The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-28

Irving Hale to ROYAL Park where pro-
cession was formed and marched through
the principal streets of the city. On the
way the streets were lined with people
Three evening meetings were arranged
for and all of them were attended by
large audiences During the day at the
various stopping places the crowds We're
remarkably large and an unusual in
terest attended the meetings. Governor
Roosevelt, in his speech at Leadvlle,
said in part:
Il can not say how I have enjoyed
the privilege of coming through your
great and beautiful and wonderful state,
and now to be in what is the most fam
Gus mining city in the entire habitable
globe. Glad though am to see your
state with its varied resources, with
mountain and plain, with mine and
ranch, l am more pleased still to see
the men and women who made it what
it is When come out here among you
I feel that come out not to teach you
AmericaniSm, but to teach you the doc
trine of work of honorable striving and
honorable effort, and to follow where you
have led the way. l want you TO Ihlnk
for yourselves. Suppose that the Re
publican party had done what our OPP
ponentS desire us to do now, that is,
abandon the Philippines? They would
now be denOuncing in extravagant
terms and blaming US, all of them, from
Mr. Bryan down. In that case they
would have been as right as they are
WEOIlS G1OW. come DGlUIG you 10 DISK
your support for the principles we repre-
gent upon two great grounds; upon the
ground of Self-intereSt of each and all
of you, and upon the ground of our feel
ingS for that symbol of greatness, the
American flag that floats over US all.
Remember that in this union there can
be no division of either honor or in
terest on state lines. We will all go
up or go down together. We will go up
or go down as regards material prosper
ity and we will hang our heads or hold
them high accordingly as the American
flag does or does not stand in the future
as it stood in the past as a symbol of
honor, of greatness, of truth and liberty.
When in 1898 hard times came, they
came in New York, Colorado and Cali
fornia alike When in 1897 prosperity
returned it returned to the Rocky Noun
tains as it returned to the seaboard
states of the Atlantic and Pacific. Tt
returned to the farmer, the ranchman,
the wage Garner, precisely as much as to
the business man. There can be no
permanent lines of well being on the one
hand, for some of our people, and ad-
versity on the other hand for the rest OF
our people. Fundamentally we will go
up or go down alike. Now when it comes
to the question of the honor of the flag
the same considerations hold true"
At Canon City Governor Roosevelt
spoke in part as follows: II
s"There has been some talk as to what
the paramount issue is in this campaign
Now I will tell you and 1 have made up
my mind within the last As hours
O.aughter) what the paramount issue is
The paramount issue is to keep the or
derby liberty that has made us what we
are. The paramount issue is to keep our
national self-respect by. each Individual,
keeping his own self respect and respect
ing his fellows; keeping the rights of
free speech keeping the right of present
discussion so that we may be able to
settle our political differences squarely
and fairly after a full hearing given to
any one, whatever his views may be, If
he expresses them decently and in pro-
per language. There is danger of inn
perialism, aye, but it is not from the di-
rection in which Mr.. Bryan is looking.
There is no danger in the regular army
dredths of a soldier for every thousand
citizens of this great republic. No. no,
we have not reached that pitch of tim
idity when we are afraid of that There
is no danger of militariSm; there is no
danger of imperialism, of this country
out on the path our fathers
trod to do the work of a great world
power The only danger of Imperialism
that will ever come in this country is If
it is invited as a reaction against an
archy. Anarchy is the hand maiden of
tyranny. If ever we grow to substitute
lawless mob violence for the orderly lib
erty that we enjoy under the law, if ever
we grow to substitute the rule of brute
force for the ballot, where the ballot is
cast freely and counted as cast; if we
ever grow to exchange for government
country and on the stump; if we ever
grow to exchange for those the violence
that finds expression in either word or
deed then we will indeed be within a
distance of loss of liberty.
Then and not till then the worst thing
this country can have is the man sitting
at east at home exciting other men who
are ignorant of deeds of violence and
this exciting or violence be by a
politician or the editor of a newspaper
the effect is the same"
Another organized attempt was made
by a small minority to interrupt the
proceedings. This mob was composed
mostly of boys of from II to 10 years of
age with a few men who shouted for
Bryan and cheered so as to interrupt
the speakers. One of the youngsters be-
ing asked why he was acting so disor-
derby stated that he was hired to do So
They wore uniform caps and acted in
concert.
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