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RooseveIt's Plea for Bull
Moose Nominees in Vermont.
DEN0UNCES OLD PARTIES
Says Election Next Tuesday Is Of
National Importance.
MAKES ANSWER TO CHARGES
Colonel, in Belligerent Mood, Scores
His Enemies Of Penrose and
Archbold Type.

BARRE VT, August 31.-An appeal for
support Of the progressive state ticket
was made here today by Col. Roosevelt.
He said he had learned that many persons
who intended to vote for him in Novem-
ber would vote the republican ticket In
the state election next Tuesday. The
colonel protested against this policy and
urged all of his adherents to stand by
the state ticket.
Col Roosevelt reached Barre shortly
after 10 o'clock, after thirty-mile auto
mobile ride over mountain roads from
st Johnsbury. He spoke in a public
square to one of the largest crowds which
has heard him during his Vermont cam
paign.
"Since I have been in Vermont" said
Col Roosevelt, Il have been informed by
thirty or forty voters that they intended
to vote for me in November, but that
next Tuesday they would vote for the
republican or democratic candidate.
wish to emphasize that the only way you
can stand for the progressive national
ticket and incidentally for me is to sup
port Mr.. Metzger, the progressive candi-
date for governor, and the progressive
state ticket next Tuesday.
From National Standpoint.
THE election next Tuesday will be
watched eagerly outside of Vermont and
judged from the national standpoint.
Every political boss Of the type of Mr..
Penrose. every head of a big corpora
tion of the type Of Mr.. Archbold, will be
eagerly hoping for the defeat of the
progressive ticket in Vermont. The PEN
roses and Archbolds and all the type
do not care rap which of the old
{vir1 ,I-i ho cciN -pS
are beaten.
Up here in Vermont you will. of
course, understand that your own votes
in the state election do not indicate how
you will vote in November. but outside
of Vermont they won't understand it."
Col. Roosevelt said. after he had fin
ished his speech. that it had been
charged that he had come to Vermont
merely in quest of votes for himself
at the November election.
With this fight on in Vermont,
should have come here anyway" he said.
II wanted to make it clear that / had
come here just as much for the state
as for the national ticket
Always Ready With Proof.
Speaking of his attitude on Senator
Penrose and John D. Archbold, Col
Roosevelt said:
These men think that there must be
something crooked about me, and can't
understand that there isn't. and they
keep hoping to get something which will
discredit me. Somebody is always maxi
deny them and produce letter to prove
that they are false
Attitude Is Belligerent.
In belligerent speech here last night
Col Roosevelt pitched into the republican
and democratic parties as unfit to grap-
pie with the economic problems of the
day. He enunciated more fully than be-
fore his ideas on the suffrage of women,
saying he favored it as a means of OBJ
tanning an improved economic condition.
Roosevet's speech was listened to by
5000 people in City Hall Square, the live
Fest meeting of a crowded day. AS he
stepped TO the garndstand he was greet
ed by murmuring bull moose cry.
The colonel grinned amiably.
During the day Roosevelt gave advice
to the farmer on how to make more
money, explained how the progressive
party has come ito stick observed
future. but that he would be elected
just the same, and as a diversion rode
behind a twenty-eight-ox team at a
county fair.
Right at the start of his day the
colonel hit at his Standard Oil enemy,
Archbold, and his other accuser, Sen
ator PenroSa.
A question from one of his hearers
brought the sharp retort:
mo, this is the national progressive
party" There We're some bigots who
would not vote for Lincoln when he
left the wings and there are some bigots
who will not support me now. We have
come to the point where to be loyal to
the principles of the republican party you
have to repudiate the name