Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-01
BUFFALO OVATION
NOT HALF THE PEOPLE COULD
HEAR ROOSEVELT.
A VIGOROUS ARRANGEMENT.
Splendid Reception in His Own State
Spoke at Three Meet
ings.

Buffalo, N. Y. Oct. S1.-The tram oeai-
Ing the republican vice presiuent.ai a.
didate arrived in this city shortiy ai'e'
a O'Clock, after making a stop AT "o
Rock, an industrial SUBURB Oh buiaio'
and the northbound railway center o 'he
city. The governor was accorded a spieh-
did reception at this place. and addressed
a few remark to the laboring people.
From the time of his ARRIVAL uhtii the
time of his retirement there was one
continuous ovation. n streets throush
which he had to pass ON his way 1ro"
the station were crowded with 'peopie.
Governor Roosevelt spoke at three
meetings tonight-one on the East slde'
the industrial portion of the city. when
was an open air affair. ana Where So
many people We're gathered that less
than one-half of them could hear the
speaker. Another followed in a small
hall where the majority part OF the audi
ence was composed of Italians, and the
third and last in the immense convention
hall. which was filled to the doors. The
governor said:
"Our opponents. having no case on the
fact, are constantly b Eged to alter facts
In order to make a case. ! have noticed
placards in your city, put up by them,
stating that the cost of coal was s7.25
per ton, and that this was due to the an
thracite. coal trust. AS a matter of fact,
the retail price, delivered. is s5.75, just
about what it always has been at this
time of the year.
"Bourke Cochran spoke here the other
night. He presented Mr.. Bryan's issues
rather better than Mr.. Bryan could pre-
sent them, vet I confess it is incompre-
hensible to me how Mr.. Cockranca can now
champion Mr.. Bryan in view not only OF
what he said four years ago, but of what
he said as late as last February. wher.
be stated that no matter whether there
was Imperialism or not in the campaign
he would have to pursue the course he
did in 1896, because. he said. Il regard
the Chicago platform as destructive to
all government, and I should prefer some
government to no government
We'll, are the reasons he gives
as his excuse? In the first place, impe-
rialism; in the second, militarism.
BY imperialism he means our expan-
sion into the Philippines, an expansion
into the country west of the Mississippi.
Mr.. Cochran and Mr.. Bryan have both
affected to feel great horror from the
1oot lHdt pofSSaIlS, duu, as alleged,
slavery. exists in Sulu, in the Philippine
archipelago, which is now under our
dag.
Il should like to ask them if they think
that it will help their policy in the event
Df our withdrawing the flag? Our course,
as a matter of fact, the only chance of
getting rid of either, consists in keeps
ing the flag up. We cannot do everything
In a 6aU NyacCrc Io,,-o o~l ~..t---
would be the first to rave against Pres.-
dent Mckinley if he now added to the
war with Aguinaldo another war with
the sultan of Sulu.
Half a century ago there were many
ahoiitionists, sincere, but absolutely fool
tsh and wrong-headed people, who want
ed the free states to secede from the
Union because there was slavery in the
union. Had their advice been followed
Slavery would exist to the present day
In the southern states. The only thing
to do was what we actually did that is,
to keep the flag flying. and when the
fullness of time arrived. abolish slavery.
S it is in sulu. We shall keep the
flag flying. and in the end polygamy and
slavery will both disappear. T niobt
mention. incidentally, tina President Nc
Kinley has already declined to recognize
slavery in the island, and therefore has
taken steps toward it's abolition.
And what are the plans of Nressrs
bryan and Cochran? Why, of all THINGS.
In the world, Mr.. Bryan proposes to &C.
tablish a protectorate over the stands
including Sulu, and therefore to perpet,.
ate slavery and polygamy by guarantee
ing 10 the islanders these among their
olner institutions, and protecting them
against an outside interference. In other
virus MT. bryan's platform deliber-
a'eis proVlaes Tor the perpetuation Of the
very evils which he and Mr. cool,raa 80
feet to denounce. AS a matter of faat
.hey can only be done away with bv
following our system.'