The Sentinel=record., 1912-05-28
TEDDY THE
 OONLY CHANCE
SAYS REPUBLICAN PARTY WILL DIE OF DRY ROT IF HE IS
 NOT ELECTED.
Closes Campaign With Remarkable Demonstration at Hoboken--ls in High Good Humor and
 Greatly Pleased.

| Hoboken, N. l., May 27-The cam- paign into which Thapdore Roosevelt plunged three months ago, when he announced his willingness to accept the Republican presidential nomina- ton virtually came to an end to- night. It ended with a booming well come to the colonel in Hob0ken mid the glare of red fire and the cal of bugles as he made his way through streets lined with thousands who cheered him. It was the final rally of the New Jersey campaign. Colonel Roosevelt will now direct his attention to the marshaling of his forces for the battle to be waged in the Chicago convention.
 This is the most remarkable end- ing to the most remarkable campaign I've ever taken part in," said Colo nel Roosevelt tonight after he had witnessed the demonstration in his honor in Hoboken. eve been in poll itics for 33 years and never before have felt such unadulterated satis- faction as in this"
 Colonel RooseveltB final appeal be- fore the primary election in this state tomorrow was in reply to the asser- ton that he was disloyal to the Re- publican party, and was attempting to work it's ruin. He said he would appeal if necessary from the Repub- ican national convention to the peo- pie.
 The Republican party would have died of dry rot if we had not made | this fight" he said, in Hoboken. And in Bennington he said
 The national committee is com
 posed of forty politicians whom tine politicians elected four years ago. 1 appeal, if it is necessary from the
 judgment of the politicians of four years ago to the judgment of the peo- pie of today. 1t is treason to take away the machinery of the party from the* people,
 In speaking at Lambertville, Colo nel Roosevelt took up the charge that he was attempting to wreck the party. "The only chance for the Republican party lies in our success" he said The success of our opponents would mean the absolute ruin of the party"
 '1 ask you to compare in this the attitude of myself and of Mir. Taft Ill your own state. Just the other day he said he expected to win because the national committee is with him. have told you that l expect to win because the people are with me
 Many of those national commit teemen of whom Mir Taft speaks are the friends of constitutional govern meht as the men who are to save the party are to save it from who From you? That's the proposal of Mir Taft on behalf of the national committee
 "The only men who impeaeh my loyalty to the Republican party ara the bosses who are themselves being repudiated by the Republican party wherever the rank and file have the chance to vote. l hold myself bound to be loyal to your interests: but I am not bound to be loyal to the in- terests of the bosses who betray you. So, my friends, my withers are wrung when they talk of my not being loyal to the party"
 The rally in Princeton was invest ed with additional interest because of the action of President Hibben of Princeton i'll stating that Alexander Hall might be used for the meeting. provided Colonel Roosevelt refrained from attacking President Taft The colonel chose to speak elsewhere and made his address to crowd of stu dents and townsfolk from the balcony of a hotel He talked in friendly. confidential way to the students. with never a reference to the president.