The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-04-28
Roosevelt Fights for Massa- chusetts-Is Given Att
 tentiye Hearing
PRESIDENT TAFT
 IN PHILADELPHIA
Ex- Governor Haskell of Oklahoma, Who Is a Bitter Personal Enemy of Roosevelt, Challenges Him
 to Joint Debate

Boston. April 27--Boston gave Colonel Roosevelt tonight the most demonstrative
 welcome he has seen since beginning his
 campaign for the presidential nomina-
 tion. Speaking in the arena before a i tumultuous throHg the former President
 again criticised Mir Taft. He. however.
 did not repeat the severe denunciation
 which marked his speech at Worcester
 last night. He spoke calmly. and devoted
 only a small part of his address to Pres
 ident Taft.
 T do not wish this to be a campaign of personalities between MT. Taft and my i self" said Colonel Roosevelt. Last night
 felt compelled to answer Mir. Taft at length. Tonight l shall refer to him only l as l feel that l must. :.
 Decries Taft's Friends
 '1 am more fortunate than MT Taft
 in my friends. When Mir. Taft came here Thursday he came here having lost 1lli-
 nois came here having lost New Hamp- shire. In Illinois, MT. Tafts chief lieu tenant had been Mir Lorimer In New Hampshire my chief lieutenant was Gov- ernor Bass. Mr Taft came here to ex- plain that he did not like NIr. Loirmer. having kept his dislike private and conn- dential until after he lost Illinois. came here and say that, win or lose, am with Governor Bass"
 Holding up a sheet of paper Colonel Roosevelt saId
 i've got two parallel columns here, in one are my chief supporters, in the other Mir. Tafrs.p
 Among his own supporters the colonel
 mentioned the western governors who asked him to run and Clifford Pinchot. Where's Perklns?" someone h the crowd shouted
 Hes for me- the colonel called back. you cant put question to me that will embarfass me for u moment" As relncSentng Mir Taft's supporters, inc colonel named, anlid misses of the crowd, Senator's Lormer Penrose, Gug- senheim and Gallinger. You can Judge for yourself on whose side the bosses are, he went on. MI. Taft says I hay9 accepted the support of bosses so l have, when they went my way. But they had 10 go my way, or we parted company
 Defends Position on Courts Colonel Roosevelt then turned to de- fense of his position in regard to the courts. repeating the arguments which he has made throughout the campaign. The crowd gathered near the arena was so large that police endorsements had to be called to handle it. Nearly two hours before Colonel Roosevelt arrived the police barred the doors. r As the crowd before the building grew several hundred men and women attempt- ed to storm the main entrance, and in the rush q number of windows were shat tered. FiftySpolicemen charged the crowd and finally forced the people back. The scene within the arena was tumul- tuous Before Colonel Roosevelt arrived a body of men in the middle of the hall began to chant We want Taft We want Taft" The people rose to their feet with a shout, and for few moments the hall was in confusion Colonel Roosevelt spoke from roped enclosure which is used as a prize ring It is the platform from which President Taft spoke two nights ago The ropes used in a boxing match last night still
 were in place tonight. When Colonel Roosevelt entered the ring. bending for ward to pass under the ropes, the crowd began to cheer.
 The colonel said he wanted his hearers to support him at the polls next Tuesday. mot because the fight Is easy. but because it Is hard.
 "Its a contest between the mercenaries and the minute men, he said. "I want you 10 show that in civic life you can do what your forefathers did as minute men"
 At the end of his speech Colonel Roose- welt called out Now you have me. Am I preaching anarchy2"
 "Nom roared the crowd. Later Colonel Roosevelt went 10 Me chanics hall where he addressed an overflow meeting
 l Colonel Roosevelt addressed a half dozen crowds on his trip over the eastern end of the state today. At Fall River in referring to the tariff, Colonel Roosevelt said he wanted to have the wage-earner 1 get some of the benefit of It. we should have a bureau" he con tinued whose special business should be to investigate conditions of labor. In other words I want square deaL'