Perth Amboy evening news., 1912-06-18
COLONEL
GETS AN
0VATIO
Great Throng Cheered and
Sang Roosevelt Songs in
Auditorium LAST Night.
MAKES STIRRING SPEECH

Chicago. June 1S.-While waiting for
Colonel Roosevelt to appear In the
Auditorium the men and women who
hacked the theater cheered for the
colonel and snng Roosevelt songs. Sena-
tor Bo-8h declared It to be useless for
the party to nominate a nun that II
cannot elect" and then gave his rea-
sons for believing that Colonel ItooSe-
welt can be elected If nominated.
Senator Borah hud not concluded
when Colonel Roosevelt came in. The
senator's voice was drowned IN the
great roar that went up, The cheering
continued until the organ began the ma.
tional anthem aud when the hymn was
finished started off again.
Mr.. Roosevelt said In part:
My Friends and Fellow Cltiaens-I ad-
dress you also as my fellow Republicans,
for this has now become much more than
an ordinary party fight. Thu Issue is both
simpler and larger than that involved In
the personality of any man or than that
involved in any factioDal OF In any ordi-
nary party contest. We are standing for
the great fundamental rights upon which
all successful free government must be
we are slaNulPP LOT FleliltltdlN
decancy In politics. We are hghting for
honesty against naked robbery. and where
robbery is concerned the all important
question Is not the Identity of the man
robbed. but the crime itself.
Refers to Political Theft.
As far as Mr.. Taft and | are personally
concerned it little matters what the fate
CT either may be. But with Mr.. Thfts ac-
quiesccnce or by his direction and in his
interest his followers have rai-ed nm Issue
which IL all important to this country. It
lie not a partisan Issue; 1t is more than a
political Issue: II is q great moral Issue.
II we condone political theft, II We do not
resent the kinds OF wrong and injustice
that injurionsiy affect the whole nation
not merely our democratic form of gov
rnment but our civilization itself cannot
endure. IL the methods adopted by the
national committee are approved by the
convention which is about to ASSEMBLE a
great crime Will have been committed
The triumph of such proceedings at the
moment would mean the wreck Of the Re-
publican party, and II such proceedings
become hahituai It would mean tho wreck
or popuia government. The activities OF
the leaders of the national committee,
taken with the active aid OF MIR. Tafts
private secretary and one of Mr.. Gafts
cabinet officers. are monstroue. and they
SiSHiu W llillH dnNtN CotluSIlilltN W AAN
moral sentiment Of the whole country.
We come together to protest against a
crisso which strikes straight at the heart
OF every principle of political decency and
honesty-a crime which represents treason
to tbs people and the usurpation of the
sovereignty of the people by irresponsible
political bosses inspired by the sinister in
huences of mOneyed privilege. We are
Engaged in a fght for the rights of every
decent American whatsoever his party
may be.
Worss Than Robbing Bank
Mr.. Roosevelt reviewed the easOn
which led him to enter the present
contest, chief among these to prevent
Mr.. Taft's denomination. He had, Mr..
Roosevelt, asserted, ]espoused the
cause of the people and only repre-
scented the bosses. He continued:
1t now has become evident that Mr.. Taft
Ia willing TO acquiesce and to condone and
accept the fruits OF any course of action
on which the bosses embark. even though
such action represents treason as well as
destruction to the Republican party, to
which they nominally belong, and also
treason to the cause of the American peo-
pie as a whole. Men like Messrs. Crane Of
Massachusetts. Brooker of Connecticut
and Nagel OF Missouri. who trail behind
their holder associates, such as Messrs
Penrose, Murphy and MulVane, are doubt
less genuinely shocked at the misconduct
of a d~efaulting bank cashier or at the ao-
ton Of some small election official who on
election day falsifies tho returns. Yet the
wrong to the American people. the dam
age to the country, by such action as
these national committeemeu have taken
in deliberately seekins TO nullIfy and over
throw the Will of the people lCgitima tely