The Marshall republican., 1910-10-21
A Great Speech
By Roosevelt
st. Louis Talk Endorses Re.
publican Candidates and
Policies.

The largest crowd in all rrobab-
ility that ever assembled in the
Coliseum greeted Col. Theodore
Roosevelt when he appeared on the
platform last night as the princi-
pal speaker OF the big Republican
rally, opening the campaign in ST.
Louis.
Fresh from a daring and exhi.irat
ing flight with Arch Hoxsey in a
Wright aeroplane at the Kinloch
Aviation Field, Col. Roosevelt
swept the vast gathering, which a
conservative estimate would place
at more than 10000, to the heights
of enthusiasm with a stirring adj
dress. His characteristic delivery,
concise and telling produced an in
t~oxication of party spirit which
found expression in thunderou3
cheers and the waving of flags,
supplied to all who entered the
building.
Col. Roosevelt in keynote
speech drew IN analogy between
Democracy of the state, New York
and that of Missouri. Both typi-
fled Bourbonism, he said. He de-
clared that all right-thinking Am
orleans who subscribed to the
doctrines calculated to advance
the welfare of their country could
not subscribe to so-called Demo-
cracy which would cause Andrew
Jackson of Tennessee and Thomas
Benton of Missouri to turn over
in their graves.
He denounced the Democratic
party in New York as an "unholy
. alliance between Wall street and
Tafnmany Hail." and attacked the
Democratic party in Missouri by
calling it the party "that repre-
sents the special interests and
special privileges"
"Gov. Hadley," he continued, has
represented that kind of party
loyalty in which 1 most be,ieve;th
kind of loyalty to the party which
finds expression by seeing to it
that that party is the most loyal
servant of the people as a whole.
And so lam glad, indeed, to come
here to speak because l think that
the conditions OF your fight here
are substantially akin to the con-
d:tions OF the fight We are making
in New York State, in my own
state.
"And as it is in New York so it
is here in Missouri, the genuine
party of the people, the partylthat
stands for popular rights, that
stands for all the people is the
Republican party, and the party
of reaction. and of Bourbonism, the
party that represents the special
interests and special privileges, is
the party that arrogates to itself
forsooth, the name of the Demo-
cracy."
In reference to the tariff, CO..
Roosevelt. said: GAS to the tariff,
it seems to me that the situation
is much clearer than some people
w5uld have US believe. fully adj
NIT that there was atime when, if
our opponents had acted with rea-
sonable wisdom, they could have
made us trouble. But they let
the opportunity slip by and did not
act with reasonable wisdom.
"The Republican party is united
on the doctrine officially set for h
in it's national platform two years
ago, that the tariff shall be such
as substantially to ~equalize the
cost of production here and abroad
AS the cost of production is main
ly labor cost, this means primarily
that the duty should be great
enough to continue to give to our
laboring men that higher standard
of living which primarily distin-
cuisines the American ware-worker
from the wage-workers OF all 9TH
err countries.
"Now not only is this the doc
trine of the Republican party, but
1 believe it is the doctrine of the
overwhelming majority of the
American people. lido not believe
that any section of the American
people seriously advocate free
trade or a tariff for revenue only"
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