Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18
Shakes Fists and Dares 0pposi-
ton Hosts to Come Into
Open and Fight
PRAISES TAFT AS OFFICIAL
Colonel introduced to Audience in
Ten Words to Face
with Woodruff
CAssociated Press)


SYRACUSE, N. Y, Sept. 17.-Coming
into a stronghold of the opposition, ex-
President Roosevelt today boldly chal-
lenged the opponents of his political
doctrines to come out in the open and
fight if they dared.
He prophesied that If they did they
would be beaten.
The former president also gave warm
commentator of President Taft as q
public official and expressed his ap-
proval of a number of the accomplish
ments of the Taft administration.
Col. Roosevelt did not indorse the
administration as a whole. What he
did say, however, placed him on record
for the first time in regard to many of
the more important features of it,
breaking the silence which he had
maintained steadfastly on the subject,
except for his few brief references to
his successor made while he was on his
western trip.
He also defended his recent criticisms
of two decisions of the United states
supreme court, made in speech in
Denver, and quoted the words of Will
liam W Taft, written when he was
federal judge, to support his conten-
tions that the people have a right to
criticise decisions of the courts.
When Col Roosevelt arrived the
state fair grounds, where he spoke.
were thronged with crowd which
numbered more than 10000. Before he
went to the speakers stand Col.
Roosevelt rode around the mile track
at the head Of a parade and received a
cordial welcome.
MEETS MACHINE LEADERS
Almost all of the members of the
committee which will have the colonel
in hand during his stay here are lden-
titled with the Onondaga county Re-
publican organization, OF which Eranels
| Hendricks, ex-superlntendent OF lllsul-
ance. is the head. Mr.. Hendricks Is a
| member of the Republican state COM
mittee and voted against Col. Roose-
1 Welt when the state committee refused
to indorse him for temporary chairman
of the Republican state convention.
The colonel spent the evening at tne
| hirne of Lieutenant Governor Horace
| White. who gave a dinner for him.
| There, too, he was in the handS OF
men who are taking part in the ngnI
against him. Timothy l.. WoodruIls
chairman of the state committee anu
one of the leaders of the opposition 10
Colonel Roosevelt, was here To-Day
shook hands with the coloAeA anu "'S
dinner with him.
Colonel Roosevelt and his adVer-
saries met each other with cheertuL
faces and jested about their difterences'
Lieutenant Governor White mace
one of the shortest speeches on record
when he introduced ColoneI hooSeNeie
at the fair grounds.
GIVEN BRIEF INTRODUCTION
1--WE are here today to welcome and
to honor Theodore Roosevelt" he sald'
and that was all.
himself at the rear of the stand to
wait until Mr.. White had finished his
speech, looked up in surprise as ne saw
the lieutenant governor backing from
the railing.
.Do / speak now?" he asked.
Mr.. White said the time had come
and the colonel arose. He was in hght-
inc trim as he faced the crowd. He
himself said so. He shook his clenched
fists in the air and thundered forth his
message with all the energy which he
could muster. Several times he de-
parted from the text of his prepared
speech to inject remarks to show now
earnestly he meant Whal ne saio'
''I wish my opponents would come
itno the open," he said "They shoot
from the bushes" he declared at an
other place, "but you could not make
them come into the open and hght the
ISSUE"
Another remark which caused the
crowd to cheer was made just as ne
pPECAAOA~N~
themselves on record against MN.
"Friends, they won't do it," said the
colonel. ''They may criticise me, but
thew will walk as though they were
treading on eggs before they take the
other side"
Aftetr he had asserted that leaders
in business must act as servants or
the people and that the corporations
must be the creature and not the
master of the people, he added;
''To paraphrase the words of Patrick
Henry. if that be Socialism, make the
most of it."
T. r.. Defends NATTONALIsM
Roosevelt, in the title of his address.
''The New Nationalism and the Old
Morality" defended his position. rhe
new natlonalism," he reiterated
"means nothing but an apphcdt4oh 70
new conditions of certain OLD ana
| fundamental moralities. 1t means an
Invitation to meet the new problems or
| the present day in precisely the spirit
in which Lincoln and the men OF his
! dav met their new problems
TO his critics he put this issue; rs
anv party willing to take the other
side of the propositions of which COM
rlaint is made? If so, it would be a
GOOD thing to have the issue before the
9eonle. for In the end the people would
most certainly decide in favor of the
principles embodied in the new nation
alism, because otherwise this country
could not continue to be true re-
public, a true democracy"
The speaker followed this with a
justification of his attacks on the
United States supreme court. He
chose two arguments-one, that In his
criticisms he had merely echoed the
minority opinion Of the court itself;
the other, that he had illustrious prece-
dent-the example Of Abraham Lincoln.
who, he said had been far more OUT
spoken than he himself had ever been,
and the example of President Taft.
from. whose utterances Afteen years
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