The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1912-09-12

Nominated the uovernor-Seyenfy
Thousand Minnesotans Acclaim
Roosevelt as He Shows Up the
Bosses-Everybody Wanted To See
and Hear the Colonel-Traffic on
the Principal Streets Was Blocked
During His Stay i'm Sc. Paul-In-
dications Are That He VIII Get
States Electoral Vote.
BY Angus Mcsween. in Philadelphia
North American.
ST. Paul. Mimi, Sept. 5.-Roose-
velt enthusiasm in the Northwest nev-
er reached so high a pitch as In St.
Paul and Minneapolis to-day.
Not even when Colonel Roosevelt
visited the cities as President of the
United States and again two years
ago, when he came here after his re-
turn from Africa, were there such
demonstrations.
ST. Paul was alive with enthusiasm
at o'clock this morning, and thou
sands had assembled about the rail-
road station when the Roosevelt train
arrived. From then until his depart
ure tonight every street along which
he passed and the spaces around
the hotels where he stopped to rest
and to get something to eat were lit
orally jammed with people.
Sixty or seventy thousand persons
assembled at the fair grounds, where
he made his principal address, and
when he left the fair grounds and was
taken by auto to Minneapolis, a great
concourse thronged the streets and
thousands marched beside his car
cheering him, and so filling the
streets that no traffic was possible un-
til the Roosevelt party had passed.
Will Vote For Him, Too.
These cheering thousands in the
! two Minnesota cities made it very
obvious that they felt keen personal
enjoyment in having Colonel Roose-
welt with him.
They wanted to see him and be
near him, and they wanted to hear
him, and those who failed to hear
him because 1T was impossible that
his voice or that of any other man
could reach to the full extent of the
crowds, were bitterly disappointed.
"Does this mean the same people
| will vote for him?" a bystander was
asked.
will they vote for him he re-
| peated. ''Just give them a chance!"
| The crowds in the two cities were
not made up solely from the people
of the cities. They had assembled
from all over the State; but there
was no question that the Roosevelt
popularity in the cities was little less
than it is in the rural sections. For
the windows of all the buildings
fronting upon the streets through
which he passed were crowded with
cheering men and women.
Colonel Roosevelt's speech was
rather compendium of what he has
said heretofore than a new address.
| Explains the Differences.
Most of it was devoted to that care
full and earnest discussion Of the Pro-
gressive party principles, and a clear
explanation Of the differences In the
purposes of the progressives from
those of the two old parties.
He criticised the Democratic party
as boss-sontrolled organization and
discussed with force Goverfior Will
sons utterances upon the tariff and
other questions.
The Republican party stands, he
said, solely for tariff for the bene-
Int of special privilege. The Demo-
cratic party stands for q tariff for
destruction.
: Some Comments.
| He will get two out OF every three
fvotes," said Hugh Halbert, Chairman
of the Progressive Committee OF fifty.
"I was for Taft In the primaries"
said II. r. Brown, q millionaire Ium-
herman who far fifty years has been
| a prominent citizen of the State, and
| who participated in large financial
affairs, now / am for Roosevelt.
Nothing on earth can stop him.
"I'd like to wire Taft, Gee, you
ought to see the crowds," exclaimed
Cecil Lyon, Of Texas, who is accom-
panying the Roosevelt party.
Were with you, Teddy. We want
you,"
well put you back In the White
! Housei" were some of the cries dis
| tinguished above the uproar, as
Roosevelt was speaking at the fair
grounds.
Nominated by Bosses
@'The nomination of Woodrow Will
son at the Baltimore Convention was
assailed by Roosevelt as the work OF
the Democratic bosses, In the fair
ground address. In his campaign