Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1898 — WHAT THE NATIONS WOULD THINK. [ARTICLE]

WHAT THE NATIONS WOULD THINK.

Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, the New York Republican candidate for governor, at a great meeting in Carnegie hall directly after his nomination said; “I should ask the peopte of this country to support the administration of President McKinley, if for uo other reason than because, say what you like, the victory at the polls of the men who are opposing uud denouncing his administration iu this election will be interpreted abroad as meaning on tho part of America a repudiation of the war from which we have just emerged triumphant. It will strengthen the hands of every hostile power wkioh views with jealousy our victories in the Autil’caud the Philippines. It will moan tin* the nations that now secretly nod enviously wish to clip the wing* ot o;. pride will be emboldened. It we r»* salt iu the partial undoing of g army and navy have accomplice!, will mean the chance of grave complications aud the likiihood of our meeting obstacles when it comes to roapiug tlic fruit of our triumph.”