The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-31
DEFENSE OF
ROOSEVELT
Root UpholdS the Ad-
miniStration.
ALSO PRAISES GOV. oDELL
Says New York Should Again
Elect Him.
Says Reduction Of Tariff Would Be
OF More Detriment to the Gem
eral Public Than to
the Trusts.

New York. Oct. 3o.-Cooper Union wal
filed tonight with people who had come
to attend a Republican meeting. the
speakers being Mayor Low, Governor
odell and Secretary Of War Root. Mr..
Low eulogized Governor odell and his
administration of State affairs. Governor
.Odell followed in an address in which he
cast aside as absurd the prediction tina,
his majority would be as small as some
had prophesied.
Secretary OF War Root spoke after the
Governor had finished and said:
Fellow Citizens and Fellow Towns
men: It is q pleasure to come home and
to meet you here In this familiar and
historic place and to say that as a citi.
sen Of New York. 1 have been proud OF
Governor odelrs administration during
the past two years.
Give odell q Debt.
Standing little aside from the daily
events and specific discussions of State
administration and looking from outside
upon the general course OF affairs It has
seemed to me that the people OF the
State owe their Governor a debt of graf
itude for what he has done In their inter-
est. He has had the courage to do disa-
greeable things In the public interest and
has made some enemies by It. He ought
to be reelected for the good work he has
done.
THE national issue Of this political
campaign. In its most important and
practical aspect. Is whether President
Roosevelt shall be sustained In his ad.
ministration Of the national government
viii the people Of the United States elect
House of Representatives with Re.
publican majority to work In harmony
with the President and 1'.h the Republi.
can majority Of the eenate. 90 that HI
may 90 on as he has begun with an Of
fective government working out thu
plans for improving the administratio
and for the remedy OF evils along thu
lines upon which the legislative and exec.
utive branches agree? or will the PEG.
pie elect house with a Democratic ma.
jority which will be hostile to the Pres
ident. will not agree with him upon any
course Of conduct and will hinder and
embarrass him In all his efforts for the
public good during the remainder of his
present term OF ONCE?
Should Be No Indifference.
There ought to be no indifference upon
this question among the people of the
State Of New York II the people of the
State feel toward the President as they
did when they elected him their Governor
in 1893 and as they did when they gave
the electoral vote OF the state to him
for Vice-President In 1900. they will an
swer.
Il am not going to talk about what the
Republican administration at Washing
ton has done further than to say that
believe 1t has been honest and efficient
and that 1t has accomplished successful
ly many difficult tasks, avoided many
dangers and attained many results bene-
fetal and creditable to the country.
think its policies have been justified and
its conduct of affairs approved by their
fruits, and that 1t Is entitled to Q con-
of public confidence.
at will be difficult to find a better rec
ord Of wise and painstaking legislative
performance than Is furnished by the Re-
publican majority in the present Con-
gress. Besides dealing with all of the
great appropriation bills. with their null
titude of difficult questions affecting the
public welfare, In their first session they
country from the burden of the war rev.
enue taxes. they settled by an admirable
statute the long vexed question of the
canal.
System Of Irrigation.
"They inaugurated a new system for
the irrigation OF arid lands in the West,
they worked out and adopted laws for
safe government of the Philippine Islands,
exhibiting high order Of constructive
ability. The one case OF urgent necessity
for action which failed of response was
the bill for Just measure Of reciprocity
with Cuba. and that that was defeated by
a combination between the Democrats in
Congress and small minority of the Re-
Fl hlicans refusing to SO with the major
ty of their party. There Is good reason
TO believe that the measure will succeed
at the next session. No reason for chang
ing the political complexion OF the House
IF Representatives can be found In the
past action of that body.
What is there to come which calls for
Iuch a change? Is the reason to be
ound in desire for the curbing of trusts,
or an effective treatment of labor
roubles. or for a revision of the tariff
Certainly not. Our Democratic friends
ak as If some capitalists securing undue
PROFITS and some tariff provisions becom-
ng outgrown with changing conditions,
md some stubborn contests between en-
,loyers who wish to pay less and wage
.arners who wish to be paid more for
abor were new and strange phenomena,
our social and political sys-
EN- and calling for desperate and revolu-
ionary remedies.
Nothing New Under the Sun.
They are not new or strange or threat
ming They are but re-appearances, In
lightly varied forms Of some of the diff
Iculties which have always accompanied
Material prosperity since the beginning
4 the successful enterprise. Unfair and |
Impressive trusts. so called, are weeds In |
he garden of prosperity. 1t is easy to |
ill them II you Kill the flowers and the i
ruit also. but II you would keep the |
geeds down and have the garden grow |
ou must devote yourself not to desperate |
nd destructive remedies, but to a patient |
and unceasing process, |
uIlinK out the weeds and leaving the |
seful. plants. So in curbing and regu- |
ating those combinations OF capital which |
re injuries to the public, either because |
hey monopolize the market or the |
- aupDIx mr. the ayenuea of eul-