The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-09-16
NOT AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY
The People Know Roosevelt, and Al.
Iuire aud keRDcct Him,

, AHe Ieopie Nnow RoOscvclt, ana A0s
ntre aud kespect Him.
President Roosevelt is not an unknown
quantity to the American people. He
is personally well known to vast mum.
Der OF voters i'll every part of the coun-
try. In New York he is familiar to the
pslsht of 4 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 the
representative and exponent of the ideals
which have ruled the cradle OF American
iberty' from the landing of the Pilgrim
fathers.
And this nstive of the Empire State.
this graduate from the famous New
England university is even more fer
NenlIN admired and beloved in the West
the far Wcst-anl the middle West,
than he is i'll the East. And this in
tcnSity of feeling for Roosevelt in tina
West unswaycd by sectional bias as it
IS IS but the national feeling of a young.
'lr'l" people. \ people who recognize
man when they see him.
pnrinS the Mckinley campaign o,
l'"" Roosevelt, as candidate for Vice
PRESIDENT. visited almost every Western
State and territory. He spoke to i'm.
mcnSe crowds, and Won friends by thou
| ahi> by his straightforward. self-con-
lrol'cl, dignifeI utteranccs. and his
manly. generous personality.
Toward the eud of the campaign the
national committee was ovarwholmei by
requests for speeches by Roosevelt il
all parts of the country. Ii was a ply
Steal impossbilty for him to accept one.
fourth of the engagements to speak Tint
were urged upon Him.
In Chicago, where, on his return from
TIC West, he addressed n great crowd ut
IN" Coliseum he was received with the
utmost exhibition of enthusiasm His
Speed! was calm. forccfu logical and
convincing. contrast to the frantic ef-
forts of ordinary speakers.
Contrary to the expectations OF neople
WHO had derived their IDEAS from the
comic supplements. and other pictorial
atrocities of the yellow press, Mr.. Roose-
ven "'teranccs were characterized Ivy
SieadfnSt adherence to the main uIes.
IONS at issue in the campaign, and whas-
ever he said bore the STAMP OF original
thought. broad experience and study. and
the most conscientious sense of respons:-
Deity. There was no ranting, no ner-
S"na abuse, no wild statements or
strange imaginings. in any OF Mr. Roose-
welt speeches, and there was no posing.
lie stood before his great audiences Dig
nl'lch. 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
fnri!lr coast since his assumption Of the
presidency. and there. as well as through
out his journey from and buck to the
capital. the people rose to him with I'M
matched enthusiasm. He met and talk
Ell with hundreds of his fellow citizens,
III every occupation, in every stage and
state OF society, from the cowboy to col
lcge president. He saw and spoke to and
was clcrred 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.
dcrstand each other.