The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-18
CLEVELAND
TURNED OUT.
The Demonstration In Honor of
Gov. Roosevelt
RiValed Anything Previously
Seen In the City.
CLUBS BY THE DOZEN.
Immense Parade Thick With
Brass Bands,
Glare of Rockets, Flambeaux
and Electric Lights.

Cleveland o. Oct. 1S.-ThiS city last
night gave Governor Roosevelt a recep-
ton rivaling any similar demonstration
ever made here. There was an immense
parade. consisting Of half "A score Of
brass bands dozens Of political organi-
cations. including many which had come
hither from other places to do honor to
the candidate for vice president. supe-
rior street, the chief thoroughfare
through which the parade passed, was
ablaze with electric lights suspended IN
loops crosswise and lengthwise from tall
pillars surmounted by flaming globes
and decorated with evergreen. Along
this brilliant course thousands Of rock
cts and fiambeau flared. The walks
were thronged with men, women and
children, who drew 50 near that the
horses Of the various mounted sections
almost trampled them.
From the Union station, riding in
gorgeously decorated carriage drawn by
four white horses, in company with Gov
ernor Nash and Senator Foraker, Gov
ernor Roosevelt was escorted, while
bands played and cannon doomed sa-
lutes along the route OF the parade to
large tent on Marceline avenue, at New
burg, the iron-working district, where
he addressed a large audience on the
subject OF prosperity. His speech was
very brief, consisting of part of that de-
livered by him an hour later at Central
arnory in Bond street. Senator For
aker opened the meeting at the armory,
making a strong appeal in behalf of the
Republican national ticket. and at the
close of his address Governor Roosevelt
was introduced. The governor said:
Mr.. Bryan won't tell you outright
what he viii do. He puts questions and
I answer every one Of them, but he won e
answer whether If elected he will pay
the interest upon the government debt
and the pensions to the soldiers in silver
or in gold; whether he viii pay them in
100 cent dollars or As cent dollars He
won't answer why he wants the consent
of the governed for lot OF Iagalog
bandits on the other side of the earth
and connives at the denial Of the right
of self-governmen to our fellow Amer
leans of duskier skin in the Carolinas-
Nov, gentlemen, one reason I have
asked your support is because we tell
you what we mean, and our promises
square with our performance
Now 1 want to ask your attention
Just a moment to the question of trusts,
using the word trust in the broad sig
MITIGATION as meaning all big corpora
tions. Mr.. Bryan says they are all bad.
Then why does his chief manager, Sen
ator Jones, who is carrying on his cam
paign for him, go unrebuked by Mr.
Bryan for being one of the chief stock
holders in the cotton bale trust And
again, Mr.. Bryan is at this moment in
my own state, helping in the effort to en-
throne Mr.. Croker of the ice trust
mo one with common sense is so
foolish as to desire the destruction Of
stands and believes that Overgrown cor
porations should be subjected to rigid
supervision and when necessary to re
strictiOn. Mr.. Bryans declared remedy
for the evils which exist in such corpo-
rations is the destruction Of the indus
tries concerned, bearing down IN one
common ruin employer and employed
For example, sugar is manufactured BY
such a corporation. Mr.. Bryan favors
the destruction of the sugar refining and
beet sugar and cane sugar growing IN
dustries of the United States by the IN
production of free foreign refined sugar
into this country. 1t would probably de-
stroy the corporations he desires to de-
stroy. 1t would also destroy every man
who raises sugar beets or sugar cane OF
works in sugar refinery. have asked
him to state which Of the commodities
made by the big corporations he specih-
cally desires to have made free. Ac-
cording to his statement and the Kansas
City platform he would have all of
them made free. He would have such
commodities as American Worsted cloths
made by the American Wooden company
exposed to the free competition of Euro
pean worsted cloths, not only driving
American working men from the wooden
and worsted mills of the United states.
but depriving every Ohio farmer OF an
american market for American wool
Mr. BrNan's policy would include free
steel rails. free glass, free china and
pottery and the exposure of the Ameri-
can workingman as well as the Ameri-
ton of the Chinese 1aborer who makes
silks and porcelain and grows rice and
wool to compete with the products OF
American labor
by the utter destruction of the industry
in which that evil exists. If a drain pipe
is out of order it is very poor policy to
get rid Of the dif1culty by burning down
fhe house Our method OF dealing with
these evils is to correct the corporation
laws which permit such evils TO exist
Now the national government under
the constitution has at present no pow
er to deal with those great corporations.
on the frat of last June the Republicans
introduced in congress a bill to give the
national government power 10 regulate
If necessary to suppress any OF the big
trusts or similar corporations. say, If
necessary to suppress. for there is both
good and evil in all corporations, just as
among individuals. We want to cut out
the cancer. but we don't want to kill the
patient. Every Republican but two vo-
ted for and every Democrat but four
voted against the amendment to the
constitution and In favor of the trusts
and the Democratic leader MT Richard
son, of Tennessee, stated that he voted
in favor of trusts because it was bad
policy from a Democratic standpoint to
take the trust issue out of the present
campaign. In other words, they avoW-
ed with singular shamelessness that
they did not wish remedy for the ev-
lis connected with the trusts, but that
might benefit their party.
Gentlemen, you can not afford to sup
port a party that approaches q great
public question in that spirit In my
own state two years ago 1 ran against
Mr. Van Wycl< who was nominated By
Mr. Croker. Il speak advisedly. It is
strictly a one man power in New York;
They denounce trusts on the stump
would not promise as much as they did
because 1 was hampered by the fact
that 1 intended to make my words good.
I intended to make my performances