New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-24
Praise Of Taft Flung Back.

This sort OF tnlnS SOI a iAIIIC SNN'''--N'
however, when the cOlonel's automobile
had to run under a lot OF banners
stretched high up over the street. They
had emblazoned on them in big black
type several of the Colonels testimonials
70 the honor and ability of William II.
Taft. One said:
The wise custom which limits The
President TO two terms regards the sub
stance and not the form.-Theodore
Roosevelt"
And underneath in huge red type;
Then why not Taft
At the armory the colonel got off his
set sreech about the right of the people
60 rule, and then started out with some
peppery extemporaneous remarks about
bosses in general and William Barnes
IT, OF New York, in particular He said'
with his now quite common falsetto that
ne noticed that Boss Barnes was
reading him out Of the Republican party,
"If he does that. there will be lot OF
Republicans throughout this country
that will require the same treatment
he shouted. II don't hate Boss Barnes
or any other boss as men, l only hate
"a their crooked work, and wish they would
be content to retire TO private life.
Now and then the colonel made sly
illusions to President Taft's "skepticism
Of the impulsive judgment Of the people
IN direct primary as he styled IT,
Whenever he pointed at the audiences
and told them that they represented the
.Ympulsive Judgment" he never failed to
provcke laughter. y think Mr.. Taft
nrobabIy feels more distinctly the i'm
pulsive judgment of the people since
Ohio cast her vote" he said, and the
, crowd appleuded.
The next stop was at Passaic. There
vas such a crowd outside the handsome
high school that Colonel Roosevelt had
70 elbow his way up 10 the entrance. He
touched upon the tariff issue here. After
ea~inp that he had noticed on every
hand the signs Of great wealth and in
6ustrv from the mills he said he believed
in q protective tariff. but he believed IN
seeing the benefits in the envelopes OF
the workingmen and working women
and not all stopping in the Office
lie declared for national bureau that
n would supervise the tariff in such way
Nj as 10 obtain industrial justice" He
Y summed up the progressive faith that
is in me" by saying that this world
will not be a good place for some Of us
z TO I've in unless we all turn to and help
make it a good place for all of us TO
live in"
Il ask with all the fervor Of a crusader
that those who are well off take the
lead in behalf Of those who are not 50
well off," he cried.
At HaCkensack the armory walls were
fairly bursting with the crowd that was
within. The overflow meeting was so
bic that the colonel offered to speak from
the porch Of the hotel or the main street
Al Hasbrouck Heights the demonstra-
ton was largely from women and school
children. The Boy Scouts were out in
full regalia The colonel noticed this and
smoke about it. He told the scouts that
the fundamental principles Of Progress
sivisn were much the same az the priu-
ciples Ct the Boy Scouts-"to drive out
unriGhteousness and foulness from ?o-
Iitical and social life
Scramble for IT. r." Buttons.
At Rutherford the railroad square was
packed SO denscly that all the police
men on duty couldn't keep the automo-
biles moving The colonel spoke briefly
from his automobile in the square. From
the Roosevelt committee machine came
shower upon shower Of IT. r." buttons
and frantic rushes and scrambes on the
part of Rutherford's grown~ups as well
as its younger generations to pick them
w.
At Bloomfield Franklin Murphy's
baiiiwitk aud a centre Of the Roosevelt
movement, a large crowd was in wait
ing. The colonel didn't leave his car
but spoke for five minutes. His voice
showed signs OF the strain of outdoor
speaking.
Outside OF Paterson and Newark tho
most enthusiastic welcome was accorded
the colonel at Montclair. where the
slipping lawn fronting the big high school
was bright with the colors Of gayly
dressed women. For the first time the
colonel appeared 10 be surrounded by a
real silk stocking" audience. He and
his party were covered inches deep with
the reddish brown dust of twenty-five
miles Of New Jerseys unolled country
roads The reporters, whose faces were
70 plastered with dirt as almost to hide
their identity aroused the mixed GU
riosity OF many of the fair sex, gathered,
as one comely example declared, Just
out Of curiosity for I'm sure | don't like
Roosevelt one bit"
Attacks Papers In Monteair.
Those three thousand Montclair peo-
pie warmed UP TO the colonel remark
ably He had to face all ways Of The
compass in order TO please them as he
spoke from the little stand on the green.
lie raped the New York papers pretty
hard. These papers" he said, were
for Judge Parker, MY opponent eight
years ago. Now they have turned back
into the Republican ranks when they
thought they could beat me- They rec
ogniZe IN me the real enemy TO the
principles Of the crooked men in politics
and in business.
But we have also against US many
sincere and we'll meaning men. who are
misled because the channels OF informa-
ton are ohoked or who are frightened
because they do not entirely understand
our position. These men have no cause