The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-09-28
"Shouters" Lead Cheering

l The Winter Garden and the street out l side were crowded when the colonel ar
 rived A squad of "shouters' who had come from Mississippi led the cheering as the colonel stepped on the stage, anl 1 there was a demonstration which con
 tinued for several minutes.
 Colonel Roosevelt put aside his usual arguments and made a speech which diff ! fered throughout from any other of his ! campaign He said that when he though of the political conditions in the south I he was reminded of a visit he made to Texas. when loving cup was presented
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 l "There were 10000 people present when ] the loving cup was presented" he said, 1 land the man who presented 1t said; l This is from Texas. where you have more admirers and fewer voters than in any l other state.'
 Now I'll tell you an aneodote of Louis iana," the colonel went on. "A member of certain club in New Orleans said | to me: There was no more rejoicing anywhere than in our club when you were 1 elected I replied that there were no | symptoms of such a feeling in the vote cast in Louisiana, and he said: Well, of course we all voted against you but we were anxious to see you win
 There is no speech which l have made during my entire campaign which l have l felt so anxious to ma'se as the one am now making. It is beasuse l am not Will ing to admit that you and should pc on opposite sides. l come down here 10 make my appeal that l may stand shouis der to shoulder with those of you who look at the great problems which are fae- ing the nation today as l do.
 Party Is Fixture The progressive party has come to stay We are through once and for all with the republican party We are through with it because 1t has become an unfit instrument for recording the wishes of the people.
 When we start a new party of this kind I am not willing to have 1t start ed in the south except with the same kind of management as in the north. We're going to make success of this thing, and we want your help l want | to appeal 10 you as friends. guides and l allies and not to find, what I have so often found in the past, that your rep opposed your own interests because I championed them and they felt l it was regular to oppose me.
 q can't help feeling that if l fail 1 to convince you 1t will oe my own fault. for our case is whelmingly | strong. l want first to put our party | on as healthy a basis in the south as l in the east or west or north, and to have 1t respond to your wishes because l you support it, because you are part of it.
 T come here to ask you to join with us on footing of full equality T am not trying to appeal to the men who are opposed to the things I am trying to do. The men I am trying to reach are these who do believe as l do, who fought to be with me- and who are artificially sundered from me-
 Not Given Fair Treatment
 When as President I came to deal with the problems affecting your inter- ests 1 was obliged to treat them in a wholly unnatural manner, for there was no representative of yours who did not belong to the party that was supposed l to be anta gonistic to me l tried my best while 1 was President Co be Presi-
 dent of the whole country and l should have been ashamed of myself if the in serests of the gulf tates had not Leen as dear as those of any other states" Colonel Roosevelt gave several exam 1 pies of the way in which he said artificial political barriers placed the south in an unnatural position. Although the Pana- ma canal was of particular interest to the south, he said the chief opposition to the ratification of the treaty with Panama came from southern senators, on account of their political affiliations. He referred 10 the Mississippi floods. saying that all | though a democratic House of Represen-
 tatiyes had been in session for five months after the flood. no move had been ! made to prevent a repetition of the dis | aster. He said he favored utilization of i the Panama canal plant for a great 1 project of improvement of the waterways i of the Mississippi valley which would l prevent floods as well as serving many other purposes.
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