The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-25
SHEDDING SEASON
FOR BULL MOOSE
RooseveIts Suit is Failing to pieces
as Result of Hard Usage During
His Western
Trip.
ONE HAT GIVES OUT NO OFFICIAL REPORT
Had Big Crowd at Little Rock This
Morning With Waterway Dele !
gates Joining In tho
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Sept. 25.--
Colonel Roosevelt played one-day
stand in Arkansas today and Little
ROCK crowds reinforced by visitors to
the deep waterway convention turned
out en- masse to hear the progressive
candidate The colonel a little tired
but still enthusiastic, battered away
! at Governor Wilson, pummeled the
bosses. bespoke support for progress
sives and paid the deep water trunk
line project flattering tribute.
| The colonels old gray suit was re-
habilitated today. While T. r. slept
last night Bill the porter. labored
away until the wee small hours re-
4 pairing rents and pressing the gar
ments. But Bills skill could not dis
guise great tears around the coat
pockets, at the armholes and around
the collar, where seams had been split
and the cloth itself rent by enthus.
iastic friends during the past few
weeks. The climax was reached at
Oklahoma City where one bull moose
almost carried away the colonel's
sleeve.
Then lady grabbed me by the
coat tails said the ex-president.
She declared she wanted souvenir,
and by George, she almost got my
coat. All I'm praying is tbnt sthis suit
lasts until get holna, tnen 1t goes to
the ash heap"
To-day, however, the colonel was
forced to telegraph ahead for new
4 Fat, a black sombrero, size seven and
three-eights. The bull moose leader
| started out on September with a
perfectly new one, but constant wav-
| ings to crowds and pounding away
with 1t on platforms, to say nothing
of wear and tear caused by pushing
| through eager assemblages, has COM
p]etely frazzled the top piece.
| The colonel always starts his
speeches holding the hat crumpled up
in wad and then later tosses it back
to George Roosevelt, his acting secre-
! tary
| Pulling Off this stunt before one
audience, Roosevelt remarked:
my hats in the ring, SO don't need
this one" and the crowd laughed
gleefully
About 900 persons heard Roose-
! Welt speak on waterways. 1t was an
entirely non-partisan address, in
1 which the candidate outlined his plan
| to utilize the machinery now used in
building the Panama canal for i'm
provement of the Mississippi river,
when the big ditch has been compile
| ted.
| There was one vacant chair on the
/ platfa-m-that assigned to Senator
Jeff Davis Of Arkansas. The senator,
who several years ago felt the lash
of Rooseyeltian sarcasm in con-
gressional incident, refused to sit on
the same stage with Roosevelt. John
/ M. Parker's introduction of him as
/ ''the author OF the Panama canal, the
| future builder of the deep waterway
channel, and the greatest American
was voeiferously applauoed.
River and harbor bills in the past
have often been tainted with job
| berry," the colonel asserted. The
plan has been piecemeal and without
coordinate scheme Of appropriation.
A comprehensive plan must be form
ulated by commission, and not left
to the mercy of scrambling interests !"
Roosevelt bitterly denounced the
! type of congressman who wasted
government money in logrolling" eth
er for river and harbor improvements
or for public buildings, and declared
he wanted the Mississippi river i'm
provement to "stand on its merits as
the Panama canal did
"It Is mere barbarism," Roosevelt
continued, ito have rivers made un-
navigable at one time by floods and
again by lack of water. We should
have reservoir system and only the
national government can deal with a
matter of that sort"
The colonel chided the people as a
whole for the sort OF proyinoialism
that he said had made congress-
man believe that the only way he
could keep his job was to build post
offices in his district and name office
holders"
Some times wish were Meth
odist instead OF member of the
Dutch Reform church,, he declared
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