The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-10-02
Spoke to Between Thirty Thousand
and Forty Thousand Persons
ON the Campaign Issues.
REMARKS AS TO 'HIRELINGs''
GOVERNOR AND Me-
BRAsKAN CANDIDATE REBUKED.
Issues of Sound Money and Protection
IncisiveIy Set FOrth-Enect
of the Two Policies.

M'COO<, Neb.. Oct Thirteen speeches
were made by Governor Roosevelt during
the Journey to-day. Besides the inhabit-
ants of the villages and cities, a large num-
Der of people mounted and in carriages.
evidently from the country, was noticed
upon the streets and around the stands.
Probably thirty or forty thousand people
were addressed during the day Governor
Roosevelts special train remained at Nc
Cook until late in the night, when 1t
pulled cut for North Platte and another
days journey tomorrow which will cover
a distance of 600 miles and will include
within that distance eleven speeches. To-
morrow night a night journey will be
made to Broken Bow, at which point the
train will arrive at o'clock In the morn
ing.
At Falls City, which was the first stop,
the weather was rainy and the ground
water-soaked. but the inhabitants were at
the station to hear Governor Roosevelt.
Many wagons and carriages brought
farmers and their families in from the adj
Joining country. Governor Roosevelt said.
..I noticed the other day that Mr.. Bryan
said the Republican party had no right to
claim the benefit OF the fact that pork and
speaHng ano of ogs the time Phe Repub
lican party said four years ago that IL its
policies were adopted these prices would go
up. Those policies have been adopted and
the prices have gone UP. You can proper
ton the responsibility between the evil
dence and the Republican party as you
choose. giving the Republican party its
share"
When Auburn was reached, heavy rain
was falling, and the meeting had to be
held in the opera house Here also he
dealt largely with the increased prices of
farm products.
AS TO ''HIRELINGS."
At Tecumseh the Governor said in part:
There are. doubtless. among you some
who fought in the great civil war from
1861 to 1865. They received the undying
gratitude of their countrymen and con-
ferred undying honor on the flag. Natural
ly, when the call to arms came in 1898 in
a country like this, you sent your sons
promptly to the front No wonder that
you raised your company instantly, and
that IL was able to take in ten men
who were ready to volunteer aud who
were sent off in the Second Nebraska from
this town. Now L ask you to to it
that the men in Washington do not undo
the work done by your sons and brothers
in the Philippines. Your Governor recent
ly has spoken of the soldiers of the regular
army as sl5-a-month hireiings. L have
fought beside these 'hirelings. At Santi-
ago I saw the First. the Third and the
Sixth white cavalry and the Ninth and
Tenth colored cavalry go up the hill.
saw them leave behind them three hundred
dead and wounded hirelings-three hundred
men who shed their blood for the honor of
the flag; three hundred men who died that
we might be proud that their country still
held in honor the fiag-and the reward is
that these men should be sneered at as
.hirelings' When you sent your regiment
to the Philippines its colonel died He
came from the regular army. 1t was Col
Stotsenburg who wrote new name on the
honor roll of American history, who con-
ferred honor not only on your State.
but on all the Nation Is he to be
referred to as only 'hireling?'
IL is but few weeks since Mr.
Bryan himself spoke OF our soldiers as "a
hundred thousand men walking about In
idleness' Colonel Stotsenberg no longer
walks about in idleness. The men who
were in the Philippines who stayed there
no longer walk about in idleness. General
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