Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-10-14

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ious to precipitate another civil war.
"Altgeld typi des 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 conven-
ton that nominated Altgeld were
made up of murderers, horse thieves,
burglars, libertines, crooks of all
kinds-men who had been convicted
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 Octo-
Der %, 1895.
It appears that this speech was not
reported in any Of the republican
papers of New York, but this is not
unnatural because the time was near
the close of the campaign and go
much political news was going that
much of it had to be omitted. How
ever, the sentiments Of the speech
were expressed on the day that the
speech was delivered and printed as
,n interview in the New York Sun
of the same day that the New York
journal published the report of the
speech.
Extracts from the interview follow !:
In October, 1896, after stumping
tour chiefly through Illinois and
Michigan, Theodore Roosevelt, then
Police Commissioner Of the city OF
New York, gave column interview
in the New York Sun. This inter-
view was evidently as carefully con-
sidered as Mr.. Roosevelt ever con-
sidered anything 1t was published in
the New York Sun of October %, I'd
page, Sd column The Sun was then,
ssa at present, on the same side Of the
political fence as Mr.. Roosevelt and
anxious to do him honor In exploit
ing his views. In The course of this
interview, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
Men VINO 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 Populists lies
vita the ignorant and vicious and
also with the weak, who have not
the intelligence to sec that their fail
ure in life is due not to others, but
to themselves, but who wish to put
the blame of their shortcoming on
someone else.''
Again
Undoubtedly Bryan has q great
hold upon the unintelligent and the
vicious. He attracts that type of farm.
er whose gate hangs on the hinge,
whose old hat supplies the place of q
missing window pane. and who is
more likely to be found at the Cross
roads grocery store than behind the
plough. He attracts still more the pro-
fessional laboring man of the type
that labors as little as possible, and
continually strives to delude such
working men as are ignorant and fool
ish enough to be mieled into some
movement which cannot but end the
disaster. But the thrifty, Intelligent
and resolute are in the majority and
it was my invariable experience that
men of this stamp, even If somewhat
predisposed to Bryan, were repealed
by the cheapness of the man. I do not
like to use such word in reference to q
presidential candidate, but there ia
no other word describes him go we'll. -
In the same Interview he thus paid
his respects to the followers of the
late Governor Altgeld Of Illinois:
"Almoet every respectable man,
whether shopkeeper or laborer, is
against Altgeld, and bis strength Is
drawn purely from the lowest element
of the community. the most Incapable
of self government, the population
from which are recruited the ranks of
the criminals and semi criminals.