The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-09-27
ROOSEVELT FLAYS
GOVERNOR HOOPER
Declares Reform Republican
Executive of Tennessee IS
Unworthy of Support.
SPLIT IN BOTH CAMPS
Bull Moose Followers Have
Hopes of Slipping in Be-
tween the Factions.
SPLIT IN BOTH CAMPS
BY JOHN B. PRATT.

BY International news SelNlce'
JACKSON. Tenn, Sept. 95.-"G Gov
ernor Wilson is about as much pro-
gressive as is Mr.. Taft. +"
That was Colonel Roosevelt S COM
ment here today when asked what he
thought of Woodrow Wilson s speeches
in Connecticut in exploiting himself as
full-6edged progressive.
The ex.prcsident let it be known that
ne intends taking up the governor s
assumption of progresslvIsm after ne
gets back from this swing around the
circuit Roosevelt expects TO stab holes
in Governor Wilson s public record TO
show that he is at heart q reactlonary.
Also he will put Mr.. Taft on the grill
for the first time in this campaign. vio'
lently attacking the president s admin
istration.
The colonel is getting ammunition
ready for both antagonists. From the
time he starts in with his eastern cam.
paign, which comes after his trip into
The middle west. until the fight is over,
he will pillory Taft and Wilson. II he
considers the time propitious be will let
loose on them in the middle west, al
though his mind now is 70 wait until
the finish of the campaign for siz-
cling windup.
The e1-president's campaign in west
ern Tennessee came to an end tonight
with a speech here before 10000 howl
ing ProgresSives.
Roasts Hooper.
Roosevelt pitched into Governor
Hooper, Republican, who has been fiirt-
ing with both the Taft standpatters and
the Wilson camp.
Hooper, running for reelection as
Republican, has the endorsement Of one
Democratic faction. The colonel classi
fed Hooper in his speech with the ma
chine element in Tennessee politics,
saying he was trying to cater to both
sides. He urged the Republicans of
Tennessee "uot to be deceived"
HYou ought to be against Hooper,
lust as the Progressives everywhere are
against the Bosses" he argued. "Gov.
ernor Hooper does not care whether he
is elected as standpat Republican or
reactionary Democrat, so long as he
gets your votes. That IS the way all of
our antagonists on both sides feel
about this campaign The bosses are
all agninst you
The situation in Tennessee, because
of splits in both the old parties, is con-
sldered favorable TO Roosevelt The
Progressives have a candidate for gov
ernor who may also slip in because Of !
thc divided Republican and Democratic
vote,
Roosevelt welcome in western |
Tennessee, where the vote is usually |
Democratic, was such today as to cause |
his hackers TO hope he NAV carry that
part of the state. lie penetrates the
eastern end of the state, where Re. |
publican majority usually shows up,
on Monday. making speeches in Chat |
tanooga and Knoxville.
Cries Thief" Again.
Before the throng here Roosevelt at.
tackled the Republican national com.
mittee as q ''band Of pirates.D He
hated TO think, be said, what ''these
thieves would do if nobody watched
them
''It was bad enough when everyone
was looking on there at Chicago - be
added, with grim smile ''The Re-
publican party is going TO sleep now
and the national committee will steal
its clothes. Well. nobody else wants
them.
Earlier in the day Roosevelt spoke
on the improvement of the Mississippi
waterways before the interstate levee
commission convention az Memphis.
During the speech he sharply criticized
the administration, evidently aiming at
President Taft, for failure to take sc.
tion within the past Eve months-after
the terrific damage done BY the Mis-
sissippi river last spring-toward pre-
venting another such disaster.
Not one thing has been done bv
the government toward building up the
levee system, OF providing FOR deep.
euing the river said the colonel.
Congress was in session for five
months after your last disaster and
neither branch OF congress. Republican
nor Democratic, took one step that of
fers the slightest prospect of prevent
ing recurrence Of the awful food that
did damage of 100000, ,o0o.''
Roosevelt left here tonight for New
Orleans, where he spends all of to-
morrow.
Salt Laker in New York.