Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1912-09-05
Roosevelt Cheered by Lively
Crowd of Several Thousand
at st. Johnsbury.
MAKES HARD.HI7TlNG SPEECH
Explains Stand on Woman Suf.
frage and Pays Homage to
Jane Addams, Who Sec
onded Nomination.

Roosevelt struck UP an intimate ac-
huaintance with the rural sections Of
northern Vermont to-day in the course
pr his automobile campaign through the
State. He made five speeches and re
teived such welcome that he said he
hougnt Vermont was waking up.
Before lively crowd of several
thousand persons, massed about tho
bandstani In the courthouse square
here tonight Colonel Roosevelt made
hard hitting speech which brought
his cheer after cheer He assailei his
critics and defended the Progressive
party One OF the parts of his speech
which was cheered most loudly was
hat in which he again attacked John
b. Archbold. president of the Standard
bil company and Senator Penrose for
heir testimony before the Senate
tommittee which has been investigat.
ng campaign funds
IT thought for time they would
ho some damage to the Progressive
party.- he said. but the Lord hath de-
ivered them INTO my hands have
hem on the hip. have them In tho
open. TIL hew them as Israel hewed
Ammon. hip ana thigh"
light why II was that he declared HIM
elf In favor of woman suffrage. He
aid that he had not been Influenced
this view by the women who de-
Toted their time to promoting the
ause Of suffrage. but rather through
lie acquaintance with women like
Hiss Jane Adams Of Chicago whom
he had come to know through their
interest in sociological work. He
ound that the ballot would help
working women and eventually came
take the same point Of view.
TRUSTS APPROVE PLATFORMS.
In speaking on the trust question.
Colonel Roosevelt declared that neither
he democrats nor the republicans had
IN effective plan and that the big
rusts cordially approve Of both plat
orms." He denounced the Stanley
congressional committee which inves.
tgated the trust question as mere
ound and fury" and explained the
proposal Of the Progressive party. The
olonel criticised New York paper
or an interview with ex.President
,harles W. Eliot of Harvard which he
aid DR.. Eliot had repudiated in which
y. Eliot was quoted as saying that
was in bad taste for Colonel Roose-
Felt to bring Miss Jane Adams into
publicity by speaking of her in ac-
epting the progressive nomination.
The colonel's day began when he left
Burlington where he had spent the night
md rode northward until ne came within
striking distance OF the Canadian border
lie stopped at st. Adams for a speech
hen sped on to Morrisville. where he
ound a large crowd awaiting him at the
1amoille county fair. AS he entered the
rounds ne was met by a committee which
ook him to a float drawn by q oxen. anG
With a band to blaze the way. the colone
made triumphal procession around tn,
ace track.
Then he left the fair grounds and head
ID for Barton. getting lost on a side roat
Turing the afternoon Pausing for a brie
peech at Hardwick, he went on to Bar
on and thence to St. Johnsbury. wher
he spent the night When he reached
here he was welcomed by marching clul
bf 80 men who wore bandannas and SAM
Take a little tip from father and vot
(or the old Bull moose
Before bringing his Vermont campaign
o a close tomorrow he will speak a
Barre Randolph. Bellows Falls and Brat
leboro.
FIRST TO FACE PRESENT NEEDS
ows:
THE progressive platform Is the frs
platform since the close of the Civil Wa
s hich has fearlessly fully and intelligent
v faced the needs of our people, who
nat
promised, and which has promised moth
ng that cannot he and ought not to b
fulfilled call your attention especial
o what our platform says about bushes
and the trusts In the national govern
ment two methods Of dealing with bi
usiness have so far been tried; one. ths
BIZ regulati ton through the interstate
commerce commission. the other that
destruction by means OF the anti'tru
aw. The first has been eminentiy su
kessful the second has broken down. III
progressive platform faces this fact.
tates that the test Of true prosperity nu
be the benefits conferred thereby on a
ritizens. not the benefits confined to Ind
viduals or classes. and that the test
corporate efficiency must be the ADM
better to serve the public.
"rhe platform demands efficient nj
thorough going national regulation OF q
hose great industrial concerns doing
interstate business. The law is to be ma
definite so that honest men will no.
Inder continued threat OF law prOcee
ngs. Moreover the antitrust law Is
pc kept on the statute books. and inste'
bf It's enforcement against the big trus
being as now merely farcical. II 10 to
he duty OF the commission to aid In Sc
ng that every trust guilty Of bad condu
shall be really and not merely nominal
dissolved. and the men guilty Of the mi
conduct punished,
This program Is the only progra
hat offers the slightest chance OF re
accomplishment. We propose to give d
honest business man certainty as
What the law Is and Is not. so that
win no longer be nervously unable
ell whether he has made himself su
ect to Its penalties. We propose
Freate an administrative commissi
which shall superintend hig business
hroughgoing fashion and stop eve
pecics Of wrongdoing precisely as
pest class of public utilities commissi
bow does in the States and municipa
les, precisely as the interstate Co
nerce commission will again do when
get rid OF the mischievous CONNER