Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-04

souri progressive state convention. Colonel Roosevelt left tonight for Iowa, where he is to make a number of speeches tomorrow. The colonel saw nothing of Governor Hadley, who re- mained at the state capital
 Governor Wilson, said Colonel Roose- welt, had paid a warm tribute to the progressive platform, "a tribute which l cannot reciprocate as to his plat form" He denied emphatically that the progressive blanks of the tariff and trusts constituted the party's real pro- grarnme. Turning to the tariff, Col- onel Roosevelt stated that the govern or was diverting attention from the changes as the panacea for the evils of the day.
 Taking up Governor Wilson's crit tcism of the progressive policy in re- gard to regulation of trusts, Colonel Roosevelt asked: If the democratic platform really offers any hope for the solution of the trust question, why during the two years that Mir. Wilson has been governor of New Jersey has nothing been done under MT. Wilson s lead, or even attempted by Mir. Will son in New Jersey, for the regulation of the trusts?"
 The colonel was asked to advise the state convention as to whether it should name full state ticket.
 T feel that you ought to-" he said. 'I feel that except in those states in which we can take over bodily either of the old parties we ought to run a straight progressive ticket"
 Colonel Roosevelt's throat still trou- bled him. He spent most of the day rroIft a us Tx.1
 In his speech before the progressive convention Colonel Roosevelt said:
 esterday MT. Wilson, a1luding to the third party platform, asked Why that programme who can differ in his heart, who can divorce himself in sym pathyI from the great object of ad- vancfng the interests >of human beings r wherever 1t is possible to advance ?
 q am very glad that MT Wilson should be with us in heart: but if his party sympathizes with us in its heart why didn't they In their platform make programme at least remotely resem- bling ours. Our sympathy for the pro- gfamme is not only within our hearts, 1t Is with our heads and our hands also.
 When he comes to the tariff. Mir, Wilson attempts to quote me, but he is HmEUidfty uISuCcesslui lie SLAlHS IOl instance that am not concerned with the interests of the general taxpayer the general public. If he would take the trouble to read what have said or what our platform says, he would find that the commission principle which we propose and to which he and ! his party are hostile. has for one of its special objects the careful considera- ton of the needs of the general public We are advocating the commission system which has been tried in Ger many. and which has been one of the pieces of the governmental and indus | trial mechanisms that have been SC extraordinarily successful in building up the great prosperity of the Ger man empire.
 T believe in protection; believe that If Mir. Wilson's free trade policy ol tariff for revenue only policy Is 1T good faith adopted. and not merely l treated as campaign cry, widespread disaster will result to American life. But I do not for a moment believ' | that a protective tariff by itself offer. | in any way or shape the solution fol | the economic and social injustics
 against which we progressives art
 striving"