Arizona republican., 1912-09-18
POPULAR RULE
 AND CONSERN ALTON
What He Would Do When Reclamation Projects Cost More Than the Estimate; Government Control of Trusts

Trusts
 Col. Roosevelt made a triumphal entry into Phoenix yesterday evening at five o'clock and two hours later passed out in a blaze of glory. Dash es of red throughout the day signalIed his approach. His adherents were ar rayed in bandanas and, of course, oth- CT articles of clothing, suited to their tastes and the weather
 A committee of reception headed by Dwight B. Heard went to Maricopa yesterday morning to meet the colonel and his party on his return from Tue son and meanwhile the special recep- tion committee was putting final touches on the arrangements here
 The thIOng on the streets in the forenoon did not give promise of d phenomenal crowd but people living in the country had been generally ap- prised that the candidate and his en- tourage would not arrive until late in the afteInOor
 The crowd thickened rapidly in the afternoon and the glare of the ban danaS became mere bcWiidcring. he audience began assembling on the Polk street grounds before four o'clock and in an hour it was big enough to meet the expectations of the manage ment and is was still growing.
 The bursting of heavy bomb fin ally signified that the colonel was ap- preaching the railroad station. His progress was denoted by the roar of other bombs and finally the strains of the Pioneer band indicated that the train had come to a stop. Twenty waiting automobiles were at the sta ton and the party and the visitors were placed in them and brought rap idly into he ely under an escort headed by Captain George B. Wilcox oe the Rough Riders.
 The military escort was composed the national guard comprising four officers and thirty men. At the grounds the guardsmen formed a cordon about the speakers stand.
 The colOneTs immediate party con- sisted of his cousin. George E. RoOse- welt. Col. Cecil Lyon of Texas, and pr. Scurry of Terrell. Tex. There was also the secretary to the colonel.
 Attached to the expedition were the following representa- of the press: Perry Arnold of the United Press; Lu- cius F Curtis of the Associated Press; F. & Underhill of the Newark. N. J. News Angus MSween of the Pnila- delphia North American; John B. Pratt of the Hearst service; Charles w. Thompson of the New York Times. Theodore Tiller of the Munsey papers and John Callan OLaughlin of the Chicago Tribune who by the way had accompanied the colonel on his Afri- can hunting trip.
 The party was accOmoahieJ by seV- eral of the more prominent memberG of the progressive party in the south. Among them were Captain John c. Greenway of Warren, an officer of the Rough Riders: Ben Daniels and Wal ter Wakefield of Tucson and R. H. stanton and Charles H. Utting of Yu ma Thomas D. Molloy of Yuma, high in the councils of the progressives was already here
 Among the occupants of the auto mobiles accompanying the colonel from the station and among those ex- tending the cOurtesies of the city to him were several gentlemen who were not in sympathy with his aspirations or his policies but by reason of their position and his distinguished person alitv. their services had been willing Iv given. Among them was Governor Hunt and Mayor Christy of whose courtesy MT Roosevelt made mention in his speech.
 The car containing MT. Roosevelt stopped for a short time at the Hotel Adams but the other cars proceeded at once to the grounds which were now well filled and fringed about with au- tomobiles Second street between Polk and Taylor. had been roped off for the automobiles of the visitors and a roped alley had been made to the sneakers stand. The space within was largely occupied by those members or the reception committee who had all ready arrived
 The sneakers stand had been most eIaboratetv decorated with the national colors while the front of it was heavily banked with white and red roses and greenerv. Ample arrangements had been made for the accommodation or the press directly in front of the speak CTS stand. an arrangement that all ways inclines reporters favorably to the people who are responsible
 The colonel and his party were late in arriving and when he came he bowed to a cheering crowd estimated at about 4,O00 The whole crowd how ever did not take part in the saluta-