River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-03
long as they and be are willing to profit
by the alleged national uncleanness.
THE DRIFT TO ROOSEVELT.
His Manlin -as and Honesty Appeal
Strongly to All Classes.

Strongly TO All Classes.
There is a steady drift of thinking men
from the Democratic and independent
party ranks to the support Of the Repub-
lican candidate for President. The firm
and consistent stand held by President
Roosevelt upon the equal rights Of all
men. without regard to race, occupation
or religion, appeals to American man
hood in every class and from one end
of the country to the other.
A candid, outspoken belief in and re-
spect for his brother man, wherever that
man is found at any honest work, or
striving for such work as he is fitted for,
las been characteristic of Theodore
Roosevelt from the earliest day when he
began to record his thoughts and con-
yictionS In his letter of acceptance he
reiterated his unfaltering faith in the
doctrine of the Constitution of the United
States in these words: 'This government
is based upon the fundamental idea that
each man. no matter what his Occupa-
ton, his race, or his religious belief, is
entitled to be treated on his worth as
man, and neither favored nor discriminate
ed against because of any accident In
his position
1t is recognized by friend and foe alike
that these are no idle words pronounced
for effect. President Roosevelt acts as
he speaks. Again and again he mas
proved his robust democracy of senti-
ment in dealing with men.
Robert Treat Paine, Jr., who was the
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Massachusetts, in 1899 and 1900, has
been drawn across party lines to Roose-
welt by the cords Of human sympathy
and sense of justice. In announcing his
determination to vote for Roosevelt, he
gives as his reason the attitude of the
Democratic party ON human rights and
says:
/ want a man for President who will treat
all men alike on their merits as men, In
this respect l think Roosevelt has been
gOdSend to this country, for he has dis
played qualities that we have not seen i'll
President of the United States for many
years. Eight years ago the country was
torn by a conflict between classes, and
Roosevelt has done more, and believe will
continue to do more, to diSsipate the spirit
of class hatred which is about the worst
thing that could befall the country, than
any other man l know of.
We cannot hope for perfection, but we
can strive to attain as closely to 1t as pos
sible, and / am convinced that Roosevelt
means to do the right thing, and do it to
the best of his ability, and that is the sort
Of a President l want, and the sort of
PRESIDENT L Del1eNe tue peOple "a ILLS Col@-
try want.
A few days ago Major Lawrence M.
Ennis, a well-known Democrat of Hi
nois. declared for Roosevelt. In writing
to- the President Major Ennis commend
| ed the position taken by Mr.. Roosevelt
personally, as a firm believer in the
| brotherhood of man. In one paragraph
of his letter Major Ennis writes:
Your action In the coal strike marked an
| era in the history of labor. For the first
| time since man toiled was the laborlng
of his manhood, by the chief magistrate
| of a great nation, with the representatives
of capital
Another Democrat, William e. Burns
of Chicago, promises, like Major Ennis,
to take the stump for Roosevelt. He
says:
| All the workingmen whom know are for
| Roosevelt, and l have decided to do what
| l can to aid in his election. The sympathy
| of all labor should go out to the brave man
who had the courage to say to a greedy
| people, and while President of the United
States my people will not freeze to death
| to satisfy the greed of an INSCRIPTIONS
| few"
| 1t is a question of voting for a man
who stands for man, without distinctions
of class, and Mr.. Burns gives his voice
for that man.
The men who publicly announce their
determination to leave the moribund
| Democratic party and join forces with
the sturdy Americanism of Theodore
Roosevelt are many. But they are few
as compared with the immense host of
| quiet, shrewd men of toll and men Of
business who have silently determined to
vote the Republican ticket in November.
Their ballots will fall, when election
day comes, ''Thick as the leaves of Val
| lambr0sa."