The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-10
Pointed Out to st. Louis People
by Gov. Roosevelt.
Speaks to a Coliseum Full of
MiSSOurians.
HE DISCUSSES FINANCE.
Declares For Gold First, Last
and Always.
Recognizes the Existence of the
Trusts.

st. Louis, No, Oct 1O.-St Louis vast
exposition coliseum was crowded last
night in honor of Governor Roosevelt,
who spoke a little more than an hour
The governor was tired having ridden
in the parade in the afternoon. After
ward he was the guest of honor at a
luncheon given by the St. Louis club
He was escorted from the Planters hotel
IN the evening by Mayor Ziegenhein,
National Committeeman Kerens and
other prominent Republicans of Mis-
souri, mounted regiment of Rough
Riders and several thousand citizens in
carriages or on foot. The route of the
night parade was Illuminated with fam
beaux and colOred fire Arriving at the
Coliseum, the governor was greeted with
tumultuOus applause He was intro
duced by the mayor Of the city and was
cheered enthusiastically throughout his
speech, at the conclusion of which he
was escorted to the union station, where
he took his special train for Chicago.
The governors address follows:
Mr. Chairman, and You Men and Wo-
men of Missouri My Fellow Country
men.
I appeal to you less as Republicans
than as citizens of this great country,
Tor feel that in this year we have the
same right to appeal to all men without
regard to their political past, as we had
IN le64-thlrty-slX years ago. Then, as
now, the issues at stake were so great
that they superseded all questions of
mere party affiliations.
7 have TO ask you to look at just two
sides of these iSsues=the material side
and what is greater than the material
side, the moral side; the side of the
greatness and honor Of the nation.
Now. one moment as to the material
side Ladies and gentlemen, it is a bit
difficult to know what issue to discuss
because our opponents change the para
mount issue SO often. 7 am perfectly
willing TO meet them on any issue if
they win only let us know what it is
and stay long enough on it. Yet after
all, what need is there for me to discuss
economic and financial questions when
they DO not dare discuss them them
selves?
Take the question of free silver If
any Of You are fortunate enough to
know whether Mr. Bryan, if elected, viii
pay the obligations of the nation in
gold, or in silver, I wish you would
divulge this knowledge, for Mr.. Bryan
won't
There is no doubt about where we
stand We are for the gold standard
and we are for it on the Atlantic sea-
board and IN the Rocky mountains alike.
We stand for it ever-yw here. for We are
fortunate enough to have issues which
do not wear thin in any part of the
country Now. gentlemen, some people
say that the silver issue is dead Silver
can not be dead when people are certain
as to how a candidate Of one of the two
great parties would pay the obligations
of the government No issue is dead
when you can not tell whether a cred
itor, or a pensioner. whoever he may be,
Is to get 4S cents or loo on the dollar.
It Is dead to the extent that nobody
ventures to argue in its behalf. But if
they paid our debts in Ascent dollars,
we would care little as to the precise
arguments by which they reached the
conclusion that warranted that con-
duct
IAN I want you to do from a material
standpoint IS to exhume Mr. Bryan's
prophecies of four years ago, and then
for yourselves compare those prophecies
with their signal non-fuldlImeut. The
spirit moved Mr.. Bryan and he pro-