Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-09-22
|ROOSEVELT'S SECOND
DAY IN THE STATE
Tne South Dakotans Gave Rough
Ri5er Candidate Rousing
Receptions.
NUMEROUS PLATFORM SPEECHES
Claimed Democrats Were the Or
iginBi Exp nsionists--.Spokc TIA
Tent at iirookings-.T.rcd
Eut Happy,

Brookings, S. d., Sept. 13.-The spe-
:ial car of w. ID. Contilion, general SUI
.)erintendent of the Chicago and
Southwestern Railway company, con-
tanning Mr.. Contillon, John Ferguson,
assistant general passenger agents q.
n. Stewart, assistant general superin-
tendent; A. G. Johnson, general agent,
IND Colonel Richard Woods, Of Sioux
Falls, was attached to Roosevelts spe-
cial train yesterday, and the railroad
officials placed their private car at the
disposal Of the many callers and com
mittees sent out in advance ia escort
Governor Roosevelt "a their respective
towns.
During the day many receptions
took place, and numerous speeches
we're made from the platform of the
car and from specially arranged street
stands, around which the Inhabitants
crowded.
The feature OF the day was an out
door meeting held near the court
house grounds, in a tent at this place.
\ torchlight procession escorted the
governors carriage through the
streets of the city, which were lined
by crowds of men, women and chill
lrcn. The ten was filed. \ special
excursion train bearing people from
points az far distant as Flandrcau and
picking up parties at all points be-
tween that place and Brookings, ar
rived early in the evening, a~ugmcnting
oy many hundreds the crowds already
assembled.
l.. w. Martin made the first speech
IF the evening to enable the eNcnr.
sionists to arrive In time To hear
Governor Roosevelt.
The speech of Governor Roosevelt
was short, and mainly Il repetition OF
.opics already presented by him.
Speech az Mitchell.
in his speech at Mitchell yesterday
Governor Roosevelt covered ground
not before gone over in this itinerary.
lie said i'm part:
"In 1902 South Dakota belonged Ia
spain just precisely as the Philippines
belonged TO Spain in 1897. Then 1t
vas sold by Spain TO France, because
Spain thought quite properly that we
would be apt to take possession Of it,
md as France was then under the
great Napoleon, they thought that he,
with his tremendous military reputa-
ton, would keep it ms n barrier be-
tween themselves and Mexico and Cal
i%fornia, which her still belonged 10
Spain. II Is an interesting fact that
II the beginning of this century the
major part of what is nov the United
States was Spanish territory. Napo-
leon made up his mind that he would
either have to sell the territory to us
N fight for it, and M he had n good
deal on his hands i'm Europe he
thought he would sell il, and Prcsi.
lent jefferson purchased II. He paid
$50 O0 900 for IL, the purchase money
being paid just as President Mckinley
paid the purchase money for the Phil
ippincs for $3.50 n head. In that ease
President Jefferson bought the in
habitants, white, black and red of the
land, ut "A somewhat cXorbitant price
The whole truth is that il is simply
nonsense about the purchase Of the
inhabitants in either ease. The land
was acquired by treaty and purchase
in the one case as in the other. That
is all there is to it.
Democrats Were Expuns.ouists.
president Jefferson oncc sent an
armed force of United States regnlars
and United States volunteers TO pre-
vent any outbreak here, Just exactly
as an armed force was sent TO the
Philippines when Aguinaldo threat
cned an outbreak, Then there came
the question of giving II government
to this territory. President Jcffer-
% had himself drawn up a declara-
ton Of independence. He was an cN-
pert on it,, and | would i|ntrust him
to interpret it quite as readily as |
would intrust our friend from Ne
braska to interpret IL. He said It was
nonsense TO push the theory OF that
document to such al extreme as TO
make il apply TO a population that
was absolutely as unfit for self gov
eminent ms children. These were the
words that he >uscd about the origi-
nal inhabitants of these territories as
they then were; and they apply today
in the same way to the Philippines.
IL you had tried to introduce self gov
crnment among the Sioux of that day
and had said il was wrong To go in
then and take possession of the coun-
try, this would yet be a land OF say
ages.
president jefferson made Clark
the governor of all this territory
around the upper Missouri just exact
" as Governor Allen has been made
governor Of Porto Rico and just ex-
actly as Judge Taft and his associates
have been sem to the Philippines.
"We have had to treat different
portions Of III territory on entirely
different bases. We have governed
northern Alaska in one way and the
Indian Territory in another, New
Mexico in another and so en-"
Governor Roosevelt closed as fol-
lows:
1--WE stand as a nation of men, and
not as a nation Of weaklings. We ask
for the reelection Of President Nc
not merely for the sake of
preserving national prosper ity, not
itepub scans at Hot Springs.
-. " $50 M.