New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-31
son were laughing frankly in their hap
Waves Arm to No Purpose.

Waves Arm to No Purpose.
The roar of voices receded and re-
turned like waves on the seashore, and
at the end of ten minutes Roosevelt
waved his left arm. The very weak
ness of the gesture started the crowd
anew. The band was lost in the grow
ing volume Of human voices. one min
ute the colonel seemed tired OF 1t. the
next he was smiling in evident appre-
citation of its sincerity.
Finally the band was heard fran
tically playing "Everybody's Doing
It." and the audience took up the
chorus. Hes a bear; he's bear" The
colonel smiled. and when the crowd
now led by the band. broke into we
Won't Go Home Until Morning he
LAUGHED heartily.
The welcome had been roaring on for
for over fifteen minutes. and the col
onel was plainly tired Of waiting, but
the crowd was crazy with its own eX-
citement. Singing next took the place
of yelling, and the band let the CROWD
into THE Battle Hymn Of the Repuo-
lie" in which Roosevelt joined.
Then they went back to plain yelling
until onward, Christian Soldiers was
produced from the bandstand, and soon
he was smiling again and beating time
70 the swing of the old hymn with evil
dent fervor.
Finally the calcium was turned away
from the stuffed Bull Moose at the
Madison avenue side and turned fun on
the Big Bull Moose on the platform
and of course that produced renewed
outbreak.
At Last Becomes Quiet.
Rut the crowd had spent itself, and
with final roars It died down to quiet
ness when the colonel began to spead
with his:
"Friends, my friends, friends"--
It was forty solid minutes of the
most riotous demonstration the Garden
had ever seen, and the colonel SPOKE
without interruption from then on.
He enunciated every syllable slowly
and distinctly, without oratorical ef-
feet and without that high tremolo
that used to spread paroxysms OF
laughter throughout his audiences.
II was plain that he was making per-
haps the most deliberate, the most
careful and the most even tempered
speech Of his career. The white hght
NJ the calcium which was held on him
throughout his speech showed plainly
that It was an effort for him, but
whether an effort because Of his evil
dent repression of his oldtime vigorous
platform method or because or his
weakness it was hard to distinguish.
AS he got more deeply into his speech
and his subject his characteristic APP
peals to class got the better OF his re-
preston, and he struck out with the
regular Rooseveltian vigor.
It was his most serious. solemn and
thoughtful appeal to class-not quite
the old T. r., but a man Of the same
mould toned down a trifie by terrible
experience.
He pleaded for popular rule, he at
tackled the courts, but in more modi-
fed way than before.
"The doctrines we preach reach back
IN the Golden Rule, to the Sermon on
the Mount, to the Commandments at
Sinai" he said, land know my coun-
Applause Without Cheers.
Applause came, but 1t was In the
form OF handclapping; the cheers mao
been spent in the earlier welcome
TT is only by the exercise OF govern
ment that we can exalt the lowly ana
give heart to the humble and DOVE
trodden." he added.
The appeal itself, combined WIN h's
intense seriousness and deiiDera'e
enunciation, made it perioa anu
place Tor applause.
The news OF Vice-President Sher-
mans death at Utica was received III
the Garden, and 1t was said that When
It was carried to the platform Colohel
RooseveIts son, Theodore. jr., gave or
ders that il be kept from his talher'
II was feared that the shock Wouio
, - - .haa tho coIonoI could StdnO