The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-25
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Colonel Roosevelt Returns
Well Pleased With Trip.
His Friends Claim Pine Tree
State lis for Him.
HE AGAIN ATTACKS TAFT
In His Speech Delivered While
in Portland.
Says Presidents Theory Means
Rule by Bosses.

Oyster Bay. N. Y, March 25.-We1l
pleased with the results of his trip to
Portland, Maine. Colonel Roosevelt re-
turned to Oyster Bay for a few hours
rest before plunging again into his
campaign.
He said he would see no one last
night and would go early this morning
to New York. where he will confer
with a number of politicians. In the
evening he is to make five campaign
speeches. in Manhattan and the Bronx.
Colonel Roosevelt reached Boston
from Portland early Sunday morning
and took breakfast at the home of
arthur Hill, where he talked with
leaders of the Massachusetts cam
pa1gn. At 10 o'clock he left for New
York. Medill Mccormick of Chicago,
manager of the Washington Roosevelt
bureau, accompanied him. Judge Ben
Lindsey Of Denver met Colonel Roose-
welt at New London, Conn, returning
to New York with him.
Judge Lindsey talked over with
Colonel Roosevelt the situation in sew
erai western states The colonel was
asked whether he would make speech
es IN Nebraska, Kansas, or other states
winch are not on the schedule for the
trip through the central west this
week. He replied that he had reached
no decision on this point.
MI Mccormick gave out a state
ment in which he said a Roosevelt
movement to embrace the entire state
OF Maine had been formed while Colo
mel Roosevelt was in Portland.
TT should be noted,' the staten ent
read, that over half of the delegates
already elected are instructed for
Roosevelt, while the remaining dele
gates are uninstructed. Saturday night
the Taft leaders privately conceded the
state to Roosevelt. During the several
days that have been in New England
| nave conferred with the Roosevelt
leaders IRON New Hampshire. Massa-
chusetts and Maine. These men have
carefully canvassed the three states
They are unanimous in reporting that
the rank and file of Republicans are
OF ColoneI RooseveltS nomination.
His Portland Speech.
Portland, Me, March 25.@The most
direct criticism yet 1eveled at Presi-
dent Taft by his predecessor in office
was contained in a. speech delivered
here Saturday night by Colonel Roose-
welt.
The colonel spent twelve hours in
Portland, and received a cordial well
come. He was the, chief guest at a
luncheon and a dinner, shook hands
steadily for. two hours in the afternoon,
attended conference of Maine poll
ticians, and spoke for an hour before a
crowd which filed the Armory audi
torium.
Colonel Roosevelt repeated the state
ment which he made in his New York
speech on Wednesday night, that Presi-
dent Taft had declared in favor of a,
government "by d representative part
of the people,
I'm its actual workings he said.
1.-THE Presidents sche1ee would be a
government of the people for the PEG
pie by the bosses
The collapse of the speakers plat
form in the auditorium created some
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welt was uninjured. The platform
which was elevated about three feet
from the floor, was occupied by about
thirty persons. AS Colonel Roosevelt
assembled it on entering the hall it gave
way with a crash The middle portion
sank to the floor.
Colonel Roosevelt quickly stepped to
the front of the structure, which did
not give way, and waved his hand at
the crowd to show that he was unfn-
Jured. A chair was placed on the edge
of the platform and during the remain
der of the evening Colonel Roosevelt
remained placi@ly at the very front of
the weakened stage.
When Walter II. Brown president of
the Roosevelt committee of Maine in
troduced the colonel there was an OUT
burst of hand clapping Frequently
during his speech he was interrupted
by applause
Colonel Roosevelt's opening remarks.
in which he referred to the collapse of
the platform, brought laugh from his
hearer.
1.-The platform broke down" he said
"but it was not our platform Our
platform won't break down. In the end
the servants of the people will have 20
stand on that platform or the Ameri-
can democracy will be a confessed
failure.
THE president of the United States
in n frers Of
ably and correctly stated the issue be-
tween him and u.s. said Mr.. Roosevelt. |
1--WE stand for the right of the people
to rule, and we stand for this as a real
and living fact, and not as a juggling
formula ingeniously devised so as not |
speech the president paraphrased Lin |
coins great statement that this is a |
government of the people, for the peo- I
pie and by the people, proposing as a |
substitute that we should hereafter act |
on the theory that this is a government |
Of the people, for the people by repre- /
sentative part Cor cIass) of the people |
Dangerous Doctrine.
1t is dangerous work for any man |
to try to improve on Lincoln's doc |
u1ar right. OF course. everybody, I
whether believer in despotism or in |
democracy, agrees that there must be |
government of the people. In the |
next place, even the ruling classes in |
q despotism always publicly state that |
their government is for the people. |
The point of difference between the |
believer in genuine democracy and |
genuine popular rule and those who |
disbelieve in government by minori- /
ties comes in connection with Linco1n's |
third proposition that the government |
should be by the people.
''Those who believe in government
or rule by a part of the people by a |
0f the nQaY71n 1V a privileged /
class or caste over the rest of the peo-
pie. have always insisted under every /
form Of minority government from |
7ristocracy to plutocracy that they /