The Sentinel=record., 1912-09-05
ROOSEVELT SAYS ALREADY THAT HAS BEEN SWEPT ASIDE
 BY THE PEOPLE.
ASK SUPPORT OF DEMOCRATS
Says There Are but Two Issues and That Is Whether the People or the Busses Shall Rule Things
 in This Republic.

Aioines' iowa sept. 4.-Upon Woodrow Wilson, the standpatters are being concentrated, Colonel Roosevelt told the state progressive convention of Iowa here today. He asserted that the reactionafies of both parties were now turning to the democratic candi- date
 Co,onel Roosevelt also called for speedy downward revision of the tar TIT and denounced the Payne Aldrich law as containing "shams and hum bugs" The ex-president's speech was made at the close of hard days cam paigning through Iowa.
 He began at o'clock and kept al 1t with little rest until he left tonight for St. Paul. Five speeches were scheduled for the journey through the state from Keokuk to Des Moines. but the colonel was called upon for twice that number, finding crowds awaiting him wherever his train stopped.
 There's no eight-hour law on this iob,' he sighed as he entered his car after making a speech not on the program. The heat was oppressive aha lht tOiOhCi ltANt WdS but he was well pleased with his day
 Crowds which heard him were large and enthusiastic.
 When Colonel Roosevelt reached Des Moines several thousand persons were massed at the station. He made his way to his automobile through a struggling. cheering crowd. and start ed out ut the head of a parade through the city to the convention hall
 All along the way the streets were crowded and the colonel was cheered constantly. When he reached the convention hall he was the object of a tumultous demonstration Just be fore leaving for his trade tonight he made an address. to a throng which filled the street in front of the hotel
 The convention hall was the warm est of all the places in which Colonel Roosevelt spoke and most of the dele gates had reached the boiling point by the time the colonel arrived. The men were in their shirt sleeves. and of palm leaf fans were flut- tering.
 Take off your coat, Teddy" some of the delegates called out when the colonel rose to begin his speech Take off your coat anl sail in'
 The colonel hesitated a minute and then declined.
 "MaybeNI haven't got a shirt on, he cried back.
 This is only nominally a three cornered fight, he said. Tn reality, the fight is between the party of the people on one side, and on the other the bosses and the beneficiaries of privilege, who will throw their weight to whichever of the old parties they think can beat us.
 You'll find long before election day already there are symptoms of it. that the old republican party has been swept aside The fight lies between us and the old machine democracy. I appeal to every former democrat who is loyal to the principles of Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, to stand with us and l appeal to every former re- publican who is loyal to the principles of Abraham Lincoln.
 ''The official republican party of to- day bears to the party of Lincoln the same resemblance that a ship which has been captured by pirates does to the ship before it was completed. Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and the rest of them wouldn't have known what was meant by republican prin ciples if you had mentioned them.
 Those men represent the crooked alliance between crooked politics and crooked business which has been the curse of American life. They knew at the republican convention in Chi cago that they were insuring defeat of themselves. They expected the democratic party to come into power but they thought we would confine ourselves to putting the other set of bosses into power, and that after four years they would come back again.
 Nothing is gained by changing the whip of Barnes, Penrose and Guggen- hei mfor the scorpion of Murphy, Sul- livan and Taggart. All bosses look alike to us.
 T see that MT. Whats-his-name. that congressman from East St. Louis, Bartholdt-he is one of the highway men-has asked MT Cummins to de- bate the Texas. California and Wash ington contests at Chicago I hope Mir. Cummins will refuse, for the req son that wouldn't debate with a piclIpocket the ownership of a watch he has just stolen. If the police are handy I'll hand him over to them. If they are not III tend to hin my self"
 The victory at Baltimore for MT. Wilson was achieved because the