The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-25
ROOSEVELT IN MORMON LAND
Talks Expansion to Crowd in Cache
Tabernacle at Logan.
Appeals for Votes for Mckinley on the
Ground that the Republican Party
Has II Redeemed Its Promises
Made Five Speeches.

Ogden, Utah, Sept 2O-Gov. Roosevelt
limited the number of his speeches to-day
10 nve, including the night meeting at
TINS place. The special train left Poca-
tello at o'clock this morning and arriy-
ed at ogden at in the evening, where a
stop was made for the night.
AT Logan this morning the Roosevelt
party, escorted by the local committee.
left the train and proceeded to the Cache
Mormon tabernacle. where addresses
were made by Mrs. ]. Ellen Foster, Gov.
Roosevelt, and others. The tabernacle
was well filled and Gov. Roosevelt spoke
in part as follows:
we have never had a movement for
expansion in this country where there
were not large number of excellent peo-
pie who held up their hands in horror and
predicted the death of the country. Right
after the Revolutionary war some people
of the Seaboard Atlantic States objected
strongly to taking in the Ohio Valley.
One OF the foremost statesmen of nv own
State predicted what would happen if the
white savages were going to take possess
sion of the Ohio Valley when under the
control of the national government. 7 a
New Yorker, am nLw running on a ticket
that has at its head a representative of
one of the States which that excellent
gentleman thought would be peOpled by
white savages-Ohio.
Then we came To the Mississippi, and
lot of excellent people said il meant
ruin TO the land and the dissolution of the
government if we stretched over the Mis-
sissippi. When President Jefferson. in 1903.
acquired by treaty and purchase the land
beyond the Mississippi and all that region
beyond the Rocky Mountains he acquired
Ii just exactly as President Mckinley ac-
quired the Philippines and then number
or excellent gentlemen said that meant
fnal ruin of the issue. Now the Missouri
and the Red River countries are pretty
well in the East. That was in 1911 Then
came the Mexican war and any number
of people said that If We stretched on 10
the Pacific our country would come to an
end.
THE idea of taking in what are now
the States OF Idaho, Oregon, and Cali
fornia was sufficient to make them
despair of their country. ] have Just
passed through Idaho, of which as great
a man as Daniel Mebster said that the
land was only fit for cactus and Jack rab-
bits. We see what il is to-day Six or
eight years ago Hawaii, under President
Harrison. wished 10 be annexed 10 the
American nation. and the American flag
was hoisted Then came in President
Cleveland with a Democratic administra-
tiOn, and to use their own language. they
hauled down the flag. We have hOisted il
again since. gentlemen, and for keeps
this time.
AT Brigham City an open air meeting
was held and the speaking was done
from the band stand in the center Of the
village. In concluding his remarks, Gov.
Roosevelt said:
II ask you to support the man whom
We have nominated because the promises
We have made have squared with our
performances; because the prophecies of
evil 10 which our opponents have given
utterance have been absolutely falsified
by the events: because your desire Of the
maintaining of material things which
have so well secured our well being in
the past four years, and above and be-
yond all. for the sake Of the destiny Of
the greatest republic on which the sum
mas eyer shone, for the sake of proving at
the beginning Of new century that
America intends 10 be what she boasts
she is the leader among the peoples Of
mankind. and that the nations OF the
world shall know tlat We take no back
ward steps.