The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-26
ASKS FOR VOTES
Roosevelt Makes Six Speeches
in New York City.
At One Place a Suffragette Is
Elected From Hall.

New York, March 26.-On the eve
of the primaries for election of dele
gates to the Chicago convention. Colo
mel Roosevelt Travelled nearly the en-
tire length of Manhattan island and
into the Bronx to make an appeal for
support in his campaign for the presl-
dental nomination. He spoke at six
meetings and in each place found a
crowd awaiting him.
The fact that the colonel was going
into the lower east side, the congested
tenement district, prompted George
Henry Payne of the Roosevelt COM
mittee, to make a particular request
of the mayor for police escort from
one meeting to another. Mayor Cay
nor replied: 'It has never been the
custom to assign police escorts to SPELL
binders as they go about making their
speeches. do not say that Mr.. Roose-
Welt is a spellbinder, but will you
please ask Mr.. Payne whether Mr..
Roosevelt. wants to bring in the inno-
binders %
The mayor hurried from the city
hall, leaving police affairs in the hands
of the department.
In one of six meetings which Colo
mel Roosevelt participated in on the
east side he faced a situation which
had the better of him and other lead
ers at the meeting for fully fifteen
minutes. Tt was all due to woman.
After Colonel Roosevelt had launch
ed into an attack upon the new pri-
mary law exhibiting the fourteen
font ballot which will be used in one
election district as an example of it's
encumbrances and begun on the right
of the people to rule" one of the few
women in the audience upset things
by crying in a loud voice:
How about the women?"
Many identified the interrupter as
Maud Malone, the militant suffrag-
cite who has upset similar meetings
in the same way. There was at once
wild confusion of misses and cries of
PUT her out"
Mr.. Roosevelt was self possessed
and after the clamor had quieted
somewhat, he replied favorabIy,
Madam, have asked that you wom-
en- yourselves be allowed to vote to
determine whether you shall vote"
This was greeted with general
cheering, but Miss Malone kept her
feet and was about to make further
Interruptions when the colonel said:
Apparently, you don't feel con-
tented with this. In that case, have
a great deal better opinion of your
sex than you have"
Men in the crowd began throwing
paper programs and other missiles at
Miss Malone. The colonel pleaded /
for courtesy, but the disturbance con- |
tinued, Notwithstanding the coloneTs |
shouts from the platform and the eff |
fort of the chairman to rap the crowd |
to order The riotous demonstration |
continued for quarter of an hour, 1
during which Colonel Roosevelt was |
a bsolutely helpless. The band tried /
to charm the rioters to calm, but the I
music only stirred UP more excite
ment.
The situation was saved only when
4 special policeman, who was called
IN, had elected Miss Malone.
When the colonel was finally able
to proceed, he reiterated his views as
to woman's suffrage, saying:
81 want to give the women every
thing they want. If they want the
right to vote, / want to give it 10
hem. If they don't, I don't want to
say I know their business better than
hey do. If that is not a square deal,
I don't know what is"