Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-28

NEW YORK, Oct. 27.-The crOwd
attending the republican mass meet.
ing held at Carnegie hall last night
was so large that the doors were
locked at 1880 o'clock. At that time
all the available space within the hall
was filled and thousands of people
were crowding about the entrance
seeking admission.
Secretary of State John Hay was
given a grand ovation when he ap
peared The band played and flags
were waved in every part OF the
house, while the audience cheered
and it was several minutes before
quiet was restored.
The audience arose as one man
when the presiding officer character
lied President Roosevelt as "the man
whom we all admire and love-"
Great cheering greeted Secretary
Hay as he arose. Mr.. Hay spoke as
follows:
This campaign will be memorable
in our annals as one of the quietest
ever known. Rarely in our recollec.
ton has there been so little excite.
ment, SO slight disturbance Of the or.
derly course of affairs. Why is 1t
that these great assiZes where eighty
millions of people are to decide in
whose hands they are to place their
interests for the next four years
should be approached with SO little
noise, with such unusual calm? Why
is it that the American people are
possessing their souls in such re-
pose?
There is venture 10 say no ex
PLANTATION of this state of feeling, ex'
cept that the people of this country
have made up their minds that there
Ia to be for the present no change
in the principles and policies that
have proved SO successful in the
last eight years. They had resolved
definitely and clearly in 1896 that
their temporary alteration from the
policy which as long ago as the time
OF Henry Clay was called the Ameri
can system had not resulted favor
ably. They intrusted William Nc
Kinley with the task of bringing the
country back to it's old bearings, OF
restoring the well-tried ways of the
national housekeeping. He showed
himself worthy of their confidence
In four years the country made great
progress along its regular old-fashion
ed lines of healthy development, and
+. in 1900 when he gave an account Of
his stewardship the people approx
ed it and renewed his term of office
An unspeakable crime snatched him
away from his glorious task and oul
loving confidence In the classic
myth when the golden bough was
torn away another Immediately an
peared in its place. Theodore Roose
welt took up the burden our beloved
Chief laid down and with incompar
able courage and strength has car
ried IL on. With the work of both
these faithful servants the American
people are satisfied. Believing ant
intending that the work shall go or
in the hands and under the guidance
which has been found So efficient
they are not walsting so much time as
usual from their private affairs to
show an interest which is 100 uni
versal to need much advertising.
None of us will make the mistake
of thinking the contest of this yeaI
unimportant. On the contrary, II
goes down to the very foundations o1
our national welfare. 1t Is not cam
paign rhetoric. il is merely the sim
pie fact. TO say that nothing but disas
ter could follow the reversal of the
policies to which we are indebted fol
the prosperity of the past few years
The country cannot afford to give uT
the gold standard and to drift on the
shifting currents of financial expert
ment and quackery. II cannot afford
to give up the principle and practice
of protection to American indus
tries Any radical meddling with the
tariff would throw a thousand indus