River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-15
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt, and Adj
mire and Respect Him.

mire and Respect Him.
President Roosevelt is not an unknown
quantity to the American people. He
! is personally well known to a vast NUM-
Der of voters in every part of the coun-
try. In New York he is familiar to the
| sight of a great majority of the people
of that great city. Throughout his own
State the same is true. In Boston he
is as much at home as in New York, for
Harvard is his alma mater. Throughout
New England he is recognized as the
representative and exponent 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 the middle West,
than he is in the East. And this in
tensity of feeling for Roosevelt in the
West unswayed by sectional bias, as it
is, is but the national feeling of young,
virile people. A people who recognize
a 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 inn
mense crowds, and won friends by thou
sands by his raightforward, self-con-
trolled, dignifed utterances, and his
manly, generous personality.
Toward the end of the campaign tho
national committee was overwhelmed by
requests for speeches by Roosevelt in
all parts of the country 1t was ply
steal impossibility for him to accept one
fourth of the engagements to speak that
were urged upon him.
In Chicago, where, on his return from
the West, he addressed a 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 frantic eff
forts of ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations of people
who had derived their ideas from the
comic supplements, and other pictorial
| atrocities of the yellow press, Mr. Roose-
velt's utterances were characterized by
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 RESPONSE
blllty. There was no ranting, no per-
sonal abuse, no wild statements or
strange imaginings, in any of Mr.. RooSe-
velt's speeches, and there was no posing.
He stood before his great audiences dig
| niied, collected and amply able to take
care of himself-an American gentleman.
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 through
out his journey from and back to the
| capital, the people rose to him with un-
matched enthusiasm. He met and talk
| ed with hundreds of his fellow citizens.
in every occupation in every stage and
| state of society, from the cowboy to col
lege president. He saw and spoke to and
was cheered by, thousands upon thou
sands of men, women and children. Pres
ident Roosevelt is no stranger to the
people of the United States. He knows
them. They know him. And they un-
derstand each other.