Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-09-08
Man Asks Colonel an InsoIent,
Insulting Question.
SHORT AND UGLY WORD USED
Rain lnterferes With Labor Day Pro.
gram but Day Proves to Be
Strenuous One-Party Leaves
for st. Paul.

Fargo, N. D., Sept GA rough look
ing man, wearing a battered derby
hat, and with two days growth of
beard on his face, damned his way
through the crowd at Island Park,
where Mr.. Roosevelt spoke late this
afternoon and demanded an audience.
1t was just at the conclusion of the
Of the west. On the platform from
which Mr.. Roosevelt spoke were BULLY
1900 persons. They didn't know what
it all meant.
1--WE question to ask" he yelled,
as he pressed closer to the colonel.
II want to speak to you," Mr.. Roose-
welt asked what he wanted.
"Who is paying for this trip of
yours?" the stranger cried. who's
paying for it,"
THAT is a very impertinent ques-
t1on," replied Mr. Roosevelt l don't
mind telling you, however, that the
Outlook magazine with which I am
connected is paying for it"
The rough intruder stepped closer
to Mr.. Roosevelt. cts lie, l tell
you lie," the man shouted. "The ma
ton is paying for it. The country is
doing it."
The colonel saw in a flash that the
man was Socialist, and probably a
demented Socialist He rushed to-
ward him, grabbed the mans right
arm and jerked it upwards, wrench1ng
it as he did so. He pushed the in
truder back from him in no gentle
manner and continued to push him SO
that the man had dropped to the
ground. The man disappeared in the
crush before an officer hove in sight.
Fargo is discussing nothing else. The
speech itself has sunk into almost
total insignifcance.
The affair took place in beautiful
grove on Island Park For two hours
the rain had intermitently been COM
ing down in torrents. Every man and
woman in the audience was drenched.
In the morning the colonel made a
long address at the laying of corner
stone for the Fargo college library,
presented by Andrew Carnegie and he
went back to the hotel to rest. At
1870 the committee hustled him into
an automobile and the parade to ISL
and Park began, a procession OF labor
organizations and hacks and admiring
rooters trailing on behind.
When he reached the scene of &C.
nv pnNcaua1f no a
cheering. Finally Judge Amidon got
up and started to speak. He had not
gone far when the expected downpour
came. 1t was identically similar to
the storm that washed New York the
day the colonel returned to this coun-
try, June IS.
Mr.. Roosevelt assumed an attitude
of balance throughout his address that
caught the crowd. He said he be-
lieves in organized labor, but he said
that his position is not unequivocal
and that he cannot endorse all prac-
tees that the union adopt.
"Strikes are sometimes necessary
and proper" he exclaimed. "Some-
times they represent the only way in
which, after all other methods have
been exhausted, it is possible for the
laboring man to stand for his rights"
But" he AIDED, lit must be clearly
understood that a strike is a matter
of last resort, and of course violence,
lawlessness and mob rule must be
promptly and sternly dealt with, no
matter what he cause may be that ex-
cites them" T. R. left for st. Paul,
where he speaks today.