The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-21
The Colonel Entered the State
at 8 O'clock This Morning.
At Ottawa for Speech O'clock
This Afternoon.
REACH Topeka GAO P, M.
May Spend Sunday Here With
Governor StubbS.
The Big Meeting Tonight at the
Auditorium.
SPEAKING STARTS 8 O'CLOCK
Likely Be Overflow Meeting at
the Grand.
Roosevelt VIII Speak at Both
Places.
SPEAKING STARTS 8 O'CLOCK
Be Overflow Meeting at
the Grand.
Roosevelt viii Speak at Both
Places.

Kansas City, Sept. 21.-''By all
means,'' said Colonel Roosevelt, when
asked here today whether he favored
the transferring of the Roosevelt cleo
tors in Kansas to the independent
column.
@'Under no consideration should they
remain on a ticket headed by the
names of Taft and Sherman he con-
tinued-
In justice to all their names should
be in the independent column
Reports from the Roosevelt party in
Kansas today indicate that the Pro-
gressive presidential nominee may
spend Sunday in Topeka, leaving to-
morrow evening on a special train for
Pittsburg, Kan, where he speaks Mon
day morning. The entrance of Roose-
Welt into Kansas this morning was
marked by much confusion. In the
Kansas City yards, the rough riders
secretary was trying to learn just
where the colonel was to go next and
Roosevelt himself was resigned to the
situation that he was on his way but
didn't know the destination.
After two hours in Kansas City,
Kan. this morning, Roosevelt's party
which included national Committeeman
William Allen White and other Kan
sas Progressives, left over the santa
Fe for Ottawa Regardless of the con-
fusion that surrounded the arrange
n1ent of the Roosevelt itinerary and the
numerous kilograms that were eXchang-
ed between his secretary and the ma
tiopal committee, the colonel was hap
py He had just received encouraging
news from the east
Good News From East.
I'm happy to say that the east is
doing its best to catch up with the
vest he declared. We are going u
give a good account OF ourselves alohS
+be Atlantic coast in November
few minutes after o'clock the
poosevelt train left the Kansas City
1-ards for ottawa. The chief BuIl Moose
had spent a scant two hours In ran han-
- civ He declared that he knew
s1t+,a or nothing of his itinerary in
1[Snsas, that the matter was in the
b9Dds of the national committee ana
this body had made so many changes
in his original bookings that ne HaA |
lost all account OF the ol2 Pians, snnpd rnoii
it developed that RooseVet may spei-N
sunday in Topeka.
If the plan for Sunday in Topeka IS
. anproved by the national committee
col. Roosevelt will probably be tne
,1ae+ tomorrow of Governor Stubbs- lie
,iII Iaa1-a in the evening for Pittsburg, !
Kan where he speaks Monday morn
mo The Topeka plan, however is stun
nncertain. Original schedules called 1or
q dav in Chanute, then 1t was chanseo
10 Sunday with W nhdIH Amen w ~
in Emporia. Now it may ne chahseu
again. ,
col. Roosevelt will arrive in Topeka |
at 6 O'Clock this evening His tram
reached ottawa at IL O'Clock TINS
morning He will speak in the chau-
tauoua park at ottawa at O'Clock TINS
afternoon. An hour later he will leave
for Topeka via Lawrence. NO reguldt
speech is planned for Roosevelt at
Lawrence, although he may tax Ior
five minutes from the platform OF ms
car. The meeting in Topeka tonlgnt
viii he held at o'clock in the Auol-
toriuna Following the Auditorium
speech, an overflow meeting Will De
held II the Grand opera house-Roose-
Welt making two speeches here
The Tail and the Dog in Nebraska.
lust as his train left Kansas City
this morning, Roosevelt made a char
a cteristic remark concerning the situa-
ton in Nebraska, where he spoke Fri
dav.
-'The tail said it was irregular for
the dog to wag it," said Roosevelt
in discussing the statement that him
self and the Progressives have bolted
the Republican party. In Nebraska
for instance, at the primaries last
spring. Mr.. Taft polled about one
sixth of the Republican votes. Yet our
opponents called themselves regulars
and they called the SO or 81 per cent
of the voters boilers"
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