The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-25
WYOMING IS STIRRED UP.
ryEIPECTED CROWDS TO HEAR
COY. ROOSEVELT SPEAK.
Republican state Committee Now Enthusi-
a.tio over the outlook in This Campaign
Prosperity in the state-Gov. Rooso-
,.lt's statement OF the Financial Issue.

STATE 81 Wyoming to-day by Gov. Roosevelt.
vvoming was never very much Of q silver
state. It ~succumbed TO the bad example. so
ia statesmen say, Of the States which border
omit. Protection has taught Wyoming a whole
lot u things in the last four years. For the
fact that Wyoming coal has replaced British
Columbia coal IN the smelters and the factories
u, Montana. Utah and Colorado and the pack
ing HORSES Of Nebraska: for the price OF
Wvor Ing wool that has risen steadily
IN the face Of a dull market: for a steady market
for wyoming beef and mutton among people
who can afford TO eat a-plenty; for steady EN-
ploynent on the railroads Of thousands Of men
who cannot lay tho tracks fast enough TO carry
the Increased loads OF material evidence between
East and west-for all these things Wyoming
rrsises tho name Of Mckinley. The windows
OF the stores Of her towns are hung with his por-
trait Every time a speaker In a meeting
mentions his name the hall rings with such
cheers "a are seldom heard, except when the
man cheered is in front Of the people who cheer
him.
Most Of the meetings have been in towns
where railroad men make up most OF the au-
Geuces. Some Of them. like Rawlins and
Laramie and Cheyenne. are towns In which
cattle men have their headquarters. There
were lots NJ cattlcmen around. but not a. many
a. there would have been n the meetings had
been held a few weeks ago. before the fall round
up Cattle and sheep men have had to come
in for hundreds of miles around to attend some
Of the meetings. The railroad men have been on
the ground.
r. Is part Of the Republican problem in the
state this year 10 make sure OF the railroad
vote The whole vote Of the state is about
cu.u0N The Democratic majority in 1895 was
but a few hundred. In 1904. Richards, Repub-
lgal. carried the state by 1894 There are
enough railroad graders employed along the
the other. After seeing the way these men
a.'"d to-day when the doctrines, OF
In the Presidents name by Roosevelt ana his
friends, the managers of the Republican organi-
on the train, said that they were willing 10 bet
all they had, down u the last clip of their last
sheep, that Bryan will not carry Wyoming. and
that the Legislature will be Republican. The
impressions they have gathered from watching
the railroad men have simply confirmed the
ideas they got yesterday when they saw the
number Of people who Camc TO the Evanston,
Green River ana Rock Spring meetings.
In a state whose whole voting population
would not by any means overcrowd Madison
Square Garden a meeting of twenty voters Ia
one that the politicians regard with the utmost
respect and concern. II Is no uncommon thing
to send speakers from State headquarters 100
mile, from the railroad to address a gathering
OF from twenty 10 thirty men In a crossroads
sCNpolnDuSe, SUM mttlllkS as lnbSe AlDnG
the route OF the Roosevelt special for the last
few days have never been known In the State
before. After each stop the local politicians
make their way through the train TO their car.
Stamping one another on the back and feeling
good all over.
Tie Rawlirs meeting was made the occasion
Of an announcement by Col Roosevelt OF his
position and his party's position on the silver
question. He said.
that II he was elected, under the gold standard
and. protective tarln, the general condition OF
Affairs In this country would improve, and that
the condition of most of the people In this Coun-
try would Improve al the same time. You
elected him on that promise His perform
the last degree. We ask your support now for
President Mckinley because he stands on a
platform that Squarely declares for the gold
standard and the protective taritl a. did the
platform Of four years ago. and because wa
believe that, only, 10y that carrying out Of the
promise OF that platform can the present pros
perity OF the country be maintained and in
creased"
An imprompm meeting was held at Hanna,
who're the coal mines In which the chairman Of
tho Republican National Committee il consid-
erably interested. are located. The, whole
force Of $50 miners stood on the tracks with
their lamps In their caps and liStA ned closely to
what Col. Roosevelt and senator Warren had TO
say To them. They Cheered three times three
a the train started and when IL stopped for
It lew moments at the switch into
the main track they ran out
J. the clear air Of the Rocky Mountains the
cheers We're as audible a mile and a half away
a, though they had been but a few hundred feet
member Of the First California Volunteers
c1ue smashing through the audience as the
folks right and lett. High in the afr he held a
CIgar-Shaped package to Roosevelt. II was
tightly wrapped in, gold foil, -.
| got that In Manila" shouted the soldier.
o, the train rolled away and left him nearly
bre1thless i have been saving 1t for you
ever since ] heard you were coming out here"
The Governor could Only wave Ills hat IN dis
tlut acknowledgment. lie never smokes him
self. 20 he called Col, Guild and John Proctor
clarke 10 him and told them that the one who
made the best speech at Cheyenne tonight
should nave the cigars. The three have n very
thorough syst m II covering the issues of the
campaign between them and the effectiveness
oi their campaign has been the admiration OF
i,e western uohtirians' When Col.
mIlitarism' bogc 6, Mr.. Clark attacks MIR.
Bryan's record n "A political prophet and pre-
and It's ELECTS on the products of the country
and on the wages Of the workers where the
meeting is being held.
Laramie turned cut 50 many people that
two halls had Ia he used 10 hold them. Col.
Guild rather carried on tho honors by touching
M Mr.. organs record as an enemy TO the sheep
In~rT-. He quoted the Democratic Candi-
date, speech In which he said that he favored
tree wool and did not care whether the sheep
man wanted protection or whether he did not.
CO.. Guild backed this up with an interview
with Bryan a few months ago in which he said
tlp' no stood by every word he had ever said
ON sherman Pass the Union Pacific Is chang
INK rs grade 80 that II will be cut down 1000
feet The magnitude of the undertaking may
b" understood from the fact that in order to
carry on the work, night and day, two electric
plants costing $4,000 each have been erected.
A. lie Siding, the central point for the work
mon, a short stop was made and Col. Roosevelt
Rad Just time 70 exchange greetings with the
railroad men. They were as demonstrative
a.. railroad men all along the line have been.
II the people ON this expedition are ever
ctl'd upon 10 define the term opera house"
ilT % new dictionary, their definition will run
something like this. An cdlfCe covered with
Nwrroau flags. inside and out There are
"r"u houses not much bigger than some Of
iN" hacking boxes that stand out on the side
walk 4 the dry goods district in New York and
Ter" are others that are as big as most Of the
Broadway theatres. But the flag definition
covers them all. Cheyenne's olera house is
~ the Broadway sort. on each box front, at
the back II the stage and on the prosoenium
ulcn were pictures Of Washington. Lincoln
ard Mckinley.
l. WI, raining hard when the Wce-Presiden-
'l candidate stepped from the train to the
.'.'ot The Roman andes shot their missiles
only a few feet before the rain drowned them,
bar the booming OF the l7-gun salute and the
'.'"Ilng ~ the -oaking, stcaming crowd could
i. ID" stopped hy any rain. j.,
wren tn Governor walked up 10 the dOOr OF
'" Int"r-Ocoau Hotel he was confronted by "a
= barnard dog nearly as big as the Governor
hH.s'lf Thedog urhanely tut out n paw IA big
"a. o. loaf OF bread. Before the Governor could
catch his breath the dog rose aud ushered him
mo the hotel corridor. The dog was Senator
Narreu'S Rex aud 1, said to know
Il heap about Wyoming politics. He