The Sentinel=record., 1912-08-31
ATTACKS BOTH THE OLD PAR TIES ON TIE QUESTION OF
 TRUST REGULATION.
COMPLIMENTS JANE ADDAMS
Says Her Connection With Party tss influenced Him In Favor of Woman'3 Suffrage-Says Bull
 Moose Is Only Platform.

St Johnsbury, Vt. Ang. 30 Col onel Roosevelt struck up an intimate acquaintance with the rural sections of Northern Vermont today during bis automobile campaign through the state. He spent most of the day in motor car, made five speeches and ret eived such a welcome that he said i,e thought Vermont was waking up.
 Before lively crowd iRs the court house square here, tonight, Colonel Iloosevelt made a speech which brought him cheer after cheer He assailed his critics and defended the peoples party. John D. Archbold. vice president of the Standard Oil Company and Senator Penrose were Iattacked for their testimony before, the senate Investigating committee.
 q thought for time that they would do some damage to the pro- gressive party" he said ''but the Lord hath delivered them into my ha ds. I have them on the hip. [ have them in the open. I'll hew them az Israel hewed Ammon. hip and | thigh"
 Colonel Roosevelt explained tonight why it was he declared himself Tn favor of woman suffrage He said that he had not been influenced by the women who devoted their time to lpromoting the cause of suffrage but lrather through his acquaintance with
 women like Miss Jane Adams of Ch- cago whom he had cufie to know through their interest in sociological work.
 l In speaking on the trust question. Mir Roosevelt declared that. neither the democrats nor republicans had an effective plan and that "the big trusts cordially approve of both platforms He denounced the Stanley4 congress sionai committee which investigated the trust question as mere sound anu fury' and explained the proposal Of the progressive party
 The colonel criticised. ex- President Charles w. Eliot of Harvard for q newspaper interview which he said Dr. Eliot had repudated. in which he vas quoted as saying that 1t was in bad taste Tor Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to bring Miss Jane Adams
 into publicity by speaking of her in accepting the progressive nomination. After saying he had not mentioned Miss Adams name but had merely explained his appreciation of having such woman second his nomination, Colonel Roosevelt added:
 "If President Eliot really considers this alluson to Miss Adams as being spectacular and in bad taste. should feel mild curiosity to know just what he would regard as non-spec- tacular and in good taste"
 When he reached here the colonel was welcomed by marching club of l150 men, who wore bandannas and sang Take q Little Tip From Father ard Vote for the Old Bull Moose Before bringing his Vermont cam paign to close tomorrow, he will speak at Barre, Randolph. Bellows Falls and Bratb.eboro.
 After declaring that "the progress i've platform is the first platform since the Civil was which has fearlessly.
 fully and intelligently faced the needs of our people, which has promised ey- erything that ought to be promised and which has promised nothing that
 cannot be and ought not be fulfilled. Colonel Roosevelt launched into a dis cussion of the trusts. He asserted that regulation through the interstate
 commerce commission had been suc- cessful and that destruction by means
 of the antitrust law has broken down. The progressive platform. on the oth-
 CT hand, he said demands efficient
 national regulation by means of law
 that is to be made definite so that
 honest men will not be under contin- sI ued threat of law proceedings" The
 antitrust law, however. said the eol-
 onel, Is to be kept on the statute
 books but instead of its enforcement
 against the big trusts being as now
 merely farcical. 1t Is Go be the duty
 of the commission to aij in seeing
 that every trust guilty of bad mlseon-
 duet shall be really and not merely
 nominally dissolved. and the men gali-
 ~ of the misconduct punished
 The colonel declared tAat the pro
 gram Is the only one that oilers tna
 slightest chance of real ae>ampllsh-
 ment We propose" said the eol- Ionel to create an administrative eou' mission which shah supnflnfena hlk business in thorough eolns fashion and stop every species 0f wrengdoinR pro- cisely as the interstate commeree cont mission wlll asaln dQ when We svf fia of the misehleFeQs cpmmerse court.
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