New-York tribune., 1912-03-21
SAYS Presidents Criticisms Of
Columbus Speech Were Not
Friendly-Finds Hearers
Unresponsive to At
tack on Nations
Head.
INTRODUCED BY CONTROLLER
Brother Barnes" and Brother Wood.
ruff" Come In for a Thrust-1ni-
tiative and Referendum and
Other Principles, the Colonel
Adds, Not the Fate Of Any
One Man, at Stake.

Theodore Roosevelt spoke to an audi
ence which filled Carnegie Hall last
night, standing, as he put it, "squarely
upon the Columbus speech"
He spoke for an hour and a half, at
first slowly and leisurely, and at the
end in a passion OF oratory which car
ried the radical portion of his audience
with him.
Particularly was he cheered in his ref
erences to the French revolution and the
re-revolutionary days of France; the
upper galleries of the big auditorium,
then shouted their appreciation.
The audience itself was more than half
composed Of women. They were pre-
dominant in the boxes and on the main
floor of the big hall, and they filled al
most half of the seats in all the bal
COMES On he main floor there seemed
to be a preponderance Of those who
were apparently actuated chiefly by curl
osity.
The real Roosevelt enthusiasts were
massed in the galleries. The applause,
which was scattered literally throughout
his speech, was always started by the
galleries. The boxes and lower floor
ioined in the cheers perfunctoriy at
best.
The coloners speech was reiteration
OF the doctrines he advocated in his Co
| lumbus speech, but in addition il was a
more detailed explanation Of what he
meant at Columbus, together with re-
view of his reasons for taking the ground
he took in Ohio.
Says Principles Are at Stake.
1T matters little in this contest what
the fate of any one man is but it mat
ters greatly to the American people what
the fate Of these principles is" was the
Coloneps opening statement.
His printed speech contained more
than a score Of references to President
Taft, usually in the form Of Mr.. Taft
| but his spoken address carefully elimi-
mated the name, and the colonel substi-
tuted "the President or he at every
point where his printed speech had il as
Mr. Taft" Only once did he pronounce
Mr. Taft's name, and that was evidently
| inadvertently, for it came in the course
of a spirited Interpolation in his printed
address.
| In his opening remarks. when his audi
ence was fresh. Mr.. Roosevelt departed
| with characteristic phrases from the set
| form of his printed speech, adding TO il
| so much that when he had spoken ten
minutes he had not passed beyond the
third paragraph of his speech as printed.
He made UP for this later, when he be-
gan 20 cut out those parts which appar-
emily made no appeal to the radical
galleries who were following. although
his first omission appeared to proceed
from different motive
This first cut-Out was paragraph
which began with the statement, MT.
Taft IS very much afraid of the tyranny
of maiorities," and after severe crit-
cism of the courts as TO their stand on
the "bakeshop case" and the income
tax" cases. ended with the statement
that fear of the inconsistency of the
people was childish"
The colonel read his entire speech from
printed sheets, which he threw on the
floor as he finished reading each one Of
them.
Irtr oduced by Prenderssst.
Taking his cue from phrase used by
Controller Prendergast In introducing
him. that some persons seemed to stand
for a government of the people, but by
small representative class the colonel
based most Of his interpretations on the
words. small representative class
"Rrothcr Barnes and Brother Wood
ruff" he said, at an early point III MS
address would be prominent In that
small representative class in this state.
hut 7 Drefcr to govern myself, and TO do
nv mart with you all in governing our
selves
Throughout the first half hour OF his
sneaking the slightest applause was suf-
fcient 10 send the colonel back with rep
etitions and amplifcations of the point
that had pleased his audience.
Prefacing his first mention or tne
initiative and referendum and the recsii,
Mr.. Roosevelt departed from his printed
speech With preliminary warning
Mind YOU" he shouted. these things
am about to speak of are but the ma
cbinery, the tools. am not considering
the ends
speaking later of his recapitulation.
which he summed up in four counts the
colonel said:
II do not believe that any Of the New
vork dailies will pay any attention 10
this mart of my speech, at least they VIII
NOT note it in their headlines, but / VIII
make il so plain that hereafter no ons
can misunderstood me, or If they DO !.
wm be wilful misunderstanding. h
thew misunderstood me now they oush'
to be trepanned."
President Tafts criticisms of his Co