The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-09-04
BULL MOOSE
DAY IN IOWA
dress the Iowa state progressive con-
yention tonight
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dress the Iowa state progressive con-
vention tonight.
Judge John J. Stevens and Senator
James A. Smith, forming a reception
committee from Des Moines, boarded
the private car at Keokuk. The col
|onel declared he felt perfectly splen-
did" today, bu. Colonel Cecil Lyon,
one of his party, was considerably in
the dumps Lyon had arranged for a
fair supply of wet goods" for local
comm .teemen enroute on the trip,
according to the ancient political
|usages, but Roosevelt consistently
progressive, "jettisoned the cargo as
Lyon expressed it, and the supply was
left In st. Louis. Lyon did not dis
cover his loss until today.
Farmers from all around the neigh
borhood of Mount Zion heard Colonel
Roosevelt deliver one OF the typical
| five minutes addresses here today.
| It was blazing hot and the colonel
looked like a field hand when he had
| finished the talk but he was happy
and swapped crop stories with a
lthrong while being escorted back to
the car
The bosses at Chicago were afraid
of me because / represented the peo-
| pie" he asserted. IF | had stopped
representing the people they would
have come to me with whoop of de-
light. All would have had to do
was to have crooked my finger and
stopped representing YOU"
Hears From Vermont.
/ ON BOARD ROOSEVELT SPECIAL
TRAIN, OTTUMNNA, Ia. Sept. Col
! onel Roosevelt was relieved and
pleased" today when incomplete re-
turns from Vermont, received on the
4 special car, apparently indicated that
none of the republican state ticket had
polled majority
While on my three days tour be-
came, seriously concerned lest there
should be practically no support what
ever for the progressive state ticket,
Roosevelt declared, because third
or half of the men stated their be
lief in the progressive national ticket
4 but did not intend to vote the state
progressive ticket. Moreover because
there was no progressive candidates
for congress nor in most places for
:. the county offices, 1t was impossible
for man to vote a full ticket and the
progressive ticket at the same time
without an elaborate system of mark
, ing his ballot.
Moreover some Of the progressives
, wished to vote the democratic ticke1
and this made a number of the other.
wish to support the republican ticket.
Il became convinced that the pro
gressive party was strong and grow
ing and that we would In all pIobabil
ity carry the state In November fol
the national progressive ticket, but
' also became convinced that there wa
!. danger OF i complete breakdown a
far as the state ticket was concerne,
). lat this time. am relieved ant
: pleased at the showing"
At OskaIoosa..
ON BOARD RooSEvELTs. sPE
CIAL TRAIN, OSKALOOSA, Iowa
Sept. 4.-"There is not any use in m,
appealing to the politicians.
Colonel Roosevelt shouted this t.
the big rear-end crowd here today
1--WE got to appeal to them with &
, club"
The bull moose audience cheered
yociferously when the colonel referr
ed to New York newspaper which
editorially expressed the belief tina,
he would get the "ignoramus vote,
J and to Representative w. B: McKin
leys declaration that the "rabble'
were with him.
"You are the rabble and the ig
noramus VOTE" he summed up, "and
the bosses are the people"
Roosevelt preached what he term
ed brief missionary sermons to half a
dozen audiences at various small
towns enroute to Des Moines.
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