The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-08-26
Colonel Roosevelt Tells
What He Proposes
to Do.
CROWDS ROAR
WITH USE
Strenuous One Will MAKE Cor
porations Come to Time, Will
Makes Mobs Come to Time
and Will Insist on Hon
esty if It Breaks Up
Business"

Chicago, Ill. August 25.-Theodore
Roosevelt travelled across Ohio and
Indiana to-day. greeted everywhere
by enthusiastic crowds to whom he
talked of honesty. respect and cor
porations. He expressed his belief on
Questions which concern the public
In more formal fashion than he has
before since his return from Africa
Colonel Roosevelt avoided any for
NAL reception during a stay OF a
little more than an hour in Chicago
tonight. Instead, he spent half an
hour as the guest OF newspaper re-
porters at the Chicago Newspaper
Club. The rest OF the time. while HIS
car was switched to the Chicago anu
Northwestern Railroad. he rode In an
automobile about the CITY.
At the Newspaper Club Colonel
Roosevelt commented on the failure OF
either animals or climate to prevent
his safe return from AfNca. recalling
prediction offered by Professor
| Frederick Starr. of the University OF
Chicago. that the hunting trip would
! pe the death of the former President.
II am especially glad to show tn!s
| professor now wrong he was." said
| Colonel Roosevelt.
| II wasn't the one who was killed.
Not a lion did its duty. And then.
on towards the end of the trip. l think
4 Wall Street pinned its hope on some
] rhinoceros, but even that hope failed"
/ During the day Colonel Roosevelt
made number OF speeches. altnoush
| he said before he left Oyster Bay that
ne did not intend to talk from the rear
| platform. The crowds which greeted
him to-day were larger than those
which turned out to see him during
1 his trip across New York State. and
they were so insistent in their de-
mands to see him and and hear him
speak that he responded Ia every In
! stance.
The colonel did some plain talking
/ to the crowds which burst into tho
railroad yards at the largest places.
\ swarmed ncross The. tracks ana tied
iup trafric on the road. He talked
4 against dishonest corporations. and
4 the crowds roared with applause. He
4 condemned dishonest men, and there
were more cheers. He attacked mob
rule. and was cheered again.
'I will make the corporations come
speech, "and 1 will make the mob
come to time.
II shall insist on honesty II it
breaks up the best business of the
land, and shall insist upon order un-
der all circumstances"
At Toledo he spoke again on MOP
rule, having in mind the street car
strike in Columbus. o.. where there
has been rioting.
Kept on Move.
From the time Colonel Roosevelt.
reached Buffalo at $40 o'clock this
!, morning until after he had made his
last speech for the day, he was kept
;. constantly on the move. When he was
not making speeches or shaking hand.
he was talking with visitors. dozens
of whom rode for q time In his car
He said he was not talking politics
, and refused to say word on the
, New York State situation. Even tbs
, news that delegates from Orleans
: county to the New York Republican
+, State Convention had been instructed
; to vote for him for temporary chair
{ man OF the convention brought forth
no comment. The colonel merely
smiled.
colonel Roosevelt reached Elkhar
:, late to-day when the clouds threatened
rain, and was met by an attentive as
: semblage Of men and women. Th
colonel reminded his audience that tn
right kind Of men and women In tn
! ranks Of American citizenship was tn
; greatest need Of the country.
: "The stream does not rise highe
! than its source he said. You can
a not get the right kind OF governmen
unless you have the right kind OF citi
. zens back OF the government"
He warned the people against tn
!. election of corrupt men to Office be
I cause they expected to profit by tn
brilliancy OF such men.
GIN the first place. you want an hon
i lest man." he said. II don't care hoy
! able the man is If he is not honest
. the greater curse he will prove to tn
country Don't support a man becaus
{ he Is smart, because his smartness
n Of no use without conscience. And
( don't even care how honest he Is, hoy
{ game he is; IL he has not commo
: sense he is of no use"
/, Colonel Roosevelt passed throuE
Q South Bend at 6:o7 O'clock to-nigh
q Owing to the fact that his private ca
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