Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-10-13
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The republican speakers and the
press bureau Of the Republican Ma
tional Committee are industriously
denying that President Roosevelt,
in New York City, in 1896, ever
said that "Mr. Bryan and his ad-
herents 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 q rally of the Sound Money
Club at the Wool Exchange in New
York City October q, 1896, the
leading speakers were General
Horace Porter and Police Commits
sioner Theodore Roosevelt. Mr.
Roosevelt had but recently returned
from 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:
II 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.
mr.. 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 dol.
lar out of fifty cents? He tells thens
il can be brought about by a free
royalty-the right to burn and plum
der without the interference OF the
police.
But this man back of Bryan.
Governor Aitgeld, Of Illinois, is far
more dangerous than the boy who is
anxious TO precipitate another civil
war.
"Altgeld typifies the danger that
walks in the night. He talks much,
breaches reputation. but takes
every penny from his employees.
In the course of this speech he
also said that the delegates to the
convention that nominated Altgeld
were made up of murderers horse
thieves, burglars, libertines, crooks
of all kinds-men who had been cor
victed 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 %, 1867
Ii appears that this speech was
not reported in any of the republi-
can papers of New York, but this il
not unnatural because the time was
near the close of the campaign and
so much political news was going
that much OF il had to be omitted
However, the sentiments of the
speech were expressed on the sam,
day that the speech was delivered
and printed as an interview in the
New York Sun of the same day that
the New Journal published the re
port OF the speech.
Extracts from the interview fol-
low:
In October, 1898, after a stumping
tour, chiefly through Illinois and
Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt. then
Police Commissioners of the city of
New York, gave a column interview
that was evidently as carefully consi-
dereda Mr.. Roosevelteverc considers
anything. 1t was published in the
New York Sun of October %. I'd
page, Sd column. The Sun was
then, as at present, on the sane
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 who know that they have
In them the capacity of success, and
who feel the thrill of pride that
comes with strong hands, stout
hearts. and cool heads, do not see
the necessity of being Jealous of
anybody. The strength of the Po-
pulists lies with the ignorant and
vicious and also with the weak
who have not the intelligence 10 see
that their failure in life is due not
to others, but to themselves. but
who wish to put the blame of their
short comings on some one else.
Again
Undoubtedly Bryan has a great
hold upon the unintelligent and the
vicious. He attracts that type of
farmer whose gate hangs on the