The Dickinson press., 1904-09-17
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt. and Admire
and Respect Him.

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and Respect Him.
President Roosevelt is not an un-
known quality to the American people.
He is personally well known to vast
country. In New York he Is familiar
to the sight Of great majority Of the
people Of that great city. Throughout
his own state the same is true. In BOs-
ton he Is as much ut home us in New
York, for Harvard is his alma mater.
Throughout New England he Is recog-
nized as the representative and expo
nent 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 middle west, than
he Is in the east. And this intensity
Of feeling for Roosevelt in the west
unswayed by sectional bias, as it Is,
is but the national feeling of young,
virlle people A people who recognize
maI Wueu Cuey see nlIu.
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
thousands by his straightforward, self
controlled, dignitied utterances, and
his manly, generous personality.
Toward the end of the campaign
the national committee was over
whelmed by requests for speeches by
Roosevelt in ull parts of the country.
1t was Il physical impossibility for
him to accept one-fourth of the engage
ments to speak that were urged upon
him.
In Chicago, where, on his return from
the west, he addressed great crowd
at the Coliseum, he was received with
the utmost exhibition of enthusiasm.
His speech was calm, forceful, logical
and convincing, q contrast to the fran
tic efforts of ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations Of peo-
pie who had derived their ideas from
the comic supplements, and other pic.
tOrial atrocities of the yellow press,
Mr. Roosevelt's utterances were char
acteriZed by n stcadfast adherence to
the main question at issue in the cam
paign, and whatever he said bore the
stamp Of original thought, broad eXpe-
rience and study, and the most con-
scientious sense of responsibility.
There was no ranting, no personal
abuse, no wild statements or strange
imuginings, in any of Mr.. Roosevelt's
speeches, and there was no posing. He
stood before this great audience dig
nilied, collected and amply able to take
care of himself-an American gentle
man. In language, in bearing, In all
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
throughout his journey from and back
to the capital, the people rose to him
with unmatched nuth:lsinm. He met
and talked with hu!.!rcdS of his fell
low citizens. in every occupation. in
every stage and stat" Of society, from
the cowhoy to collie" president He
eaw and spoke to ami was chcrred by
thousands upon thousands Of men, wo-
men and children. President ROose-
welt is no stranger to the people of the
United States. He knows them. They
know him. And they understand each
other