The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-07-18
PLEADSFORVOTES
Governor Roosevelt Stops in
Milwaukee Long Enough.
To Make a Strong Appeal For
the Ticket.

Milwaukee, Wis, July Ex-Governor
Roosevelt arrived here at 1O:40 O'Clock
this forenoon on his homeward journey
to New York. He will return direct to
New York, reaching Chicago at 1 p m,
by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
road and departing for New York at
5.03. Governor Roosevelt stated that
he expects to begin his campaign about
September 10, but the place of his open
ing speech he has not yet determined
and will be governed by circumstances
yet to be developed.
The vice presidential candidate was
greeted in this city by a crowd Of
about 5000 persons. He was introduced
to the gathering by United States Sen
ator Quarles. and was cheered most
enthusiastically.
Governor Roosevelt said in part:
Il am glad to have the chance of say
ing even a word to you and I speak in
this campaign not merely to Republ1-
cans; I appeal to all good citizens who
hold the commonwealth dear; I appeal
to the whole land who value our well
being at home, to all who honor the
f1ag and wish to see it upheld in the
face of all powers of the earth. This
campaign is more than a party cam
paign. This is a campaign which is to
decide at the outset of the twentieth
century whether we are to stride for
ward with the steps of a giant on the
whether we are to shrink backward
I appeal to the whole world who value
prosperity. Judging the future by the
past, you remember, four years ago,
that our opponents prOpheSied that we
can't be prosperous if we don't have l6
to 1 silver Has the prophecy turned
out a lie? Don't trust them Before,
they prOpheSied misery If we won, and
we won, and prosperity followed. Now
if we should put them into power, you
would see such a chaos of black misery
and distress in this country as a CEN
tury and a quarter of life has never
seem l ask the support of all men
far-sighted enough to see where the
material increase of the country lies
and not willing to see the business well
fare of the country submerged in the
tide of disaster. [ ask the support of
all honest citizens and business men
who disbelieve in anarchy. 1 ask for
their support in the name of decency
with civic honesty and of liberty that
comes only with order, and ask the
support furthermore cf all brave men
who know that the greatness of a ma
ton as of the individual comes only
through effort to stand with us as we
make this nation take her place in the
forefront of the nations of mankind.
Il see before me many men who wear
the buttons which show that they
fought in the great war and in a time
that tried mems souls, they proved
true. We (turning aside) only fought
a little war. Gaughter) You faced
four years of trial and privations and
hardShips and saw the best and bravest
among you shed their blood for the flag.
Did you do that in pursuit of ease? The
easy thing would have been to stay at
home. You remembered this at the
time when the blanket proved too
heavy by day and not heavy enough by
night have been there. AT that time
If we had followed the advice of the
weak-hearted we could have avoided
all the bloodshed and trouble, the woe
and misery that came to the women
and children who stayed behind You
could have avoided four years of af1x-
iety which followed the bloody defeats
and if you had done so, we the sons
would have hung cur heads forever.
Thank God the iron and blood of our
forefathers who followed Grant and
Lincoln still exist in this generation.
May we show ourselves not unworthy
CT the men who fought from 81 to So
and let us do our duty at home and
abroad and uphold Mr. Mckinley in
the greatest political contest which has
come up in this country that we have
ever seen since the close of the civil
war
The train bearing Governor Roose-
welt made short stops at Portage and
Watertown, where several hundred peo-
pie greeted the vice presidential candi-
date.
GEO. r. PECK JOINS TEDDY.
Chicago, July 1S.-Governor Roosevelt
accompanied by Colonel NGtting of