The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-05
WAS WORTHY OF HIS HIRE
ROOSEVELT TAKES ISSUE WITH
REMARKS OFF GOV. POINTER,
OF NEBRASKA
THE SOLDIER IS A HIRELING
And the American Soldier Has Ever
Earned His Wages, Good Meas
ure, Pressed Down and
Running Over.

OMAHA, Neb., Oct 4-Gov. Roose-
welt delivered a lengthy address to Il
large audience in Omaha tonight, COM
the DAY. An elaborate street procession
preceded the speechmaking. The gov
ernor spoke an hour and half, and was
listened to with careful attention through
out
At midnight the train left for Iowa, in
which state the governor will make a
number of speeches tomorrow.
Gov. Roosevelt spoke briefly at Aims
worth, On the stand was a faded ban
ner bearing the names of Lincoln and
Hamlin, which had been carried in the
campaign of 1860
Senator Dolliver also made a few re-
marks.
Mounted cowboys and citizens afoot
gathered in large numbers to greet Gov.
Roosevelt at Bassett In the course OF
his remarks the governor said:
II ask, in the name of candid Ameri-
canism, for the sake of the pride we all
take in our country that we stand by the
deeds of our fathers who in the great
war have written the longest page on the
y
be brave and true to their memory. They
did the greater task, and we Gid the les
ser. l appeal to you men who have
founded this great commonwealth, as
they founded SO many others, that You
stand loyalty with them AMI that you
vote to uphold not only the cause of our
material well-being, but the cause of the
honor of the American flag.
SPEECH AT O'NEILL.
A stop of fifteen minutes was made at
O'Neill. Gov. Roosevelt said in part:
1.-The other day at Lincoln 1 stated that
ing spoken of the regular soldiers as $15
month hirelings. He has denied that
he ever made such a statement, attr o.
uting to me the use of Butcher, which
/ never used. Not only was he reported
in the press as having made such state
ment but Mr.. Dietrich and MIR. Steufner,
now running on the Republican state
ticket heard him make use of those words
in the latter part of August at an old
settlers picnic at Dakota City. In the
latter part of September, at Superior,
Messrs. Dietrich, Prout, Savage ana
Steufer, all heard him make the same
name of this town, O'Neill, will always
have very close association to me- be-
cause OF one of my captains who was
killed al Santiago, Buckley O'Neill.
''In the big war we had Sheridan and
Sherman. Who cared that one was OIL
New England and the other of Irish
STOCK! VI 0I0S6l, WHO was Oh OSFLIldn
stock, or Farragut, whose father came
from Majorca.
at made no difference what mans
creed was, nor what his birthplace was,
If he were an American in heart It
was enough for US. Three stations
back there were on the platform with
me three men, the sons Of farmers in
the neighborhood, who had gone into the
regular army and served at Santiago.
Those are the men whom Gov. Poynter
alludes to as hirelings. was glad
enough to have these 'hirelings' on either
side of my regiment down there. We
were not any of US in a mood to pay
much attention as to whether a man was
a volunteer or a regular, white man or
colered, and honored the Uniform when
he wore it. The 'hirelings' at Santiago
left between 1900 and 1400 of their killed
and wounded. The mould is fresh on the
graves of these 'hirelings who lay in the
Philippines. Have they not deserved wei
of their countrymen? You, my comrades,
who remember when you were called
Lincoln's hirelings. For the sake of the
memory of the deeds done by those who
preceded you, for the sake of the men
who now wear the uniform of the Amer
lean republic, who are inspired by the
memory of what your fathers did, I ask
the American people to stamp with disap-
prevail any party that would speak of
those who wore the Uniform of Uncle Sam
and who fought his battles as hirelings.''