The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-09-16
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt, and A.
miro and keSnecf Him.

mire and Respect Him.
President Roosevelt is not an unknown
quantity to the American people. He
is personally well known to u 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 ths
representative and exponent of the ideah
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 famens New
England university is even more fer
vently admired and beloved in the West
the far West-and the middle West.
than be 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 a Young.
virile people. A people whs recognize
a man when they see him!
During the Mckinley campaign Of
y 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, seif-con-
trolled. digniiied utterances, and HIS
manly. generous personality.
Toward the end of the campaign ths
national committee was overwhelmed By
requests for speeches by Roosevelt IN
all parts of the country. 1t was a ply
steal impossi bility for him to accent ono
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, a contrast to the frantic er>
forts of ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations Of people
who had derived their ideas from tie
comic supplements, and other pictorial
atrocities of the yellow press, Mp. Roose-
Velts utterances were characterized by a
steadfast adherence to the main cues
tons 1T issue in the campaign, and what
ever he said bore the stamp Of original
thought. broad experience and study, ana
the most conscientious sense of response
blilty. There was no ranting, no pel~
Sonal abuse, no wild statements or
strange imasinings, in any of Mr.. Roose-
vets speeches, and there was no posing.
He stood before his great audiences dig
niiied, 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 we'll us through
out his journey from and back to the
capital, the people rose to him with IN
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
lese president. lie saw and spoke to and
was cheered by thousands upon thou
sands OF men, women and chituren. Pres
ident Roosevelt is no stranger to ths
people OF the United States. He knows
them. They know him. And they un.
derstand each other.