The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-10-02

RALEIGH, y, G.. Oct. i.--AS II
wind-up 10 his slash .rg tf1irty-day
swing around tile circle, CelsaEaes
Roosevelt. here tonight. iiayed the
tobacco trust. the dominant element
In North Carolina politics. The colo
mel bianes the tobacco trust for the
onpos.tion In, this State to his eandi-
dacy for the Republican nomination at
Chicago. The trust is bitterly night
ing Roosevelt now TO keep him from
carrying North Carolina.
Roosevelt intimated that f.. c, Dun
can, national committeeman from
North Carolina, who was conspicuous
In the steam roller episode, and is
leading the Taft campaign in the
State Ii influenced by the tobacco
combine Duncan voted with the na-
tionai committee TO throw the Keose-
welt delegates from North Carolina.
and for this the ex-pres'den' all
through the State today denounced
Duncan as .,cnnsiitratnt-
Roosevelt came opt for receiver
ship plan for the trusts, new Inea
of his Pragre ssive policies.
Colonel Urges Federal Control.
The way fe handle the trusts Is
to put them under definite Federal
control urged the colonel -
modification OF the Suprene's courts
rf~r-f~t.- dissolution Ia e-tah -aA>n
case could make that decision amount
10 anything We don't want to do
damage To any business. but we do
want 10 route crookedness in 1t.
The language of the Supreme court
In disposing Of the tobacco trust was
such as To warrant putting the cor
porat ton In the hands of IA receiver,
lust as Ii done with hanks that go
a 1XFr, ~ "a Nsahr 2YsS h
for all trusts needing an overhauiing,
the receivers 10 be under the super
vision of the Interstate Commerce
commission,
Receivers for Trusts.
IF the government puts in receivers
10 run the trusts un,il everything
wrong lis cleared up. we will have some
concrete results.
If a trust official, after the govern
ment has put him back again. repeat
the wrongdoing. he ought 10 suffer as
Charles Morse did That Is the real
way to cut out the crookedness in
criminal trusts"
Roosevelt's last day in the long
campaign of the West and South was
a fitting climax to the thirty days of
immense crowds and bubbling enthu-
siasm The outpouring OF the crowds
today seemed to indicate that in this
state ha will at least poll "a vote dam
gerouSIy near that or Governor VIII
SON President Taft is reckoned by
the leaders as destined to run II
wretched third, II Is figured he Will
get nearly the solid Republican vote,
besides taking away slice from Will
son.
In the thirty days ending whit his
invasion OF North Carolina, the ex-
- q A..
the run to New York this will lie in
campaign trip ever made by the ex-
president.
Gets Locked Out.
The last day of the ardudous ram
Bile over the continent began with
the ex-president being locked out of
his private car and taking on the
platform for forty-five minutes
chilly ride through the Blue Ridge
mountains. The door had locked be-
hind the colonel when he went To the
platform at Asheville to greet a crowd
out at $50 A, NJ. With an over
coat and trousers over his pajamas
and his feet inthin slippers the colonel
made a short address and then as the
train pulled out. found himself shut
out on the platform.
With the cold wind whipping about
him, the colonel took turns with. the
committeeman ringing the electric
bell, trying to get the porters 70 open
up, hut In vain. sAioag through the
shivery Blue Ridge range the colonel
stood on the rear platform trying to
be cheerful but chilled through. AT
Black mountain. fifty miles away. the
train halted and Roosevelt. nearly blue
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