The Triumphant Life of Theodore Roosevelt edited by J. Martin Miller

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second place on the ticket, and when the roll of Slates was
called there was not a dissenting vote.
MR. ROOSEVELT'S FAMOUS CAMPAIGN TOUR
The campaign which followed was made memorable by the
tour of the vice-presidential nominee, during which time he
made speeches in two hundred towns in the State of New
York alone. He made forty speeches in Ohio. Then he
struck westward, speaking in Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming,
Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Iowa, Illinois, and
Indiana. Turning eastward again, he visited the States of
West Virginia and Maryland.
ABOUT 500 SPEECHES IN 1900
On this speech-making tour of the West Mr. Roosevelt
visited ninety-seven principal cities in the States named,
making a formal address at each place. But this by no means
included all of the speeches he made in that campaign, for
there were nearly two hundred towns in which his special
train stopped for a few minutes and at which he found crowds
of citizens, ranging from hundreds to thousands, eager to hear
the brief speeches he was enabled to make. It would be
difficult to show the exact number of speeches Mr. Roosevelt
made In that campaign, but the aggregate was somewhere
near the five hundred mark.
In that campaign President McKinley remained quietly at
his Canton home, just as President Roosevelt passed the sum-
mer of 1904 at his home at Oyster Bay. In 1900, McKinley,
with the quiet dignity becoming the President of all the
people, addressed the public only in his written letter of
acceptance. The brunt of the active campaign work fell upon