The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-08-25
Special from United Press. ,

(Spec1al rom United Press. Buffalo, Aug. 25.-With a parting shot at his opponents in the political fight he is leaving behind in New York State, Colonel Roosevelt started on the long leg of his western trip today
 T feel that it is just a little more my duty to hunt the crook out of public life, because he happens to be in my own party" declared the Col onel at a breakfast given in his hon or at the E1licot Club. And some five
 hundred Buffalo business men stood up and shouted themselves hoarse, recognizing the old-time Roosevelt and his determination to fight. The ColoneIs train rolled into Buff falo about 6:30 but despite the early come him. He was hurried into an automobile and rushed to the Ellicott Club.
 At the close of the breakfast the Colonel was greeted with wild yell as he arose to speak. He began a, water supply of the Great Lakes from pollution but soon shifted from pure water to politics.
 i We must keep unpolluted the wa ters of the Great Lakes, the most wonderful body of fresh water in the
 world. ;, said the Colonel We have also got to act likewise in the field of National, public and private af- fairs. I nvse lhln~s are not po,Ir+ l
 at the source. We must keep the standard of public honesty and de- cency foremost in our minds. | T believe in pure government and in so believing I recognize no party distinction, If I make any party dis tinction it is a little more my busi-
 ness to hunt out a crook who belongs to my party than if he belongs to an
 other. Friends, we srnust keep our eyes fixed Distrust above all other men the man who will inveigh the
 dishonesty of another. Distrust the
 demagogue who can't see crooked
 ness in the grating labor leaders. in the poor man alone and overlooks the financier or head of a corpora tion. 4f Don't let a man think he is to be piI61ed because he iIstens to the voice of the corrupt financier. My experience is that man who goes wrong while in the employ of a cor poration is crook from the start and he will just as quickly, when backed into a corner, /blackmail that corporation.
 ''If the people at large pass by the effort to find this creek, if they fail to condemn his actions they'll have themselves to thank in the end. You are not going to get honesty unless you insist that man shows honesty to all.''
 Turning Nto his text, Coaonef Roose- welt said:
 '1f there are any members of cor
 porations present I hope tney will ac-
 quit me of any misstep I might have
 made in my remarks Smiling to the assemblage he said: 'I'H fight for the rights of the big
 man as we'll as the small man and
 I'll fight for the rights of the small
 man as hard as I will for the big
 man."
 Accompanied by the members of the reception committee Colonel Roosevelt walked into the elevator.
 On the way down the man in charge of the elevator said to Roosevelt:
 Hello, Teddy, I'm from Missouri" I"
 Well, we'll" laughed the Colonel, I'm glad to see the mysterious stranger
 Reaching the court of the Ellicott
 Square Building, Colonel Roosevelt
 was surrounded by newspapermen
 and asked whether he had anything
 to say regarding the political, situa-
 ton in the state
 "I think my remarks in Herkimer
 yesterday covered theSground fairly
 we'll" was the reply
 The fight is on, then?" "Yes, the fight is on,' he answered. snapping
 his teeth.
 On his way to, the station the Colonel was cheered repeatedly. His