Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-25
MY DUTY TO HUNT
CROOKS IN PARTY
COL. ROOSEVELT
In Speech to Buffalo CIubmen
Ex-President Urges Clean
Politics.
COMPETITION WITH ENGINE
TOO MUCH FOR SPEAKER
Crowds Gathered at Stations
Greet Colonel Each Time
Train Stops.

I
Roosevelt pledged himself to the men
of Buffalo today to help them and all
sincere citizens to fight crookedness
wherever 1t was found.
''Pll help you just as / did in the
past he said, speaking to the Ellicott
Club. whose guest he was at breakfast
an hour after sunrise. He made plea
for the punishment of crooked and
grating public officials and the cleo
ton of honest ones in their places,
process of gradually but permanently
| raising the morale of political and busi-
ness life. and said he thought it his
duty to hunt out crooks. and especially
| crooks in his own party
Colonel Roosevelt's speech at Buffalo,
| in full, follows:
Must Consider An.
"Our people must realize from now
on that in addition to grasping after
new fields of conquest they have got to
take good care of the things that have
been conquered, that they have got
to attend to a number of things they
have left unattended. Too much In the
past it has been the habit of our cou-
try to let any man do what he wanted.
without regard to other men. We have
got to that state when we must con-
slider the interests of all.
'T believe In party government, but
the moment a question of honesty is
involved, recognize no party distinc-
ton. II I make any distinction, it is
that it is a little more my business to
hunt out of public life a crook who
claims to belong to my party than If he
claims to belong to another.
I'm order to do that you must keep
your eyesfhxed, not upon the social and
financial status of the man. but upon
the mans conduct. good or evil Dis
trust above all other men the man who
will inveigh against crookedness, only
| II he findssit connected with somebody
not connected with his own party. Dis
trust the financier who cannot see
crookedness among financiers. but only
among the labor leaders, and distrust
| the labor leader who can see crooked
ness only when 1t is by the big finan-
ciers. Attack a man because he is
crooked. If he be poor man and
crooked. attack him. II he be a rich
man-and- crooked. attack him.
personally, would attack the rich
man who is crooked Just q little
stronger because crookedness IS Just a
trifie more infamous in him. but.
would attack the other man very
strongly.
'.You are not going to get honesty in
a., public servant on behalf of the
people unless you insist on that man
showing honesty to all with whom he
is brought into contact. M
81 would fight for the rights of the
big man just as I would for the rights
of the small man and for the rights of
all the people, If they want to be
honest with the people themselves"
Await Roosevelt's Coming.
Nearly four hundred members of the
Ellicott Club and other citizens repre-
senting leading professional and busi-
ness interests and wide variety of
political affiliations awaited Mr.. Roose-
velt's coming from the New York Cen
trail station, where he had arrived
from Utica at $40 in his private car,
Republic, attached to regular train.
Mr.. Roosevelt made good use of
the time available for his re-
marks. The men who heard him, who
noted his earnestness in dealing with
the subject of crookedness and graft
| ing and who frequently broke In with
sharp applause. had in mind his ex
pressions within the past few days to
the effect that ''They will have all the
| fight they want"
Standing on the rear platform of his
car. Mr.. Roosevelt waved his hat as the
train pulled out westward shortly after
7:30.
When Colonel Roosevelt appeared on
the rear-end platform at Dunkirk, N.
Y, he was met by large gathering of
railroad men. Within fifty feet of his
car an engine was blowing off steam.
II can't talk against that" protested
Colonel Roosevelt, nodding toward the
locomotive. The man on the locomotive
said he couldn't stop the noise and the
colonel attempted to deliver brief ad-
dress.
Il have always admired the railroad
men," he said. because they have GER
tain qualities l like to think of as typi-
cal of Americans. They know how to
act, each for himself. and also in COM
bination. They know how to work.
They know how to obey orders and
how to act. each on his individuality
The average American in our political,
industrial and social life must show just
these traits"
The constant noise of the steaming
locomotive made speaking very. diff
cult for the colonel. who again pro-
tested. 1T is really an outrage" he
declared. Il cannot talk to that en-
gine,"
Then he told the crowd that an en-
CINE was 'the only thing he could not
talk against and the train moved off
a g some of the men shouted do them
UP in the convention. Teddy Colonel
Roosevelt smiled broadly. but made no
reply.
Fully five thousand people greeted
Colonel Roosevelt when his special
train arrived in Erie at s.2S this morn
ing. The colonel spoke briefly. chiefly
along the lines of an earlier speech
he made at Buffalo regarding pure
water in the Great Lakes cities.
He was met at Dunkirk this morn
ing by a reception committee from
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