Show salt lake city oct 3 what a great man theodore roosevelt ie remarked a democrat this morning he Is a great man a tact it may seem strange coming from me of an opposite political point of view but I 1 make the statement fully and unequivocally and I 1 base it upon one cardinal point and that is that president roosevelt ft in the fullest sense of the word an american more than that he la an ideal american 1 I often think of my boyhood days when the word american to me in my juvenile fancy presented an ideal creature personage of commanding presence the hubbub of the civil war was all about me and in fancy I 1 clothed the ideal I 1 created in the habal ments of war a personage whom none dare affront without consequent personal injury nor waa this illusion less heightened by tho old mammy who tended me who in her deep superstition would listen to my childish fancies and by word and action only tend to strengthen the personage I 1 conjured up my american was on who dared to do and did it one whom none might approach only in fear and trembling but who if greeted in the right way would receive a greeting whose warmth and depth could not be doubted A great man truly Is theodore roosevelt a warrior in war times a statesman in times of peace and at all times an american As a leader be leads he approaches matters of statecraft with the dt and the depth of he typifies in every respect the man to whom a nation might give the custody of its safety his statesmanship Is preeminent pre eminent while they call him teddy the strenuous yet underlying that air of impetuosity there Is a deep undercurrent that few appreciate take his attitude on that coal strike was it sympathy for the wealthy owners of the coal mines that urged him to step out and beyond ane lines laid down tor a president and intercede was it in order to help any trust or combination of trusts that he did that emphatically no it was the sight of and knowing the condition of the poor and how they were affected that made him do it his duty as an american overweigh cd his caution as an executive was it tor any hope of great reward that he lias fought so hard and zealously for the west for the reclamation of the arid lands in spite of the rebuffs and insults heaped upon him by the eastern farmers and their representatives that he did BO no it was in order that this mighty empire stretching from the missouri river to tho pacific ocean might be redeemed that thousands of acres of ground now lying desolate under the coating of sagebrush and might bo made tobe come farms in order that many thousands more might find land on which to raise their farm products was it for the benefit of the classes that he la doing this again I 1 say not theodore roosevelt in spite of the conditions that obtained all his life in I 1 spite of his being reared in wealth and his present condition as such Is essentially senti ally for the masses president roosevelt Is a man a man for the people and I 1 want to assure you that there la not a member of the republican party that will take more pleasure than I 1 in casting a vote for president theodore roosevelt a truo american this arid land matter belongs purely to theodore roosevelt tho west can expect nothing from parker he la not conversant with the needs and the prevailing conditions out here in fact knows no more of our section than bo does of the moon this reclamation of arid lands which means so much to tho west has caused a hubbub all over the east but it comes from eastern farmers and their representatives as I 1 stated before we must look to theodore roosevelt tor our salvation must cast our votes so chaj we may expect and know that we will elect a man who represents the west that Is why I 1 will cast my vote tor roosevelt |