New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-08-06
ROOSEVELT DISPLAYS
A TOUCH OF TEMPER
Finds Fault with Newspapers
for Not Printing All His
Negro Problem Letter.
GETS MODERATE OVATION
Half a Thousand Greet the
Colonel on His Arrival and
Cheer When He Tells OF
the Coming Fight.
fBy Stan Correspondent OF The TIibune.l

the Coming Fight.
(ry q Sta0 Correspondent OF The TfiOune.I
Chicago. Aug. 5-Theodore Roosevelt
reached Chicago at 8 o'clock this morn
ing. and got only the ghost OF an ovation
when he made his way out OF the La
Sale street station. A delegation OF Can
fornians and hand furnished most OF
the noise. Not more than five hundred
outsiders got in the coloneis way as ne
hurried to the taxlcab stand. IL was
about the sort OF a reception the EXPIRES
ident has been used TO in small towns.
Frank II. Funk, third party nominee
for Governor OF Illinois. was the nrst man
10 shake hands with the colonel while
the Californians were whooping things up
Three cheers for Roosevelt our next
President they. cried. as the colonel
walked rapidly through the train she'd
When he reached the locomotive the en-
gneer who had brought the train IN
leaned out OF his cab and MI. RooseFel'
stopped TO reach UP and shake his mana
The ex-Presldent and the grimy engine
driver could not reach each otheT, put
waved their hats and the crowd bchinn
the colonel hurried him on
By this time Colonel Roosevelt was IN
the hands Of the inner circle OF Progress
slves, including Med!ll Mccormick, Sena-
tor Dixon. George W. Perkins. Clifford
Pinchot. Amos Pinchot, James 4. Gar
field, Chaunccy Depew, Timothy Wood
run and william \. Prcndereast, OF
New York The band outside I'll" station
was playing "Eyerybody's Doing IL as
the colonel and Mrs. Roosevelt took their
seats In an automobile and headed for the
Congress Hotel.
There was fair sized crowd lining the
Curbs IN Van Buren, street Instead oil
making straight for the hotel the process
sion made little detOur. hut ;he crowd
didn't grow any larger. Tho climax OF
/ Senator Dixon's carefully planned o'a-
ton came az Colonel Roosevelts car
drew up IN front Of the hotel on the
Michigan avenue side. Half q Thousand
were there TO cheer.
Dofing his tan colored sombrero. Colo
mel Roosevelt stood up 10 speak. lie SAID:
/ 10 be here H. Chicago again and 70 be III
nt the birth OF n party. ana rot al inc
death OF IT, Let our opponents make no
mistake. the hght Is going to oe mace
own rights and own good and their own
ideap Before November comes u" parry
OF that ticke' which "aS nominated hrl"
siX weeks ago Will no LONGER b" ia,tUi
] I'm the contests The American people VIII
not stand for theft and fraud. especlaIy
at the eNUeuEe o. the people.
W. VII mako this fight against crooked
bosses Who are backed NJ ~ crook
I Of u
flgofr The mortgages OF The nj a+p
! Record Herald" can lrd why the chhn-
ncls % Information have been choked 10y
the opponents OF tie leoIlr A..
Tire crooked press II making m cHot'
IN rreve;l, the peoule ON finding out IN"
facts Of this fight We lntend 10 HN"N
me facts 10 the people. and have ~" op-
position know what real party D. "''
what rfa. government -
There were q. few real demonstrations
az Colonel Roosevelt and his party passed
through the lobby OF the hotel 10 their
rooms on the second roor. which they &C.
rupled last June. The candidate DID not
leaye his quarters until O'Clock IN the
n afternoon. when. with 4. L. Moore. ~
THE Pittsburgh Leader: r. l. Azeltiuc.
The third party candidate for Lieutenant
Governor OF Vermont. and Frank Harper.
his secretary. he went for an mtomobhe
.
ride through the South side.
lust before luncheon Colonel Roosevelt
found time TO see the newspaper men.
who had been waiting outside FOR more
than AN hour. while Mr.. Perkins. Gov
ernor Hiram Johnson OF California, James
X. Garfield. George l.. Record. Medill Nc
! Cormlck. Charles II. Thompson. OF Yer
mont and clifford Pinchot went In and
out. discussing platform pianks and the
Southern negro delegate problem at great
length.
The candidate was plainly i'm bad humor.
! He had nothing to say until some one
asked for his comment on the complaints
! or the Southern negroes. who were down
stairs threatening to turn Florida and
Mississippi negro voters over 10 Governor
| wilson II they were not seated I'm the
convention
Tho colonies reply Was cauatic. He crit
| icised the newspapers that did not print
| in fun his letter of last Saturday To Jul
| ian Harris, OF Georgia. In which he eX-
| planned his attitude regarding the exclu-
sion Of the black vote.
III any newspaper wants anything from
me on the subject, let them print my let
ter TO Mr.. Harris In fun he said, testify.
The colonels temper did not Improve
when a local reporter asked him 10 eN-
plain what he meant when he said outside
OF the hotel this morning something about
Investigating the mortgages OF The Chi
cago Record Herald to find why the
channels OF Information have been choked
by the opponents OF the people
Colonel Roosevelt hesltated. Then he
said that what he said was papers like
The Chicago Record Herald.
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