Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-10-12
FROM WASHINGTON

press bureau of the Republican
National Committee are industri-
ousIy denying that President Roose-
welt. when he was Police Commits
sioner Theodore Roosevelt, in New
York City. in 1896, ever said that
Mr.. Bryan and his adherents
have appealed TO the basest set in
the land, the farmers.
Here are the facts and also some
extracts from an interview that
will prove interesting reading:
At a rally of the Sound Money
Club at the Wool Exchange in
New York City October %, 1896,
the leading speakers were General
Horace Porter and Police Commits
sioner Theodore Roosevelt. Mr..
Roosevelt had but recently return
ed FROM a stumping tour of the
West, in which he had devoted
much time To Illinois. In the
course of his speech at this Sound
Money Club meeting at the Wool
Exchange, he said
Il shall confine my remarks to
what General Porter has said about
patriotism. Patriotism comes first
and / hope you will not fail to dis
play it next Tuesday.
''NIr. Bryan and his adherents
have appealed to the basest set in
the land, the farmers.
IF they are not so, then why
do they believe that he can make a
dollar out of fifty centsl He tells
them it can be brought about by a
free royalty right to burn
and plumber without the interfer-
cnce of the police.
but this man back of Bryan,
Governor Atgeld, of Illinois, is
far more dangerous than the boy
who is anxious to precipitate an
other civil war.
"Altgeld typifies the danger
that walks in the night. He talks
much, breaches reputation, but
takes every penny from his en-
ployeeS. >
In the course Of this speech he
also said that the delegates to the
convention that nominated Atgeld
were made up of murderers, horse
thieves, burglars, libertines, crooks
of all kinds-men who had been
convinced of crimes ranging from
pocket picking to arson and from
mayhem to rape.
(The report of this speech was
taken from the New York journal
of October 2S, 1896
1t appears that this speech was
not reported in any of the republ-
can papers of New York. but this
Is not unnatural because the time
was near the close of the campaign
and so much political news was
going on that much of it had to be
omitted. Howevcr,t the sentiments
of the speech were expressed on
tie same day that the speech was
delivered and printed as an inter
view in the New York Sun of the
same day that the New York Jour
nal published the report of the
speech.
Extracts from the interview fol-
low:
In October, 1896, after stump
ing tour. chiefly through Illinois
and Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt,
then Police Commissioner of the
city of New York, gave column
interview to the New York Sun.
This interview was evidently as
carefully considered as MIR. Roose-
welt ever considers anything. 1t
was published in the New York
Sun of October 2S, I'd page, Sd
column. The Sun was then, as at
present, on the same side of the
political fence as Mr.. Roosevelt
and anxious to do him honor in
exploiting his views. In the course
OF this interview, Mr.. Roosevelt
said:
Men whc know that they have
IN them the capacity of success,
and who feel the thrill of pride
'hat comes with strong hands,
stout hearts, and cool heads, do
not see the necessity of being jeal-
Gus of anybody. The strength of
the Populists lies with the ignorant
ana vicious and also with the
weak, who have not the intelligence
10 see that their failure in life is
uue not to others, but to them
selves, but who wish to put the
Olame of their short oOn,;nUO IN,