Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-09
The BASEST
INSULTS.
Disgraceful Conduct Toward
Roosevelt in Chi
cago.
THROW MUD AT HIM.
Left the "Windy" City This Morning
for Tour Thru lIIinois-Enthusiastic
Receptions at Joliet syi other ILL.,
inois Towns.


Receptions at Joliet ssi Other III.
inois Towns. SO
Chicago, Oct S.--The , "a. st Victor,
Colo, stoned, dubbed, I: s and in
suited Governor Theodoi nosevelt
two weeks ago; the rabble chicago
yesterday threw mud on h S,d in
suited him with coarse e. s in
front of church. The in
Chicago was the act of street .nins
the tools and hirelings of people, it
is said, who were too cowardly to do
the work themselves.
Governor Roosevelt, accompanied
by Curtis Guild, Jr., of Boston, who
assisted him in the campaign of the
Northwest, yesterday morning drove
to the Trinity Dutch Reform church,
Mansfield avenue, near Polk street, to
attend services. The Rev. Peter Nor
dyke is pastor of the church, and is
a personal friend of Governor Roose-
velt. 1t is the Governors custom to
worship in this church when he is in
Chicago, and yesterdays visit to the
little structure was his third in as
many months.
The Governor was standing at the
church steps at 12 o'clock, after SER
oh %hn
bers of the congregation, all of whom
by the way, but three are republicans,
when band of half dozen or more
dirty-faced, tattered newsboys began
to jeer at him. The Governor said
nothing, altho he looked volumes, and
some men in the crowd drove the boys
away. They retreated to the opposite
side of the street, where they stood
cursing and shouting vulgar insults at
Roosevelt. Two of them, boys of 10
or 12 years, crossed again to the car
riage and made their way up to Roose-
velt's side.
Throw Mud at Roosevelt.
The walk in front of the church is
torn up, concrete way being in the
course of construction. A pile of wet
sand and mud, over which wagons had
been driven for a day or two, lay
near the carriage. One of the boys
seized a handful of the clinging mix
ture and spattered it upon the Cover
nor's back. Then the two young des.,
peradoes fed, whooping, down an
alley.
The Governor and Mr. Guild entered
the carriage and the vehicle moved
away, followed by the cheers of the
church congregation and the jeers and
taunts of the newsboys on the oppo-
site side of the street.
The carriage had not gone half
square when the boys, hooting, ours
ing, and hurting foul epithets at the
Governor, overlook it. The Governor
ordered the driver to urge his team on
but the fleet footed youngsters kept
up. A short distance on the crowd
of yelling gamins was augmented by
several of the same stamp. They
pursued the Governors carriage for
two squares, when they fell behind
shaking fists and yelling. There was
not policeman in the neighborhood
or if there was he did not show him.
self. The Governor drove to the
Auditorium Annex. He declined to
discuss the matter later, but friends
said he was much more offended by
the vulgar epithets of the Chicago
crowd than by the muscular assaults
at Victor.
Believes Boys Were Hired.
The Rev. Peter Mordyke said, in
discussing the affair last night:
II regret that the governor was in
suited in front of our church. This
was the third time he had attended
worship there and can say there is
no one in our congregation with a
soul small enough to do it. The boys
were hlreu, IL Is my OPINION, by ma
licious persons who wished to make it
appear that our congregation had in
suited him after he had attended wor-
ship with us.
"The boys do not belong to this
neighborhood. l trust, altho heard it
said that two of them live near the
church
eve feel that Governor Roosevelt,
in coming to our church, is prompted
by the purest motives. 1t shows not
alone that he is a Christian gentle
man but that he is loyal to the faith
of his fathers. ! shall investigate
this case carefully, as ] feel it was a