The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-09-23
TWO BIG CROWDS
HEAR ROOSEVELT
Seven Thousand TOpekans
Cheer Bull Moose Leader.
Old Parties, Wilson, ArchbOId
and PenrOse Played.
LAUDS KANSAS AS LEADER
PrOgreSsiVes to Follow Stubbs'
Example, He Says.
Speakers Voice Almost Fails in
Speech at Grand.
LAUDS KANSAS AS LEADER

Theodore Roosevelt talked to more
than 1000 people in his two speeche:
oehVered Saturday night in Topeka
He confined himself strictly to nationa
issues made Woodrow Wilson, Demo
cratic nominee for president his prin-
clpal subject of attack; and judiciouslS
avoided a collision with Kansas issues
Roosevelt's throat is still causing trou-
Bile and the Progressive presidential
nominee was in bad voice. For this
reason the oratorical display was per-
haps disappointment to the hundreds
of curious ones who went to hear the
Chief Bull Moose.
One of the largest crowds that ever
attended a meeting in the Auditorium
heard Roosevelt's speech. AT 1880 t. G
convention hall was packed. It was
an hour later when Roosevelt, Stubs.
White, and other of the Progressive.
leaders entered the hall. A one min
ute demonstration greeted Roosevelt
1t was the chief outbreak of the eS-
ening.
The Moose 80 Minutes Late.
While the crowd waited patiently
for the rough rider, cheer leaders who
were furnished prominent places OF.
the stage and. at the front of the hall,
tried to arouse enthusiasm The heaa
of the bull moose that overlooked the
speakers stand, -blinked its IS candle
power incandescent eyes and snorted
through the red electric bulbs in its
nostrils. This amused the crowd but
did not create undue hilarity. A cheer
leader advanced to the front of the
stage and hip hoorayed for Teddy
But the crowd followed timidIy and 70
furniture was broken. Men and woln-
en- who could not find seats, began 10
complain of the delay, but once in the
hall there was no escape. Then-3o
minutes late-the Bull Moose leaders
oh. 4
fully, the cheer leaders threw their
hats in the air and made the only noise
of the evening that resembled a panic
on the board of trade
Governor Stubs introduced Roose-
welt. He consumed very little tima
and as a consequence was welcomed
almost as noisily as Roosevelt himself.
The introduction was concluded aim n5t
before Colonel Roosevelt had removed
his overcoat. AS he hurried to the
front of the stage, he smiled the
Roosevelt smile, the electrician did
some fast work with the little red and
the moose head-and the crowd cheer
ed again Then it settled. back u
watch the tanning of the political
hides of q few Kansas politicians-ard
was disappointed The 5000 people
in the auditorium strained their ear
drums to hear the colonePs opinion
of the presidential electoral situation
in Kansas-and were again disappotnt-
ed. Twice Roosevelt was interrupts Il.
Each time the crowd yelled as the
rough rider displayed his teeth and
flayed his interrogation.
He Tells of Old Parties
1t was the two old parties-the Pc
publicans and the Democrats-who re-
ceived RoOsevelt's greatest attenti III.
Next came his defense of Perkins
contrite of heart and penitent, who
contributed to the Roosevelt cam paiSr
fund for the sake of moral uplifet.
And then the denunciation of Archibald
and Penrose-mean, little, low ano
vicious agents of a reactiOnary move
ment who strove to manipulate the in
terests of Big Business through the
party to which the speaker once BE-
longed. Overriding it all was the hog
tying and branding of Wilson for his
free and unlimited dissemination of
inverted truth.
For Is minutes Roosevelt told his
audience that he wanted to shed the
Kansas way of doing things abroad in
the land. He took for his text of tn
Kansas system the Stubs encounter
with the Harvester trust and shed I'M
stinted praise on the auburn haired
Kansas executive
To Follow Stubbs' Example.
What Governor Stubs has done &c
the Harvester trust in Kansas, We Pro
gressiVes propose to do to the trusts
In the nation, said Roosevelt in dis
cussing the policies of the new party
IF Governor Wilson knew the life O.
he knows the communities of tha
past he would have spared himself some
grave errors and spared me the neceS-
sity of correcting him."
Then Roosevelt devoted his time
largely to a reply to Wilson's Detroit