Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-08-24

Utica, N. z, Aug. 24-Roosevelt came
Unto Vice President James S. Sher-
mans home town late yesterday after
noon and began his long speech max
ing tour by swatting Sherman. The
colonel did not mention names, because
that wasn't necessary. Ten thousand
farmers and their wives had gathered
in a grove OF tall graceful maple trees
hit Sunny jim" They did not have
long to wait and they roared with de-
light when 1t came.
The occasion was the second annual
mnion picnic of the Herkimer and
Oneida County Grangers. Ostensibly
at was time for farm talk exclusively
but Mr.. Roosevelt had other things on
his mind following the political events
OF yesterday. The colonel after he got
thru with the one political stab, devot-
ed himself to a speech on what the far
mers ought to do.
Mr.. Roosevelt, as he arose to speak,
swept his eye over the picturesque
crowd which was settling down for the
feature Of the picnic. Roosevelt's eye
lighted upon State Senator Daven-
port.
The colonel beaned. He faced his
audience.
II am glad to see on the PLATFORM"
he shouted. Senator Davenport
Much Cheering For Davenport.
The seats shook and the crowd gave
the senator hand greater even than
T. r. had received. Davenport, an ar
dent supporter of the direct primaries.
q Hughes man. and bitter foe Of
Sherman, who has been working to
throw him out, and has repudiated him,
was fused. He had not estimated his
popularity apparently.
'T am glad" he colonel continued
When the cheering had ceased, because
the only kind of politics I care for is
the kind OF politics where decency is
combined with efficiency and I hold
that the only way by which a poll
tician can efficiently serve his party
Is by helping that party to efficiently
Berve the people. Because the senator
and those associated with him have
stood for this principle I am glad to
be on the platform with him."
Mr. Roosevelt had to stop several
moments in order to finish his tribute
because OF the cheering When he
could be heard again he added:
"You Will at least notice that my
utterances are free from ambiguity"
Talks to Farmers.
1t was this sort Of thing that made
the colonel solid right at the outset Of
the performance this afternoon. His
hearers waited for more of it, but it
did not come.
Then he Jumped into his speech. He
said that the problem of national con-
servation divided itself into two heads
the conservation Of the soil and the
betterment of public life, and that the
two were interdependent He pointed
out that a serious crisis was approa CHI
Ing in our national life, due to the
fact that our cite are growing huge
at the expense of the country and
that the cities are making no adequate
return to the country for what they
ire taking away from it.
So ominous Mrs the situation become,
he said, that, like Goldsmith in Eng
land, thoughtful men saw that the time
was near at hand when "the cities
prosper and the hen decay" A hope
ful symptom, however. lay in the fact
that an intelligent public had sighted
the dangers ahead and was planning
ways of escaping the evils which led
n the Naturalization Of former civili-
Iations.
Makes Plea For Science.
He declared that the farmer makes
mistake who refuses to profit by the
experimentation and theorizing OF the
experts and sneer at their work as
mere book learning" and said that one
reason why industry had prospered in
this country to a greater extent than
agriculture was that business men had
placed just value on technical edu-
cation and had never failed to avail
themselves of 1t when there was any
chance Of it profting them.
He urged the right of the rural pop
ulation to representation in all of the
general councils for the welfare of the
country.
He said the farmers should learn to
combine effectively as has been done in
Industry. The importance of such
movements. he asserted, can not be
overestim ated and thru such intelligent
Joint action II will be possible to I'M
prove the market just as much as the
ara.