The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-02
POURING RAIN
Has no Effect Upon the Ardor Of the
People Who Flock to Hear Roose-
velt-opponents Should be Judged
by Their Prophecias.

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People Who Flock to Hear Roose-
velt-opponents Should be Judged
by Their Prophecies. +
BEATRICE. Neb.. Oct. 1.-When the
special Roosevelt train arrived at Au-
burn heavy rain made the contem-
plated outdoor meeting impracticahle.
and Governor Roosevelt was llurrlcdiy
driven to the opera house, half a mile
distant. The governor made ten min
ute address to an audience that flied
the building. He said in part:
During the past four years your
home products here have Increased 45
per cent. your beef products have In
creased sixty per cent, and yet VIC were
told four years ago there would be hard
times II the Republican ticket was
elected. The value Of your household
goods has gone up 20 per cent, mort
cages have been reduced 40 per cent.
and your savings accounts have in
creased by IS per cent. Now you should
judge our opponents by their prophecies
not one OF which have come true and
Judge us by our prophesles which have
been fulfilled"
Court House Square Filled by Crowd.
At Tecumseh, Governor Roosevelt
was conveyed to the court house
square, which was filed with people
where he spoke In the open air. He said
In part:
I want to call your attention to one
| Of two phases Of this contest. There
are doubtless among you men who
fought In the great civil war. who from
1851 to 1865. earned the undying graft
tude or their countrymen and conferred
| undying honor upon the flag. I mean
the veterans Of the great war. Natur-
| ally. when tho call to arms came In
| 1888 In community like this, with men
| and women like this in 1t. you sent your
sons promptly to the front. No wonder
thnt you raised your company Instantly
| and that 1t was not able to take one In
ten of the men who were ready to vol
| unteer and who were sent OF In the
Second 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 Phil
ippines.
Soldiers Called "Hirelings."
Your governor has recently spoken
of the soldiers OF the regular army as
"hlrelInEs." as "nrtcen-dolla ara month
hirelings," have fought beside these
'hirellngs" at Santiago. saw the First,
the Third and the Sixth White cavalry
and the Ninth and Tenth colored caval-
ry go UP the hill. I saw them leave
behind them 300 dead and wounded
"hirslinBs," 300 men who have shed their
blood for the honor OF the llng-300 men
who died that wo might be proud that
their country still held In honor the
fing. And the reward Is that these men
should heBnCered at rs "hlrelIngs." When
you sent your regiment to the Philip
pines Its colonel died. He came from
the regular army. 1t was Colonel SLOT
senbcrg, who wrote now name on the
honor roll OF american history, who
conferred honor not only on your state,
but on nil the nation. Is he to be refer
red to as onl;' "hircllng?"
Men Walking In Idleness.
ut is but n few weeks since Mr..
Bryan himHclf spoke OF the soldiers rs
hundred thousand men walking about
in idleness. Stotscnberg no longer walks
about In idlcness. The men who wcrc
in the Philippines. who stayed there
no longer walk about In idleness. Gen
.eral Lnwton no longer walks about In
idleness, nor does Lincomb or Riley.
who died Mt Ticn Tsln and Pckin. They
hilve found rest where their comrades
from 1861 to 1865. who give their lives
for their flag, have found rest. Woe TO
the country that has lost Its capacity
to appreciate the sacrifices of the gal
liant souls who do and dare and die for
Its honor and Its glory. or Nil ungen-
erous things the most ungencrous Is to
deny the proper need OF honor to the
soldier, whether volunteer like your
selves or thu rrgulnr, ms Colonel Stot-
scnberg was. Woe to the milton which
pralgc to such men," $50 50