
ed States In eight weeks he has vis-
tied "a states of the union, made 673
speeches, travelled 21,209 miles, visited
SCI towns and cities. and talked to
what is estimated to be 100000 peo-
pie. This record includes more
speeches, more miles Travelled and more
territory covered than that OF all the
other candidates for president or vice
president of the United States OF all
the other parties for the last 100
years, with the exception of the rec
i ord made by William J. Bryan in 1896,
and it exceeds Mr.. Bryan's record,
which was 500 speeches made and 49,
900 miles covered. This wonderful
campaign was finished by a two
weeks tour of the state of New York,
during which the candidate Travelled
2,253 miles, through 81 counties and
made 100 speeches, the majority OF
them from the rear platform of the
| train. Mr.. Roosevelt finished this
| tour in excellent health and good
spirits and, as he said Friday night:
"With a slightly weakened voice, but
able to go on with the campaign a
couple of weeks more" The last day
of this campaign included eight stops
between jamestown, in Chautauqua
county, and, inclusive of Owego, in
Tioga county. The stops Friday
| varied from two hours in duration, at
clean, to ten minutes at other points.
Bryan at Chicago.
Chicago, Nov. 3.-William j. Bryan
spoke at two meetings at midday, one
at Handel hall, where about 800 peo-
pie gathered under the auspices of the
Single Tax Bryan and Stevenson club,
and the other on the lake front, where
he spoke from the same stand he stood
upon Thursday evening. The latter
meeting was an immense one, the crowd
| extending two-thirds of the distance
| on the lake front to the Illinois Central
| tracks and between the viaduct and the
| post office.
There were many women at the lake
front meeting, which had been adUer-
| tised as a workingman's meeting. His
| speech at the second meeting was upon
militarism and government by injunc-
| ton.
Stevenson in Fort Wayne.
Fort Wayne, Ind, Nov. 3.--Adlai E.
Stevenson received on Friday the
greatest ovation ever given to any
candidate in Fort Wayne, eclipsing
even the Bryan reception in 1896. Mr..
Stevenson was accompanied by Con-
gresham J. w. Bailey, of Texas, and
Judge Welty, of Canton, D. Friday
afternoon there was parade of farm
ers, with 1000 men in line, half of
them mounted. At night the largest
| political parade ever seen in the city
took place, democratic marching
clubs, railway and shop men and
worldngmen generally turning out,
$500 strong. In the afternoon Mr..
Stevenson spoke briefly from the bal
cony of the Wayne hotel to 5000 peo-
pie, and at night spoke to an audience
of over 5000 at the Princess rink.
Perhaps that many more were unable
to secure admission.
The PrOhibitionIsts.
Grand Rapids, Mich, Nov. 3.--The
prohibition special train arrived here
at 7:45 Friday night, having made a
total of 20 stops in the run across Mich
igan, and Presidential Candidate John
G.. Woolley made his twenty-first
speech before an audience of 1900 per-
sons at the Auditorium. Stops were
made in the afternoon at Vassar, Reese,
Bay City, Saginaw, st. Charles, Chesan-
ing, Henderson, Owosso, Lansing,
Grand Ledge, Warren, Lake Odessa
and Sunfeld.