Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-24
Makes Speech in Opposition to
Vice President in Latter'S
Home County
INDoRSES STRONG INSURGENT
'You Will Notice My UtteranCes
Are Free from Ambiguity
Snaps T. R.
ASSOCIATED Press)

AC<Ab Az aug -o' AiSSNNAS
Roosevelt wound up the first day Of
pilgrimage into the west by placing
himself directly in opposition to Vice
President Sherman.
Speaking today in the vice presidents
own county, he warmly indorsed State
Senator Frederick Davenport, who is
a stanch progressive, and whom Mr.
Sherman has said that he would not
support.
Mr.. Sherman was out of town today
and did not see Colonel Roosevelt.
1t was late in the afternoon when
Colonel Roosevelt reached Summit
Park, a summer resort overlooking the
Mohawk river. Ten thousand persons
who attended the grange picnic there
today were waiting for him and raised
a cheer as the eX-president appeared
on the platform.
Colonel Roosevelt spied Senator Dav-
export at once, and he greeted him
warmly AS soon as he began his
speech he turned to the senator and
said:
II am glad to see you on the plat
form, Senator Davenport. The only
kind of a platform 1 care for is the
kind Of politics in which decency Is
combined with efficiency. l hold that
the only way in which a politician
can really serve his party is by help
ing that party efficiently to serve the
people. Because the senator and the
men who have acted with him have
stood for this principle, I am glad to
be on the platform with him."
FARMERS CHEER t. n.
There was more cheering as the
colonel uttered these words. When he
could be heard again, he said:
You will at least notice that my
utterances are free from ambiguity"
ynrOoaa1nd y1yfth hia
talk to the farmers. AS soon as it was
over he hurried off to Henderson
house, at Jordanville, Herkimer
county, the country place of his broth
er-in-law, Douglas Robinson of New
York He will remain there until to-
morrow night, when he will start for
Cheyenne
Colonel Roosevelt's move in indorslng
Senator Davenport is regarded as his
first step in the New York state fight.
On leaving New York this morning he
said there would be no compromise as
far as he was concerned. He has let
it be known that he was reluctant to
take part in the struggle, but now
that he is in 1t he will fight hard.
In his prepared speech, Col. Roose-
velt dealt with the problems Of life in
the country. and how to solve them.
you see, my friends, you have got
yourselves in for q Sermon" he said to
the throng that filled the natural am
phitheater in front of the speakers s
stand and overflowed on top of the
hill.
BRIGHT POINTS IN SPEECH
The colonel kept them in good spir-
its with his apothegms: 81 hink q good
man and a good woman can get to
Heaven in a dozen different ways" "
he said. "but do not think they can
tbara I5nIaSa fhRV are good.
1.-THE only motto for Americans
should be all men up, and not some
men down.
I'VE hear a man tell hts wife that
she does not do as his mother did, but
that man is frequently a man who
does not do the way his father ought
to have done"
What pleased the grangers most of
all, however, was this: 81 will never
go with the type of farmer who says:
4 am down on lawyers and bankers;
l am against the business man.
"I will go with him when he says:
4 am against bad type of lawyer
or bad type of banker
'In other words, I will, go with him
when he pronounces judgment on a
man not in accordance with his occu-
patton, but in accordance with his con-
duct. This is a good American doc
trine.
sometimes we hear a man say he is
the poor mans friend. I am the poor
mans friend if the poor man is
straight: and 1 am the rich mans
friend If the rich man is straight; but
/ am against the crooked man rich
or poor"
Ex-Governor N. NJ. Machelder Of
New Hampshire, master of the Nation
al Grange, introduced Col. Roosevelt
"He is known from the jungles of
Africa to the north pole, and from Sag
amore Hill to the Orient" he said.
Mr.. Roosevelt spoke as follows:
There are no two public questions
of more vital Importance to the future
of this country than the problem OF
conservation and the problem of the
betterment of rural life. Moreover
these two problems are really interde-
pendent, for neither of them can be
successfully solved save on condition
that there is at least a. measurable
success in the effort to solve the other
SOIL MUST BE FERTILE
"In any great country the prime
physical asset-the physical asset more
valuable than any other-is the fer
tility of the soil. All our Industrial
and commercial welfare, all our ma
terial development of every kind, de-
pends in the last resort upon our pre-
serving and increasing the fertility OF
the soil. This. of course. means the
conservation of the soil as the great
natural resource; and equally, OF
course, it Furthermore implies the de-
velopment of country life, for there
cannot be a permanent improvement OF
the soil IL the life OF those who live
ON it and make their living out of II
Is suffered to starve and languish, to
become stunted and weakened and in
ferior to the type of life lived else
where We are now trying to pre-
serve, not for exploitation by individ-
nails. but for the permanent benefit OF
the whole people, the waters and the
forests, and we are doing this pri-
marily as a means of adding to the
fertility Of the SOIL although in each