The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-09-16
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevel., and AID.
-mire and Respect Him.

Presiden. Roosevelt is not an unknown
quantity 10 the American people. He
is personally well known to a vast num-
her 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 bis alma mater. Throughout
New England he is recognized as the
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 nnswayed by sectional bias, as it
is. is hut the national feeling Of a young,
virile people. A people who recognize
a man when they see him.
During the Mckinley campaign OF
1900 Roosevelt. as candidate for Vice
President. visited almost every Western
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mense crowds. and won friends by thou
sands by his straightforward, self-con-
trolled. digniied utterances, and his
manly. generous personality,
Toward the end OF the campaign the
national committee was overwhelmed by
requests for speeches by Roosevelt in
all parts Of the country. 1t was a ply
seal impossibility for him to accept one-
fonrfh pf thu % cpocl, <hnA
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 eff
forts of ordinary speakers.
!. Contrary to the expectations Of people
who had derived their ideas from the
comic supplements. and other pictorial
atrocities of the yellow press. Mr.. Roose-
velts utterances were characterized by .
steadfast adherence to the main Ques-
lions at issue in the campaign, and what.
ever he SAID bore the stamp Of original
thought. broad experience and study, and
the most conscientious sense of response
bility. There was 10 ranting. no per-
VIA hDuse. no VIII statements or
strange imaginings. in any Of Mr.. Roose-
velt's speeches. and there was no posing.
lie stood before his great audiences dig
nified, 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 well as through
out his journey from and back to the
capital, the people rose to him with un-
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
lege president. He saw and spoke to and
was cheered by thousands upon thou
sands of men. women and children. Pres
ldent Roosevelt is no stranger to the
people of the United States. He knows
them. They know him. And they I'm.
derstand each other.