Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-10-10
FIFTY sPEEcEHS.
Teddy Makes One Every
Time the Train SIPS.
Great Crowds Everywhere on
His Southern Trip.
will Talk More About Tariff as Ne
Journeys Westward.

Corinth, Miss, Oct. 9.-Col. Roose-
welt, on the way from Atlanta to
Hot Springs. Ark, made more
speeches today than on any other
day OF his present trip OR any day
Of his recent Western trip. The train
made so stops during the day and
there were such crowds on hand
everywhere that Col. Roosevelt had to
go out to the rear platform and speak
a few words at all of them.
The coloners throat, which has been
in good shape since the Saratoga con-
venticn, stood the strain well, and he
is inclined to believe now that talking
agrees with it.
Col Roosevelt was not talking pol
itics today. He was urged to am
plify that part of his speech in At
lanta last night which referred to the
tariff and the plank Of the New York
State Republican platform which deal
with the tariff, but would not do so.
II have nothing to add to what 1
said last night" Col. Roosevelt said,
except that in my speech at Sarato-
ga and Syracuse I said about the
tariff. I mean exactly what 1 said
in Sioux City, Iowa, Sioux Falls, S. D.,
and elsewhere
The Roosevelt train travelled leis-
urely through parts of Georgia, Ala
bama, Mississippi and Tennessee to-
day and the engineer stopped where.
ever there was station. The people,
| sWarmed over the tracks and crowded!
around the end of the train in strug-
Cling masses about evenly divided be-
| tween whites and negroes
At some places the crowds were so
dense that the colonel warned the people
| not to push too hard, else they would
| crush those who were next to the cars
Il don't want to be accused of Staying
any of you,' he said. They, shouted,
blew whistles and rang dinner bells to
| welcome him.
The largest crowds were at Chattanoo-
ga, Tenn, and at Huntsville and Tus-
cumbia. Ala. At these places so many
people came out that Col. Roosevelt could
| not make them all hear him. In all OF
his speeches he talked good citizenship.
No man is good citizen if he is such
| man that when he leaves home his fam
| lily breathes a sigh of relief he said at
| Tuscumbia.
The Tuscumbia people gave him the
! most ceremonious welcome of the day.
The chairman of the reception commit
tee made a little speeches of welcome in
which he said:
| Col. Roosevelt, we don't agree with
you in all things. but we're just as glad
| to see you as If we did"
"On the fundamentals of good citizen
Ship the colonel responded, I'VE can all
| agree"
Rep. E. S. Gambler of Corinth, Miss, a
Democrat, got on the train at Tuscum-
| bia to act as an escort to Col. Roosevelt
on the way to Corinth. A big crowd well
! coined the colonel at Corinth and he
made one of his good citizenship
speeches.
| AS Col. Roosevelt goes westward there
| is some expectation that he will have
| more to say about the tariff. He made
it clear today that he considered the crit
| icisms of his attitude on the tariff base
less.
| Col. Roosevelt is due at Hot Springs,
Ark, tomorrow morning He will stay
| there until late afternoon, speaking at
| the Arkansas state fair, and then will
| leave for st. Louis.
Memphis, Tenn, Oct. 9.-Ending his
| days travel, Col. Roosevelt reached
| Memphis at $50 o'clock tonight and at
midnight left on board a special train
| for Hot Springs, Ark, where he will
| he the guest tomorrow of the Arkan-
| sas State fair
While in Memphis, Col. Roosevelt
made two brief speeches from the rear
of his car along the lines of his previ-
| Gus addresses. .,., as.u.,