The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-22
ROOSEVELT'S
UNDERTAKING.
The Governor Starts on a Can
Vass of His Own State.
VIII Travel a Distance of ALAG
Miles.
70 MAKE SO SPEECHES.
Tour Will Last Two Weeks End
ing at New York City
On Saturday Nov. 3. Long
Island Nov. 5.

New York, Oct. 22.-With the inten-
tion of travelling 2146 miles, almost all
of it within the confines of New York
state and outside of the greater city,
boundaries and with the purpose of de-
livering ninety-three speeches ranging
from seven minutes to two hours in dur
alton, Gov. Theodore Roosevelt, candi-
date for vice president on the Republican
ticket. LETT WeehaWken by special tram
on the West Shore railroad this morning
at II O'Clock. The days close will find
him at Kingston.
Tomorrow he climbs to the apex of the
Catskills, descending on the other range
into the Susquehanna valley. From there
he runs up and touches at points along
the Mohawk, then away out to Water
town on the north and back to Auburn
in central New York
Striking Syracuse on Thursday night,
he comes down the Mohawk and Hudson
valley. reaching New York city on Fri
day night, prepared to talk to many
meetings Saturday following he will
rush along the Erie road reaching Bing-
hamtOn that night and remaining over
Sunday. The following week will find
him at every place of Importance in
western New York and back in New
York. city on Saturday, Nov 8. Monday,
Nov. 5, the day before election, will find
him making a tour of Long Island and
finishing his flying canvass of the state.
Gov. Roosevelt arrived at the West
Shore depot at 1880 O'Clock accompanied
by his secretary, " IN. J. Youngs, Walter
Emerson of Maine, Job e. Hedges,J James
r. Sheffield, Arthur Won Brison, j. S.
Whipple and ex-senator John Iaughlin.
The governor was escorted to the train,
which consisted of a dining car, parlor
car, the private car of the governor and
an ordinary day coach. AS Gov. Roose-
welt stepped on the platform of his car
there were cries of Speech, speech"
The governor turned around, uncovered,
and said to the crowd:
My throat is not in good condition for
me to say much but 1 will say a few
words We are going to knock them out
on the 9Th.
AS the train pulled out of the yard the
governor was cheered by the dispensing
crowd.
GOVERNOR GROWS BITTER
West Nyack N. Y, Oct. 22.-"Hurrah
for Bryan" shouted a. man in the small
crowd of people that greeted the Roos5-
velt special train at Congers, it's first
stop. why don't you hurrah for Alt
geld or Aguinaldo?" retorted Governor
Roosevelt and the man subsided while
the crowd cheered and waved it's flag.
Governor Roosevelt divided the ten min
utes stop with James A. Whipple of this
place. The governors voice was good
and he made himself plainly heard. He
said in part:
Il am now back again in my own
state, and come to appeal to you whose
representative at Albany in the execu-
tive chair I have been for two years to
ask you to stand by the cause of civic
honesty, of civic decency of national
prosperity and national honor.
You have been asked by our Oppo-
nenJs at different times what were the
paramount issues in this campaign. 7
can tell you, the paramount issue for the
whole nation, is once for all to stamp
under foot Organism. And with it, in
this state goes the only less important
issue of stamping under foot CrOkerism.
Organism means somewhat different
things in different places, but funda-
mentally 1t means an appeal to the low
est passions, to those qualities that in
the last analysis are most dangerous to
the welfare of the people, whether it is
Pettigrewism in South Dakota, Altgeld-
ism, smelling of anarchy and bomb
throwing in Illinois, GobeIism, which
means fraud of the ballot in Kentucky
or CrOkeriSm with all that it calls IIp of
the reign of Tammany Hall in New
York; of black mailed vice and people |
hattening on the iniquities of a great city
and I ask you to save the nation from
all the material woe and the shame and /
disgrace, to save the state from being
dragged down to the level to which |
Tammany Hall has dragged the city of /
New York. I ask you to compare the |
nation as it ROW stands with what Mr. |
Bryan prophesied four years ago and to /
compare the government of New York |
state with the government of New York |
city and then make UP your minds if |
you are willing to desert the state and 1
turn it over to the rule of Tammany |
Hail.
SMALL CROWD AT CONGERs
A1aVerStraW, N. Y, Oct. 22.-At Con- |
gers there was q, small gathering of peo- I
pie, and Governor Roosevelt from the /
lear of his special train introduced Sen |
ator John Laughlin of Buffalo, saying as !
he did
1T seems to me in this campaign we /
have right to appeal, as we do appeal, /
not to men as Republicans, but as good /
citizens. There are certain principles |
that underlie republicanism and dem /
ocracy alike. that underlie the democ- /
racy of jefferson and Jackson, that un- !
derlie the whigism of Henry Clay and /
Webster and the republicanisn of Abra- /
ham Lincoln, and it is under these prin- !
cipIes that we make our appeal for hon /
esty in the state and in the nation, hon. !
esty in making promises and perform /
ance square, honesty in not prophesying /
that which we know or ought to know |
Will not occur, honesty in not halving l
the nations debt by halving the nations /
dollars, resolving to preserve the condi- !
tions under which we have gone up /
wards. and not to go back to the CON
ditiOns of Coxey's army and the free /
soup kitchen, and resolving to do the |
work of a great nation in the face of |
the worlds greatest powers without
az,