Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1900-10-04
ROOSEVELT DAY
A Large Crowd, But Little
Enthusiasm
Greeted the Terrible Teddy Can
didate for Vice-President.

Last Friday large crowd of peo-
pie gathered in from various parts Of
the county to see the far-famed and
long-advertised Colonel Roosevelt,
governor of New York and candidate
for vice-president on the republican
ticket. Promptly at 1903 the train
bearing the Roosevelt party rolled in
to the station and John Royce-who
with O. A. Lewis had gone to Norton
to meet them-in few words intro
duced Mr.. Roosevelt. The governor
came forward and talked for few
minutes. He ridiculed Mr.. Bryan
and those who believe with him for
changing issues since 1896, and yet q
few sentences later he said the real
issue, as in 1896, is the free coinage
of silver. he said Bryan stands now
just where Abraham Lincoln stood 35
years ago. That possibly, if Bryan
lived 80 more years, he might catch
up with the PROCESSION. He closed
by saying emphatIcslly that where
ever the American flag was raised it
should never be hauled down. He
then introduced Gen. Curtis Guild,
lr.. of Massachusetts, who put in the
rest of twelve minutes stay. He
spoke principally upon the question
of Imperialism. After the train de-
parted the crowd repaired to the
court house where they listened to
Charles Curtis who spoke for more
than an hour.
Mr.. Curtis said he opposed the
Porto Rico tariff, as he believed it
was wrong in principle, but when he
found the democrats and populIsts
opposing it, he changed his mind and
voted for it. The democratic party,
he said, has the same leaders now as
it had during Cleveland's administers
ton, and if they got in power the
same panic and hard times would fol-
low as in 1893. He criticized Mr..
Bryan severely for couneelling his
democratic friends IN the senate to
support the treaty with Spain and
then favoring the Independence of
the Filipinos. Bnt he did not say
that If Bryan had opposed the treaty
they would have been the first to de-
nounce him land rightly too) for pro-
longing the Spanish war and causing
unnecessary bloodshed.
Mr.. Curtis called attention to the
fact that the republican administers
ton had given civil government to
Alaska, to Hawaii and to Porto Rico,
though he did not attempt to tell the
reason why the first two were given
free trade with the rest of the United
States and the last named was bur-
dened with tariff, neither did he
say why Alaska and Hawaii were Civ
en- governments like the other terri
tories, and Porto Rico was given q
colonial form like that of the English
colonies. He touched up Pension
Commissioner Evans rather severely
and admitted that Mckinley had
made mistake in appointing him,
though he failed to say why he per-
petustes the mistske by keeping Ev-
ans in the Office. He told the old ex-
ploded story of the Omaha World
Herald editorial. rejecting on the
pension sy stem, and intimated, though
he was careful not to say, that Bryan
was editor of the paper at that time
when, as matter of fact. the article
appeared long before Bryan became
its editor. Taken altogether the
speech was very strong one from q
republican standpoint and did much
to overcome the disappointment
caused by Roosevelt's failure to come
mp to the standard of expectation.
The days attendance was good-per-
hsps the largest crowd that has been
IN this city to q political meeting
since 1895. Mr.. Curtis spoke also to
q Eeir sized audience at night.