The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-10-09
CROWDS FIGHT FOR CHANCE
TO HEAR ROOSEVELT SPEAK


form. and amid drumming and fifing
Col. Roosevelt entered the hall. The
ffer turned into a cheer leader, and
mounting the table led the yells.
Pandemonium ensued for three or
four minutes.
1 Chairman Gordon introduced Col.
Roosevelt as the square-deal personi-
fled-the former president of the
United States"
"And the next" shouted several
voices.
Twice the cheer leader demanded
nine 'rahs for Teddy. Eighteen bursts
OF applause rent the air.
The Colonel Speaks.
Col Roosevelt said:
IL have come here today in what
| is really your fight. (Applause). And
| friends, IL seems 10 me that this
movement in it's origin. growth and
principles, typifes what this kind OF
movement must always be. II
sprang from the loins OF the people. 1t
was due not to the leadership OF one
man: it was due 10 the mass OF the
people, who saw that the time had
come when they must take greater
share of power TO themselves.
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either for me or anyone else,
wouldn't be in II myself.
1T often happens that the political
leaders are men who have come into
power by some former movement and
who are blind TO events taking place"
Mr. Roosevelt said the country had
changed from what II had set out TO
be-a country where everyone would
hax ~ .haln Axt nriu vi Ia O A
and unthwarted by privilege.
We who are engaged In the Pro-
gressive movement are engaged in
an effort to forestall any contest in
this country between the organized
greeds-the greed of the 'have-nots
and the greed OF the HAYES he de-
clared.
I'VE must make our industrial con-
ditions square with justice and democ.
racy, and avert contest between
the arrogance OF those who have
more than they are entitled to, and
those whose envy and hate ask not
for justice, but for injustice, to avenge
their wrongs. So this Is q great
moral contest.
Wants Chance For Every Man.
II do not mean that / ignore the
side OF material betterment. IL We
permit our Industrial situation to be-
come such that large proportion
are pressed down economically, we
cannot get Justice or any proper ad-
vance In this country. II is the bust
ness of all OF US TO see that there Is
a chance for every Woodworking man
to earn livelihood.
II want the support not of men
smarting under personal wrong, but
that of comfortable people who can
not sleep well until they have re-
lieved the load OF injustice and misery
under which their less frft:nate fell
lows labor.
THE way to prevent the kind OF
class struggle which has ruined great
industrial nations In the past is for
the more fortunate to see that justice
is given the less fortunate.
Il have never preached discomfort
except against what's wrong, or
hatred against any class but crooks.
big crooks and little crooks-and IL
I've attacked big man, IL was not
because he was big, but because he
was crooked. I'm against any effort
to divide us on class lines. That Is
why I am against the honest rich man
who sides In common cause with the
dishonest rich man.
Our fundamental proposition IL
that this government shall never be-
come either a government by a
plutocracy or a government by a mob
I'VE hold that wicked qualities are
wicked, no matter where they show.
We hold that the brutal arrogance
showed by certain wealthy men and
that of men who envy the wealthy.
are not manifestations Of two differ
ent qualities, but Of the same quality.
Why New Party Was Formed.
I'VE formed a new party because
| IL was proven impossible to do any
| thing with the two old parties. The
! two old parties declined to face the
new issues and refused to let the
people take a position on the new
! issues.
/ ION Jan. 9, OF this year, Gov. Will
son sent letter to the legislature OF
New Jersey, saying that he was in
terested to find that the platforms OF
! the two great parties we're practically
! the same. Now I say that the plat
forms OF the two old parties in this
campaign occupy substantially the
same position, and | refer them to
Mr.. Wilson.
THE Republican national conven-
tion stole the nomination from me.
Really, they stole II from you. They
don't like me, and In future they will
like me still less (Applause). But
they are afraid Of you.
"Mr. Schiff and others OF his opin-
ION want a Republican party under
its bosses at one end OF the plank. and
the Democratic party under its bosses
at the other-see-saw-see-
1 Wall-st. lettering In the middle.
The New York Herald, whose oh
| lection to me is such that II never
prints my name, says In last Sun
days paper--I brought its editor back
from Paris Il am happy to say he
| lives abroad) and made him pay
fine OF $4,000, so II Is evident that
he is not prejudiced in my favor. He
has taken a poll of New York city,
and even In the Herald poll, outside
of the stock exchange, got a plural
ity, not only over Mr.. Taft, but over
Mr.. Wilson. But, on the stock ex-
change there were 201 for Mr.. Taft
126 for Mr.. Wilson, and only rs for
me. That reversed the poll
Our opponents are making their
fight on us. and not on each other
Their aim is by any means possible