The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-22
STONES FOR
ROOSEVELT.
Lively Experience In
Fort Wayne.
|ROUGHS ON WAR PATH
The Right of Free Speech Inter
sered With by Disordery
Indiana Bryanites.

FORT WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 1O-Hood-
Governor Roosevelts party In Calhoun
street, shortly before the head of the pro-
cession reached the rink where the Gov
error was to speak, a party of roughs on
the sidewalk thre wa shower of stones at
Governor Roosevelts carriage. One struck
Governor Roosevelt on the shoulder and
another, aimed at the Governor missed
him and struck Curtis Guild, Jr., of Bos-
ton in the face. The Governor was not
horses We're whipped up and got away
from the roughs.
MARION, Ind, Oct. u.-Governor Roos-
evelts train was sidetracked four miles
from this city during the night after it's
run from Fort Wayne and the Republican
Vice Presidential candidate slept peace
fully until Z o'clock. After the train left
Fort Wayne, the stone-throwing incident
in the streets of that city was the chief
topic of conversation. 1t was considered
beyond doubt to have been the work of
hoodlums. Curtis III. Guild, Jr., who was
struck in the face by stone thrown at
Governor Roosevelt, was not seriously
hurt, receiving only a light cut on his
upper lip.
Il was not injured at ALL said Govern
or Roosevelt. There is danger that this
matter may be magnified. 1t amounted
to nothing
Governor Mount, who was aboard the
train, expressed deep regret at the occur.
renee.
Nothing has happened in years." he
said, that gives me so much sorrow al
that attack. 1t was the work of rowdies
only and should not be permitted to re.
| fleet upon the good Democrats of the
| town, for they would not countenanct
such an outrage"
| And thereupon Governor Mount went t.
Governor Roosevelt and extended al
tapology in the name of the State of In
diana.
| United States Senator Fairbanks, who
made an address at the tent at For
Wayne, declares that before the stone
| throwing happened, he was told by
prominent citizen of Fort Wayne tina
| there had been carefully laid plot OF
| the part of the rough element of the For
Wayne Democracy to break up the meet
| ms as they did in 1884 when Blaine cam,
here to speak
| They succeeded them said the Sena
tor, but this time they were dscovere
ard warned to desist. On the way to tn
tent l was told that not in years had
Republican speaker been permitted t
make an address in the vicinity of tn
tent, but when we got there we found tn
tent surrounded by policemen and Their
vas no interference. That there was
plan to interfere with Governor Roose
welt 1 am assured"
Curtis Guild, Jr., said he shouted t
lGovernor Roosevelt, in whose carriage h
was riding, to dodge when he saw tn
men raise their arms to throw the stones
Just them" he said, "a stone strucl
him on the shoulder, and, glancing off
hit me on the lips. Another broke tn
Carriage lamp. But for the quicknes
with which We were driven from the spo
Isorious injury might have been inflicted.
| Fcrt Wayne is strongly Democratic an
the shouts for Bryan We're more numer
Gus than for Roosevelt. Harry S. New
Indiana member of the Republican Ma
lticnal Committee, who was also in Gov
lorner Roosevelts carriage, said: "a ma
whom l saw threw the rock which hi
lGovernor Roosevelt, and I described hir
to the police at once, but they could nc
find him.