New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-16
Cheering Hundreds Almost Mop
Colonel on Arrival Until Guard
of Husky Friends
ResCueS Him.
HE REPEATS THEFT CHARGE
Refuses to Comment on Contest
Decisions Except in General
or to Announce His Plans
for Convention
Campaign.

welt arrived here this afternoon. Five
minutes after he reached the Roosevelt
headquarters he made a speech Five
minutes thereafter he refused to make
several others. Instead, he held a couple
Of informal receptions. told everybody In
sight it was Bully, by George" to be
here. and that everything would he all
right now, and predicted that not all the
stealing Of delegates the national COM
mittee could do would do any good.
He called the sessions OF that august
body "the jobbery of corrupt politicians,
naked theft the result.
Yes, and the receiver of stolen goods
is as bad as the thief" he shouted.
Then he disappeared. to go into con-
ference with some of his political man
ayers. intcrviewers, delegates and other
visitors Of the extra special Slaoe'
Among the first who knocked at the pri-
vate door were Mediu Mccormick ana
George W. Perkins.
The colonel's arrival produced a lot OF
excitement. Long before his train was
due there was a crowd in the various
rooms Of the Roosevelt headquarters.
Automobiles were parked for blocks
along Michigan avenue in the direction
in which he was expected TO come. AL
the railroad station there were CROWDS
outside and in. Teddy" flags and but
tons blossomed everywhere including
new device which made its first appear
ance to-day-a cardboard arrangement
with the Roosevelt face under Rough
Rider hat, the face wearing the famous
toothsome grin--the whole effect not un-
like Halloween lantern carved out Of
pumpking shell.
Waved "The Hat" at Crowd.
Colonel Roosevelt grinned broadly at
every body in sight, and waved his cam
paign hat in a wide, inclusive sweep of
greeting as he clambered into the wait
ing automobile beside Senator Dixon.
He had to wave that hat at many hum
dreds of people all along the way from
the station to the Congress Hotel. There
the police had formed lines TO hold the
curious spectators away from the en-
trance. The lines Crumbed under
the pressure. Colonel Roosevelt was
squeezed until his face was red, but he
laughed and joked.
We would have been overwhelmed n 4
hadn't been for the work Of corps OF
willing friends. These huskies were bet
ter than any policemen-better even
than d corps of the Rough Rider squad
would have been. Their names should
| be handed down to history for the speedy
and totally efficient way in which they
shot the great Roosevelt-like a proJec-
tile from one Of his own elephant rifles
, through narrow door into the hotel
lobby and carried him along
| Frank ,Tyree, a former Secret Service
man whom Colonel Roosevelt made Il
United States marshal down in West
Virginia, organized the platoon. With
him were Adjutant General Elliott, j.
w Dawson, who has ranched with
! Roosevelt; f. Sprinkle. of commanding
height, slow OF speech, but ready Of
arm. and Fighting Pat" Dore, of Okla
homa. The local police undertook to es
cort Colonel Roosevelt from his automo-
/
second to this .Tyree aggregation. 1t
swept along like football rush, Colonel
Roosevelt we'll in the centre. guarded as
| If It were the precious pigskin oval.
Band Swept Away by Crowd.
Just before his arrival band has un-
dertaken to welcome him by playing "A
Hot Time" as II filed into the hotel
lobby The bass drummer wasn't quite
quick enough to get out of the way OF
the rush. He was sent spinning into the
man I'm front of him, and when the
storm was over there was highly dis-
| organized bunch of musicians. Also
there was a surging, seething throng in
the lobby. with a distinct idea that
highly dynamic force had swept through
snd up the stairs to the Florentinc room
come on to Teddy" yelled shrill
voice. and the crowd broke for the ele-
vators and the stairways. There was
quite enough Of the populacc upstairs at
the time. Colonel Roosevelt had been
shunted into "A side room. The crowd
smashed against the door--Just once
| The next time it smashed against
| Messrs. Tyree, Elliott Dawson. Sprinkle
and Dore Thenceforth II was quiescent
for the five minutes necessary for the
| colonel to get his breath and come out
on balcony TO address the crowds In
the street. His appearance was the sig
nal for cheer. He got many as he de-
| nounced the robbers" who were stealing
his delegates az perpetual politicians
serving only things corrupt in politics
and business.
He said:
Chicago Is a bad place for men to steal
| I'm. / wish you 10 look at that placard OF
| California there. CPacard read California
| refuses to try title to property Of the
| thieves who steal it, California's twenty
/ six votes are mine ana silai lDe counted az
| such, and mind you. the receiver of stolen
! goods Is no better than the thief.
This has come down TO mean a naked
| fight for honesty against theft. The peo-
| or living. who oppose them will be made to
| understand that they are the servants ana
rot the masters OF the rank and file, Of the
| plain people OF the republic.
| This is no factional fight, II Is a con-
test between the people themselves and the
| professional politicians representing all
! that IL worst In corruption of politics and
The corruption of business, and the people
| will win IL is naked night against theft
and thieves shall not win.
Rescued by the "Huskies."
His speech finished, the Tyree huskies
again rescued the oyster Bay candidate
from the embraces OF the crowd. But