The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-11
GOES AFTER BRYAN.
Gov. Roosevelt Replies to the
Democratic Candidate.

Fort WAYNE. Ind. Oct 11=GovernOr
Roosevelt closed a busy days work by
making three speeches in this city last
night, addressing the greatest number
of persons in the aggregate who ever
have gathered in Fort Wayne to listen
to 2, candidate for political honors. He
was honored also with three large pa
radeS.
was at Huntington, where an imposing
illuminated parade was given. Reach
ing Fort Wayne the governor was
driven Immediately to the rink, Where
he was greeted with prolonged applause
Having delivered his address ne was es-
corted to a large tent especially erected
for the occasion, where he made q sec
Ond speech, and thence he went TO Lid
rary hall, where he spoke for the third
time.
When the Roosevelt party reached the
rink the structure was crowded ana
hundreds of persons were unable TO op-
tain admission When the governor was
introduced the audience rose as one man
and gave him three cheers and tiger.
The governors address was reply to a
speech recently made at Macomb, Ill,
by Mr.. Bryan.
Governor Roosevelt said:
81 notice that Mr.. Bryan'S own organ
in Indiana, the Indiana polls Sentinel, re-
ports him as having said last night at
Macomb, Ill. that the real object for
permanently increasing the army is to
intinidate the labor element when 1t pre-
sents Just complaints. The idea is to
erect forts near the large cities and
with the forces located in them meet all
the demands of labor
ct earnestly hope that the Sentinel has
nisquoted Mr. Bryan / am not Wiling
to believe that any responsible party
leader, and least of all the candidate of
any such party for the presidency,
would permit himself to make sucn
statements. There is not one shadow Of
excuse for them. It is difficult to speak
- t.,1rr Of hal SC n
an appeal to the basest and most evil
passions of mankind by deliberate mis-
representation of the intention and ac-
ton of patriotic and laW-abiding citf-
zens Mr.. Bryan either does know or
ought to know, not only that the state
mentS quoted above are untrue, but that
there is not one shadow of justification
for them. The increased army has been
made necessary by the war in the Phil
ippines to which his own utteranceS
and those of his party associates have
continually added fuel. am willing to
guarantee that not one human being
concerned in the increase of the army
ever for a moment considered such u
purpose as that attributed to them by
Mr. Bryan. There was no idea. Of erect
ing fortificatiOns near the large cities,
and never has been save where they are
to be used for defense against a foreign
foe There is no fort near Indianapolis
for instance, because it cannot be men
aced by a foreign foe. There are forts
near New York because we can be
menaced but these forts are garrisOned
by heavy artillery regiments, and. sure
~ Mr. Bryan must know that heavy ar
tiflery can only be used in defense Of
forrifcations, especially against hostile
ships Of war or batteries. If Mr. Bryan
viii take the trouble to find out the
facts. he VIII discover that in any large
city the police force is relatively to the
population from two to four times the
size Of the regular army relatively to the
population of the United States Mr.
Bryan must know perfectly we'll that
the army would be reduced if the insur-
rection in the Philippines, to which he
and his party associates had given aid
and comfort, were put down and the is
lands became definitely quiet He eth
eF knows or ought to know that our
standing army. relatively to the size Of
the population, is nearly one-half less
than it was in Thomas JeffersOn's time,
and that there is no more thought Of US
ing 1t to cOerce the labor element, or
any other element, than there was
thought of SO using it in the days of
Jefferson.
since President Mckinley came into
power the army has been used against
the Spaniard. the Tagalog bandit and
the Chinese boxer. These and their
kind are the only people who ever need
fear it, and it is only their sympathizers
who have justification in denouncing it.
To raise the hue and cry over an i'm