Cañon City record., 1904-09-15
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt, ana Ad.
mire and Respect Him.

The People Know Roosevelt, and ADJ
mire and Respect Him.
President Roosevelt Is not an unknown
quantity to the American people. He
is personally well known to q vast num-
ber Of voters In every part of the conn
try. In New York he IL familiar to the
sight Of Z great majority Of the people
Of that great city. Throughout his own
State the same 10 true. In Boston he
Is ~ much At home a. In New York, for
Harvard u bis alma mater. Throughout
New England be 10 recognized as tha
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, n IL
is. is but the national feeling Of young.
viriie people. A people who recognize
q 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 i'm
mense crowds. and won friends by thou.
sands by his straightforward, salf-con-
trolled. dignifed utterances, and his
manly. generous personality.
Toward the end OF the campaign the
national committee was overwhelmed by
requests for speeches by Roosevelt In
NIL parts OF the country. 1t was a ply
sicai impossibiiity for him to accept one
fourth of the engagements to speak that
were urged upon him.
In Chicago. where, on his rctIrn from
the West. he addressed a great crowd at
the Coliseum, he wss received with tho
utmost exhibition of enthusiasm His
speech was calm, forceful. logical and
convincing. contrast to the frantic ef-
forts OF ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations OF people
who had derived their ideas from tho
comic supplements. and other pictorial
atrocities OF the yellow press. Mr. Roo.e-
vcit's utteranecs were characterized by .
stcadfast adherence to the main qucs-
lions at issue In the campaign. and what
ever he said bore the stamp OF original
thought. broad experience aud study. ard
the most conscientious seuse OF responsi-
tility. There was no rantinx. no per
sonai abuse. no Wild statements or
vclt's speeches. and there was no posing.
He stood before his great audience. dig.
nihed. collected and amply able to take
care Of himself--an American gentlesnan.
In language. Ia 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
preaidency. and there. A. well an through
ont his journey from and back to the
capital. the people rose to him With un-
matched enthusiasm. He met aud talk
ed with hundreds Of his fellow citizens.
In every occupation. In every stage and
state Of society. from the cowboy 10 coll
leEs president. He saw and spoke to and
was chsered by Thousands upon thou
sands Of men. woman aud chiiaren. Pres
ident Roosevelt IL no stranger to the
people Of the United States. He knows
them. They know him. And they un-
derstand each other.