Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1910-08-31
Former President in Close
Touch With Insurgency
Throughout the Country.
GARFIELD AND PlNCH01
Going TO Wisconsin TO He'll
La Toilette Win a
Reelection.
IS IN KANSAS TODAY
Makes Speech at Place
Where John Brown Made
Strike for Freedom.
GARFIELD AND PlNCHO1
Is IN KANSAS TODAY
Special By United Press Wire.

| Spectdf oy United Press Wire Y
Osawatomie, Kans., Aug. al
Kansas Insurgency, headed by Cow
ernor Stubbs and Senator Bristow,
rallied about Colonel Roosevelt to.
day. The governor with his stan,
met the Roosevelt special car at Os.
age in the morning and came here
on the train. II
1t became apparent today that
middle western insurgents, as we'll
as those in the far west, are looking
to Roosevelt for the national leaderI
ship, and up to now Roosevelt has
made no move that could be conI
strued as refusal to accept the
| charge. He has spent hours every
day for week in close conferences
with former Chief Forester Pinchot
and former Secretary OF the Interior
Garfield who has secured the coun-'i
try in the interest Of insurgency, and
they have outlined the insurgent sit.
| uation to Roosevelt. Following A
long conference 1t was decided that
| Garfield Will go to aid LaFolletta
| and that Roosevelt's speech in Mil
| waukee Is to contain q LaFolIette in
| dorsement
| Roosevelt today helped Kansas
pay tribute to John Brown, aboli-
Zionist. On his arrival here the
colonel was taken to little old
cabin John built when he came here
from the east to begin the fight for
! freedom. Thousands lined the streets
along which Roosevelt made the pill
grimage, and cheered nightly. Az
ter luncheon the colonel viewed a
parade and was taken to the old
John Brown battlefield, where the
dedicatory exercises that will maka
the battlefield a memorial park, were
held.
Roosevelt spoke as follows:
There have been two great crises
In our countrys history; first, when
1t was formed, and then again when
1t was perpetuated. The formative
period included not merely the Revo-
lutionary war, but the creation and
adoption OF the Constitution and the
first dozen years of work under It.
Then came sixty years during which
We spread across the continent.
years of vital growth, but of growth
without rather than growth within,
Then came the time of stress and
strain which eliminated In the Civil
war, the period of terrible struggle
upon the issue of which depended
the justification of all that. we had
done earlier, and which marked the
second great period of growth and
development within. The name of
John Brown will be forever asso-
ciated with this second period of the
nations history; and Kansas was
the theater upon which the first act
OF the second of our great national
life dramas was played. 1t was the
result of the struggle in Kansas
which determined that our country
should be in deed as well as IN name
devoted to both uinon and freedoms
that the gerat experiment of demo-
cratic government on national
scale should succeed and not fall.
1t was a heroic struggle; and, as is
inevitable with all such struggles,
it had also dark and terrible side.
Very much was done of good, and
much also of evil; and, as was in
evitable in such period OF reyolu-
ton, often the same man did both
good and evil. For our great good
fortune as a nation, we, the people
of the United States as whole, can
now afford to forget the evil, OF at
least to remember 1t without bitter
ness, and to AK our eyes with pride
on the good that was accomplished.
Even in ordinary times there are
very few Of us who do not see the
problems of life as through glass,
darkly; and when the glass is cloud
ed by the murk Of furious popular
passion, the vision Of the best and
the bravest Is dimmed. Looking
back, We are all OF us now able to
do Justice to the yalor and the dis
interestedness and the love OF the
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