Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-10-12

1nen Judge Fox announced tn
presence of Mr.. Roosevelt. and /,
o. the briefest manner introduced hin
to the crowd that again applaudet
heartily, but subsidized quickly int
5. silence lest it miss a word the mar
the man might say. The crowd loved
the man from the first. His person
aIlty went out over the crowd and
;. entered every loyal heart like a mag
netic current. They had read about
MIN, had seen his pictures, had heard
good things Of him-and there was
the actual man himself Wash / he
r pla1nI He was dressed in the
piainest manner imaginable, every
article of dress showing good
common sense and suggesting com
Tort. his face was bronzed and In
every sense manly and honest. He
walked up to the front and mounted
the table to SPEAK, with the air of a
fearless man with message he him
self believed. There was no fawning.
no cringing-not a bit of Uriah
Heep, no demagoguery. Only that
brown-faced man dressed in plain
clothes, carrying his wide-rimmed
hat In his hand bowing deferentially
to the crowd. Then he began with
1 L cIIOW Ile crowd /
had intended to be still, but the |
sincerity behind that single expires
sion, and realization of all that the
greeting meant, set them going, and |
there was a hearty round ofapplause.
There was the closest attention-the
most sympathetic attention. all
through the speech, that was all too
snort, and frequent interruptions by
tion of fraud, not a hint of insincer
ity, not an opportunity to impute
such thing to the unass.m lining man
who stood before them absolutely un- {
assallable from any standpoint ex-
cept that the Democracy have used /
occasionally and stones. The a
crowd recognized in him the represen
tatlye of all that is clean and desirable 4
IN American manhood, and loved him I
Tor 1T. His laugh was infectious, and L
threw the audience almost into hys- lt
terics
Speaking on our duty in the Philip
pines Governor Roosevelt said:
Not merely, gentlemen, would we
De guilty of foul dishOnor to our
selves, but we should be untitled to
axe our place among the great ma
ions of the earth if we deserted or
linched from our duty in those is
ands, and we would also be guilty -
efore the peaceful natives who have " "
rusted to US and whom we should 90 90
bandon to their foes if we failed to r.
Q our duty in the Philippines. Mr.. a.
ryan is expressing extreme solici- N
lde for the consent of the governed
the Philippines; contrast that ~
lth the conditions existing in n
'me of our own states. Think of the 49, 49,
lse inconsistency of a party that WV
'ofesses to be uneasy over the r.
laginary wrongs of Tagal bandits
ooting at our men in the Philip
mes and at the same time suppress NJ
9, or eonniyin& e. ths sa.lRpcsssion ~ - e
.rolina. % ' I ask not for the black 5si
an because he is black. If he is va
I'd, punish him; if he is good, give NJ,
m all that he is entitled to. / . .t'.
ught with you, my brother Point nio Ia.
g to colored man who wore a al al
,teran S badge; | saw you as you as -
,u went up the hill at San Juan, Ke
aving behind trail of dead NJ, NJ
Id dying an,
The governor thus disposed of Mr.. o.. a..
ryan S appeal to class prejudice:
1T is little difficult to meet some E,
Mr.. Bryan statements. If he IS s
,rrectly reported, he said yesterday Re
lat he wanted to bring about the tn
Nv when every man would be able Fx
take his family to the seaside, ga,
ow, gentlemen, think of having to *
eet an argument advanced by a on,
,rious candidate for the Presidency m,
that type. Gentlemen, you have 90,
et it yourselves; you have been de,
ughing about it and | shall leave it an,
! that. tn,
'It is is our duty, the duty of ev
" man, to try to raise up, to lift up
rery fellow citizen, to try to raise
he tone of every civil life and of in pr
ustrial and of social life by every 81
onest and intelligent effort. To such
purpose | pledge my heartiest sup 10
ort. but YOU can 60 it not by prom
ing the millennium out of hand; not -
V speaking as if social reform was a
oncrete substance like cake, that
ould be handed out to those seeking
!. but by serious purpose and by sol
mn thought approaching the PROB
,ms by which we are confronted; by Ih
ealizing that there is great work
0 be done and that we are going to
olive those problems by steps
ather than by leaps, and especially
V each of US doing the work that
e finds at hand in a way that
ill give cause for pride, and not for ="
hame, when he looks back. lAp- IS
lause. By no legislation, by no oa
administration, can we bring happi- as
ess and prosperity to every one. 80
vou cannot legiSlate a man good. ~
-ou might enact the decalogue as a IA
art of the constitution of the -
United States, and it would ~ "
ot make people any better. tn
20 man is infallible, every man STUN
les at times. Every one of US here &c
eeds to have helping hand stretched
ut to him at times, and woe to the
nan who fails to extend that helping ba
and when the time comes, and woe an
D the nation that fails to do the duty nj
which we expect the individual to- ae
'erform. SuppoSing the uusup- in
,osable, that Mr. Bryan were elected. ",
Does any one think that any more th
PEOPLE would go to the seashoreI
Applause. Those who do go would Tn
top going. Applause S.
On the way back to the train, Gov. E
repeated time and again
what he had already said 1T IS the ta
inest political meeting | ever saw
The finest crowd He had not seen
many people when he got off the
rain, but when the carriage reached
the foot Of the hill where the crowd .,
was. he exclaimed excitedly: Look = =
1t that Look at the crowd and | =
his delight in Richmond and Wayn ,
ao,ntv 0aO0la Crrpw from that time .
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