The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-11-02
CROWDS TURN OUT
 ID HEAR ROOSEVELT
Second Meeting Held in
 Madison Square
FOR THE STATE TICKET
Colonel Declares Progressives Must Triumph Completely in Nation, State and City Politics.
 Cheering for Half Hour


 New York, November I--Cot Theodore Roosevelt for the second time in three oays tonight addressed an audience Of {. thousands in Madison Square Garden. There had prefeded him to the garden, through the medium of Comptroller Will liam A Prendergast, chairman of the meeting. request that no efforts be made by the crowd to cheer him beyond the limit of time accorded last night in the same hall to Governor Wilson.
 When Colonel Roosevelt raises his left hand" said MT. Prendergast, she asks that you let him proceed with his speech because he desires record next Tuesday in the voting. rather than record to- night in the duration of the cheers"
 Straus Speaks First
 Oscar s. Straus candidate for gover- nor of New York, and other state speak CTS held the stage until $40, when the colonel arrived He was wildly cheered as he made his way to the front of the platform and waved a welcome to aA parts of the hall.
 It was $ minutes before his aplifted hand brought the cheering to an end. After il had gone on for 20 minutes he raised his arm. After 1t had gone on for 2S minutes he again raised his arm, but the crowd renewed it's cheers and he dropped the arm to his side Again he made the gesture but an enthusiast un- furled bandapna from the roof of the garden and the crowd was again in an uproar. The colonel declaring he spoke 5 in behalf of the progressive state and local tickets of New York, talked for over an hour, his voice strong and his strength apparently unimpaired by the effort. Success in the state, he declared, was essential to progressive success throughout the nation.
 z, Colonel Roosevelt began his speech by saying he wished to make special ap- peal on behalf of the progressive state and local tickets.
 Movement Not Temporary
 Friends, I wish you to remember al- ways that this is no ephemeral or tempor- ary movement" he exclaimed.
 We have gone into this movement mak- ing our appeal to all good citizens with out regard to their past party affilia- tions and with the resolute intention to make this a permanent movement and a movement which shall deal not merely with national. but with state and local af- fairs.
 For, mind you, friends, the evils that affect our people are evils which cannot be dealt with by any one brarkh of the government alone. We grapple them only when the national and state and local governments alike are in the hands of men whose honesty is above proof and who know and understand and sympa- thize with the needs of the plain people of the country, of the men and women who make up the bulk of our citizens" ~-s lspeaks of Death of Sherman
 Dig,essing for a moment from his polit- ical topic the colonel referred to the death of Vice President Sherman, saying:
 Within the last AS hours a man hold ing the second highest position in the land has been stricken by death and I am sure I express the feeling not only of all of you here, but of our people everywhere when I say that we were all affected with sorrow and concern for the death of the vice president and in your name l shall ask the chairman of this meeting to send most respect ful sympathy to the stricken woman, the wife of the late vice president-A1rs. Sher- man.
 Friends, I have come here td speak for the progressive cause in this state and for the progressive ticket from top to bottom and our cause will not have triumphed completely until we have made it triumph in the nation and in the state, and then here in this city of New York, and 1 ask that the people of this country and of this state judge us not only by our platform of principles, but by the character of the men whom we have nom- mated to stand on our platforms