The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-03-28
ROOSEVELT SURE OF GREAT
CROWD WHEN HE SPEAKS
HERE SATURDAY NIGHT
Local Committee Advised That
Big Delegations Are Coming
From Outside Points
ARRANGEMENTS ALL MADE
Everyone Will Get Equal Chance
To Hear Colonel-No Reser-
vations To Be Made
ARRANGEMENTS ALL MADE

Arrangements for the reception OF
Col. Roosevelt In Detroit, Saturday
night, were practically completed by
the Michigan Roosevelt committee.
Thursday morning. Indications are
that the Light Guard armory. where
Col. Roosevelt will speak, will be
crowded to the doors. Messages
have been received from other cities
saying that Roosevelt enthusiasts VIII
come in delegations by street cars
and trains. Toledo will send l5O ad-
mirers of the colonel in a special car.
Charles A. Nichols, chairman or the
Michigan Roosevelt committee, re-
ceiyed a message from the Toledo
delegation, Thursday morning. asking.
him II he could not reserve seats Tor
$50. Mr.. Nichols replied that no
seats will be reserved. The doors
will be open to every one.
Mr.. Nichols and the committeeman
received telephone messages from
some of Detroits leading citizens ask
ing him to reserve seats for them, also
mentioning the fact that they would
bring their wives with them. Wo-
men appealed to Mr.. Nichols for re.
served seats, but he stuck to his de-
termination.
Mr.. Nichols received a telegram
from Col Roosevelt personally, We'd
nesday afternoon, requesting him TO
meet the colonel in Chicago. Nichols
will probably leave Detroit Friday
night.
The exact time OF Col. Roosevelts
arrival in Detroit is conjectural. He
Is travelling in a special train and will
make two speeches In Michigan out
side of Detroit. one at Ann Arbor and
the other at Kalamazoo. Both OF the
/ latter speeches will probably be from
the back-platforp of his car.
Members of the Michigan Roosevelt
committee will meet the colonel at the
denot and escort him directly TO the
armory, He will arrive there about
8 o'clock. and proceed to speak at
once. G.. ID, Pope will act as cnalr-
man of the meeting. A band has been
engaged to play in the armory. the
colonel Is compelled to leave Detroit
at III o'clock the same night ana VIII
proceed at. once TO New YORK.
Local politicians and friends OF the
colonel are looking for corking gooa
speech. 1t Is thought he Viii depart
from his printed manuscript, as ne
did in Chicago, Wednesday night, ana
tell Michigan people what he THINKS
about the presidential preference pri
mary and the attitude OF Michigan's
legislature in this regard.
The coming of the colonel has IN
stilled fresh energy into the Michigan
Roosevelt committee. While IL mas
been generally conceded for the past
few DAYS that the Roosevelt boom In
WAYNE county has lost some OF its
strength the committeeman are far
from admitting defeat.
II am still firmly OF the opinion
that we will have the majority OF
Roosevelt delegates in the county
convention" said Mr.. Nichols, Thurs
day morning THE situation has,
however. changed in the last two
weeks. Two weeks ago we had every
hing our own way We now realize
we will have to fight for the delegates
but we are prepared TO put up that
fight and we know we are going TO
win. Personally, | cannot see any
waning of Mr.. Roosevelt's popularity
In Wayne county"
-the-eeieHef'6 -ffieHds-Eeel
that the Taft supporters are striking
below the belt. They say Taft work
ers have exercised an influence over
he saloonkeepers by representing Os-
born as an enemy of the saloonkeep-
eds and one of the colonel's chief
supporters in Michigan.
There is nothing TO 1t but Taft
delegation from Wayne county" said
former State Senator John ID. Mac
Kay, manager OF the Taft campaign
in Wayne county, Thursday morning.
The Roosevelt boom has collapsed
We were little late In getting start
ed with the Taft campaign In Wayne
county. but we now have the dele
gates. There is no question about
that.
II see the colonel has put up an
awful yell that the New York pri-
maries were crooked. ] talked with
A. II. Green. OF the Solvay Process
company. this morning. He had just
returned from New York and had
studied the conditions there He in
forms me that New York never had
cleaner primaries than il did this