Arizona republican., 1912-09-08
Colonel Roosevelt Met by Cow Punch CTS Who Worked on a Montana Ranch With Him Thirty Years Ago
NOISY WELCOME
 BY OLD COMRADES
An Address Before the State Progressive Con vention in Which He At tackled Especially tn e Democratic Candidate
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 HELENA. Sept. 7.-Woodrow Will son and the democratic party. said Colonel Roosevelt today, have noth- ing to propose for dealing effectively with the trust problem. Wall street is so we'll protected with the policy of the administration, he said. that it is praying give us another disso- lutiOn." He added that Wilson's pro- posaI is to do exactly nothing by con- tinuing in the same course the Taft administration has pursued. The pro- pOsal of the prOgressives, he said, is to put stop to the continuance of the Taft Wilson program and further legalizatiOn of monopoly under the guise of a make believe assault on monopoly.
 Roosevelt was in a reminiscent mood today. He thought more about the old days on the Maltese Cross ranch than about politics. The colonel was a COW puncher nearly thirty years ago on that ranch at Medora, N. D. He passed through Med6ra in the night and as boys who were still left could not see him there, they came on to Miles City. where they gave him a true western welcome this morning. Others of his old friends he found scattered all along the way across eastern Montana. There was big Joe Smith, who used to hunt cattle rustlers with the colonel when they were both deputy sheriffs Big Joe is now a full fledged sheriff and met his old com rade with an Indian war Whoop. Big George Meyers was there and brought the word that Little George could not come. Sylvane Harris, who went to Chicago as a delegate to the republican national convention and who voted for the colonel, worked on the Maltese Cross with him, was on 1 hand today with a dozen others of the boys"
 The younger generation of cow 1 boys were out in force. They rode in on ponies from the ranch shouting and firing six shooters.
 1 It was delightful to the colonel who looked enviously at them, anc ! remarked it would be mighty good | to be a coWpuncher again.
 They rode their horses on the | trdChS, as lu0 lTdlH puIleu out dHC | dashed wildly over the ties in pursuit waving sombreros and shouting un- til at last steam proved superior tC horse flesh and they were lost in the distance.
 T have been on the hurricane deck of a bronco a good many times,' said ] Roosevelt, "but things have change a good deal since I came out here 1 That was just at the end of the buf-
 falos' day; you see, I'm a pretty olC
 settler"
 Roosevelt made a dozen speeches
 most of them little talks with peopl, ments along the way. The larges
 crowd greeted him at Helena. In hi speeches Roosevelt attacked the Anal gamated Copper company, sayins
 it was trying to "boss the people
 We've found out we can boss our
 selves," he said. You don't neet
 the Amalgamated Copper to boss yol
 and I ask you to stand with u against the Amalgamated Coppe crowd. Their right is to cast on
 vote each. I haven't a grudge agains
 those men but they must quit gov erning us"
 Roosevelt said he was gratifie,
 with the nomination of Oscar Straus
 as progressive candidate for governo
 in New York. The colonel spent tn
 night in Helena and will leave fo
 Spokane in the morning. His addres
 here was delivered before the pro gressive state convention.