The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-10-14

yesterday. They will not all do this.
but many of them viii.
One noticeable feature cropped out
in the Roosevelt tour of Indiana, and
that is that the people turn out in
such large numbers to hear him for
two reasons: First. because of his per-
sonality and his popularity as a man
and as a statesman; second, because
the people know that when he speaks
to them he has something to say that
he believes in.
In this latter respect Roosevelt is
different from many of the public
speakers. He is not like w. j. Bryan.
who starts today. to stump the state
for the democrats Bryan is very
| fine orator, one of the very best, and
| the people go TO hear him largely be-
cause they feel that they will be en-
! tertained with elequence of the high
est character. That they do not take
any stock in what he says is evident
from the fact that Bryan has stumped
| Indiana in every campaign for four
teen years and has been heard in prac-
| tically every county in the state; he
has thrice made his appeal to the peo-
pie as a candidate for election to Of
| fee: in each instance the people list
| ened to his speeches and heard his ap
peal for support, and thrice they have
turned him down and discredited him
as their leader. He pleases his crowds
with his oratory and then they turn
i. away from him and his theories and
vote the other way This has been
the history of Bryan in Indiana during
all of these years. His speeches sound
well and people go to hear them, but
they do not take"
| II
is not an orator. No one will claim
for him any marked oratorieal ability
His style of speaking is that plain, ole
fashioned knock down and drag out
, | style that counts. He calls things by
their right names, that the people
, can understand what he means. H.
. calls a crook a crook. and lair
: liar. and an honest man an honest man
+ and when the people hear him say thes'
: things and see mis- earnest manner the!
: know he means just what he saws. am
believes every word of it himself. The
feel that he is honest with them, an,
! that he is not trying to mislead then
with oratorical fourishes.
In fact that is the strong point il
his personality, as shown by his tour o
this state yesterday. He did not sa,
any new things. He repeated many o
the things which he has said in forme
: | speeches about the movement in thi
| country to drive crooks and bad me
| out of politics and out of business
! This, he says, is the true meaning o
the insurgent movement which i
abroad in the land And then he wen
on to show just what he meant by tn
word crook" He took the positio
, that crooked interests have manipu
: lated the tariff and other parts of tn
q business of the country to the detri
ment of the people. and he is in fave
of putting a stop to this practice.
That was the burden of his argu
, ment, stripped of all other ornamenta
: ton And that in taking this positio
> he met with the approval of the peopl
sc was shown by the enthusiastic mar
ner in which he was received. He sal
io that in the great fight which has bee
=. ra ging for several years between tt
Z wicked interests on the one side an
!. the people on the other, Senator BeN
eridge has been one of the leaders fl
= the side of the people. He told h
Il hearers that Senator Beveridge hs
stood by him IN all of his efforts
. bring about reforms while he was
"a the presidents chair, and he pointt
= out that it would be a calamity for II
a, people of Indiana to turn away fro
such a champion OF the people 5 RICH
/, as Senator Beveridge and elect son
= one else to the senate.
20 The way the people turned out e
y erywhere to hear him yesterday SHOW
- plainly that they believe in him al
that they admire his honest. straigh
III forward and vigorous manner of doir
a what he believes to be the right thin
ne to do. In that lies, APPARENT the s
ne cret of his immense popularity. 1t
or doubtful if any other man in Ameri
n, could come into Indiana for one d
is and meet such crowds as turned o
be to hear Roosevelt.
or Therefore, when his popularity