Identifier: votersguideforca192025morr (find matches)
Title: The voter's guide for the campaign of 1900 : great issues and national leaders ; live questions of the day discussed, including imperialism, expansion, trusts, the government of our newterritories, Nicaraguan Canal, open door in the East, etc., with party platforms in full and lives of candidates and noted men of the day. One hundred years of political history and the great campaigns of the century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Morris, Charles, 1833-1922 Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916 Johnson, Isaac Thorne
Subjects: Campaign literature
Publisher: Elmira, N.Y. : R.E. Whitman
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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re the world, and with the unorganizedpopulation whom our intervention had freed from Spain, to provide for themaintenance of law and order, and for the establishment of good governmentand for the performance of international obligations. Our authority could notbe less than our responsibility, and wherever sovereign rights were extended it 374 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM ADOPTED became the high duty of the government to maintain its authority, to put downarmed insurrection and to confer the blessings of liberty and civilization uponall the rescued peoples. The largest measure of self-government consistentwith their welfare and our duties shall be secured to them by law. To Cuba independence and self-government were assured in the samevoice by which war was declared, and to the letter this pledge shall be per-formed. The Republican party upon its history, and upon this declaration of itsprinciples and policies, confidently invokes the considerate and approving judg-ment of the American people.
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CHAPTER XXII The Life and Public Services ofTheodore Roosevelt Republican Candidate for Vice President NominatedJune 21, 1900 44r-pHEODORE ROOSEVELT is Andrew Jackson edu-cated, said a prominent man, while the hero of theRough-Riders was making the race for Governor of theState of New York in October, 1898. No man of his age in America has been a more uncompro-mising reformer or waged a more relentless warfare against corruptand designing public officials. Both in public and private, he hasbeen always the staunch, fearless champion of the right. Mr. Roosevelt is a native of New York City, where he wasborn October 27, 1858. The family of the Roosevelts have livedin New York from the time of the old Dutch Governor, PeterStuyvesant,and throughout every generation they have been repre-sented by some upright and honorable man of their name in thepublic service. At the age of eighteen young Roosevelt entered HarvardCollege, where he graduated in 1880, shortly before he was twenty-two years

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