The Topeka state journal., 1912-04-19
HEAR T. R. SPEAK
Great Crowd Sees Colonel on
Kansas Invasion.
Even His Old Black Hat
Cheered to Echo.
He FLAYS PHIL CAMPBELL
Roosevelt Tells People They
Are ''the Bleachers."
"Lined Up With LOrimer," He
Says at Marysville.

Narvsville. Kan, April 19.-ColoneI
Roosevelt flayed Congressman Fhli
CauDbeu in his first message TO the
Kansas people here today in whlch
he devoted most of his talk 10 Ioul
thousand .Kansans to denouncerneIl'
of CanpbelIs metaphor of the pleach-
ars IN offering a contrast to the COLO
nel's plans for the judiciary. Roose-
volt vas savage in his denunciation OF
the Kansas congressman and MS
friends who were, declared the SPEAK
er. ..lined UP with the Lorimer crowd.
Roosevelt turned the point with IT.
resist;ble effect when he declared that
Senators Penrose and Lor1mer were
the umpires in Illinois and Pennsyi-
vania and that an appeal had been
taken in those states to What lam p
bsu had called the bleachers."
The crowd cheered again and again.
The colonel had to fight his way
through a mob for the platform to ms
car. Men and women struggled ,r LOT
chance to grasp his hand me
crush and scramble was so great thal
Injuries were narrowly averted-
When the Roosevelt special rolled
into this town this morning ldIST ~
nar+ of the population of Marshali
county was gathered around the depot
70 welcome the colonel. The TWO
brass bands furnished music But tne
,eoDle drowned out the blasts or the
horn with cheers when the &C.. colonel
Marvsville had been placed on tne
poIitical map many years ago py
C-oneressman Calderhead. 1t was
wiped off the map at the Repu uOiicaii "a;
oriroarv two years ago but the Atri-
can hunter brought it back on in req
LETTERS today Politicians from every
congressional district in the state came
in on the night trains. me oIo H.n LoMll
au records today for early morning
sctivitv. AS early as $50 farmers
and their families were coming III IN
autos and buggies and wagons. Al
--eo two big excursion trains, one
frcro tbe south and one from the east,
caroa in bringing 500 people each.
when the band began playing IN the
market place the s5ree[s eeG aNRIe MeIe
Tbe little old country hotel hummed
like g bee hive.
II was a great event, this daylight
visit of the picturesque eX-presideEt-
The power and popularity of Col
roosevelt on a campaign tour was
easilv explained here today. He car
ries the people like a storm. He puts
his heart and soul in it. He throws
convention to the winds. He makes the
people believe that he believes what
he says He is irresistible in ac-
tion. He radiates like a dynamo bat
clined to discuss and observe until he
came Then they started in to enthuse
with a whoop. When the colonel as
cended the little platform near the
car tracks carrying his black slouch
hat in his hand the crowd went wild.
Two little boys. Ray and Paul Camp
bell. walked IA miles last night from
Frankfort to Marysville to hear Roose-
Welt speak
1T is a pleasure to be in the sunhow-
er state again. said Mr.. Roosevelt
at Marysville. Il know Kansas we'll
and I have known your people for near
ly so years.
In this contest we have the peculiar
right to appeal to the people of Kan
sas She has stood always in the front
ranks of the states for that principle
that the people shall rule"
Congressman Campbell unwarily
told the exact truth. He wants to put
the American people on the bleacher