The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-05-11
TALKS TO DEMOCRATS.
President Says Chicago Will Never
Reverse Her Vote on Him.

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Reverse Her Vote on Him.
Chicago, May lin his address
before the IroQuois club President
Roosevelt said.
4 very deeply appreciate the honor
Of being your guest and the guest of
the city of Chicago, and, in looking at
the possibilities of the future, let me
add that have not the least anticipa-
ton of Chicago ever reversing that
most complimentary vote which 1 so
deeply appreciated last year. because
it will never have the chance.
have accepted your kind and
generous invitation to come before you
because the longer I am in political
life the more firmly I am convinced
that the great bulk of questions of
most importance before the people are
questions which we can best decide
not from the standpoint of repub-
licanism or democracy, but from the
standpoint OF interest of the average
citizen, whether Republican or Demo-
crat. There are foreign questions and
there are domestic questions. Our
political lines of difference should and
in the great majority of cases do dis
appear at the waters edge and when
1 had to choose a man to represent in
a peculiar degree the interests of this
government in one of the most i'm
portant negotiations of recent years
concerning the Alaskan boundary, I
chose the best lawyer, one of the
ablest public men and one of the
most fair-minded patriots that could
be found in the country, and the fact
that he was of the opposite faith did
not interfere with Judge Dickinson
doing that work well.
Refers to Panama Canal.
Having drawn an Illinois citizen at
least one by adoption for one DIT of
work let me speak Of something that
has happened more recently. One OF
I ~o4.1rc Sam has hand inst
! at present is digging the Panama ca
naI-and it is going to be dug, Cheer
in and cries of Good "GOOd.') it is
! going to be dug honestly and as cheap
| " as is compatible with effieiency-but
/ with the efficiency first. I wanted con-
/ gress to give me power to remodel the
/ commission; it did not do it. remodeled
| it anyhow and purely in the exercise of
my executive functions; and I made up
! my mind this time that I was not GO
! ing to make the slightest effort to rep
/ resent different sections of the country
on that commission. I was going try
| to have the whole country represented
and put the best man I could get in
any given position without the slight
/ est regard to where he came from. And,
| While it was an accident still I may
/ mention 1t as a fortunate accident that
1 the then most important positions were
filed from IllinOis-Shonts and Wallace
from Illinois"
Regulation of Railroads.
The president took up the question
of capital and labor, covering the same
ground as in his Denver speech, and
advocating federal regulation of rail-
roads. He said:
Personally I believe that the fed
eral government must take an in
creasing control over corporations.
and my views on that subject could
not have been better expressed than
they were expressed I think BY Sec
rotary Taft in Washington; as thev
We're expressed by the attorney gen
eral in his communication to the sen
ate committee a couple OF weeks ago.
l believe that the representatives