Norwich bulletin., 1912-09-05

| 0OWOWdrQ yreVlSlOu OL lH6 LdAllt, diitt 1 denounced the Payne-Aldrich law as containing "shams and humbugs.' | The ex- presidents speech was made | at the close of hard days campaign | ing in Iowa He began at 2 o'clock and kept at it with little rest until he | left tonight for St. Paul. Five speech es were scheduled for the journey | through the state from Keokuk to
 Des Moines. but the colonel was called 1 upon for twice that number, finding
 crowds awaiting him wherever his
 train stopped.
 | There's no eight-hour law on this | job" he sighed, as he entered his | car after making @ speech that was
 not on the programme. The heat was oppressive, and the coloneps face was
 streaming. When he reached Des
 Moines several thousand persons were
 massed at the railway station.
 The convention hall was the warm
 est place in which Colonel Roosevelt
 spoke. The men were in their shirt-
 were fluttering.
 "Take off your coat, Teddy!" some of the delegates called out when the colonel rose to begin his speech.
 Take off your coat and sail int" l The colonel hesftated a moment, and
 then declined. Maybe haven't got
 shirt onl" he called back
 "This is only nominally a three-cor-
 nered fgft,s he said. "In reality, the fight is between the party of the peo- pie on ono side, and on the other the bosses and the benefciaries of privi-
 lege who will throw their weight tt
 which ever of the old parties they
 think can beat us.
 l %You'll find long before election day lalready there are symptoms of it.
 that the old republican party will bt
 swept aside. The fight lies between
 us and the other machine democracy l I appeal to every former democrat who is loyal to the principles of lief. ferson and Andrew Jackson to stand < with US, and appeal to every former , republican to be loyal to the princi. pIes of Abraham Lincoln.
 The republican party of today
 bears to the party of Lincoln the sam' resemblance that ship which ha! been captured by pirates does to thu
 ship before 1t was captured. Barnes Penrose Guggenheim and the rest 0 them would not have known what wal
 meant by republican principles if yol
 had mentioned them. Those men rep lresent the crooked alliance between crooked politics and crooked business which has been the curse of Americal life. They knew at the republican convention in Chicago that they wer 1 planning the defeat of themselves They expected the democratic party t
 Icome into power, but they thought W
 would confine ourselves to putting tn
 other set of bosses into power. an
 | that after four years they would com back again. Nothing is gained b
 changing the whip of Barnes, Penros
 l and Guggenheim for the scorpion 6 Murphy, Sullivan and Taggart. Al } bosses look alike to us.
 T see that MT. What's-f -fis-name, tn congressman from East St. Louii : Bartholdt-he is one of the highway men-has asked MT. Cumnins to de : bate the Texas, California and Wash
 ington contests tt Chicago. hope MI : Cummins will refuse for the reaso l that I would not debate with-a pick } pocket for the ownership of watc
 he has just stolen. If the police ar l handy I'll hand him over to them. : they are not. I'll tend to him mysel Any man. any candidate for govern . or or other office, who has knowledg g of the facts and supports MT. Taf l, gives us the right to say that he not competent to pass upon honesty ! public life.
 New few words to the men wh ], were formerly democrats. I want { 2 call your attention to this differene ' ' between the Chicago and Baltime1 a conventions. The victory at Bait 2 more for Mir, Wilson was achieved be : cause the bosses finally concluded tns . : his victory meant their victory. 4 2 Chicago the bosses knew that our vic tory meant their defeat,
 ii If the democrats succeed in Ne . vember 1t will mean that every b6s c will be entnroned In his own stat
 The representatives and beneficiari, n of privilege win feel that they haS d a new lease of life. It means precisel a that"
 n Colonel Roosevelt said he found ey h erywhere among reactionary republ t cans growing purpose to support M t. Wilson on the theory that Presidei If Taft was beaten already and that u # only hope of preserving the old parti, 10 was to support the democratic tick l. and defeat the progressives.