Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-10
WELL RECEIVED
DOWN IN ST.. LOUIS

St. Louis, Oct. iO.-The Coliseum was
crowded last night in honor of Governor
Roosevelt. who spoke a little more than
an hour. The governor was tired, hav-
ing ridden in the parade this afternoon.
Afterward he was the guest of honor
at a luncheon given by the st. Louis
club. HI was escorted to the Planters
hotel in the evening by Mayor Zeigen-
helm, National Committeeman Kerens,
a mounted regiment of rough riders and
several thousand citizens in carriages or
ON foot. The route of the night parade
was Illuminated with flambeau and col
ore dire. Arriving at the Coliseum the
| governor was greeted with great ap-
pIause. He was introduced by the mayor
of the city and was cheered enthusi-
| astically throughout his speech. at the
conclusion of which he was escorted to
the Union station. where he took his
special train for Chicago, whence, to-
morrow morning. he will start on his
Indiana tour. The governor said:
IF any of you are fortunate enough to
know whether Mr.. Bryan. if elected, will
pay the Obligations of the nation in gold
or silver, I wish you woul divulge this
knowledge, for Mr.. Bryan won't. There
is no doubt about where we stand. We
are for the gold standard and we are for
it on the Atlantic seaboard and in the
Rocky Mountains alike. We stand for it
everywhere. for We are fortunate enough
to have issues which don't wear thin in
any part Of the country. Now, gentlemen,
some people say that the silver issue is
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people are uncertain as to how a candi-
date of one of the two great parties
would pay the obligations of the govern
ment. No issue is dead when you cannot
tell whether a creditor or a p%ensioner.
whoever he may be. is to get 4S cents or
100 N the dollar. 1t is lead to the ex-
tent that nobody ventures to argue in it's
behalf. All I want you to do from a ma
terial standpoint is to exhume Mr.. Bry-
ans prophesies With their signal nom
fulflment."
Governor Roosevelt then enumerated
some of the predictions, which, he de-
clared had been made four years ago by
Mr.. Bryan, which the facts today proved
erroneous. He continued:
Mr.. Bryan said mortgages would go
up and they We're the only things tina
went Gown. Mortgages nave diminished
in amt unit by nearly 40 per cent. When
these things We're pointed out to Mr..
Bryan the other day and 1 will show it
to him that we are prosperous, ne an
sWered that it was not the republican
party but Providence that made us so.
Now l am perfectly willing to admit that
there has been a fusion between Provi-
dence and the republicans. The demo-
Gratis a fused with about everything
else, but somehow or other they have
never managed to connect with Provi-
dence. Now, gentlemen, four years ago,
when things We're black, men turned to
strange gods. I don't wonder when a
man falls sick n does not know what
is the matter with him and he cannot
find out, hat he should try a quack
medicine once, but if he tries it again, I
must question his intelligence.
IF the people Of this country want to
go back into the slough of despond out
of which we have SO painfully emerged
if they want to do that, why, under the
constitution, it is their inalienable right.
But when they get back there don't let
them advance the I did not know it was
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