The Teton peak., 1904-09-15
NOT AN UNKNcWN QUANTITY
The People know Roosevelt, and "A.
nire and Respect Him,

The People know Roosevelt, and "A.
mire and Respect Him.
President Roosevelt is not an unknown
quantity to the American people. He
is personally well known to a vast mum.
Der of voters in every part of the coun-
try. In New York he is familiar to thu
sight OF great majority of the peoph
of that great city. Throughout his owr
State the same is true In Boston h
is as much at home as in New York, fon
Harvard is his alma mater. Throughout
New England he is recognized a. the
representative and exponent Of the ideab
which have ruled the cradle of American
liberty from the landing of the PilgIaD
fathers.
And this native Of the Empire State
this graduate from the famous New
England university is even more fer.
vently admired and beloved in the Wesa
the far West-and the middle West
than he is in the East And this In
tensity of feeling for Roosevelt in the
West unswayed by sectional bias ~
Is, is but the national feeling of youns
virile people. A people who recognise
a man when they see him!
During the Mckinley campaign u
1900 Roosevelt. as candidate for Vice
President, visited almost every Westers
State and territory. He spoke to i'm
mense crowds and won friends by thou
sands by his straightforward, self-con-
trolled, dignded utterances, and his
manly, generous personality.
| Toward the end of the campaign thu
national committee was overwhelmed By
requests for speeches by Roosevelt IL
all parts of the country. 1t was q ply,
steal impossibility for him to accept one
| fourth of the engagements to speak thas
were urged upon him.
| In Chicago, where, on his return from
the West, he addressed great crowd q
the Coliseum, he was received with tn
utmost exhibition of enthusiasm. Hla
speech was calm, forceful, logical and
convincing, contrast to the frantic -
forts of ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations Of psoph
who had derived their ideas from thu
comic supplements, and other pictoriat
atrocities Of the yellow press, Mr.. Roose
velt's utterances were characterized By 4
steadfast adherence to the main ques
tons at issue in the campaign, and what
ever he said bore the stamp Of Original
Thought, broad experience and study, and
the most conscientious sense of rsspenA
bility. There was no ranting, NO pss
sonal abuse, no wild statements q
strange ina ginings, in any Of Mr.. Rooss
velt's speeches. and there was no posinA
He stood before his great audiences dig
nified, collected and amply able to taks
care Of himself--an American gentleman
In language, in bearing, In all that h
said and did, there was what mad>
friends for him Of all whe came wttAis
the sound Of his voice.
President Roosevelt has visited sha
Pacific coast since his assumption ef tn
presidency, and there, as we'll as through
out his journey from and back - Il,
capital, the people rose to him with -,
matched enthusiasm. He met and tallb
ed with hundreds of his fellow citiseaA
in every occupation, in every stage an(
state of society. from the cowboy u ~
lege president. He saw and spoke to ann
was cheered by thousands upon thou
sands of men, women and children. Prse
ident Roosevelt is no stranger to th<
people of the United States. He knowt
them. They know him. And they -
derstand each other