The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-05-24

mood II WAS a charitable. kindly spirit
tha, rNovcd IN him all day
Hardly flash Of the bitterness and
hammering pugnacity Of the Massachu-
setts and Ohio campaigns was seen. He
barely mcntio ioncd President Taft during
the day He hardly mentioned the fight
he WAS making in lts hard and personal
features
What Col Roosevelt centred on to-day
was broad ideals and principles-the
fundamentals he called them of the pur.. !.
pose he declared he has set himself to. OF
securing equal opportunity and social
aud industrial Justice for the masses.
To his big crowd of laboring men at
Paterson he aplealed by talking of real
popular rule for them in government,
in" breaking of the bosses and rolit cal
machines and in social conditions. the bet
termcnt of their life by opening UP greater
opportunity. secured through regulation,
not destruction. Of big business, and by
amendment OF the tariff to secure the
"brnefits of protection going into the pay
Then to the we'll on who predominated
in his audiences in Passaic. Hackensack
and the pleasant green Jersey suburbs
he flew through in his auto, he preached the
golden rule. altruism. helping the other
fellow not 80 we'll OF specifically by the
elimination Of such conditions in the hand
ling Of big business as are responsible.
he declared. for the growing feeling OF
unrest discomfort. rancor and class hatred
that he told these crowds they would hand
down as a curse upon their children II
they did not remove them now.
Il would like 10 preach II with the
fcrvor Of crusader the Colonel said at
Hackcnsack in the midst Of this talk for
social Justice. "the Improvement Of tene-
n,ent house conditions. workmen's COM
p"nsation acts. national and state laws
forhidding ovcrwork Of women and all
work Of children He spoke with great
intenseness and earncstness. He was the
preacher rather than the fighter most
Of the day
As the remedy for these conditions Of
social and political oppression and in
Justice. the Colonel in the evening at
Newark stoutly defended his referendum
on judicial decisions" his new name for
the recall Of judicial decisions
My opponents attack me most on
this. he said but il there s any one
point of which | am sure of upholding
the cause of the plain people I am sure
on this one. Id allow every bar AS
sociation in the country to hammer me
for twenty years and I'd not change my
| mind ono bit"
The Colonel pushed his doctrine one
| step further Tonight. He has applied
! 1t in the past only to State courts
This does not mean that it shall never
I've applied to the Federal courts" he
said. AT some time whenever it shall
| become necessary so to apply 1t ! shall
favor it, II the Federal courts made a
practice Of such decisions a. in the New
York hakeshop case Id proceed against
the Federal courts just as soon a. any
other"
The Colonel had the crowds with him
wherever he went. He played and joked
with them and had jolly time.
All the Colonel's best campaign humor
was in evidence. Not mother who
lifted up her baby to see him missed a
wave of the big black hat.
You citizens carrying small citizens -
pest crop-the baby crop. and the Colonel
would chuckle and keep waving the hat
and the crowd would feel awfullv ticklcd
| At Pasaaic an intense and approving
crowd cheered him in the hign schoo
auditorium His Haciensack audience
was an afternoon crowd with many women
in the hall and another larger crowd out
doors
4 little crowd had gathered in the road
at Hasbrouck Heights mostly women and
Boy Scouts
Il hope you'll vote as YOU shout on
Tuesday" laughed the Colonel And a
distinctly feminine ripple of cheers and
luncheon party came out and huttered
handkerchiefs for the Colonel near Hack
enSack And once he stopped his caravan
to get out along the road and snake hand.
with an old lady who WAS celebrating hc'
lcighty-fourth birthday
The Colonel Is a wise campagner III
never missed "A trick to-day with IN.
| women. and they seemed all to he for hi n
Pretty suburban houses along the liacinn.
sack heights were flying flags and bunting
for the Colonel People stood out on then
lawns to smil. and wave at him along th.
Il k.ts Il l...
at Rutherford. where the Rough Rider
told III. Boy Scouts that IN unselfshness
and effort TO drive out foulness they W.
fundamentally part of the progresslN.
movement. and al Bloomfield, AT bot n
places III tn. public square.
MlontClair turned ont a big crowd on III.
lawn of ia. high school ln"y Ch.rred
him heartily
Col Roosevelt crossed ia" liaCksuSacl
meadows IN a special MCAdop 'uD. TRAN
10 Jersey City after ms appearance. ~
Newark IL. vas taken irnn inr summit
idN"nu. station III an autD'nohll" 20 me
nigh school building and found > Jn
people on tn" grounds who hai been ui.
able to get into tn. builring n. talked
to them for fifteen minutes aud a. lO:2,
brer2.d into the school auditorium which
was iammed TO the limit II" was up
roariou-ly greeted by an audience 81
3, 900 On.-u Quarter Of whom were women
Il thoroughly enjoyed N" trip through
New Jersey to-day" he said. I've mac
some middng lively times in the Vert
bu; New Jersey p,ii on" over the WesI
to-day. i'Ie passed about as siren,iou,
a ten hours as ever had III my life ~.
been pleased with IN" way / hay. beer
received. 7 understand it'- not for IN"
hut the cau-e represent
The Colonel was very husky, but il was
apparent h" wanted folks TO know he wa
happy. He said h- didn't want to bc