Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-03
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NOT A HAPPY CHOICE.
Democracy Makes Poor Paramountcy
in Dishonoring American Flag.

North Platte. Neb., Oct. 2.-The train
bearing tlne Roosevelt party made an ex-
tended stop here today. A meeting was
held at the opera house. Governor
Roosevelt spoke briefly on the issues of
the day, saying he did not know what
the paramount Issues of the opposition
party We're. He said he did not think
the democratic party was happy In
selecting as an issue of the campaign
the dishono of the American flag. What
ever the issue might be, he said, he was
ready to meet them on it.
At Lexington, Neb., Governor Roose-
welt said:
II have but a moment in which to
speak :, you; l want to take advantage
of this first opportunity of arguing a
critic. SIN of Mr.. Bryan and putting a
question to him in return. No question
can be asked me either about my past
record, as governor or concerning any
present issues that I am not ready to
answer, and l would like to have similar
~frankness from our opponents. Last
week at Blair, in this state, Mr.. Bryan
spoke of what l lac said about the ice
trust. His speech was reported as fol
lows:
THAT If Governor Roosevelt was
right in this matter the remedy was with
himself as governor OF the state in
which the trust supposed to exist as he
possessed the power to destroy It,.
That is hardly correct as a matter of
governmental knowledge. I cannot call
out the militia to destroy a trust. Via
can be done is to have the legislature
pass and the governor sign a law to do
away with that trust and then have the
attorney general proceed under that law
to enforce it according to the best Of his
capacity.
Now are not these the only things
that can be done? Well, 1 have done
them both. In the first year of my term
as governor we passed a very severe
anti trust law, and now the attorney
general is proceeding with that law
against the ice trust. The difficulty
comes in the delay caused by the trust,
as they are ap pealing. as they have a
right to. appeal. to every legal techni-
cality, and are making every effort to
stop a decision on the merits of the case.
The people who are responsible for the
action of the trusts counsel are the
stockholders of the trust, who are
among others, a Mr.. Richard Croker, the
leader of the democratic party in New
York, and Mr.. Van Wyck, who was my
opponent for governor of New York two
years ago, running on an antitrust
platform, and now is one of the biggest
stockholders of the ice trust.
Mr.. Van Wyck was the New York
member of the committee on resolutions
which drew up the trust platform.
Messrs. Croker and Van Wyck and their
party associates like Mr.. Guggenheimer,
president of the board of aldermen, and
Corporation Counsel Whalen Of New
York, are very severe on trusts in
theory; in practices they are members of
the worst trust in the country. The at
torney general Is now proceeding against
the ice trust, and If Mr.. Croker, Mr.. Van
Wyck and their associates who are mem
bers Of the trust were not employing the
best counsel in the state to delay action
we should have had a decision of the
court long ago.
THE republican attorney general is
4 pressing that action under the law, in
troduced by a democrat, but passed by a
republican legislature and signed by
myself. We are opposed by Mr.. Bryan's
ardent supporters in New York, the
heads of the democratic party Of the
state. Now, as I have answered thai
question, I wish Mr.. Bryan would en-
tighten us IN the point as to whether
obligations of the nation in gold or sill
yer. I will gladly answer any question
he puts, and I would like him to answer
his question in return. Moreover,
would like to have him answer if the
consent of the governed he is so insisten,
upon must be had in the Philippines
why 1t should not be insisted upon ir
North Carolina as Well"
At Kearney, Governor Roosevelt said
Il noticed the other day when some,
body pointed out to Mr.. Bryan tina
farm products in Nebraska had advances
Is to 20 par cent, and that saving bank
deposits had increased 25 per cent, while
mortgages had decreased 40 per cent. Mr.
Bryan responded that the republican
party always Gained credit for any
thing providence did. Well, I am per,
fectly willing to admit there has beer
fusion etwee providence and the re
publican party. BY doing just as the re
publican party has done in the last fou,
years we assure it in the future a con
tinuance of the same prosperity Which
we have seen during those same fou,
years"