The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-24
Former President, by Indorse-
ment of Progressive Senator,
Indicates Attitude.
COMES AS A PRELUDE
TO SPEECH TO FARMERS
In Lengthy Address Roosevelt
Talks of Problems of Con-
servatiOn and Rural Life.

UTICA, n. Y, Aug. 23.-Theodore
Roosevelt wound up the first day of his
pilgrimage into the west by placing
himself directly in opposition to Vice
President Sherman.
Speaking today in the vice presidents
own country, he warmly Endorsed State
Senator Frederick Davenport, who iB a
staunch progressive and whom Mr.. Sher-
man has said that he would not sup
port. Mr.. Sherman was out of town
today and did not see Colonel Roose-
welt.
1t was late in the afternoon when
Colonel Roosevelt reached Summit park,
summer resort overlooking the Mo,
hawk river. Ten thousand persons who
attended the Grange picnic there today
were waiting for him and raised cheer
as the ex-president appeared on tina
platforom.
Colonel Roosevelt smed Senator Dav-
enport at once and he greeted him
warmly. As soon as he began his speech
he turned to the senator and said:
Plain Words Boldly Spoken.
81 am glad to see you on the plat
form, Senator Davenport. The only kind
of politics / care for is the kind OF
politics in which decency is combined
with efficiency. | hold that the only
way in which a politician can really
serve his party Is by helping that party
efficiently to serve the people. Because
the senator and the men who have act
ed with him have stood for this prin-
elpe | am glad to be on the platform
with him
There WAS moro cheering as the
colonel uttered these words. When he
could be heard again he added:
'Iou will at least notice that my
utteranccs are free from ambiguity
Then the colonel proceeded with his
talk TO the farmers. AS soon as 1T
was over he hurried of to Henderson
house, at Jordanville, Herkimer coun-
law, Douglas Robinson of New York.
He will remain until tomorrow night,
when he Will start for Cheyenne, Wyo.
Action Significant.
Colonel Roosevelt IS move In Indors-
ing Senator Davenport is regarded as
hs first step in the New York state
fight. On leaving New York this morn
ing he said there would be no comprom
Use as far ms he was concerned. He has
let it be known that he was reluctant
TO take part In the struggle, but now
that he is in it, he will fight hard.
In his prepared speech Colonel Roose-
volt dealt with the problems of life in
the country and how to solve them.
'You see, my friends, you We got
yourselves III for a sermon,' he said
to the throng that filed the natural
in front of the speak
ers' stand and ovcrflowed on top Of the
hill The colonel kept them in good
spirits with his apothegm.
81 think a good man and good
woman can get to heaven in dozen
different ways" he said, "hut l don t
think they can get there unless they
are good.
should be 'All men up and not some
men DOWN
Characteristic Aphorism.
"We hear man tell his wife that
she does not do as his mother did, but
that man is frequently n man who does
not do tho way his father ought to
have done. -
What pleased the Changers most Of
III, however, was this;
81 VIII never go with tho type OF
farmer who says, [ am down on law.
iers and bankers; [ am against the
business man.
az will go with him when he says:
am against a bad type of law
Ters or bad type of banker
In other words ! will go with him
When he pronouuces Judgment on man
lot IN accordance with his occupation,
nut in accordance with his conduct.
This is good American doctrine.
Some times we hear Il man say
lc is the poor man s friend. | am
he poor man IS friend if the poor man
5 straight; and j am the rich mans
riend, If the rich man is straight;
nut l am against the crooked man,
ich or poor.
Ex-Governor w. NJ. Bachelor or
>ew Hampshire, master of the National :
range, introduced Colonel Roosevelt.
He is known from the jungles of
lfrica to the north pole and from Sag
more Hill to the Orient" he said.
Colonel Roosevelt s speech follows:
''There are no two public questions
f more vital Importance to the future
observation and the problem of the
etterment of rural life. Moreover,
hese two problems are really intcrde-
endent for neither of them can be
ucccssfully solved save on condition
nut there is at lcnst a measurable sue
ess in the effort to solve the other,
n any great country the prime physi-
able than any other-ls the fertility
the soil.
:" All our industrial and commercial
elfare, all our material development
every kind, depends in the last re-
'rt upon our preserving and increas-
Y the fertility of the soil. This, of
'urse, means the conservation of the
III as the. great NATURAL resource; and,
lually, of course, 1t furthermore i'm.
les the development of country life,
n there cannot be permanent i'm,
'ovement of the soil if the life of
ose who live on it, and mal& their
wing out of it, is suffered TO starve
Id languish. to become srunted and
and inferior to the type of
lie lived elsewhere.
"We are now trying to preserve.
IT for exploitation by individuals, bat
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