The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-03
Former President Only Makes
Three Speeches and Holds
a Few Conferences.
BESIDES ATTENDING SOME
FORMAL SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
Takes Particular Pains to Give
Senator Burkett a Boost for
Reelection.

1ue Coluhei uiu was W dIleuo d picdh-
fast given by the Roosevelt reception
committee, luncheon at the Field club,
a dinner at the Omaha club, an enter
tainment given by the board OF gov
ernors of the Ak-Sar-Ben, which is the
official boomers club of Omaha; take
and automobile ride all over Omaha,
make three speeches and talk with
political leaders and old friends whom
he met here.
Several other things had been
planned for his amusement, but in his
behalf a telegram was sent from Kan:
tired, and needed day of rest and
so the programme was cut down.
Boost for Burkett.
The colonel found time during the
day to speak n good word for Sen
ator Burkett, who is In the midst of
a spirited campaign for reelection, The
senator s friends hope that he will be
helped by what the colonel said.
The people Of Omaha did not turn
out in such numbers as was the case
in several other cities which Colonel
Roosevelt has visited on his present
trip. The Auditorium was jammed, and
the crowd in the street outside was so
great that Colonel Roosevelt had to use
the tactics of a football player to get
through the throng TO his automobile.
During the rest Of the day, however,
the people had little opportunity to
get together and cheer, as the parade
was called off to make it easier for the
colonel and when he appeared on the
strets he shot by so rapidly in his auto
mobile that few persons recognized him.
He went to bed earlier than usual
tonight, In tho morning he viii at
tend breakfast at the Omaha club,
and then leave for Sioux Falls, where
he is TO speak tomorrow.
IT was at the Auditorium. where he
madae his principal speech of the day,
that Colonel Roosevelt commended the
work of Senator Burkett. The SEN
ator has obtained the Republican NOM
intion and Congressman Hitchcock, the
Democratic nomination, Under the
Nebraska law the people will vote for
senator at the fall election and mem
bers of the legislature are pledged TO
elect the candidate who receives the
highest number of votes.
Effusive in Praise.
Senator Burleett made the speech in
PRODUCING Colonel Roosevelt. He de-
scribed tho colonel as "the man who
was once the first citizen of the nation,
and is now the greatest man in the
world" There was loud applause.
90 am particularly pleased to be in
troduced by Senator Burkett,' said Col
oncl Roosevelt, tbecause he was one
of the men on whom / especially relied
while was president, both while he
was in the house and in the senate. On
one occasion he paid tribute to me
which may have been entirely unmer-
tied, in which he described what the
typical American public servant must
be- He said: In the great struggle
of life he (the good American) must be
prepared to take the side of the man
rather than of the dollar. Old. time
methods in politics, old-time ideals of
relegated to the junkshop of political
antiquities. No man who is skeptical
in his own mind of the righteousness
of the advanced ground that the Amor
lean people have taken socially and
morally can hold their confidence. No
man who is fearful of popular rule, or
is more afraid of the people s oppres-
sion OF predatory wealth with law than
of its oppression of the people without
laW is eligible to popular ceibs.9 esteem, p.o
Welt said, call I can say is that have
endeavored to live up to that descrip~
tion and that I was able to accomplish
what / did accomplish in Washing
ton only because of the way in which !
was backed up by men like Senator
Burlett; and rs we have a guest from
Iowa present, let me say also like Sen
ator Dolliver.
Talks of Canal Problems.
Then Colonel Roosevelt proceeded
with his set speech, in which he spoke
of the Panama canal and the navy, He
said that the trip of the American fleet
around the world increased greatly the
work oh the canal was one of the stu
pendous performances of the age. He
took sharp issue with the plan to neu.
traliZe the canal zone, and IN strongest
terms declared that this country should
fortify the canal
After Colonel Roosevelt had finished
there were cries of "DolGvcrl Dol
liyer,b
The senator got on his feet.
at is a great pleasure to sit on the
platform and listen to such magnifi
cent, patriotic utteranoes as those of
Colonel Roosevelt he said. ''I can
only say that it feels mighty good to
have Colonel Roosevelt back here with
us in the middle west We missed him
a little while he was IN Africa
HrI was afraid that either the lions
or the warthogs would get him.
Square Deal Exponent.
"There have been three men in
American history who have stated the
central doctrine of our institutions so
that all could understand, Thomas JEFF
ferson gave us the doctrine of equal
rights for all and special privileges for
none. Abraham Lincoln re.stated this
doctrine. 1t is good providence that
in our time that doctrine has been
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