Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-14
BALDWIN AVOIDS
FEAST WHERE 7. R..
BREAKS SILENCE
Roosevelt Makes First Political
Speech Since Recent Up
heaVaI at Polls
FAIR DEAL RULE REAFFIRMED
Former President Wants Radical
Policies Carried Out by
Conservatives
ASSOCIATED Pressl

ASSOCIATED Press1
NEW HAVEN, Conn, Dee. 13.-For-
mer President Roosevelt's first political
speech since the recent election was
delivered here tonight at a dinner
given him by the New Haven chamber
of commerce. He made no reference
to the recent elections or to political
subjects. He confined himself to re-
iteration of the broad political doc
trines to which he gave expression
many times in his speaking trips last
summer, saying he was glad to make
in Connecticut just such a speech as
he made in former gatherings in the
west.
The banquet had more than ordinary
significance through the presence of
the guest, who recently was in cor
troversy with Judge Simeon B. Bali
win, who also had been invited to ?
tend. Judge Baldwin was not preselia
and the place assigned to him at
guests table bore mute evidence of i
absence.
Col. Roosevelt was escorted from Nv
York by a committee of the chamber,
and upon his arrival at the station :
large and enthusiastic crowd was wa =
ing. With a wave of his hand, e
colonel acknowledged their sreetil
and with a hearty laugh and har
remark TO those who reached forth
shake his hand he edged his wa
through the crowd to an automobile
Col Roosevelt's coming had giv
rise to speculation as to whether JUG .
Baldwin would attempt to serve pap
in a suit he said he would file WI
the former president was in this sta
At Judge Baldwin's office it was S.
there was no reason to believe any
such step would be taken.
GOV, WEEKS NOT PRESENT
Tt was noticeable that Cover 1f
Weeks was not at the banquet to r7p
resent the state, nor was any membef
of the congressional delegation present.
but their absence was due to 9th
| engagements. The dinner was SER
| in the dining hall of Yale universi
known as Commons"
| Col. Roosevelt was greeted W
| cheers which lasted fully a min
when he rose to speak.
1T seems to me that nothing co
be better augury of the future ef
this country" he said, 'than that
Republican president should appoin, :.
former Confederate of opposite po
ical faith as chief justice of the Uni 4
States supreme court and receive t1e
unanimous applause of his count .
men,"
The colonel said during the last h3if
of the last century people had ~
cerned themselves with the accumu g.
tion of material well-being and t q +
it's distribution would take care of t
self. But the people had come to see,
he added, that they must conee ~
themselves with an equal distribut 3n
of wealth.
"Bodies like this chamber of con-
merce have been industriously tau ht
to regard me as a kind of modi q
anarchist. AS a matter of fact l th.nF
that If you will read what have 81 d
and not what certain representatir rea
of the press have said I said, you rill
see I have tried to preach only e
doctrines on which this republic 7aa
founded. I AM a radical, but 1 ar d
radical who most earnestly desires u
see a radical program carried out hy
conservatives.
WANTS PROGRESS TO BE SANE
"I wish to see great industrial rec
forms carried out, not by the men Vau
will profit by them, but by men We
lose by them; by just such men as y1a
are around me. | believe most 60
phatically in the progress which 81 i
be sane"
Col. Roosevelt said he wished to
the hand of the state and the mai g
placed on the great corporations
regulate them.
"The rights of man must be pa
mount in republic such as ours
added.
He urged the passage of legislat
to benefit labor. 1t was his critic
of ex-Judge Baldwin's attitude towa
such legislation which led to II =
controversy.
"You hear good deal of natio
rights and of states rights. Pm ,ot
both"
He explained this by saying that rs
was for national rights where t.. 3
would best serve the welfare OF
people and for states rights WI
their exercise was most beneficial.
He said corporations should g
treated with an exact measure of is
tice
Your grocer must make a profit
he won't continue to sell grocerif
he explained. "but If you pay his 4
without examining them you dc
show that you have a SOFT heart. ) -
show that you have a soft head"
The government he said, sho
deal with corporations on the sa
basis as a man deals with his gro
in giving and exacting justice.
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