The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-10-02
POURING RAIN

auS Au GueCt VI pun INC ArQOr OF THO
People Who Flock to Hear Roose-
velt-opponents Should be Judged
by Their Prophecies.
BEATRICE, Neb., Oct. 1.-When the
Special Roosevelt train arrived. at Au-.
burn q heavy rain made the contem-
plated outdoor meeting impracticatle.
and Governor Roosevelt was hurriedly
driven to the opern house, half mile
distant. The governor made ten min
ute address to an audience that flied
the building. He said In part:
During the past four years your
home products here have Increased 45
per cent. your beef products have In
creased sixty per cent, and yet We were
told four years ago there would be hard
times II the Republican ticket was
elected. The value Of your household
goods has gone up 20 per cent, mort
cages have been reduced 40 per cent.
and your savings accounts have In
creased by IS per cent. Now you should
judge our opponents by their prophecies
not one OF which have come true and
Judge us by our prophesIes which have
been fulfilled"
Court House Square Filled by Crowd.
At Tecumseh, Governor Roosevelt
was conveyed to the court house
square. which was filed with people
where he spoke In the open air. He said
In part:
II want to call your attention to one
Of two phases OF this contest. There
are doubtless among you men who
fought in the great civil war, who from
1851 to 1865. earned the undying graft
tude OF their countrymen and conferred
undylng honor upon the flag. I mean
the veterans Of the great war. Natur-
ally. when tho call to arms came In
1888 In community like this, with men
and women like this In 1t. you sent your
sons promptly TO the front. No wonder
that you raised your company Instantly
and that II was not able to take one In
ten of the men who were ready to vol
unteer and who were sent on In the
Second Nebraska from this town. Now
nsk you to see to II that the men in
Washington do not undo the work done
by your sons and brothers In the Phil
ippines.
Soldiers Called "Hirelings."
Your governor has recently spoken
of the soldiers OF the regular army as
'hIrelIngs." as "nftcen- dollar. month
hlrelings," have fought beside these
"hirclings" at Santiago. saw the First,
the Third and the Sixth White cavalry
and the Ninth and Tenth colored caval-
ry go up the hill. I saw them leave
behind them 300 dead and wounded
''hirslings," 900 men who have shed their
blood for the honor OF the fIng--300 men
who died that we might be proud That
their country still held In honor the
flag, And the reward is that these men
should beBneered at as "hirellngs." when
you sent your regiment to the Philip
pines Its colonel died. He came from
the regular army. 1t was Colonel Stot-
aenbcrg, who wrote new name on the
honor roll OF american history, who
conferred honor not only on your state,
but on nll the nation. Is he to be refer
red to rs ONLY "hireling?"
Men Walking in Idleness.
''It Is but few weeks since Mr..
Bryan himself spoke OF the soldiers as
hundred thousand men walking about
In idleness. stotscnberg no longerwalks
about In idlcness. The men who wcrc
In the Philippines. who stayed there
no longer walk about In idleness. Gen
'eral Lawton no longer walks about In
idleness, nor does Lincomb or Riley.
who died Mt Ticn Tsln and Pckin. They
have found rest where their comrades
from 1861 TO 1865. who gave their lives
for their flag, have found rest. Woe 10
the country that has lost Its capacity
to appreciate the sacrifices of the gnl-
liant souls who do and dare and die for
Its honor and It's glory. or NIL ungen-
crous things the most ungcncruus Is 10
deny the proper need OF honor to the
soldier whether volunteer like your
selves or tho rrgulnr. M Colonel Stot-
scnberg was. Woe TO the nation which
refuses TO givo the proper mecd OF
Drnisc to 1uch men,