The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-26
ROOSEVELT ON TOUR
THROUGH THE SOUTH
Makes Only One Political
Speech During the Day
and That Is Brief.
MAY GET SOME SUPPORT
Followers Of Champ Clark in
Arkansas Expected to
Bolt Wilson.
MAY GET SOME SUPPORT
BY JOHN B. PRATT.
BY International News Service.


MEMPHIS. Tenn. Sept. 26.-After q
days leisurely jaunt through Arkansas,
Colonel Roosevelt reached this city to-
one political speech on a working" cam
psisn day. His lone political utterance
was brief. being wedged in on his run
from Little Rock here,
You ought to be with the Progress
sive party because, II for no other rea.
son. we are trying to abolish boss rule"
quoth the colonel TO g throng Of FIVE
hundred who waited for him in the rain
of the theft of the Republican non1i-
nation at Chicago and how "Mr. VIII
sons nomination was handed to him by
the bosses"
That was all Roosevelt had to say
about politics to the listening populace.
But he talked glibly 10 Progressive party
leaders In Arkansas and on his train.
From these men the eX-president learned
that he has as much chance of carry
ing Arkansas In November as the sunny
south has OF seeing a. blizzard.
Surely Democratic.
Arkansas is put down as unaltera bly,
Democratic. While supporters Of Champ
down at Baltimore. and, according to
the signs. many OF them will vote for
Roosevelt the Democratic vote is ex-
peoted TO be big enough to give Wilson
party is wofully weak In Arkansas, its
strength lying In the federal officehod-
ers and a. slim following, Taft is reck-
oned even less in the race than Roose-
Welt
So Roosevelt did not waste time stump
ing Arkansas. He went 10 Little Rock
slssippi river by the government before
The Lakes to the Gulf Deep Waterway
association.
The ex-presIdent was escorted with
irJ1If ~ . "a
Little Rock by state militlamen and seri-
ous-faced Progressives In civilian attire,
a band played lofty airs. A faIr-sized
crowd on the streets decorously waved
nands at the colonel but refrained from
che erjng him,
At the waterways convention John NJ.
Parker. cotton broker OF New Orleans
and Progressive national committe elnan
from Louisiana. evoked a round Of ap-
plause by introducing Roosevelt as the
author OF the Panama canal, future
builder OF the Mississippi waterway and
the greatest living American"
Davis Declined.
In the audience sat Senator JEFF Davis
OF Arkansas who on divers occasions ba S
hurled oratorical broadsides at Roosevelt
calling him dictator and demagogue. "
The militant senator was asked to occupy
a seat near Roosevelt on the platform,
but he acidly observed that no platform
both. So he listened TO Roosevelt from
seat far back In the audience. while
Roosevelt lauded Davls's colleague, SEN
ator Clarke for the latter's efforts to
consummate the Panama canal project,
IF II hadn't been for Senator Clarke
1t would have taken three years more to
get the Panama canal started" shout ed
Roosevelt, as Davis glowered at him
Senator Clarke Is d very game man. a
very disinterested man. He stood with
me In all I did to launch the canal en-
terprise.
And II ! had not taken the attitude
did" the colonel added with a nod
wed still be waiting to have the cana
dug"
'If anyone doesn't approve what I
did let him advocate giving the canal
back to Colombia"
The ex-president outlined the idea pro-
mulgated In the Progressive party plat
form to nse the implements employed on
the Panama canal construction for the
deepening of the Mississippi river He
advocated having government commits
sion take up the work OF improving the
river. so there would be mo scrambllng
Of interests"