The advocate. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1901-1913, 1912-04-04
Teddy! Gets ! J
An OVati'OIl
THOUSANDS HEAR THE NEXT
PRESIDENT IN a FIVE 81.
MINUTE, SrEECH. &s;.4
The Common Man

This is Roosevelt day in Char
lesion. Although he was only here
Tor five minutes, about 1000 per-
sons went to the c.. e O. station to
see and hear the former president
and present candidate for the same;
ONCE again. A greater crowd could
not have assembled at the station
than that which went there to hear
the few remarks the ex-president had
! to make. He was Or his way to-
Louisville and occupied private
car, the Convoy''. AS an Induce
ment to the public the Citizens
| Band, the same one that played last
night ior the Hubbard meeting, went
across the bridge and produced
+ many popular airs for the benefit OF
tie lllany WHO went over the Kama
Wha for the purpose Of seeing and
| OF hearing the man who is posi-
| Bile nominee Of the Republicans for
the presidency. -.
There were mon, women and chill
dren present and all who could get
within reach Of the speaker were
I treated to one Of his characteristic
speeches. It was not Of long dura-
! ton. but was ONE just like Roose-
welt would be expected to make. Ha
| WAS at the roar end Of his car and
wasted no time in cutting into his
subject. tlC dill not say anything that
would reflect on any OF opponents
; for the nomination, and neither did
, he express any sentiments that can
rebound to the detrimcnt Of his
party. -.-.--.-.~-~ .-- ..-----~-- =. :
! FhG former president was met at
points above here by members OF
| the KaDaWha Roosevelt League and
! accorded all of them 4 hearty well
/ come. Col. VIM. S. Edwards intro
duccd the speaker OF the day with a
few we'll selected words and permit
ted the colonel to use all the posi-
! bic time in making Il speech, nearly
! all OF which is given in the follow
ing paragraphs.
ROoscvelt'S Remarks. .-.-4--
Friends: Tt has been peculiar
, pleasure to me to come through
! West Virginia and see your citizens
You have as your motto a good mot
to for all Americans for your motto
is that the mountains tend to liberty
and our aim is to secure Justice
| Through 'liberty. All that we who
stand on our side, the Progressive
Republicans, are trying to do is to
make the Republican party the par
ty Of all, the people of State and
Nation and do everything that can
{ be done towards making easier con-
dltions in life and work for all Of
us. We hold that the wisest thing
that the more fortunate man can do
is to try in every way to help his
| less fortunate brother to help HIM
self, because unless this country is
pretty good place to live in for
all Of us, it would not be a good
place to live in for any Of us. We
must do all we can to help the man
who is down to help himself, and
On the other hand that man must
Keep himself. Give him a fair
show to show the best that there is
in him, but he has got to show it
himself. Among ourselves, with
our own neighbors we want to make
| Zig COtItiIlOu 81 LlldC SdCn may Keep
friends to show the stuff that is in
him,
ON every crowd like this take i
particular pleasure in seeing the larg-
c. citizens carrying the smaller citi-
zens. (Referring to men and wo-
men carrying childrcn.) You know
my views on the baby question, - You
| know | want rs to conduct our gov
! crnmont- SO that this country will be
! Il god place for the little folks when
they grow up. Now what / am in
terestcd in is to see this country
so handled that when these little peo-
pie have grown up they will have
the same advantages that we, the
fathers and mothers have, and bet
. ter advantages If possible. They
cannot have that unless we pay at
tontion to, the particular conditions,
about which J have spoken"