The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-26
ROOSEVELT AT DENVER.
What One Governor Said to
Another Governor.

Denver. Col, Sept 2s-The heavy
special train of the governor of New
York. to which was added the private
car of Senator Wolcott, accompanied by
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Mrs.
Lodge of Massachusetts, arrived in Dem
Yer at o'clock yesterday afternoon. At
the station Governor Roosevelt was met
by about hundred veterans OF the
SpanlSh-American war in uniform and
mounted. and was escorted to the Brown
Palace hotel where supper was provided.
There were many other guests and a
large number of people who Joined the
procession to the hotel. Three meetings
had been arranged for. the first at the
Coliseum hall. the second at the Broad
way theater. and the third at the Capt.
tol grounds. On account of the rain the
open air meeting was abandoned.
The Rev. Thomas Uzzen presided at
the Coliseum meeting and General Irv-
ing Hale presided at the Broadway the
ater. After the meeting Senator VOL
colt took Roosevelt in charge and con-
Quoted him to WOlhurst, his country
seat. II miles from Denver, on the Rio
Grande railroad. where Senator Lodge
and Mrs. Lodge were also taken and
where they remained for the night. In
addition to the eleven speeches which
Governor Roosevelt made yesterday he
had considerable executive business to
attend to. being all the time in close
touch with the executive officers at Al
bany, both by wire and by mail
Coliseum hall, the largest auditorium
IN the city was crowded to the doors
when Chairman UzzeI called the meet
ing to order and introduced Governor
Roosevelt.
During his address Governor Roose-
Welt declared that there was no more
excuse for the breaking of a promise
made upon the stump than for breaking
one made in private life 1t was just as
bad, he said, for the people to demand
promises impossible of fulfillment as for
the candidate to make them
Iaklng up the matter of trusts he said
that IN common with every individual
and with every institution in the last
four years trusts had fiourished. When
prosperity came every section and ev-
cry class had felt it. Undoubtedly, he
said. many of these vast combinations
OF capital had evil tendencies
Good weather for crops' he said. sis
also good for weeds. While 1 am will
ing to do all can to destroy the weeds.
I am not ready to pillow up the crops to
do it.
The trust is a new evil" he declared.
land we. must feel our way to find how
best to root it OUT
The governor then spoke of the ac-
ton of the two parties in New York in
regard to trusts, holding that while the
Democrats had denounced trusts in
ferOcious manner they had done nothing
10 rid the people of them while the Re
publicans had in the past two years put
upon the statute books a franchise tax
law. which has added nearly 500. 600 900
70 the tax rolls OF the state
The New York state Democratic con-
Vention. he said, recently adopted a
platform declaring against expansion
and in favor of labor and then nornina-
ted a man who is an ardent expansion
ist and lifelong opponent to trades I'M
Speaking of laws in the interest of la
Dor, the governor said that manufacture
Srs IN Massachusetts and New York
were moving their factories to South
carolina because the labor laws in the
states just named We're so much in IA
Vor OF the workmen, while in the latter
state they could work their EMPLOYEES as
many hours as they desired and need
take less steps for their protection
The states where labor is best protect
ed, he declared, are those which 11s11aI
" elect Republican executives and legis
latures.
After referring briefly to the expan-
sion issue Governor Roosevelt closed
with the declaration that where once
the American flag has been hoisted in
honor il shall never be pulled down"
He drove to the Broadway theater
where another immense crowd awaited
him. Here his address was more brief
He afterwards spoke to third meeting
at Windsor hall.
At the Broadway theater Governor
Roosevelt said in part:
Il have just received a letter purport
Ing to be from the governor of your