Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-04-07
Strenuous Day of Campaigning
Brings Out Crowds in PeIting
Storm to Hear Presidential
Candidate.
OPPOSITION TO JUDICIAL
RECALL IS CRITICISED
Ex-PresIdent Attends Pfesby-
terian Church in Springfield
Today Occupying Old Pew of
Abraham Lincoln.
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cnringfield, H., April 6.--With q
do1en epeeches and an encounter with
slashing April storm. Colonel
Roosevelt today spoke in the first
half of his campaign tour of Illinois
He made his first speech in Rock
ford and his last one in Springfield.
Although in several towns the peo-
nile who listened to him did so at the
cost of a drenching, Colonel Roose-
veil was met everywhere by crowds.
The principal speech OF the day
was delivered in Springfield this eve
ming.
In ii Colonel Roosevelt attacked
Senator Lorimer, of Illinois, in en-
phatic language. He took issue with
Joseph Choate and other New YORK
LAWYERS who former an association TO
combat his ideas in regard to the ju-
dietary and expressed his opinion
about what he termed the nice ex-
elusive persons of great wealth who,
he said, are easily frightened, 'es-
pecialIy by the bugbear of majority
tyranny"
The formation of the Lorimer-Lin-
coin republican league, which Is OPP
posed to Colonel Roosevelt furnished
the theme for the colonePs remarks
about the senator. 1T is an infamy
and an outrage" said he, that Lin
coin, who stood for honesty in politics.
as well as in every other phase of our
national life, should have his name
desecrated by its use in connection
with Lorimer and his associates. They
stand for and they typify all those
evils against which Lincoln's whole
life was protest"
Colonel Roosevelt referred to Mr..
Choate and his associates as men
who said they were champiCning the
constitution. He declared they ARE
merely pettifogging the constitution.
and they are pettifogging it in the in
terest of special privilege
In all his speeches of the day Col
one Roosevelt referred to Lincoln,
and declared the principle for which
he is contendng in the present cam
paign was fundamentally the same
as that in behalf of which Lincoln
had striven in this state in 1858 and
1860
II was when the Roosevelt train
reached Amboy that the rain storm
was at its height. AS the train stopped
the rain drops, propelled by a gale,
pelted the crowd furiousy. Many
persons crowded around Colonel
Roosevelt's car, Needless of the storm.
colonel
his shoulders and went out to make
a speech. Until the train drew away
he remained there, the rain stream
ing down his face.
on the way to Springfield the col
onel spoke at Rockford, Freeport,
Polo, Dixon, Amboy. Mendoza, La
Sale, Winona, Minonk, Pontiac and
Bloomington
Chauneey Depew, manager of the
Roosevelt campaign in Illinois and
number of his political associates, are
making the trip through the state.
Leaders of the districts traversed to-
uay came on board the train from
uhe to time and Colonel Roosevelt
was told OF the campaign in Illinois.
colonel Roosevelt's supporters to-
uay said they believed the result of
the primaries next week would be a
FACTOR OF great weight i'm deciding the
outcome of the former presidents
campaign. Illinois has SIS delegates
10 the republican national convention.
ociohel Roosevelt expects to rest
omorrow. In the morning he will
a'tehd services in the First Presby-
'eiiah church, which Lincoln attend
co. ana viii sit in Lincoln's pew. In
.ne afternoon he is to visit Lincoln's
tomb