The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-08-30
ROOSEVELT SPENDS 7 DAY IN VERMONT Days Work Lasts From 9 Until Nearly Midnight HE ATTACKS PENROSE The Colonel Demands Immediate Re- peal of Reciprocity Act-Gves
 High Praise to Gov
 ernor Johnson
 
HE ATTACKS PENROsE

ernor Johnson
 Burlington, Vt. August 29.-For 15B miles, former President Roosevelt raced over Vermont roads in automobiles today proclaiming the doctrines of the progress sive party He made eight speeches. and his days work lasted from a. m. until nearly midnight When he arrived in Burlington where he spent he night. he was covered with dust but said he was in fine trim and had had bully day.
 In his speeches Colonel Roosevelt att tackled Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania and John D. Archbold, president of the Standard Oil company. He denounced them as representatives of the combina ton between crooked business and crooked politics" and said they had con demned themselves by their testimony be- fore the Senate committee whicn has been Investigating campaign contributions. The ex-President also assailed both the repub- lican and democratic parties, and urged the voters of this staunch republican state not to be reluctant to leave the republic an party, which, he said. no longer rep resented them.
 Wants Repeal of Reciprocity
 Tonight the colonel demanded immed- fate repeal of the Canadian reciprocst: law enacted by Congress, saying that while 1t was on the statute books the Canadian parliament might adopt the measure and put it into effect. he at tackled the democratic party for it's stand on the tariff saying that if its plank were put into effect il would 'cause utter ruin both to our agricultural and indus trial communities and have almost no I .y4ect on helping the consumer ssIe' also gave Agh praise to his running mate. Gov. Hiram Johnson.
 T make an especial appeal to the farmers of Vermont" Colonel Roosevelt said. Our platform alone of the three platforms shows an intelligent purpose to deal fundamentally with the causes that are at work to harm American agrl- culture and to diminish the iull value of life in the open country. We are ready to grapple both with the immediate evils susceptible of remedy and with the deep CT rooted ones which need long and care ful work in the way both of examination and of action on examination.
 If the democratic platform on the tar if is sincere the first step that the democratic party would take if 1t cane back to power would be to pass tarin law which would work the utmost possSle damage to the farmer, and yet whicn would, l firmly believe, do practically nothing whatever for the consumer.
 ',Our proposal on the contrary is to hep the farmer and at the same tune to lower the prices of his products to tPe raen who actually consume them. We intend to work for the beIterment If con aitions of production on our farms so that the farm shall be made both more fruitful and at the same time more vaiu- able inathe future as well as the present. We also intend to work for better Dusi- ness handling by the farmer of his prod lcts. Finally, through many different agencies, through the country, Young Mems Christian associations through the churches. through farmers institutes, through fitting the country school to the needs of country life, through favoring the movements for good roads and helping out still further along the lines of rural flee delivery, we intend to better social conditions for the men and women who live and bring up their children in the open country"
 Crowds Are Friendly
 During the first of his three days cam paigning in Vermont. Colonel Roosevelt encountered friendly crowds of good size
 In one of his speeches roday Colonel Roosevelt explained how it was that he came to espouse the political principles which are advocated by the progressive party. When he went into public iifer he said, he had TO idea of tee way in which big interests' was conducted.
 T was puzzled years ago. -he. said by the opposition I encountered from certain hie business, men whom I thought weee respectable. Some of them, 1 am sorry to say, went to church and played being respectable. I was shocked and mortified when I learned what they were doing
 One incident after another. he said, cons yinced hin, while he was governor of NeY York and later in his public life that certain large corporations were crooked. ' When he became governor, ne said, he doubted If he knew what the initiative and referendum and other measures or the kind really were. It was through ms experience, ne said. that he came to the belief that such measures were necessary to place the people in more direct con- trol of their agencies of government.
 Knox Refuses to Talk
 Hcnoluiu, August 29.-Secretary Knox refused on his arrival here today to make any comment on Theodore Rooseveits denial that he had ever said iii the pres snce of MT. Knox that letters to George F. cortelyou were written to make good the records" The letters in question were Instructions that any contributions made bv the Standard oil company to the republican campaign funds of 1904 must be returned.
 .,As have made no statement concerto ing the correspondence between MT. Roosevelt and Mrs Cortelyou. on any sub iect,' said MT. Knox. ''and as l have never authorized any one to make any statement for me. you must excuse me from discussing the subject TOW.
 MT. Knox is voyaging by the cruisei Marvlsnd to the funeral of the late Elm Ieror of Japan
 The Maryland will sail for Yokohoma at