The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-25

is brought in contact. l would fight
for the rights of the big man just as
/ would for the rights of the small man
and for the rights of all the people"
The gathering of people at the sta
tion had been considerably augment
ed during the hour. Standing on the
rear platform of his car Mr.. Roose-
Welt waved his hat as the train pulled
out westward, shortly after 1880.
At Dunkirk.
When Colonel Roosevelt appeared on
the rear end platform at Dunkirk n.
Y. he was met by a large gathering of
railroad men.
81 have always admired the railroad
men because they have certain quail
ties 1 like to think of as typical of
Americans. They know how to act.
each for himself and also in combina-
tion. They know how to work. They
know how to obey orders and how to
act, each on his own individuality. The
average American in our political, in
dustrial and social life, must show just
these traits
The constant noise of a steaming To-
connective made speaking very difficult
for the colonel
''It is really an outrage" he de-
clared; 81 can not talk against that
engine"
Then he told the crowd than an en-
gine was ''the only thing he could not
talk against" and the train moved off,
as some of the men shouted. do them
up in the convention, Teddy
Colonel Roosevelt smiled broadly
but made no reply.
Fully 5000 people greeted Colonel
Roosevelt when his special train arriy-
ed in Erie at 1928 this morning. The
colonel spoke briefly, chiefly along the
regarding pure water in the
great lake cities
He was met at Dunkirk by recep-
tion committee from Erie consisting of
Congressman Arthur L. Bates Frank
D. Schultz president Of the chamber of
commerce.; K. c. Sturgeon. president
of the board of trade, and William B.
Trask.
Congressman Bates was member of
the lower house during the seven and
one-haf years that Roosevelt was presi-
uent and a long consultation was held
in the private car the train rushed
through the northwestern Pennsyl-
vania grape belt. At every town and
hamlet. hundreds lined the tracks.
Has Grown to Like 1t.
Hello, Teddy" was heard from the
sea of humanity that lined the station
platform when the train pulled into
Erie and it was some minutes before
the coloners voice could be heard. In
an undertone to Congressman Bates,
who was on the rear platform, the
hunter said:
81 used to think it lowered my dig
nifty to have them call me Teddy-but
do you know 1 am getting to like it
now
Three Speeches i'm Ohio.
Cleveland, O.. Aug. 25.-Colonel
Thodore Roosevelt outlined his politi-
cal creed in three speeches which he
crowded into a space of fifteen minutes
here today.
There are two prime articles in my
faith" he said. 'I stand for justice
for the rich man and the poor man
alike and for the punishment of wrong
wherever or by whomsoever done"
Colonel Roosevelt arrived here at
10:40, it being the third stop in his
cross-Ohio journey, he having already
addressed crowds at Ashta buIa and
Conneaut. At 1885 his train left for
Toledo, where 10minute stop will be
made Five thousand persons were
gathered in and about the Union sta
tlon when the train bearing the ex-
president came in.
tail iron fence barred most of the
crowd, so the colonel descended and
made his way conveyed by Cleveland's
Golden Rule Chief of Police Frederick
kohler. to a point where all could see
him. Then standing on the stone
foundation of the fence and clingine TO
It's pickets, he tried to say a few words.
II want to assure he began, when
three men managed to climb on a truck
in such a way as to obscure the view
of those behind him.
Get down." said the colonel, they did
so. He resumed:
I want to assure you that as long
as / have the power to do So am 60
ing to fight for a clean government I
am going to fight for clean manhood.
l am going to fight for clean politics."