Evening star., 1900-10-01
Colonel Roosevelt Makes a Rapid
Tour Through Nebraska.
DELIVERS A SPEECH At BEATRICE
He Scores Democratic Candidate
for Be|ittIing the Soldier,
MATTER OF PROPHECIES

BEATRICE, Neb. October 1.-When the
special Roosevelt train arrived at Auburn
a heavy rain made the contemplated out
door meeting impracticable. and Gov
Roosevelt was hurriedly driven to the
opera house, half mile distant. The gov
ernor made a ten-minute address to an
audience that filled the building. He said.
in part:
During the past four years your home
products here have increased 45 per cent,
your beef products have increased 60 per
cent, and yet were told four years ago
there would be hard times If the republican
ticket was elected. The value of your
household goods has gone up 20 per cent.
mortgages have been reduced 40 per cent
and your savings accounts have increased
by 35 per cent. Now you should judge our
opponents by their prophecies not one Of
which have been fulfilled, and judge us by
our prophecies which have been fulfilled"
At Tecumseh Governor Roosevelt was con-
veyed to the court house square. which was
flied with people where he spoke in the
open air. He said in part:
Tribute to the Soldier.
81 want to call your attention to one of
two phases of this contest. There are doubt
less among you men who fought in the
great civil war, who, from 1861 to 1866,
trymen and conferred unlying honor upon
the flag. 1 mean the veterans of the great
war.
Naturally when the call to arms came in
1898. in a community like this. with men
and women like this in 1t, you sent your
sons promptly to the front. No wonder
that you raised your company instantly
and that 1t was not able to take one in ten
and who were sent of in the I'd Nebraska
from this town. Now / ask you to see to
1t that the men in Washington do not undo
the work done by your sons and brothers
in the Philippines.
Your governor has recently spoken of
the soldiers of the regular army as hire
lings.' ffteen-dollar-a-month hirlings.
/ have fought beside these hirelings at
Santiago I saw the 1st, the Sd and the
9th White Cavalry and the 9th Colored
Cavalry go up the hill. / saw them leave
behind them 300 wounded hirelings, 300 men
who have shed their blood for the honor
of the flag: 800 men who died that We might
be proud that their country still held In
honor the flag. And the reward Is that
these men should be sneered at as nlre-
lings.
Remembers Col. Stotsenberg.
when you sent your regiment to the
Philippines it's colonel died. He came from
the regular army. 1t was Col. Stotsenberg
who wrote a new name on the honor roll of
American history: who conferred honor not
only on your state but all the nation
Is he to be referred to only hireling'
Il is but a few weeks since Mr.. Bryan him
self spoke of our soldiers a hundred thou
sand walking about in idleness. Col.
Stotsenberg no longer walks about in idle
ness.
The men who were in the Philippines
who stayed there no longer walk about in
idleness. Gen. Lawton no longer walks
about in idIeness. nor does I.iscomb or
REILLY. who died at Tien Tsin and Pekin.
They have found rest where their comrades
from 1861 10 1865 who caves their lives for
their flag have found rest Woe to the
country that has lost its capacity to APP
preciate the sacrifices Of the gallant souls
who do and dare and die for its honor and
its glory. OF all ungenerous things the
most ungenerous Is to deny the proper
need of honor to the soldiers, whether SOL
diers like ourselves the regular, as OF.
Stotsenberg Woe to the nation which re-
fuses tc give the proper need OF praise to
such men,.