Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-08-24
DECLARES FOR WAR
Roosevelt Makes 1t Plain He's
Out to Beat Sherman.
IN LATTER'S HOME TOWN
Tells Farmers at Utica He Is Against
"a Crook, Rich or Poor"
WILL HAVE NO COMPROMISE
Endorses Vice Presidents Foe Amid
Cheers Of Audience Of Ten
Thousand Persons.
WILL HAVE NO COMPROMISE

UTICA, y. T., August 24.-In his first
public political utterances since he left
the White House a year and half ago
Col Theodore Roosevelt made it perfectly
clear to the people OF Herkimer and
Oneida counties. whom he was addressing
at the annual state grange picnic at
Oriskany. that his heart and soul we're
against the group Of republican leaders
in this state represented by Vice Presi-
dent Sherman and his immediate coterie.
II was the second shot Col. Roosevelt
had taken at Mr.. Sherman yesterday, and
coming so promptly after the letter from
President Taft to Lloyd c. Griscom 1t
was taken as being all the more sig
nifcant The opinion was expressed i'm
mediately that Mr.. Roosevelt had
"blacked Jim Sherman's other eye"
Ten Thousand at Picnic.
The picnic brought out at least 10000
people TO see and hear Col. Roosevelt
They greeted him with wild hurrahs and
familiar cries of the sort that are dear
to his heart They wanted to hear him
talk politics and made it mighty plain to
him that they wanted the red-hot. siz-
cling kind of politics that he could give
them IL he would. He had prepared q
steady-going kind Of talk about the ne
cessity of making farm life better. but
coming up from New York there had
been intimation that some Intersections
lions that caught the crowd and made
them stand up and YELL
The first shot Mr. Roosevelt took at the
Vice President yesterday was just before
New York. AS he was about to step
aboard the private car Republic he turn
ed to the newspaper men and made this
comment on the letter from Mr.. Taft to
Mr.. Griscom:
Il am very much pleased with Mr..
Tafts statement. II Nassau county
wants me to go to the state convention
shall go. I regard the issue as straight
and clean-cut. AS far as I am concern
ed. there will not be particle Of COM
promise
Endorses Shermans Foe.
The second shot came when he appeared
before the grangers. It was in the shape
Of an unqualified Endorsement OF Senator
F. NJ. Davenport of this district. who had
just been turned down by Sherman for
but is making a fight for it
just the same. Senator Davenport was on
the platform when Col Roosevelt ar
rived at the beautiful natural amphithea-
ter in Summit Park. where the speech
was delivered. In full view Of the great
crowd packed in among the trees, Col.
Roosevelt grasped the senator's hand and
gave IL hearty pump-handling The
crowd howled its delight, for Davenport
is popular hereabout and Sherman is fast
losing his grip. Then, when the colonel
had been duly introduced and had worked
off the preliminaries in getting down to
his prepared speech he turned toward the
men sitting behind him on the platform,
and. with a wave of his hand indicating
Co no
II am glad to see on this platform
Senator Davenport" whoop. went the
crowd. The colonel put up his hand TO
check the cheering. Because the only
lis the kind of politics where decency is
combined with efficiency Again the
crowd cheered. for the application of the
remark was made instantly. Il hold that
really and truly serve his party" said
Col. Roosevelt. is by helping that party
efficiently to serve the people. and be-
cause the senator and those who have
acted with him have stood for this prin-
ciple l am glad to be on the platform
with him.
At this there were louder cheers than
before, and the crowd kept II up longer
The colonel showed his pleasure. and
presently, when quiet was restored. he
gave them just one more touch TO drive
home and clnch his meaning and make
the local application OF II absolutely sure.
You will at least notice." he said,
that my utterances are free from am
biguity."
Against the Crook, Rich or Poor.
When the cheering that greeted that
sally had died away Mr.. Roosevelt en-
tered upon the delivery of the prepared
speech. but he depressed from it in nu-
merous instances to inject homely illus
trations that helped to drive In with
what he was saying. In the main he
stuck closely to his text, and there was
only one other pointed political reference
That was when he was laying an injunc-
ton upon the farmers to insist on their
proper share of representation both in
action and in council he said. The
farmers caught that point on the instant
and whooped II up again. Then the
colonel went on:
Il will not go with the farmer who SAYS
he Is against the lawyer or the banker or
the business man just because he is a
lawyer, banker or business man. The
test is not occupation. but conduct. Peo-
pl0 have sometimes said that l am the
poor mans friend. / am the poor mans
friend IL he is straight I am the rich
mans friend IL he IL straight, but I'm