The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-12-14
ROOSEVELT IS STILL RADICAL
Wants HIS Reforms Carried Out, However, by Men Who
 Will Lose by Them.
TOASTS TAFT ARD WHITE
Judge Baldvyin's Chair at New Haven Banquet EnIpty-Goyernor and
 Congressmen Also Absent.

New Haven. Dec. 14-In his first po- liical speech since the election. Col
 Theodore Roosevelt last night pro- claimed himself radical who wanted to see industrial reforms "carried out, not by the men who will profit by them, but by the men who lose by them." He spoke at the annual ban quet of the New Haven Chamber of Commerce in the big Yale dining hall. Gov.-elect Simeon E. Baldwin was not present. despite the strong efforts differences between him and Col. Roosevelt. As Judge Baldwin had not formally declined the invita- ion, a chair was placed for him at the chief table and 1t remained empty. It was noted also that neither Gov. Weeks nor any member of the Connecticut Congressional delegation was present. The Governor had an engagement in Meriden
 Mayor Rice extended the welcome to Col Roosevelt fin behalf of the city and assured the Colonel that the wei zens.
 Col Roosevelt was greeted with | cheers which lasted fully 8 minute. "It seems to me that nothing could be
 country" he said. ''than that a Re-
 publican President should appoint an ex-Confede-ate of opposite political faith Chief Justice of the United States and receive the unanimous applause Of his countrymen. With the permission toas g: First. to President Taft. and. second. to that learned jurist. Chief Justice White.'
 After the toasts had been drunk Col. Roosevelt said he was glad to say in New Haven precisely what he had t> f%>y oprft ft,ny fy, West" He explained that during the last half of the last century people had concerned themselves with the accu- mutation of material well-being. but the people had come to see that they l must concern themselves with an eQu1t- able distribution of wealth. "Rod;es like this Chamber of Com merce," continued the Colonel. "have been industriously taueht to regard me as a kind of modified Anarchist. As
 a mater of fact I think that if you will read what I have said. and not
 what certain representatives of the
 press have said that I have said. you will see that I have tried to preach only the doctrines on which this Re- public was founded.
 'I am a radical but am a radical
 who most earnestly desires to see radical program carried out by conser-- vatives. wish to see great industrial reforms carried out. not by the men who will profit by them. bu, by the nen who lose by them: by just such men as you around me. I believe most emphatically in a progress which shall be sane" He said he wished to see the hand Of the State and the Nation placed on the great corporations to regulate them. 'The rights of man must be ours," he added.
 He ureed the passage of legfslation to benefit laNor. It was his criticism of ex-Judge Baldwin's attitude toward troversy.
 Tn exr1ain.ng his idea of the square, deal" Col. Roosevelt said: I
 "I don't want the prize in the ra:e to 90 to the man who ism fast enough to win it. I want them to start even '' the idea upon which the republic was founded. "I care for the fact" he con inued. "and not in the least for the form. You hear a good deal of National riehts and of State rights. I'm for both.''
 He explained that he wastfor Ma tional rights where they would best serve the welfare of the people and for Sta rights where their exercise was most beneficial.
 Col Roosevelt's welcome by the din- CTS was warm and spontaneous but mildly tempered. There was applause for him. hut no cheers. As he pass- ed the tables he bowed in response to welcoming remarks and shook hands. Women who were in the galleries gave the Chautaurua salute.
 At he table with Col. Roosevelt were Col. Ullrnan. Charles F.. Julin. Secre- tary of the Chamber; President Had ley and Secretary Stokes of Yale Uni- versitv: Chief Justice F. B. Hall. of the Connecticut Supreme Court: May or Rice of New Haven. and former Cows. Rollin s. Woodruff and Phineas c. Lounsbury. Among the other guests were Rear Admiral w s. Cowles. IT. S. N.: Frank L. Marble. vice president of the Merchants As sociation of New York: Charles P. Chase president of the Sprinefield fMassl Board of Trade. and E. Tudor Cross president of the Providence R. T) Board of Trade.
 Col Roosevelt went on to Boston after his speech. and today was o at- tend meeting of the Harvard Roard If Overseers. The Colonel will deliver the Nobel lecture to the Harvard stu dents toniel1t at the Standard Thea tre. choosing as his subject Applied Ethirs" He will return to New York on Friday.