The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-17
Roosevelt Is Welcomed at
Providence With All the
Enthusiasm of the West,
Last Evening.
VAST CROWD HEARD
COLONEL'S SPEECH
Nominee Says the New Par
ty Springs from the Hearts
of the People and 1t Is
Certain to Succeed.

PROVIDENCE, r. I Aug. 17.--With
cheering and songs and prayer the
Progressive party's national campaign
was opened here last night.
Theodore Roosevelt came to Rhode
Island, which he described as boss
ridden state, to open the campaign,
and received a welcome which, as he
put it, would have done credit to Kan
sas.
When Col. Roosevelt reached Provi-
dence at 5 o'clock he found several
thousand persons massed in the
square before the railroad station. The
crowd blocked the way and cheered
and made speech. He was halted
second time in front of the City hall
and made another address.
Colonel Beats Time as Band Plays.
Three hours later Col. Roosevelt
stood ON the stage at Infantry hall,
laughing and waving his hands at the
crowd which was wedged into the big
building. For several minutes the
people cheered. The band played pat
riotic airs and the colonel beat time.
Outside the building were hundreds
unable to get in.
When the din finally died away
Col. Roosevelt stepped to the front of
the stage and looked down at his au-
dience.
Il was told six months ago." he
said, that there was not a Progress
sive in Rhode Island. l think it is
pretty plain that statement is errone-
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Says Movement VIII Go On. '"+-' -.
"Rignt at the outset l wish to ans
wer a question that has been put to
me two or three times since / reach
ed Rhode Island. Men have asked me
If this movement is going to go on or
If it is just movement which is con-
nevted with me. This movement is
going cn just as sure as fate. This Is
a real movement, springing from the
needs and hearts of the people of the
United States.
''The only part that have had in it
is that perhaps l have brought it on
two or three years earlier than it
would have come anyhow. The man
is blind who does not see that our
people are tired of having other peo-
pie govern them. Our people were
making up their minds that there
must be new party which should
deal with the live issues instead of
dead ones"
Rhode Island Sufferer from Bosses.
Taking up his set speech Col. Roose-
welt spoke as follows:
Il take peculiar pleasure in max
ing my first speech as nominee of the
Progressive party here in Rhode Is
land. You have suffered, as in my
own state of New York we have suf-
fered, from boss politics in the most
extreme form of development.
"The Progressive movement is aim
ed at the rotten machines, the rotten
boss systems of both parties. Only by
supporting the Progressive party can
you strike any effective blow against
boss rule and machine and ring poll
tics in the United States.
THE success of the Democratic ma
tional ticket means enthroning in pow
er one set of bosses, the success of the
Republican national ticket means en-
thron1ng in power the other set of
bosses. The effort at this time to re-
buke one set of bosses by voting for
the candidate of the other set of boss
es Is from its very nature bound to
result in mere futility
Differences of Attorneys.
THE differences between the men
who really dominate the two parties
are merely the differences between
great corporation attorneys whc, for
the moment, represent different cor
porations, but who come together in
stantly against any movement which
is meant to establish the people as
masters over both.
ITO try to punish one set of defend
ers of political and Industrial privi-
lege by occasionally voting for the
nominee of the other set is to play in
to the hands of both.
I'VE Progressives stand against
both. We propose to drive them both
from power for all time, and to sub
stitute for their power the real and
genuine rule of the people.
There Is peculiar need of leader
ship for this fight in New England.
1t has been a matter of concern to
me to see so many of those here in
New England who should be leaders
In the new movement turn cold heart.
ediy from it. l believe that half of
the opposition to our course in New
England is due to sheer, plain ignor-
ance, half of the remainder to hard
snelled prejudice, and the other half
OF the remainder to craven fear OF
what Is new.
One OF our great troubles here in
New England, as elsewhere, is that the
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