The Washington times., 1912-04-28
BOSTON FAIRLY
GOES WILD WHEN
COLONEL SPEAKS
Twenty Thousand Cheering
Enthusiasts Give Him
Welcome.
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mile away. The colonel visibly had hard
work to refrain from joining in the roar
the audience sent up when the college
yell died down. But he did restrain
himself, and the audience. too. He drew
from pocket of his frock coat sheet
Of manuscript, ana with this waved the
audience to silence. AS he was about
to begin to speak n hoarsc command
came from the gallery:
up on the tablet
mot bad idea," assented the colonel
He started to climb up in a chair, but
stopped and signaled the square
shouldered young giantto enter the ring
ropes. and under the coioners direction
removed the American flag from t.
Then while the roar of approval of this
thoughtful precaution continued. the
colonel drew his bulk up ON the chair,
and thence transferred 1t to the table.
With shoulders thrown back and his
chin thrust out defantly, he waited for
quiet then began his speech: Applause
colonel brought in the name Of the
president at the very outset He said
ne did not purpose to discuss Mr..
Taft but found 1t necessary to point
! out the differences between the issues
they stood for.
Square Deal.
"a yell from the audience.
The colonel read the list Of my
friends and "Mr. Taft's friends"
IT am more fortunate in my friends"
he said.
"You bet your life you are" indorsed
=. O voice.
The colonel showed no mercy to
Lorimer or any of the other bosses. He
repeated many of the things he said at
Worcester last night, and almost every
reference provoked a cheer.
A man in the gallery asked: How
about Perkins?" The colonel fired
back:
You can search from the top to the
bottom of my record in the past and of
my record in the future. and you will
never find that have done or am doing
Or ever shall do for Mr. Perkins or for
any other human being (applause)-
wait a minute-or for any other human
being one thing that / wouldn't tell to
this audience in it's entire details"
A VRice-We believe it. (Applauss)
The colonel repeated that President
Taft meant well, but feebly." AS to
bosses he admitted that he had ac-
eeepted their support when they went
my. way"
"Either they had to-" said he, "or
We parted company"
The candidate appealed to the men
and women of Massachusetts" to stand
by him ''in the van OF the forward
movement and not be dragged reluc
family onward behind the states that
do go forward"
"Here in Massachusetts, as else
where" he said. I'VE have against us
the enormous preponderance of the
forces that win victory in ordinary
US s5 per cent Of the old regular po-
1itical leaders. We have against US
95 per cent of the great corporations,
which either legitimately fear that
We would not tolerate their benefit
I ting by privilege or else are merely
panic stricken and fail to realize that
we will do absolute justice-as much
Justice to the big man as to the little
man, but no more"
"Friends." he continued, 1--WE have
against US, also, am sorry to say.
96 per cent of the respectable, ami
ing to see how exactly the conditions
now parallel the conditions tifty-five
years ago, when Abraham Lincoln
was making his fight for the Union
and for freedom"
Refers to Lincoln.
The colonel then proceeded to draw
upon his stock Of Lincoln remifis-
cences and texts. At one period of
prolonged applause he said:
'I want you, to go to the polls and
vote the way you Snout.
The colonel even dropped into poet
~. quoting Emerson and Lowell,
which seemed to please the crowd.
He read from Lowell:
New times demand new measures
and new men,
Then he appealed to the Massachu-
gates Tuesday.
He switched to criticisms of the
judiciary, but paid a high compliment
to Supreme Court Justices Holmes and
Moody, whom he had appointed. He
said that when he made his Columbus
speech he had no intention Of rejecting
upon those justices or any other good
ones.''
Touching upon his sympathy with the
'plain people in their fight for their
rights in and out of court" the colonel
said:
IT have come to my present convic-
tions as result of having lived in the
actual world of workaday men. l am
quality 1 dislike as much as hardness of
heart, 1t is softness of head. But l do
believe in justice, and ] am trying to
get justice for those who are less for
tunate as we'll as for those who are
more fortunate"
At the end of his speech Colonel
Roosevelt called out:
Now you have me? Am preaching
anarchy"
"Nor' the crowd roared.
Three minutes of cheering followed
the colonel as he climbed back through
the ropes. From the arena he went to
Mechanics Hall, where 10000 people
were jammed, awaiting him. There he
had a reception even more boisterous
than that accorded him at the arena.
He did not conclude his speech-making
until nearly midnight, when he went to
DR.. Bigelow's home.
Arrive on Trains.
Several hundred Roosevelt shouters
from towns in northern parts of the
State engaged special train to, bring
them to Boston tonight. They came to
the arena in a body only to find the
crowd so dense that they could not get
near the entrance. They tried in vain
to force their way in and finally gave
II up.
The scene within the arena was tumul-
tuous. Before Colonel Roosevelt ar
rived a small body of men in the middle
of the hall began to chant, I'VE want
Taft! We want Taft!" The people rose
h, to their feet with a shout, and for a
few moments the hall was in confusion.
The colonel put in a busy day. He
travelled about the southeastern sec
tion of the State and made eight
speeches TO an aggregate of 5000 peo-