The Sentinel=record., 1912-03-28

 CRIES FRAUD
SAYS OPPOSITION HAS STooPED TO TRlcKERY AND FRAUD TO
 ACCOMPLISH HIS DEFEAT.
Delivers Most Stinglng Campaign Speech of the Campaign in Which He Scores Recent New York
 Primary Election.

Chicago, March 27.-Colonel Roose- velts most stinging campaign speech thus far was delivered here tonight He lashed his opponents and charged some of them with using fraud and trickery to defeat him.
 Colonel Roosevelt said it was a fighting speech. It was delivered before a throng which packed the Auditorium and cheered him entIhu- siastically. The primaries in New York yesterday furnished the text of his speech and he cited a number of instances in which he said his op- ponents had resorted to improper practices to defeat him.
 He expressed belief that in the great majority of districts of the country the people were with him and that the opposition was attempting to defeat him by methods which he characterized as infamous"
 Part of Colonel Roosevelt's speech was devoted to "hig business" He opposed our present policy of chaos and gave his own ideas of the meth. ods which should be pursued to in sure strict regulation of large cor. porations.
 Chicago gave the former president lively welcome Crowds cheered ihim at the station when he arrived and wherever he appeared during the nine hours of his stay here. The Au
 ditorium was not large enough to hole those who sought admission. Though
 there were two other meetings, man, l persons who wished to hear Colone
 Roosevelt did not
 Two hours before the Auditorium
 was opened a crowd had gathered a the doors. A line of persons fou !! abreast was formed and grew stead ! fly until it extended for two block in each direction.
 When Colonel Roosevelt entere the building the people rose with
 cheer For two minutes the cheer ing continued and during his speecl
 he was frequently interrupted by ap plause.
 Colonel Roosevelt said that 1T many parts of the country the oppo sition was counting for success or methods which I can only charae terize as infamous" He asserted that President Taft had committed himself to the doctrine of the rule of the people by "a representative part of the people"
 '.fn pursuit of this theory of gov. ernment,' he continued, "the presi. dents political fortunes are now com. mitted to the political machines in the various states, which are led and controlled by men like Mr Tawney Tn Minnesota; Mir. Keeling in Indi- ana, MT. Penrose in Pennsylvania, MT. Ballinger in Washington, Messrs. Barnes and Koenig in New York, MT. Gallinger in New Hampshire, Messrs. Guggenheim and Evans in Colorado. Mir. Aldrich in Rhode Island, Mir. Cox III Ohio, ana MT. Isorimer i'll illinois These are the men who, when his theory is translated into actual prac- tice, actually appear as that repre- sentative part of the people, which is to govern all the rest of the peo- pie"
 Colonel Roosevelt then turned to the primary election in New York yes terday to substentiate his charges. He referred to Samuel Koenig, chair man of the New York county republi- can committee, as a figure head" and said he was simply doing the bidding of the stronger men behind him, some of these stronger men ap- bearing in the open and others being the sinister figures that are never seen in the light of day"
 NDnfnra hn nln the speaker continued, T denounced it as criminal farce, because under the wicked law which had been thrust on New York by the machines of the two parties, Mir Koenig had been given the right to name all the in- spectors at the primary election in the county of New York, and had al ready used that right to throw over a hundred of the inspectors simply because it was known they were sup porting the Roosevelt ticket Every inspector was an anti-Roosevelt man. Now I ask you yourselves to think what such conduct means.
 If in any political contest here in Illinois one party announces it would not permit any inspectors except it's own to superintend the polling, you would accept it. as a matter of course, as an announcement that the election was not to be a fair election. There is no other possible interpretation to be put upon such action. It is mere matter of elemental decency that if a contest is to be fair the inspectors shall, as matter of course, repre- sent both sides.
 T have received today from Judge Charles H Duell, chairman of our ex- ecutive committee in New York City, a citizen of the highest type. for merly a judge on the bench. always man of the utmost fearlessness, and the highest standard of integ- rity. a statement of the following facts:
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