The Portland daily press., 1900-09-27
One Man Succeeded In
Striking The Gov.
Party Finally Succeeded in
Reaching Train.

Cripple Greek, Colo, September CO.
Gov. Roosevelt has a narrow escape from
serious personal violence today at Victor,
a few miles from Cripple Greek. The
Incident was the only one of the kind
that has occurred during the progress Of
the trip and it is said that the trouble
was occasioned by a small booy of roughs
who had been organized and paid for
the purpose of breaking up the meeting.
Gov. Roosevelt had hardly began
speaking when he was interrupted By
noisy demonstrations. He said:
'In my state the men who were put
on the committee on platform to draw
up an ANTITRUST platform at Kansas
City convention, had at that time their
pockets stuffed with ice trust stock.
The Democratic leader in New York,
Richard Croker, upon whom you base
your only hope and it is mighty slim
hope, too, was another great stockhoId-
er and is in fact. We're you to read though
the list of stockholders in that TRUST it
would sound like reading the roll of the
members OF Tammany Hail.
A voice cried; "What about the rotten
beerP''
The Governor replied: ST ate it, and
you will never get near enough to be hit
with buIlet,or within five miles of it. y
Gov. Roosevelt succeeded in finishing
his remarks, though there was an evident
intention among those present that he
should not do so. When the Governor
left the hall with his party to go toward
the train, he was surrounded by a compa-
ny OF rough riders, commanded by Sher-
man Bell one of his own soldiers in the
Spanish war.
Gov. Roosevelt and his patry were on
foot. A crowd Of boys and men began
stones and shouting for Bryan. The
rough riders mounted and un-mounted,
closed in around the Governor to protect
him from assault by the mob One
made personal attack upon GOV. .Roose-
velt and succeeded IN striking him a
blow In the breast. The assaiIant was
Immediately knocked down by Daniel
M. Sullivan, postmaster at Cripple Greek.
A rush was then made by the mob to
drag the mounted men in khaki uniforms
from their horses. The men on foot, closed
around the Governor, making a wedge
which pushed through the crowd and
they finally succeeded in gaining the
train which was surrounded by the
mob.
BY this time there were probably one
thousand or fifteen hundred excited peo-
pie in the vicinity ana tisticuffs were
exchanged on all sides.
Many of the mob were armed with
sticks ana clubs, some with rotten pota-
toes, stale eggs and lemons.
The entire party regained the train,
however, without serious injury ana it
pulled out of the place with the rough
riders on the platform.
Gov. Roosevelt while regretting the
occurrence was not disturbed by the in
cident and was ready to proceed with his
speech at Cripple Greek.
On leaving Colorado Springs the Roose-
velt train was split into two sections,
the first stop thereafter being at Colora-
do City. The entire population appeared
to see the governor and shake his hand.
Man1tou was the next Estop. A large
crowd was assembled to listen to the
five minute talk for the campaigners.
The train then moved on to GielIete
and independence. A great demonstra-
tion was made at Colorado Springs on
the arrival of the Roosevelt train. The
governor made short speech in the
Temple theatre and one in the opera
house. All business houses along the
line of march were decorated with bunt'
ing. After halting an hour and fifteen
minutes, the train pulled out for Cripple
Greek.
ROOSEVELT'S TRAIN GUARDED.
Denver, Colo. September 26.-The fol-
lowing message has been received lin this
city: "The Roosevelt train will pass