The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
Roosevelt Has Plan to Pay No
Attention to Courts.
People Should Run the Game,
He Tells KanSanS.

Pittsburg, Kan, Sept. PA large
crowd gathered in the public square to
hear Col. Roosevelt speak today. Peo-
pie who were unable to get close
enough to the platform to hear him
climbed trees and telephone poles, and
crowd of boys swarmed on top of a
threshing machine. In the crush one
woman tainted and Col. Roosevelt sent
his physician TO care for her.
Don't you want an umbrella, COL
onel," a woman called out. The sun
is mighty hot"
"Oh, no. said the colonel. you'll
have to use a club to kill me-"
In his speech Colonel Roosevelt de-
Tended the recall of judicial decisions,
he also referred to his tilt last spring
with Congressman P. P. Campbell af-
ter the congressman expressed the opin-
ion that the colonel was appealing to
the bleachers.'
TO invert language that has been
given some fame in your own district -
said Col Roosevelt, I'VE intend that
the people shall not merely sit on the
Dleachers and look at the game. We
intend that the people shall run the
game We believe it should not be a
game between two gangs of profess
s1onals but that the people should have
the say so as to who shall play.
IF you don't put the people in
charge Of the government you'll mak c
it a government of the people by the
boss for the special interests.
If you decide with us on the prin-
clpIeS for which we stand. so far as
l am concerned, 1 shall rot rest con-
tent under any judicial rulings which
nuIl1fy these decisions. In New York
we have nominated for the court of ap-
peaIS two JuriStS who believe the peO-
pie have the right to pass such laws
as these and who further believe that
If the courts rule against them an ap-
peal should be due to the people after
a reasonable time.
Our opponents criticize what I say
about the courts. The New York court
of appeals says that we cannot have a
workman's compensation act. Our
opponents say grey approve the low
but that we cannot have it because the
courts won't let US. We say that if
the courts make such a decision the
people who made the constitution
should have he chance to say whet
they meant when they made it,
The colonel Is Feeling Fine.
Pittsburg. Kan, Sept 23.-"Im feeling
sponse this morning when asked how he
is standing the strain of his four weeks
swing around the circle. The cx president
poria yesterday and his voice which
showed symptoms of weakening OIL Sat
urday, was strong again today. D.. Ter
riil, the physician with the colonel
said Roosevelt would be able to finish the
long trip without any serious discomfort
from the overworked vocal chords. Roose-
Welt pursued his line of argument Of last
Saturday in urging in his speech here
this morning tEx-Democrats and
Republicans" he calls them, to alIsn
themselves with the Progressive party
You people of Kansas are progressive
and a. such cannot tie yourselves to the
old parties dominated by the bosses and
the crooked corporation" said the colonel
You have a stern duty to perform in
breaking up the boss CONTROL. If you vote
for the nominee of the Republican conven-
ton the nominee who accepts stolen
goods. or the nominee of the Baltimore
convention, it's all the same on are