The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-18
Roosevelt Has No Trouble Getting
Multitude Of People to Listen
to His Political
Talk.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
Twenty Thousand People Hear candl-
date Tell About Theft Of
Delegates and Senator
Lorimer.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service. ]
BOSTON, Aug. 17.-Flushed with
qualification because more than 10000
people heard his Revere Beach speech,
Colonel Roosevelt addressed one OF
the greatest open air meetings the
town ever saw tonight.
During the colonel's speech at Re-
we're Beach, some one in the crowd
called:
How about Taft?
Roosevelt replied:
II have told you am discussing
live issues-not dead ones.
When he was speaking at church
pinic at Oak Island this evening, en-
route back to Boston, some one saio:
When will We get a square deal?'
Another in the crowd responded:
when Teddy Is elected
mo" shouted the colonel. mot
when I'm elected and may be not for
some time afterward. But we are
fighting for honest government and
have got our faces set in the right di-
rection. We have promised things
which We intend to carry out if we get
| in power
The colonel's opening gun this aft
ernoon, in which he Carried the wal
into the enemy's country" by attack
| ing the coterie Of New England sena
1 tors who, he said, were both benin,
Senator Lorimer OF Illinois and tn,
.-aft theft OF Chicago delegates,
was in accord with his strenuous day
which began early. He motored from
Providence to Boston.
/ His opening remark that the pro
gressives appealed to the women as
! well as to the men, brought into prom
4 inence band of 100 Boston suffra
gettes who were there with big vel
! low banner bearing the legend: Votes
for Women Women made up
great part of the audience.
Telling his hearers why he wal
there and what the progressive part!
proposed to do in the way of obtain
/ ing Justice for the people by way o
recall Of judicial decisions, Roosevelt
launched into sermon on his favor
4 lite text: Thou shalt not steal" HI
accused Senators Crane, Aldrich
Penrose, Guggenheim and others will
being behind the attempts of Lorime
to retain his senate seat and then de
/ clared that the same senatorial com
bination was behind the theft of del
egates" at Chicago that brought abou
Taft's reconciliation
Roosevelt then turned his attention
to Governor Wilson, declaring that thu
democratic candidate was SO dissatis
fled with the Baltimore platform tha
he was forced to say that platform
was not a program and that he dit
not ask the people of the United
States to adopt it.
At 7:30 the colonel motored bacl
to Boston for the commons meetin,
and expects to return to New York b.
night train.
Fully $4,000 people crowded th'
Boston Commons tonight and hear'
Colonel Roosevelt speak. A womal
interrupted the colonel and asked tt
be enlightened about his connection
with George w. Perkins and William
Finn.
81 asked Mr.. Perkins why he wa
supporting me, said Roosevelt, "an'
he said that it was because he wante'
the business and the government o
the country brought into better re
lation. He said this country wouldn'
be a fit place for our children to liv,
, in unless a change was brought abou
: in the government -
, How about Flinn?" some one short
ed.
'@Mr. Finn answered Roosevelt
said the same thing as Mr.. Perkins
without my asking him why he SUI
} ported me. There is one thing abou
tho support given me by Mr.. Perkin
and Mr.. Finn. 1t is given in tn
open. There is nothing invisibl
about this movement"
Tell US how you stand on social
/ ISM" demanded another of the crowd
Il am advocating corrective TO
socialism and an antidote for ar
archy," the colonel replied. "The SC
i. cialists are changing will-o-the-wisps
Il am advocating remedies for the evil
that exist today"
Roosevelt left here at one a. m. TO
New York