The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-10-14
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt. and Admire
and Respect Him.


President Roosevelt is not an I'M
known quality to the Americans people.
He is personally we'll known to Il vast
number of voters in every part Of the
country. In New York he is familiar
to the sight of d great majority of the
people of that great city. Throughout
his own state the same is true. In BOs-
ton he is as much at home as in New
York, for Harvard is his alma mater.
Throughout New England he is recog-
nized as the representative and expo
nent of the ideals which have ruled
the cradle of American liberty from
the landing of the Pilgrim 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 west
the far west-and middle west, than
he is in the east. And this intensity
of feeling for Roosevelt III the west
unswayed by sectional bias, as it is
is but the national feeling Of a young,
virile people. a people who recognize
man when they see him!
During the Mckinley campaign of
1900 Roosevelt, as candidate for vice
president, visited almost every western
state and territory. He spoke to M
mense crowds, and won friends by
thousands by his straightforward, self
controlled dignifed utterances, and
his manly, generous personality.
Toward the end of the campaign
the national committee was over
whelmed by requests for speeches by
Roosevelt in all parts of the country.
1t was a physical impossibility for
him to accept one-fourth of the engage
ments to speak that were urged upon
him.
In Chicago, where, on his return from
the west, he addressed great crowd
at the Coliseum, he was received with
the utmost exhibition of enthusiasm
His speech was calm, fOrceful, logical
and convincing, contrast to The fran
tic efforts of ordinary speakers
Contrary to the expectations Of peo-
pie who had derived their ideas from
the comic supplements, and other pic
torial atrocities of the yellow press
Mr.. ROosevelt's utterances were char
acterized by steadfast adherence to
the main question at issue in the cam
paign, and whatever he said bore the
stamp of original thought, broad expe-
rience and study, and the most con-
scientiOus sense Of responsibility
There was no ranting, no personal
abuse, no wild statements or strange
imaginings, in any of Mr.. Roosevelt's
speeches, and there was no posing. He
stood before this great audience dig
nilied, collected and amply able to take
care of himself--an American gentle
man. In language, in bearing, in all
that he said and did, there was what
made friends for him of all who came
within the sound of his voice.
President Roosevelt has visited the
Pacific coast since his assumption of
the presidency, and there, as well as
throughout his journey from and back
to the capital, the people rose to him
with unmatched enthusiasm. He met
and talked with hundreds of his fell
low citizens, in every occupation, in
every stage and state Of society, from
the cowboy to college president. He
saw and spoke to and was cheered by
thousands upon thousands of men. wo-
men and children. President ROOse-
Welt is no stranger to the people Of the
United States He knows them. They
know him. And they understand eacn
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