The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-08
ROOSEVELT IS
STUMP|NG HIS
WAY WESTWARD.
Gets Up at Daylight to Greet
Old Friends of His Cowboy
Days in North Dakota
and Montana.
MAKES PRINCIPAL
SPEECH AT HELENA
Attacks Taft and Wilson and
the Amalgamated Copper
Company; Leaves for
Spokane, Wash.

~ row Wilson and the Democratic
party, Colonel Roosevelt told
the people Of Montana today,
had nothing to propose for dealing eff
fectively with the trust problem. Wall
street was so we'll protected with the
policy of the administration. he said,
that it WAS praying "give US another
dissolution
Colonel Roosevelt added that Mr.. VII
sons proposal was to do exactly moth
ing by continuing in the same course
the Taft administration had pursued
The proposal of the Progressives, he
said, was to put stop TO the continu-
ance of the Taft-Wilson programme of
further legalization of monopoly under
the guise Of a make believe assault on
monopoly
Colonel Roosevelt was in remnis-
cent mood today. He thought moro
about the old days on the Maltese
Cross ranch than about politics. The
colonel was n cowpuneher nearly thirty
years ago on ranch at Medora, ~
d. He passed through Medora in the
h'ehbt anu do tho soNe WND sLlll dTC
left could NOT see him there, they came
on to Miles City, where they gave him
true western welcome this morning.
Meets Old Friends.
Others Of his old friends he found
scattered all along the way across east
ern Montana. There was big Joe''
Smith, who used to hunt cattle rust
lers with the colonel when both were
deputy sheriffs- Big Joe, now full
fledged sheriff, met his old comrsde
with an Indian warwhoop "Big
George" Meyers was there and he
brought word that Little George
could not come. Syvane Ferris, who
went to Chicago as delegate to the
Republican national convention and
voted for the colonel, had worked on
the Maltese Cross with him and was on
hand today with dozen others of the
"boys.'
The younger generation Of cowboys
were out in force They rode in on
their ponies from the ranches, shouting
and firing their six-shooters. 1t de.
lighted the colonel who looked euvious-
ly at them in their gay colored shirts
and remarked that it would be "migh,,
good" to be cowpuncher again.
Cowboys Farewell.
They rode their horses onto The
tracks and, as the train pulled out,
dashed wildly over the ties in pursuit,
waving sombreros and shouting until
at last steam proved superior To horse
flesh and they were lost in the dis
tance.
"I've been ont hurricane deck Of
bronco good many times myself
said Colonel Roosevelt, 'fbut things
have changed good deal since 1 came
out here. That was just at the end
pretty old settler'
Colonel Roosevelt made dozen
speeches, most of them little talks with
the people who gathered to see him at
the settlements along the way.
At Billings the street in front of the
railway station was blocked by large
crowd and at Livingston the populaco
was puJ III IOlC0- Hc iilHcst CiVWo
Of the day greeted him at Helena.
Attacks Amalgamated.
In his speeches the colonel attacked
the Amalgamated Copper company, say
ing that it was trying TO ''boss the
people"
"We'vs found out that we can boss
ourselves he said. "You don t need
Amalgamated Copper to boss you
ask you to stand with us against the
Anal lgamated crowd. Their right is
to cast one vote each. ! haven't any
grudge against those men, but they
must quit governing US
Colonel Roosevelt learned today of
tbs nomination of Oscar S. Straus as
Progressive candidate for governor of
New York,
ssThat's fine,'' he said. ~ am great
" gratified. -
= The colonel will spend the night IN
Helena and In the morning will leave
His address here was delivered be-