The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-31
.T.R. TOURS VERMONT.
The Colonel Covers the Rural Districts
in an Auto.

st. Johnsbury, VT, Aug. 31.-Colonel
Roosevelt struck up ain intimate &C
quairtance with the rural sections of
northern Vermont during his automo-
bile campaign through the state. He
spent most of the day in motor car,
made Ave speeches and received such
a welcome that he said he thought
Vermant was waking up.
Before a lively crowd in the court
house square here. Colonel Roosevelt
cheer after cheer. He assaiied his
critics and defended the Progressive
party. John d. Archbold of the
Standard Oil company. and Senator
Penrose were attacked for their testi-
mony before the senate investigating
committee.
Il thought for time they would do
some damage to the Progressive par
". ne said, "but the Lord hath de-
hvered them into my hands. I have
them on the hip. I have them in the
open. III hew them as Israel hewed
Ammon, hip and thigh"
Colonel Roosevelt explained why it
was that he declared himself in favor
OF woman suffrage. He said that he
had not been Influenced to this view
by the women who devoted their time
10 promoting the cause of suffrage, but
rather through his acquaintance with
women like Miss Jane Adams of Chi
cago, whom he had come to know
through their interest in sociological
work.
Old Trust Remedies Bad.
In speaking on the trust question,
Colonel Roosevelt declared that Meth
er the Democrats nor the Republicans
had an effective plan, and that ''the
big trusts cordially approve of both
Platforms
Denounces Stanley Committee
He denounced the Stanley congressional
committee which investigated the trust
question as mere sound and fury and
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party. The colonel criticized ex-PIesiIent
Cnarles w. Eliot, of Harvard, for a news
paper lnterv1ew which he said DR.. Eliot
as saying That 1t was in bad taste for
Colonel Roosevelt to bring Miss Jane
;Aooams into publicity by speaking of her
In accepting the Progressive nomination.
After saying that he had not mentioned
MISS adams name. but had merely ex-
woman second his nomination, Colonel
Roosevelt added, eff President Eliot realty
considers this allusion to Miss Adams as
should feel mild curiosity to know Just
what he would regard as nonspectacuIar
and in good taste"
The colonel's first speech was AZ 81
Adams Then he sped on to MorrisviIle
where he spoke at the LaMoille county
Colonel Roosevelt rode through a Sc
GUIDED section, as houses were rare
enough to attract attention. and the vii
speech at Hardwick, he went on to Bar
ton and then to ST. Johnsbury, where re
spent the night When he reached ere
he was welcomed by a marching club of
$50 men who bore banners and sang Take
Little Tip From Father and Vote FOR
the Old Bull Moose
Before bringing his , ermont campaign
20 a close; he VIII speak at Barre, Ran
dolph, Bellows Falls and Brattelboro
In his night speech here he said:
THE Progressive platform is the first
platform since the close of the civil war
which has fearlessly, fully and fntelIigent-
ly faced the needs of our people. which
has promised nothing that can not be
fulfilled. 1 call your attention especially.
to what our platform says about business
and the trusts.
''The Progressive platform demands ef-
ficient and thorough-going national regu-
lation of all those industrial concerns d >
ing an interstate business. Moreover the
antitrust law is to be kept on the statute
books. and instead of its enforcement
against the big trusts being as now, mere
ly farcical, 1t is to be the duty of tie
commission to aid in seeing that eve.y
trust guilty of bad conduct shall be really
and not merely nominaliy dissolved, and
the men guilty of the misconduct pua-
hRhAd-"