Evening star., 1912-09-07
WOULDN'T Be A KING
Roosevelt Says the Job Does
Not Appeal to Him.
MEETS SOME ACCUSATIONS
Enters Upon a Days Campaigning
in Montana.
SAYS OLD PARTIES DECEIVE
Declares the Voters Are Either the
Friends or the Foes of the
Progressives.

HATHAWAY. Mont, September T.
! After an all-night ride from Fargo. n.
d., Col. Roosevelt came into Senator
Dixon's state today. He was to speak In
Billings, Livingston. Bozeman, Logan
and Helena and then have the first
nights rest away from his train which
his campaign managers have permitted
since he left Oyster Bay. He will re-
| main over night in Helena. leaving early
tomorrow morning spokane.
In brief speech here to a crowd OF
men and women who had arisen an hour
or two before the usual schedule to hear
him., Col. Roosevelt said his opponents
had made every charge against him they
| could think of. including the statement
that he wanted to be king.
'T am accused of wanting TO rule the
country with an iron hand" he said
Il always feel inclined to answer that
the people who make this statement don't
know kings or else they would not put it
down as my ambition to be one. They
don't know things as l do. Other things
1 might like to be. but not king. The
constitutional monarch of the present
time comes nearer being cross between
! a perpetual vice president and the leader
/ know
Mind you,'' the colonel went on. Il am
not saying anything against the job OF
king. but 1 just wouldn't have it
The colonel discussed the enforcement
of the antitrust laws by the Taft ad
ministration and the attitude OF the pro-
gressive party toward corporations.
1.-The two old parties are fooling about
the trusts" he said. "Take the case OF
the Standard Oil Company. The country
has come to find out that, instead OF the
governments action being the death OF
Standard Oil, it was only make-beieve
death. / cite the STANDARD Oil to you as
a particular instance of unscrambling tina,
didn't help anybody but the owner OF the
| unscrambled eggs.
"Our purpose is not to unscramoie the
eggs. but to exercise such control as will
prevent any scrambling
Speeches in North Dakota.
JAMESTOWN, n. D.. September =
Col. Roosevelt was whirled across North
Dakota by special train yesterday. he
made half a dozen speeches. He stopped
for an hour in Grand Forks in the morn
ing, put In most of the afternoon III
Fargo, and last night made a brief ad-
dress at Jamestown.
He reminded his hearers that he was
a citizen Of North Dakota In former
years, and said he had come back to
speak for the party (which Is trying TO
nut into effect the principles that were
ground into me here.
In Fargo Col. Roosevelt spoke first at
Island Park to an audience composed
largely Of farmers. The progressive state
convention was in session in Fargo, and
the delegates went to the park to near
him. Later he made an address In the
convention hall.
Recalls Divisions of 1854.
IT particularly call the attention OF
North Dakota" he said, in his speech at
Island Park, Ito similarities between the
situat ton now and that in 1864. At. that
time a number of republican leaders
the progressive leaders of the day. in
cluding Fremont, the first republican
candidate for the presidency. and wen
dell Phillips, leader In the anu-Siave,y
cause-were so disconnected with Lincoln
and certain actions of the mass of their
fellow 'progressives that they actually
, proposed to run a third ucket asaihs, y
Lincoln, and when this effort 1alied
many of them stood silently aloof and
either s,Ipporsed no one or went against
Lincoln.
Sees the Same Conditions.
Now the same kind of thing is beinS
done by these men today, who claim TO
be progressves and yet fail to support
| the progressive ticket. If man is not
with us he is against us, and il he Is
against us he is siding with the reac-
tionaries. No matter how we'll meaning
he may be, no matter how sincerely he
may think he is progressive. he is the
| ally Of Wall street, the ally OF privilege,
\ Ill, of m nOiitiCE unless he