The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-26

Central Jersey through Asbury Park.
Long Branch. Perth Amboy and New
Brunswick was enthusiastic and hot fol
him. But it took Plainfield. Westiielc
Crawford. Roselle Park and Elizabeth
near New York. to give HIM somethn s
Of the same big welcome ne got yesterday
in south Jersey.
The Colonel's ultimatum TO the nationa
committee ne delivered in what he called
his fighting speech at Plainfield.
"Our opponents have no thought Of
winning unless they can win by deliberate
cheating iD the national committee" he
declared. The national committee il
supposed to pass on the rights of the people
who sit in the convention. II it chooses "a
it can throw out the lawfully elected
delegates and substitute for them those
selected by fraud.
1t il therefore vital to have n national
committee which truly represents the
people In the last few days the lam
g,Iage of our opponents has shown that
they intend to Use the national COM
mitteemen who have been beaten in their
own States to sit in judgment on those
who have beaten them in their own States,
The Colonel spoke with all the force
he had
We thrashed them 20 to o in Pennsvl-
vania and 81 to in Illinois But the
national committeeman from those States
represent not the seventy. but the six; !;
not the iifty-four. but the two. And that
appears not only in Illinois and Pennsyl-
vania. but in place after place with re-
gard to the national committeeman
At Elizabeth again just before depart
ing for New York Col Roosevelt en-
phatically declared that there will he no
compromise at Chicago, He expressed
the fear that the Republican national
committee was thinking Of seating dele
gates "by strong arm methods" and he
declared that he and his followers were
prepared To take action TO prevent any
interference with the will of the people "
Both at Plainfield and Elizabeth Col
Roosevelt launched TRADES against the
national committee and showed that he
was deeply stirred by belief that the
cards were being stacked
Col. Roosevelt spent his morning prin-
cipally skirting the coast. From Tren-
ton at \ o'clock he went to Freehold by
train and from there he and his party
travelled by auto to Lakewood and Farm
ingdale. The Colonel then shot over
to the coast by train. speaking first at
Asbury Park and then at Long Branch.
Red Bank and Perth Amboy until after
noon, when he struck across country to
Railway and New Brunswick. Again
the party took to automobiles and whizzed
through dust the rest of the after
noon through Plainfleld. Westiield, Gar
wood, Crawford and Roselle Park, wind
ing up caked in yellow dirt at Elizabeth
about 7 o'clock.
In the morning along the coast the
Colonel met enthusiasm Of milder kind
than the fighting. scramblng sort that
surged around him all day yesterday.
But it was hot Roosevelt enthusiasm from
the start of the day. He was in the Third
Congress district all morning to New
Brunswick, Borden Whiting, Roose-
velt's Jersey chairman. declares that
there isn't contest worthy the name in
this district. It's all Roosevelt.
Freehold. county seat of Monmouth
county. received him on the court house
steps. Crowds Of folk stood under the
trees and were out in the streets. Maxey
Applegate. chairman Of the meeting.
remembered that George Washington
stood on these same steps in l778
"To-day ! have the honor of present.
ing the next President, Theodore Roose-
velt," he said. The Colonel liked that.
In Freehold occurred that one time when
Washington cut loose and cissed out his
cileiios Ia tho person of Gen. Lee The
Colonel only cut loose mildly at his enc
mics.
RECALL aAYs or l778.
All through the day he seized every local
setting to connect il up with the tiRht he