New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-19
Harlan and Bede Insist BaCker
of Third Term Candidate
Hopes for Profits.
PROGRESSIVES ARE GLOOMY
Taft Speakers Find Roosevelt
Men in the Far West Admit
ting Their Cause Is a
Dismal Failure.
fRy Telegraph to The Tribune.

Phoenix, Ariz.. Sept. 1s.-Charging tha'
George ". Perkins was grubstaklhs
Roosevelts campaign in the nope o.
profits TO come John Maynard Harlan o.
Chicago. and J. Adam Bede. OF NIT
nesota addressed two large tart raiiies
in Arizona to-day. In the wake OF hoose'
velts trip through the state yesteroaS
| The first meeting was held in tucson
| this noon and the other here tonight
Both brought out big crowds, ana cheers
greeted the Taft speakers at every telllhs
point.
The speakers left tonight for Aiou-
oueruue and Santa Fe. where they are 10
speak tomorrow to answer the addresses
made at those places by Roosevelt to-day.
Mr.. Harlan labelled the third term
party the "pollywcg" ProsresslVes' "nos'
idea OF progress was perpetual nlouo"'
| Mr. Bede told OF the DISAPPOINTMENT
which the GOODNESS OF the Roosevelt meet
ines everywhere on the coloners tra'i
had brought 90 the third term eandidate'
Republican leaders from Tucson ana
Phoenix met the Taft speakers at MARI
copa and declared that to-day's meetings
would be the opening guns OF DIX hsh,
TO capture Arizona.
Mr. Harlan said in his speech:
George W. Perkins is grubstaking 1heo-
dore Roosevelt I'm this fight because ne
expects to share in the profits later lie
! is helping To pay Roosevelt's expenses now
| hecause no knows that II Roosevelt
should happen 10 be elected later there
viii be a division OF profts.
II Is not the FIRST time that George w
. n l.rIF ~ Ia
Welt I'm a political campaign In the nope OF
repayment He contributed s0O,rD OF ths
moneys OF widows ana orphans lnttusttu
10 the New York Llfo Insurance Com ,
pany to Roosevelts campaign tun9' en- en-
| Roosevelt gave tho steel trust, OF winch
! Perkins IL "A director. license 10 Violate
the law by absorbing It's only formidanIe
rival. and then he halted suit against
Mr. Perkins, Harvester trust. ,,,,.
Who saws gruhstaking such candidate
Is not profitable? Every time that Per
kins has contributed 10 Rosevelts cam
paign he has called upon Theodore Noose-
| Welt later to deliver the goods. ana koose-
veil las delivered the goods. Perkins has
demanded that Roosevelt do something
ne had no right 10 do. 10 violate statute
Of the United States ana Roosevelt mas
obcyed.
Mr.. Harlan referred To- the Roosevelt
party AZ "polywog' Progressives' and
continued.
The Roosevelt idea 81 progress is per
petual motion. II gives no heed IN "hlTn
direction ~ Is moving, or whether " IL
right or wrong. just 50 " keeps IN mo-
ton The Republican party IL your truIy
progressive party. because u secs 10 IL
that its progress IS IN ne rlbht dlre0t'on
But your ''pOllywog' Progressive. your
Bull Moose progressive. gives little heed
10 the direction All he wants. 10 do IL
To keep necessarily IN motion. II no
can but catch the eyes ~ me onlookers
no cares little n. after n period Of most
intense activity. he finds himself Just
where be started.
When Mr.. Bede took the platform, he
said:
Everywhere We have been on the trail
Of the Bull Moose we have found gloom
i'm the herd. In oregon. Idaho, ttah
Nevada aud even California. there IS
growing despair and frank admission that
the third party movement ~ a dismal
failure.
that II II Is penal offence 10 steat a
cattle brand or a log mark. II IL far
more criminal 10 steal the good name or
a great party, as is being attempted by
the Bull Moosers In Kansas, oauiornlh
ard other states where they are strlNlhs
10 nut the Bull Moose brand on the Re-
publican elephant Men VINO would 90
srch a dastardly deed are being justly
branded a. a band of thieves.
The plain people are saying Ihou
shalt not steal. and when beaten IN
convention OF your fellows, thou shalt
not squeaL' at. ~,
The colonel claims he is much like Lin
coin lie says Lincoln was called radi-
cal Ike himself. II was lAncoln con
arrvatism that saved the Union and es-
"A blished constitutional liberty forever.
lie Was not OF the Bull Moose type. lie
never threw a friend or told lie lie
was a builder and not destroyer. re
round I'M The nations wounds and loved
fLi