The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-09
LEADERS OF THEIR PERIY
ABLEsT MEN AMONG REprp,
OPEN THE CAMPAIGN AT
YOUNGSTOWN. o.
ROOSEVELT AT KALAMAZOO
The Rough rider Also Aadr.aa
Crowds of Voters INT South Bend.
Ind, and ut Holland
Mich. Fr

campaign speakers as Senator's Denew
Foraker and Hanna. the presidential
campaign opened here today The weather
was perfect.
In every way the demonstrat ton was all
that could be desired. The line of
marchers was long, and looked well !,
| their rough riders hats. There were
many bands of music. Besides those NJ
ready mentioned Gov. George K Nash.
Congressman Charles Dick and Richard
w Taylor and Judge Williamson were
on hand.
Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo. Akron.
Canton, all turned out large delegations.
While the nearby towns contributed their
snare of visitors to swell the great
| throng
The 9:45 o'clock train on the Erie rail-
road brought large delegation from
cleveland, and following 1t We're four sec
tons we'll filled with residents of the For
est city. Attached to the first section of
the train was the private car of Senator
Chauncey M Depew, of New York. With
Senator Depew, as his guests, were Sena-
tors Hanna and Foraker; Col. eAIyrons T.
Herrick, of Cleveland, o. member of the
national committee; District Attorney
John c. Sullivan, State Treasurer Isaac
Cameron, State Auditor Walton D. Gil
bert, Judge Samuel E. Williamson, of
Cleveland; George P. Waldorf, of Toledo,
and Andrew Squire Of Cleveland
The party was met at the station by the
Forester's club, of Youngstown, and es-
corted to the residence of Caleb Wick
where an elaborate luncheon was served,
and the guests were given an opportunity
to rest before taking part in the pa
rade and meeting.
Meanwhile every train entering the city
brought their quota of visitors large del
egations coming from Cleveland, Toledo,
Akron, Warren Girard Ashtabula, New
Lisbon and other places and towns in diff
ferent sections of the state.
PARADE FOUR MILES LONG.
AT l o'clock the guests of Caleb Nicks
entered carriages and were driven to
General square, where they were assigned
places at the head of the procession and
few minutes later the column moved 1t
was in eight divisions, with George e.
McNab as chief marshal, and extended
over four miles in length. Aside from the
many campaign clubs in line, there were
numerous attractive industrial exhibits
When Wicks park, where the speaking
was to take place, was reached by the
head of the procession, fully 10000 people
were in waiting. On account of the I'M
mense crowd two meetings We're held at
the same time
Gov. George K. Nash, who had been
selected as president of the day, made a
brief speech in introducing Senator For
aker, whose set speech was a mastery
plea for the reelection of Mckinley. At
the conclusion of his remarks Sena or
Foraker was greeted by prolonged cheers
and during his speech he was frequently
interrupted by applause.
Senator Foraker was followed by Sena-
tor Chauncey N. Depew, whose address
was also exhaustive. He closed his re-
marks by saying:
LISTENED TO .CHAUNCEY.
Imperialism and expansion means for
you, my fellow citizens Of this valley,
new markets. for the spFoduets of .xNaiS
industrial center. The pacifica ton of the
Philippines gives a market for, ten mill
hons OF people. It will grow every year
as they come into more civilized condi-
tons and their wants increase. Our part
at Manila is nearer by hundreds of miles
than any European country to the East
of Asia, where reside tWo-thirds of the
inhabitants of the globe.
China is about as large as the United
States and has 400,C00000 people. They
are an Industrious, sober producing c,aSs
China, while there are 181 600 in the Unit
ed States. In the next twenty years
China will be gridironed with railroads
The rails and spikes. the fish plates
the locomotives. the electric cars the
wire, must all be brought from abroad.
To retire from situation like that with
would be to build wall within which
American industry and industrial workers
would suffer and starve.s.
Col. Bryan talks glibly of the violation
of the Declaration of Independence and
government by the consent of the gov
erned. He says the Republican MY
did not dare reaf1irm the Declaration OF
independence in their platform at Phila-
delphia They had no occasion to. OF
all the parties that have ever existed in
a free country, the Republican party has
ton of Independence. The territories
wrested from slavery, the slaves freed
by the proclamation Of Abraham Lincoln,
Cuba rescued and rapidly reaching self
government, the Porto Ricans governing
themselves, and as fast as they are capa
BILE of governing the privilege of self
government being extended over the
towns and villages and communities of
the Philippines are all working on the !
lines of the Declaration of independence.
The overflow meeting was opened by
Senator M. A. Hanna, who said in part: |
GRAFTON BY MARK HANNA
will have to take you into my con
fidence and tell you why I am here. |
When | first received your kind invita-
ton | felt that my duties at headquar-
tiers would make it impossible for me TO
attend, and therefore declined. But !
when l got the summons from your COM
mittee that they must have Chauncey
Depew even if | had to bring him, that
changed the whole situation. SO I am
here to bring Depew, and for no other
purpose except this. / had been suffer- |
ing six long hot weeks in that wicked
CITY VI. view 1OTk, under the very Snau- /
ows of Tammany, laboring to lay the t
foundation for this great campaign, and
L absorbed so much of the gloom and
dependency of that neighbOrhood that | |
determined that If I could find rea-
Sonable excuse to retract my decision /
l would come to Ohio and absorb a lit !
tie inspiration from a Republican gath |
er1ng. Even though l had to come hand |
tcapped by this fellow and obliged to fol- |
low DepeW and Foraker, who have COW |
cred the whole area of politics and did /
not even leave me a strip of water
| am glad came, glad because this |
gathering has given me inspiration and |
confidence, coming back as l do to my |
native state l feel a renewed nope, !
inspired by new energy il coming West. |
And in connection with those splendid !
leaders who are or the stump and in |
the councils of the party, perhaps it Is
in our power to awake the people to the |
Importance and necessities of this cam
palgn. They are important. they are |
necessary beyond that of any other ever !
occurred In the history of the United |
States. Is
MOAIENTOUS ISSUES.
IT is a campaign fraught with more |
interest and more danger than even In |
1896. because If we fallsdown we have
further to fall than we rad in 1886. The |
progress of the United States depends |
upon our going forward gust as we have
commonwealth straight lines. holding In
our view nothing but the interests Of