The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-01
IN THE LAND
OF MAPLE SUGAR.
Colonel Roosevelt Had Sweet Time
in Vermont Where the Landscape
Indicated Intense
Feeling.
BOASTS AND DEN1ALs
Days WhlrIwind Dash Through the
Hills Was Filled With Exciting
Incidents and Elk
periences.

incidents ana TX
periences.
UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.]
BELLOWS FALLS, VT, Aug. 81
Colonel Roosevelt, in training for his
strenuous western swing around the
circle next week entered this town to-
night In dusty, travel-stained auto
mobile, to be greeted by the announce
ment that dispatches from New York
said that he had accepted a $4,000
campaign contribution in 1904 from
the United States Steel corporation.
Nonsense he snapped II sup
pose they refer to the Carnegie contri-
button. The man who says that was
aware of contribution from the steel
trust is just as much of an imbicile as
the man who wrote the democratic
campaign text book" The days whirl-
wind dash through the hills of Yer
mont was filled with exciting Incl
dents. At Randolph an old man vocif-
Grated:
I'm for Teddy, all right
yep, I reckon We are" jeered an
other old fellow, but / remember
that yesterday We were fer Taft and
the day before that fer Wilson,
The two we're about to mix it, when
La constable interfered.
Intense partisan feeling through the
lcolonel's Vermont itinerary was indi-
4 Gated by the landscape. Barns and
hen houses bore the names Of Roose
|velt, Wilson and Taft in huge letters
land banners were strung along the
roads bearing the; names ssf A ttsres
candidates The chief Of the bull
moose received hearty welcome where
lever he went, however, and the day
4 was not lacking in enthusiasm.
/ Congressman James Campbell OF
Kansas who has been stamping the
Estate for Taft also arrived at Randolph
1 shortly before the colonel. Campbell
has been saying strong things against
1T. r. The two didn't meet
i Winston Churchill tried to gel
Roosevelt to stop for speech al
Windsor, Vermont, but the colone
preferred to rest until he reached the
! next stop. Churchill said that Cover
Inor Bass of New Hampshire woulc
have been the progressive candidate
I for head of the ticket in that state
II but ill health prevented it. Ma,
!, Evarts, of New York, general counse
!, for the Missouri Pacific, has summer
residence and factory at Windsor. A
i this place Roosevelt said from ths
platform OF his car:
81 am fighting against the man WHIT
tries to bully his employees into voting
as he wishes That's the kind of ;
,, man I'm after.
Several men began tearing bandan;
decorations on the station.
! Whats the matter?' asked 7 r.
oh" shouted bull mooser, Jus
a couple of Evarts steers got loose. :
Some of his men will break loos
on election day" snapped back TIL
: colonel.
Governor Bass, of New Hampshire
met. IuC oOoSONCAb POI ~ az lDSlioN
Falls and in his speech here Roosevelt
expressed the belief that the progress
sives would beat their opponents tw
> to one.
! when the progressive moyemen
= started last February said Roosevelt
1--we couldn't count on the aid of on
! senator or one congressman in Ne1
England, and only one governor. Coy
ernor Bass has been an incalculabl
aid to us,
Winston Churchill, who accompar
lied the colonel from Windsor, has bee
, mentioned frequently as progressiv
candidate for governor of New Ham,
q shire.
BRATTLEBORO, Vernon, Aug. 8
/ winding up his Vermont campaig
} tonight, Colonel Roosevelt left TIL
$ message with record breaking aud
ence:
IF you want to help me, vote fo
II the progressive ticket next Tuesda
Many of my friends have told me ths
/ will carry the state in Novembe
: They have said they would vote Il
y the progressive ticket then. but won
U be loyal to the republican state tic
o ct now. Friends, If you want to he
me- IL you want to help the progre
4 sive cause, now is the time to show
and the only way to co SO is to su
port the straight progressive tick
headed by Mr. Meter"
"The movement Is going on an
8. way" he said, "and ! want Vermont
take the lead instead of draggir
on behind"