The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-11-03
ROOSEvELT'S
TASK ENDS
Finishes His Remarkable Cam
paign at OWegO.
Has Broken All Records But
That of Bryan.
MADE 673 SPEECHES
MADE 673 SPEECHES
Visited Twenty-fOur States In
Eight Weeks
Travelled 2I,2O9 Miles and
Stopped In 567 Towns.

Owego N. Y. Nov. 3.-Governor
Roosevelt completed last night at this
point one of the most remarkable cam
paigns ever made by a candidate Of any
party in the United States. In eight
weeks he has visited twenty-four states
of the union, made 673 speeches, Travelled
p .2O9 miles. visited 567 towns and cities
and talked to what is estimated to be
three million people. This record in
cludes more speeches, more miles trav-
eled and more territory covered than
that of all the other candidates for
president or for vice president of all the
other parties for the last 100 years, with
the exception of the record made by
William ]. Bryan in 1896.
This wonderful campaign was finished
by a two weeks tour of the state of
New York during which the candidate
Travelled $3.50 miles, through thirty
seven counties and made 120 speeches,
the majority of them from the rear
platform of the train. Mr.. Roosevelt
finished this tour in excellent health
and good spirits, and as he said with
a slightly weakened voice, but able to
go on with the campaign a couple of
weeks or more
The last day of this campaign in
cluded eight stops between jamestown,
in ChautauQua county, and inclusive OF
Owego, in TiOga county. The stops
today varied from two hours IN duration
at Olean to ten minutes at other points
He finished at Owego, the home of
Senator Platt. Among the things which
Governor Roosevelt said in Owego,
HornellSville, Wellsville, and Addison,
the last four places ON the days tour,
were these:
Mr. Bryan is now inclined to laugh
at the argument of the full dinner pail
Nobody laughed about it four years ago.
It is a mighty sight easier to laugh
about it when it is full than when it is
empty. Whe it is empty it is serious
business. If this nation chooses to turn
bedlamite and put in Mr. Bryan and try
his policies we have nobody but our
selves to thank for the disaster that will
surely follow. 1t won't do any good to
say that we meant well-that we did not
meant to hurt ourselves What 1 am
saying applies just as much to Demo
Gratis as to Republicans It is to the
interest Of all of US to have prosperity,
to have good times The only chance
Mr.. Bryan has is in that queer forget
fulness of people when they are well off
When a man is well off, he IS very apt
to be willing to take chances. When he
is badly off then he is more careful. It
is now four years since we were badly
Off and some people forget. Four years
ago neither Mr.. Bryan nor any one else
would have dared to sheer at the full
dinner pail and say it did not mean
much because then the dinner pail was
not full, and it means a great deal to
every one of US when the dinner pail is
empty.
Mr.. Bryan says we have no right in
the Philippines without the consent of
the governed. Jefferson Davis said 1t
was a violation of the Declaration of
Independence to come down and oppose
them without the consent of the gov
e1ned from trying to get out of the
union and own slaves. He said you
could not oppose them, but some of you
here did it
Now Mr. Bryan upholds the Decla-
ration of Independence as applying to
the Malay banditti who are shooting at
our men on the other side of the earth,
but denies it to his fellow Americans
of duskier skin in North Carolina
There are two important issues in this
campaign. Our opponents want to
Br'yanize the nation and Crokerfze the
state"
''They can't do it, came an interrap-
ton.
mo" continued the governor. "they
can't do it Because our people are not
government brought down to the level
of the Tammany government of New
York city. I appeal to every Democrat
who believes in honesty and decency in
politics to stand with us and avert sucn
a calamity I ask you to compare the
partment from the top to the bottom
put each in comparison with their gov
eminent of the city Of New York, with
its blackmailed vice and crime, its in
difference to the demands of the people;
make that comparison and you can not
help resolving that no change to Tam
many shall be made in this state. / ask
your support for the reelection of Nc
Kinley and the election of Mr.. Odell
not on party grounds for I feel this is
far more than a mere party contest, but
because believe we have right to ap-
peal to good citizenship to the princi-
pies of decent government and challenge
the aid of all men who have the honor