The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-31
FACES BIC CROWD
Il. r. Addresses Great Throng
at Madison Square Garden.
Demonstration When He APP
peared Lasted AZ Minutes.

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attempted assassination in Milwau-
kee. October II, Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt last night faced for an hour
and twenty minutes Progressive po-
Htical rally which gave many thous-
ands of his fellow New Workers
chance to accord him an uproarious
welcome.
For forty-two minutes after his en-
trance into crowded Madison Square
garden, Colonel Roosevelt stood at the
edge of the high-perched speakers
platform. unable to make himself
heard above the din of cheers, songs
and band music His gestures to the
crowd for silence served only TO in
tenSify the noises; and when after
twenty minutes of cheering, Colonel
Roosevelt made a determined effort
to begin his speech, the immense audi
period of cheering by the beginning
of the chant we want Teddy. We
want Teddy"
Colonel Roosevelt refused to sit
down or to leave the rail that edged
the fimsy platform. Senator Dixon
and Governor johnson urged him to
be seated, but he maintained his
standing position throughout the en-
tire demonstration and when oppor-
tunity fin. Ily came for him to begin
his speech. he began it with a request
to the police to maintain order.
The attention and silence that
greeted the address by Colonel Roose-
welt was as marked as the demonstra-
ton that preceded it, At the first at
LeLupCS 10 Win applause, the
presidential candidate motioned i'm
+ peratively with his left hand for
! silence, and accompanied this gesture
with shake of the head which made
the crowd realize his desire to be al
I lowed to speak without interruption
The immense garden was crowded
to its doors and the crowd overlooked
into the surrounding streets for three
I blocks.
/ Colonel Roosevelt adhered to the
/ text of his prepared speech, scarcely
/ changing a word throughout. His
voice was full and strong, penetrating
! to the extreme corners of the amphi-
I theater. His right hand, because of
the wound in his right side, was
/ tapped with 1t emphatically several
/ times upon the railing He gestured
violently with his left hand through
/ out his speech.
Colonel Roosevelt. when he arrived.
was strongly guarded. He was escort
ed into the building V way of a fire
escape and left by the same route
Some Things He Said.
He said in part:
FRIENDS, perhaps once in a gen
Grafton, perhaps not so often, there
comes a chance for the people of a |
! country to play their part wisely and |
fearlessIy in some great battles of /
the age-long warfare for human /
came in the mighty days of Abraham |
Lincoln, the man who thought and /
toiled and suffered for the people |
with sad, patient and kindly endeavor. |
To our forefathers, the chance came /
in the troubled waters that stretched /
from the time when the first CONT /
mental congress gathered, to the time |
when Washington was inaugurated as |
first president of the republic. To US, .
in our turn, the chance has now come /
to stand for liberty and righteousness
as in their day these dead men stood i
for liberty and Righteousness. Our [
task is not as great as theirs. Yet it +
is well nigh as important Our task /
is to profit by the lessons of the past
and to check in time the evils that |
grow around US, lest our failure to do |
so may cause dreadful disaster to the |
people. We must not sit supine and /
helpless. We must not permit the
brutal selfshness of arrogance and the
brutal selfishness of envy each to run
unchecked its evil course. If we do
so, then some day smouldering hatred
will suddenly kindle into consuming
flame, and either we or our children
will be called on to face a crisis as
grim as any which this republic has
ever seen
1T is our business to show that
nine-tenths Of wisdom consists in be-
ing wise in time. Woe to our nation
if we let matters drift, if in our in
dustrial and political life we let an
unchecked and utterly selfish il divid-
ualistic materialism riot to its ap-
widespread disaster for it would mean
that our people would be sundered by
those dreadful lines of division " hich
are drawn when the selfish greed of
the HAYES Is set over against the
selfish greed of the have nots.' There
is but one way to prevent such di-
vision. and that is to forestall it by
the kind of a movement in which we
are now engaged.
aOur movement is one of resoIute
inSiStence upon the rights, and full
acknowledges of the duties, of
every man and every woman within
this great land of ours. W. war
against the forces of evil, and the
right We do not set greed against
greed, or hatred against hatred. Our
creed is one that bids US be just to
all, to feel sympathy for all ana to
needs Of all. Our purpose is to srnite
down wrong. But toward those who
have done the wrong we feel only the
kindliest charity that is compatible
with causing the wrong to cease.
I'VE preach hatred to no man. and
the spirit in which we work is as far
removed from vindictiveness as from
wea kneSs We are resolute to do away
with the evil, and we intend to proceed
with such wise and cautious sanity as
will cause the very minimum of dis
turbance that is compatible with
achieving our purpose
Character the Prime Factor.
We do not forget that We are not
proposing to substitute law for char
acter We are merely proposing TO
buttress character by law We fully
recognize that as has been true in the
be true. that the prime fs4cto~ IN each Il
man or wonan's success must normally
be that man or woman's own character
character the sum of many quail