The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-08-25
Pledged Himself to Help in the
Contest With Crookedness
in New York
PLEADED FOR PUNISHMENT
OF CR00KEDNEsS everywhere
Believes In Party Government But
Those Who Govern Must BE Clean
and Honest--Win Fight For What
ls Right in the Convention.

ls Right In the Convention.
Buffalo, N. Y. Aug. 25.-Theodore
Roosevelt pledged himself to the men
OF Buffalo today to help them and all
sincere citizens to fight crookedness
wherever 1t was found. "I'll help you
Just as ! did in the past" he said
speaking to Elliot club whose guest
he was at breakfast. He made a
plea for the punishment of crooked
and grating public officials and the
election of honestones in their plac-
es, a process of gradually but
permanently raising the morals of
political and business life, and said
he thought it duty to hunt out
crooks and especially crooks in his
own party.
.! believe in party government" he
said, but the moment the question of
honesty is involved l recognize no
party distinctions; or If do make
any 1t is that it is little more my
business to put the CRATER and crook
out of public life IL he belongs to my
tude demands that the ones attention
OC uACu uOI Ou uuduCldl Ut SOCldk
status but on conduct"
Nearly 400 members of the Ellicott
club and other citizens representing
the leading professional and business
interests and a wide variety of politi-
cal Affiliations awaited Roosevelt's
coming from the New York Central
station, where he had arrived from
Utica at 500 o'clock. The clubs
rooms are high up in one of the city's
downtown business blocks which was
not yet astir with the days work. AS
the ex-president entered he was
cheered and America" was sung.
Roosevelt made good use of the if-
teen minutes available f.. his re-
marks. Men who heard him, who
noted his earnestness in dealing with
tfookedness and graft and who fire.
quently broke in with sharp applause.
had in mind his expressions within
the past few days to the effect that
they will have all the fight they
want
Roosevelt first dwelt upon the sub
ject of particular local interest. the
necessity of preserving. unpolluted.
"the wonderful fresh water supply of
the great lakes"
He said: State and nation must
combine in preventing further con-
tamination and in making the purity
OF lake water as absolute as possi-
BILE So also in the field of morals.
public and domestic" he continued,
"there must be no pollution at the
sources"
This led naturally to his grimly
earnest expression of the intention to
seek out and bring to an accounting
the grafters. big and little.
The gathering Of people at the sta
tion had been considerably augment
ed during the hour. Standing on the
rear platform of his car, Roosevelt
waved his hat as the train pulled out
westward shortly after. 1890 o'clock.
At Dunkirk
When Roosevelt appeared on the
rear end of the platform at Dunkirk,
N. Y, he was met by large gather
ing OF railroad men. Within fifty feet
of his car an engine was blowing off
steam. Il can't talk against that"
protested Col. Roosevelt, nodding to-
ward the locomotive. The men on the
locomotive said they could not stop
the noise and the colonel attempted
to deliver a brief address. "It is
really an outrage" he declared. 81
cannot talk to that engine" Then he
told the crowd that an engine was
the only thing I could not talk
against" and the train moved off as
some of the men shouted, "do them
up in the convention, Teddy" Col.
Roosevelt smiled broadly, but made no
reply.
Fully 5000 people greeted Col.
Roosevelt when his special train ar
rived in Erie this morning. The col
onel spoke briefly and chiefly along
the. lines of the earlier speech. he
made at Buffalo regarding pure wa
ter in the great lakes. He was met
at Dunkirk by reception committee
from Erie, consisting Of Congressman
Arthur L. Bates, Hon. Frank d.
Schultz, president of the chamber of
commerce, Hon. X. G. Sturgeon, presi-
dent of the board Of trade, and VIM.
b. Trask.
Hello. Teddy" was heard from the
sea OF humanity that lined the sta
ton platform. when the train pulled
into Erie and 1t was some time before
the colonel's voice could be heard. In
an undertone to Congressman Bates
who was on the rear platform, Roose-
velt said:
II used to think it lowered by dig
nifty to have them call me Teddy but
do you know I am getting to like 1t
now."
Ready to Fight.
Utica, N. Y. Aug. 24-Col. Roose-
welt showed his inclination to fight
opposition in New York. When a
statement by VIM. Barnes. Jr, the
Albany leader, to the effect, that there
would be q fight IN the convention