Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-03-02
ARIZONA HAS TRUE
FRIEND IN TEDDY:
IS FOR ADMISSION
Declares That New Common.
wealth Is Entitled to Take
It's Place in Sister,
hood of Union.

Chicago. Feb. 2s.-Theodore Roose-
velt, in Il speech here today. declared
In favor OF the admission OF .Arizon.
to the union. Notwithstanding the re-
caIl provision in it's constitution. That
provision, he declared, was the affair
OF Arizona and of nobody else.
Great interest attaches to Colonel
Noosevelt's declaration, in view OF tho
report that President Taft will dis
approve the Arizona constitution and
DENY admission to the new state. be.
cause of the recall! provision as applied
TO the judiciary.
Busy Day fer Teddy.
\ busy day lay before Colonel Roose-
Welt when he arose at $50 Il. m., ana
insisted on taking a short walk before
breakfasting with the chairmlen of tho
committees of the Union League club
which will nave charge of his move
ments in Chicago. Three set speeches
were on the rogram of the day, as
well as two. or possibly three. informal
talks.
The colonel said. upon being inform
ed OF his program:
1T seems every good intentioned re-
nentlon committee tries to give me SO
much to do that il i don't drop dead
right at the close of the day., I will
soon after leaving the city. hut I will
fool them even II L can't stand much
Of that thing. BY George. l like it
too
The first talk at the Auditorium
theatcr was on "Nationalism and Dem-
ocracN,' ut 1890 a. IN. For. the rest Of
the day, beside meeting friends and
newspaper men, he was scheduled to
talk to the Boy scouts at the Board of
Trade. attend a meeting of high school
students. university students and
teachers. visit Hull house, address an
audience at the First Regiment arms
Dry. and deliver his principal speech
at the Union League club banquet at
$50 y. N. He will leave for the east
Thursday morning.
For Direct Elections.
Colonel Roosevelt advocated the
election of United States senators by
direct vote of the people in his first.
speech of the day.
AT his moment" said the speaker.
amid laughter, w are trying the old
system in New York and we cannot
elect any senator at all. And illinois,
last experiment in electing a senator
under the old system was not. per-
haps. wholly a happy one"
The speaker declared that the initia-
live. referendum and recall might be
wise or unwise. He did not attempt
to decide.
If he said. lin practice. the. use
Of m of these new methods fails to
give us better government. more hon
est, more independent and yet more
genuinely sympathetic public servants,
Then the system is q failure.
He Is for Arizona.
II saw it stated in the press tho
other day that certain good people In
Washington were against the admis-
sion of Arizona as a state because it
had adopted in its constitution the
recall. In 1880 the state of Massachu.
sets put into it's constitution precisely
that provision for a recall.
Now, understand me. [ am not
arguing for or against the recall. I
am merely saying that if the people
wish to try it. or if they do not wish
TO try it, it is their affair.""
JACOB RlIs CALLS FOES
OF ROOSEVELT DEVILS"
Hartford, Conn, Feb. 23.-Jacob
Iaiis. next friend to Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, has written Il letter to c. HI.
Riggs, of the Bristol Press, in which
he tells in emphatic English what he
thinks OF the ex-president's enemies,
He says:
Richmond Hill, l.. t.. Feb. &c. III.
Riggs-Dear Sir: / regret that there
are so many unintelligent people in this,
country of ours. How any one can re-
gard the result Of the elections. wher.
half the country rose up and struck
out for the principles for which Mr..
Roosevelt Is ~cOntending, as a blow at
him has always been a puzzle to me.
About the result In New York there is
just this to say-that. except for
Roosevelt going in where he knew de-
feat was coming, the majority against
the republican ticket would have been
like the old Cleveland majorities, 2OO,-
900 to 300, 600, and 1t would have been al
the $4,000 was now, a rebuke to the
gang that opposed Hughes and traded
IN votes as in cattle, the gang which
Mr.. Roosevelt smashed.
Lies Were Paid For.
II was abroad during the campaign
and kno nothing Of his Contemporaries
language but ] read the
and the lying they did was enough to
provoke an honest man to worse things
than language. however strong. The
lies were paid for, Of course. by the
moneyed interests, by Wall street.
These interests started the drunken
lie, too, as 1 happen to know, for Gem
eral Howard not long before his death,
wrote to me that two Wall street ac-
quainrances had assured him that the
president (Roosevelt) was drunk every
night in the White House. II you can
put me on the track of any one circu-
lating these stories o will be ender-
ing a service to me. The devils!
Not a Booze Fighter.
Roosevelt drinks about as much az
Lyman Abbott. and the Lord has
spared him the grief the vile slanderers
hunt in his family circle. / would adj
wise you to meet any one of them that
you come across with the fiat declara-
ton that he is a damnable liar. / was
going to say a damned liar. but l will
leave him to his Maker, who will know
how to deal with him more efrectnally
than any earthly Judge.
1T is the existence of such Shiny.
crawling things on earth thai brings
one back to the belief in the traditional
birthstone pot as the only fit place for