The Washington times., 1912-08-18
COLONEL CHEERED
BY BIG CROWD ON
BOSTON COMMON
Hearers Go Wild When Taft
Is Called "A Dead
ISSUE"
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out. I'm delighted to tell you about
Mr.. Perkins. the colonel replied. "I'll
satsfy everybody's thirst for inform
alton. alton Mr.; Perkins is a rich man."
saa1 ment ne; net He nc came ne, Into this move
own initiative. felt just the same
curiosity that that man in the crowd,
who asked me about him felt. I said
to him:
Mr. Perkins, why are you support
Ing meT Mr.. Perkins flushed and said
he did not know, but that he ought to
De onended, but told him he should
not be. and that I was both surprised
and pleased to have his support.
Why He Gets Support.
The prime reason why I am with
you.' he told me, is because I have
children. / have come to the conclu-
sion that this country won't be O good
place for my children unless we have
substantial Justice, unless the relations
between capital and labor are on q
better basis. I wish to support any
movement which will bring that about.
$50 far as I can see," Mr.. Perkins
told me, you are the only public man
who in good faith is supporting those
views"
After a fast motor trip along the
State roads, Colonel Roosevelt reached
run over the fifty miles OF oiled roads
was made in one hour and thirty-five
minutes, the speedometer frequently
| registered over fifty miles an hour.
At Revere Beach, Colonel Roosevelt
made his speech attacking Governor
Wilson, and said in part:
"On the platform on which I stand
| make the same appeal of serious and
men, and I come to this State and ask
| you In the name of Massachusetts
past to place the Massachusetts OF to-
day on the side of those who today
battle for all that Is highest and best
| in our national life
I'VE invite into our ranks men and
women entirely without regard to their
\ former political affiliations, to their
creeds. to their birthplaces or to the
! color Of their skins
Want Genuine Progress.
ours is a movement Of genuine prog
ress: we who at the moment lead II
are endeavoring to represent the hopes
the desires. the high enthusiasm of the
earnest men and women Of this coun-
try whose purpose Is to smite down the
| wrong that sits In high places and tc
bring nearer the day when justice shall
be done alike to the great and small
| throughout the land. Theirs Is pa
triotism of prayers and tears, and OF
| yearning to uplift the country that We
| so dearly love. Inc nrSt essential III
| securing the right of the people to rule
is to secure the unsparing condemna
ton of dishonesty in nominations ant
elections.
ITO steal a nomination or steal ar
! election is even worse tran to steal
purse for 1t is a theft of the peoples
rights, it is a theft from the people a
whole.
Two years ago the fight against Nj
Lorimer was started by a great Chicago
| newspaper, and was continued by Ger
tain private individuals. And we VIII
then took part in that fight, did so a
a time when the average public ma
obviously thought 1t would come t
nothing. In the recent contests in til
Republican primaries we hammered
into the heads of the politicians tina
the people were against Lorimer an
Lorimerlsm, and then the very men VIII
had been seeking to profit by Lorimer
support so long as they believed i
would be useful, turned against him
1T is a bad thing to win a Senator
ship by such methods as Mr.. Lorime