Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1910-08-26
Declares For Clean Politics
Combined With Efficiency.
PRAISES SHERMAh'S Foe
Declares the Only Way Politician
Can Serve His Party Is by Eff.
ciently Serving the PeopIe-Farmers
Cheer Him.

Mr. Roosevelt came into Vice Presi.
dent Sherman's home town of Utica,
n. Y, and began his long speechmak,
ing tour by swatting Mr. Sherman.
The colonel didn't mention names, be.
cause that wasn't necessary.
Ten thousand farmers and their
wives gathered in a grove and waited
for the colonel to hit Sunny jim. They
didn't have long to wait, and they
roared with delight when it came The
occasion was the second annual re
union picnic of the Herkimer and
Oneida Changers. Ostensibly it was
time for farm talk exclusively, but
Mr.. Roosevelt had other things on his
mind. The colonel, after he got through
with political stab, devoted himself
to an interesting delivery of a speech
on what the farmers ought to do.
Mr.. Roosevelt as he arose TO speak,
swept his eye over the picturesque
crowd and it lighted upon Senator
Davenport.
The colonel beamed. Il am glad to
see on the platform" he shouted, Sen
ator Davenport" The seats shook and
the crowd gave the senator a hand
greater even than T. r. had received.
1t was a real ovation. Davenport ar.
dent supporter of the direct primaries,
Hughes man and bitter foe of Sher,
man, who has been working to throw
him out, and has repudiated him, was
furred. He hadn't estimated his popu
larity, apparently. Il am glad" the
colonel continued when the cheering
had ceased, because the only kind of
politics | care for is the kind of poll |
tics where decency is combined with
efficiency, and hold that the only way
by which a politician can efficiently |
serve his party is by helping that par
ty efficiently serve the people, and be |
cause the senator and those around
him who have stood for those princi. |
pies are on the platform"
Mr.. Roosevelt had to stop several
moments in order to finish his tribute. |
You will at least notice that my ut. |
teranccs are free from ambiguity" It'll
was this sort Of thing that made the |
colonel solid right at the outset of his
performance His hearers waited for
iiclN vi II, bul II uIuli come. AT Ine |
end of Mr.. RooseVelt's address. how
ever, there were repeated cries for
Davenport.
You have listened to magnificent
sneech by a magnificent man" he said
He represents to my mind better
tnan any uLner man since Abraham
Lincoln the heart and the conscience
and the courage of the great body of
our people. He has been my ideal. |
want to stand for the things he stands
for. Then he clasped hands with the
colonel
Mr.. Roosevelt's address contained
very few startling utterances 1t was
more OF sermon than anything else,
but was an interesting and instruc.
tive sermon, and the big audience fol.
lowed the speaker with marked atten,
ton.
The colonel put the matter directly
up to the farmers who came to hear
him He began with conservation of
natural farming resources and he end
ed with a tribute to the Civil War
veterans, who turned out in large
numbers. He told the survivors of the
rebellion that they We're favored men,
men who had really done things He
spoke as one soldier to another. He
brought out the necessity for the farm
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