The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-24
Roosevelt Throws Down Gaze
Of BATHS At Utica
IS OPPOSED TO SHERMAN
State senator Davenport, Who Is Not
Supported by Sherman, Is Given
Warm Endorsement BY Col.
Roosevelt In Speech

Utica, N Y, August 23.-Theodore
Roosevelt wound up the first day of his
pilgrimage into the west by placing him
self directly In opposition to Vice Pres
ident Sherman.
Speaking today in the vice presidents
own county he warmly indorsed State
Senator Frederick Davenport, who is a
staunch progressive and whom Mr.. Sher-
man has said that he would not sup
port.
MrF Sherman was out of town today
ard did not see Colonel Roosevelt. 1t
WAS late in the afternoon when Colonel
Roosevelt reached Summit Park, 10 miles
west of here, summer resort overlook
ing the Mohawk river. Ten thousand
people who attended the grange picnic
there today were awaiting Mr.. Roose-
velt At every stopping place along the
way from New York to Utica the colonel
was cheered but the roar Of applause
which went up from the throng at the
park shook the pavilion. Colonel Roose-
welt spied Senator Davenport at once
and greeted him warmly. As soon as
he began his speech he turned to the
senator and said:
"I am glad to see you on the plat
form, Senator Davenport. The only kind
of politics I care for Is the kind of pol
itics In which decency Is combined with
efficiency. ! hold that the only way In
which q politician can really serve his
party is by helping 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."
There was more cheering as the colonel
uttered these words. When he could be
heard again he added:
Talk to the Farmers
You will at least notice that my ut
terances are free from ambiguity"
Then the colonel proceeded with his
talk to the farmers. AS soon as 1t was
over he hurried off to the Henderson
house at Jorianyille. the place of his
brother-in-iaF, Douglas Robinson of New
York. He will remain here until to-
morrow night, when he will start for
Cheyenne, Wyo
6enAIOT davenport fIistue-d cpScch Lcct
Colonel Roosevelt had concluded. He said
the colonel had been his ideal and that
he considered him to represent the heart
and conscience of the great body of the
people.
After a talk with Mr.. Sherman on Au-
gust Mr.. Davenport said:
"Vice President Sherman has made it
clear that he was not for me, and he
has said that l should not be renomi-
mated"
The vice president replied by saying:
1.-The senator knows that did not say
to him that he should not be renominat-
ed. I did say that 1 should not support
his candidacy, and 1 do not intend to
do so.'
First Step in Fight
Colonel Roosevelt's move in indorsing
him 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 so far as he was con-
cerned. He has let it be known that he
was reluctant to take part in the strug
gle, but now that he is in 1t he will
fight hard. eA
In his prepared speech, Colonel Hoose-
welt dealt with the problems of life in
the country and how TO solve them. you
see, my friends you've got yourselves in
for a sermon he said to the throng that
filed the natural amphitheatre in front
of the speakers stand and overfiowed
on the top of the hill. The colonel kept
them in good spirits with his epigrams,
some of which were not down in his
speech.
Il think good man and a good woman
can get to heaven in dozen different
ways" he said "but 1 do not think they
can get there unless they are good.
The only motto for Americans should
be, All men up and not some men
down." he said. And a little later he
said:
I'VE hear man tell his wife that she
does not do as his mother did, but that
man is frequently man who does not do
the way his father ought to have DONE"
Changers Pleased
What pleased the Grangers most of
all, however, was this:
IT will never go with the type of farm
er who says, I am down on lawyers;
am against the business man. I will go
with him when he says, am against
bad type of lawyer or a bad type of bank
err In other words 1 will go with him
when he pronounces Judgment on a man
not in accordance with his occupation,
but in accordance with his conduct. That
Is good American doctrine.
Sometimes we hear a man say he Is
the poor mans friend. I am the poor
or rich mans friend If he is straight,
but am against the crooked man. rich
Or poor"
1ne colonel told the farmers that they
ought to avail, themselves of expert ad-
vice from technical men and not be con-
tent to go on without improving their
methods of farming. He said they ought
to learn to combine effectively in busi-
ness as has been done in the Industries.
He thought that the farm life should be
made more attractive and that the farm
ers' wives ought to have an easier time.
He spoke a good word for the country
church and urged the farmers to have the
right kind of religion.
II want to be able to recognize the good
Christian by the way he acts on week
days" he said.
Farmer Bachelor of New Hampshire,
member of the National grange, intro
duced Colonel Roosevelt.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech was as fol-
lows:
Address of Roosevelt
There are no two public questions of
more vital Importance to the future of
this country than the problem of con-
servation and the problem of the better
mcnt of rural life Moreover, these two
problems are really interdependent, 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 In any great country the
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