The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-09-12
ROOSEVELT ON APATH
Of ROSES IN PORTLAND
Walks on Blooms From Train
to Auto. Then Repeats
Seattle Speech.
TALKS ABOUT 4 JUDAS
Dcnounces McCuskcr. Congress
Candidate and Corrupt
Business Men.
TALKS ABOUT 4 JUDAS

| PORTLAND. Ore. Sept. lin this
/ State. known throughout the land for its
system Of Government which il being
adopted by other commemorative. Col.
Roosevelt received rousng reception
! When he left his car ut Portland this
morning he walked over a rose carpetcd
! platform TO the waiting automobile.
which took him through lines Of cheering
! spectators to the Oregon Hotel The
! Colonel appreciated the high compii-
ment paid him by the city in placing the
thousands of flowers under his feet
but loving blooms az he does he couldn't
rcfrnin from expressing regret that they
should We put TO such use
| Those who were participating in his
reception evidently had no feeling about
the matter. for as he disappeared they
broke through the lines Of police and
gathered up the roses. One old woman
with shining eyes said az she showed
fattened bud. Il saw him put his foot
on it. I'll keep this as a souvenir"
Arriving at the hotel the Colonel break
tasted with the Progressive committee
and after receiving the official reports Of
the new party which has been legally
organized. shook hands with some 300
Oregonians who crowded about the en-
trance TO his room.
! At the Multnomah Hotel the Colonel
was the guest of honor at a luncheon and
afterward made an address from the
balcony to the advertising men and the
kindred clubs representing the progress
sive business organizations in Portla nd
who stood in the spacious lobby. Here
| il was that he threw bombshell into
| Oregon politics by denouncing a. traitors
, to their party and State the five members
Of the States delegation to the Republican
national convention AT Chicago who voted
against him in the organization of the
convention and then in spite of the
! Colonel's expressed wish voted for his
nomination. He described the way in
which the delegates were seated, declar
ing that ninety delegates were stolen
. because they needed ninety" and that
! il they had needed 100 they would have
taken that number He regarded il as
J worse TO dodge voting in such cases than
| it was to vote. for al least the man who
does the latter. he observed, has some
nerve.
If man voted to seat the ninety
delegates whose votes We're certain to
defeat me. he said. 1T was then the
crosses, hypocrisy for him to turn and
vote for me At this point he named
directly Thomas McCusker, VINO was
|
ported the Taft people while voting for
the Colonel in accordance with his primary
instructions. Mr.. McCuskcr is IA candidate
for Congress.
If man is going to betray me, he
said, If he is going to- act the part of
Judas, he might as well omit the kiss.
l think that Mr.. McCusker after having
voted to seat the fraudulent delegates,
after having voted To allow each traudu-
| lent delegate to vote on the cases Of tine
other fraudulent delegates, that he then
merely made his offence worse when in
spite OF my explicit requests he voted
| for my nomination by that fraudulent
convention. and when his vote was Offset
| by the ninety whom he had helped to
seat
Then the Colonel aroused laughter by
reading a telegram in reference 10 the
results of Tuesdays election in Maine as
follows; Yesterday President TAFT tele-
graphed H8ines, the Governor-elect, as
follows: j congratulate you on redeem
ing Maine. 1t IL a significant victory
This morning a statement was published
that Haines is for Roosevelt and the Pro
gressive cause.
The Colonel told the crowd he was
sorry that in the East so many OF the big
business men who are honest hev" been
misled into making common cause with
the big business men who are dishonest
and are opposing III. progressive cause.
IL
| they would understand that We propose
real and not fake regulation and
control of big business and that We a,e
to be taken az our word. We have not
hesitate to say that We favor any busi
ness, no matter how big, if IT is honest
! am against the corrupt business man
not because he is big but bccause he II
corrupt. 4 big business which treats
its rivals fairly. it's customers fairly.
its wage workers fairly, its stockholders
/ lfairly-such u business IL "A help and
not a hurt to the community, and il -
lame Mt able thing when business Of that
| type makes common cause against us
with corrupt business
Then the Colonel added that the effect
of such an alliauc" l. to associate in the
public mind the honest business men Wi h
| the corrupt business men. This would
arouse a sentiment against big business
| in general, for which the former have
only themselves to blame
Leaving the hotel, the Colonel was
driven through the city He stopped for
a few moments to say a word Of greeting
to gatherings OF women and children.
He made his principal speech AT a meeting
| this afternoon. repeating practically what
he said in Seattle yesterday. He left to-
night for Idaho.
At the hotel here Col. Roosevelt com
planned Of the loss of a book. Herbert
Paul's Essays, which some one took from
his room. He was insistent that it he
found. primarily because il belongs to
Mrs Roosevelt,