The Washington times., 1912-09-04
7. R. WELCOMES
CUMM|NS into
NEW PARTY FOLD
Lauds Iowa Senator for Con-
sistent Stand for Progress
sive Principles.
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the colonel and his party, which was
augmented In that city by Col. Cecil
Lyon, the versatile Texan and a throat
Dallas, faced a crowded day in Iowa.
The colonel opened with a short talk
at Keokuk, proceeded to Mt. Zion and
Eden in the forenoon, and this after.
noon addresses the voters of Ottumwa,
Oskaloosa. and Des Moines, leaving the
latter point tonight for st. Paul, where
he will spend all of tomorrow.
Crowds at Every Station.
Until reaching St. Louis, the Roose.
velt party travelled under difficulties on
regular trains and without special ac-
commodations. Today the colonel. his
secretaries and the eight newspa per
men accompanying him are comfortably
fixed in two special cars, and the Pro-
gressive candidate may make rear plat
form speeches at will.
Speeding across Indiana and Illinois
yesterday the colonel made only three
short speeches, for the Big Four train
was late and the railroad said mo to
various small towns which wanted the
limited to stop in order that the sta
ton crowds might have word from
the bull moose chieftain. At some one
night stand towns the village band,
tianked by an admiring populace, was
on hand. The bands blared away, but
the rumble of mile-a-minute train
the colonel could do was to wave a
hand at the disappointed crowds.
Shakes Hands With Engineer.
When the reception committee met
the colonel at St. Louis he clambored
off his car and made a bee line in the
direction opposite from the station en-
trance, where several thousand per-
sons crowded the gates. The commit
tee was puzzled, but followed on.
Colonel Roosevelt had heard that the
engineer who handled the fast train
from Indianapolis to St Louis was a
bull moose and also a cracking good
engineer. The colonel proposed to hold
the hand that had pulled the throttle,
and he did.
The engineer was Heinie Miller,
known as the Flying Dutchman," and
he made up nearly an hour in the at
tempt to get Mr.. Roosevelt into St.
Louis on time.
1T was a bully rum" said the colonel.
The Dutchman wasn't certain, but
those who counted the mile posts tes-
tify that Miller only hit the high spots.
The fireman also came in for hand
shake from the colonel The Progress
sve candidate then delivered himself
into the keeping Of the reception COM
mittee.
More than twelve thousand persons
were jammed about the union station
and along nearby streets. As the colonel
proceeded to the City Club. where he
spoke before setting out for the bull
every street crossing and from practi-
cally. every window Of all the stores and
skyscrapers along the line Of parade.
At the City Club and also at the con-
Canfinn rnlnnal tnnNhn1 no ,1o o-I
OIL and the alleged dissolution of that
trust. He quoted John D. Archbolds 8
testimony before the Senate committee
to the effect that darkest Abyssinia
accorded the Standard Oil Company by
the Roosevelt Administration" With a
wry grin the colonel said:
They needed Abyssinian treatment
eyer President again they will get more
of It, If they don't watch their p's and
as" The City Club members shouted
their approval.
solution Of its stocks Increased the for
tunes Of Rockefeller about $50, 3,OOO, 900 and
increased the price to the consumer
Rockefelier, I understand, already had
would call sSa 100000 quite an unearned
increment for man who already had
sufficient to keep the wolf from the
door"
Says Sympathy Is Threefold.
In his principal speech of the day,
delivered before the Missouri Progress
sive convention, the colonel was con-
tinually forced to hold UP his hands
Tor quiet order that he might conclude
In the limited time allotted to ST. Louis
The delegates, among whom were a
number of women, cheered almost
every sentence. In part the Progress
siye candidate said:
Yesterday Mr.. Wilson, alludine to
the third party PLATFORM, asked: With
heart, who can divorce himself in sym
pathy with that great object of ad-
Vancing the interests of human beings
wherever 1t is possible to advance?' I
am very glad that Mr.. Wilson should
be with rs in his heart. but II his party
sympathizes with us in its heart why
didn't thoy In their platform make a
program at least remotely resembling
ours? Our sympathy for the program
is not only with our hearts, 1t is with
our heads and our hands also. There
Is no use whatever in having sympa thy
In ones heart with a movement unless
one Is prepared actively to help that
movement along Mr.. Wilson himself
promptly turned aside from all discus
sions of those principles excepting to
condemn one or two OF them without
mentioning the particular ones to which
his heart Is true, and takes up the
tarif, which has for years been the red
herring drawn across the trail of social
reform alike by the free trader and the
social and industrial reform.
when he comes to the tariff Mr..
Wilson attempts to quote me, but he
is singularly unsuccessful He statas