The Washington herald., 1910-10-25

| think we'll win this year, and
II not we'll go ahead and win
next time. We've got the Repub-
Hcan party on the highest plane
IL has ever been I'm New York
state-aoOseveIt at BiDghamtOn.
Binghamton. -. Y. Oct. 24-It was a
toss-up between politics and farming with
Mr.. Roosevelt to-day. There was such a
mixture Of wall paper and vegetables that
one was led to wonder whether the colo
mel meant. 10 start his trip with more ve-
hemence than he actually did
/ Mr.. Roosevelt started cut this morning
! to talk politics al Ithaca before a crowd
composed for the most part o. enthusi-
astie cheering Cornell students. He ended
tonight with a speech before a big audi
ence in the Stone Theater. here. In the
meantime he visited abandoned farms,
/ ate luncheon at Irish. Hill, handed out
agricultural advice 10 natives. and whirled
/ lickity-split In MS automobile. IN all OF
his partisan speeches Mr.. Roosevelt dwelt
mostly upon his attack on Candidate DIX
/ He brought out his new point that 4Ir
I Dix was director Of the Standard Wau
Paper Company while it was a member
OF the trust. and quoted a decision OF
the Supreme Court 10 prove thar this
trust was most lniquit0us one.
/ Speaks at Ithaca
/ Now, as TO this farm business. This
morning the Roosevelt special pulled into
1 Ithaca at o'clock. Just as the shop
keepers were sprinkling water on the
floor and sweeping out Representative
Dwight met him and took the colonel.
! Representative ". w. Cocks. OF Nassau:
Prof. H. I. Bailey. CT Cornell. and George
E. Munroe. Federal expert IN agriculture.
out 10 his house for breakfast. Shortly
before 3 o'clock they all came down 70
the Ithaca Hotel. where n band had beea
/ calling the Comedians and town folks
with martial music.
/ Col Roosevelt awakened his audience
even so early in the day by his attack
( on Dix. He spoke from the hotel bal
cony and hung on 10 a wire that was
mighty live inside. 4 number Of the
crowd called to him 10 be careful but he
/ did not mind
I As soon as the students had cheered
I him some more and added another for
( Stimson. the party climbed aboard the
autos and started of with a bang The
students went Up the hill TO the regular
/ lecturer. The motor cars swung TO the
north. past Thumbles Corners. into the
/ Connecticut hills. The cold. bracing air
/ of the elevation put the colonel in most
excellent spirits. and he was the life OF
! the party all day long
/ stops at Farm House.
/ There was a brief stop at ricketv
farm house where Mr.. Roosevelt insprct-
ed some potatoes that were being grown
+ in the cellar. He shook hands with the
natives and went away. Farther along
! the string OF machines halted long enough
| for Air. Munroe o discuss the work he
( has been doing up here under the drec-
( ton Of Secretary Wilson. He spoke Of
/ the depreciation of land values and sail
that for S1.c00 you could buy 10 acres
right there If YOU had the money handy.
Mr.. Munroe has taken up a mighty prac-
| teal work in this region. and his expert
menting IN seeds has done q lot for the
farmers who are trying 10 build Up what
has been torn down. Mr.. Schmidt IS
Dutch and Mrs. Schmidt is Norwegian.
The Schmidts had an exhibition consist
ing OF cabbage, a pumpkin a potato.
and a cucumber neatly arranged on a
chair In front of their house So the
colonel stopped there, He explained that
he, too. was Dutch. same as Mr. Schmidt
He joked with the Schmidts and praised
them for raising FIVE little Schmidts This
was at Piney Hollow
The rfgrDr1-inS were h7rf he fr-a
boys. by George, they were better" re-
marked the colonel later on. II think
Mrs Schmidt was the best thing on the
farm" And so it went.
II did not take long for the motors 70
" hirl the colonel over to New Field.
which has nothing on a few towns in the
West and the South that he has visited.
\ band OF derby-hatted citizens blew it
self enthusiastically. They played sacred
hymns in slow tempo. which added 10
the Zest Of the occasion.
Al Fresco Luncheon.
Representative Dwight did himself
proud on the al fresco luncheon he
served on Irish Hill to-day. Mr.. Roose-
velt and the party spent an hour or SO
eating and feeding around. The colonel
liked that more than little because no
did OF have to so through any formali-
ties. and if he wanted a pickle all he had
to do was to yell TO some one nearby and
he got it. The passerby would never
have known that an ex-President was
in that luncheon, never
The ride into Binghamton was swift.
Col. Roosevelt had dinner on the train.
He was escorted 10 Stone opera House
tonight by a band and torchlights On
the stage were Senator Il. D. Hinman,
Representative Cocks. Senator Davenport,
and Representative Dwight. The au-
dience received the colonel heartily
The special left here al about midnight
Tomorrow Col. Roosevelt viii make sey-
eral rear platform speeches and viii wind
up the day with night speech in Syra-
cuse There he will be the guest OF
Francis Hendricks.