The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-08-25
The Colonel Spends the Two
Hours Between Trains
In Attending Luncheon and
Making Speech.
TELLS OF HIS ARIZONA TRIP
Discusses Political Matters at
the Progressive Club.
Tells How the Opposing Fac
tiOns Can Get Together.


Chicago, Aug. 25.-Col. Roosevelt
burned almost as red as the desert
Indians among whom he has been So
journing arrived here today. He spent
less than two hours here. before tax
ing the Pennsylvania special for
Oyster Bay.
He was met at the station by Thos.
D. Knight. president of the Chicago
Progressive club and a delegation of
members, and later took a standing
lunch, conducted on a help-yourself
basis at the club.
On the way to this function in a
motor car the colonel was recognized
by many persons and waved his wide
brimmed Panama hat in response to
occasional shouts of greeting.
At the club rooms the colonel was
greeted by several suffragettes headed
by Grace Wilbur Trout, who like the
former president wore a Panama hat.
In the course of his talk with Mrs.
Trout, who told him she the
mother of four sons, he said:
Brought Up Sons to Fight.
Il brought up my sons to fight;
after you have learned to fight you
can be as virtuous as you want to-
He addde that he knew of no man
who was SO much entitled to a vote as
the mother of sons and daughters. AS
al the colonel wore the same gray
suit and soft shirt that he wore on
the train. He paused at a book store
and bought some books, including one
about prize fighter, another giving
an Indian story, and a third on big
game.
In speaking of his outing in Arizo-
ma, Col. Roosevelt said he spent the
first fortnight hunting and that the
party killed three mountain lions. He
said he shot one and his two sons kill
ed the others. He said the only fresh
meat the party had on the trip was
the mountain lions and the meat was
delicious. He spent two weeks among
the Navajos and visited the great
natural bridge which spans the grand
canyon which he described as a
'triumphal arch of nature" He con-
cluded his visit by attending the snak e
dance of the priests Of the Hopi In
dians which he said was extremely in
teresting.
Side Steps Mexico.
Colonel Roosevelt declined to dis
cuss the Mexico situation saying he
was not familiar with present condi-
tons
He made a five minute speech at
the Progressive club in which he ad-
dressed the guests as friends, ladies
and gentlemen, voters, ALL.
In referring to the talk of merging
the Republican and Progressive par
ties, he asserted that the only posi-
btlltN OF Sucn a plan WOuIQ De Tor
Republicans to adopt every principle
OF the ProgressiVes including the
judicial plank.
In his brief speech Colonel Roose-
Velt said:
There would be no woman suffrage
in Illinois today if it had not been for
the work done by the Progressive par
ty last year. Never in the history of
the country has political party ac-
complished what the Progressive par
tV has in its brief history.
In regard to woman suffrage I al
ways have insisted that woman's duty
as a voter would not interfere with her
domestic duties any more than it does
with a mans business. There are some
fool men who neglect their business for
politics and 1 suppose there would De
some feminine fools of the same kin1.
God made women fools to match the
men. The average man and Woman's
first duty is to their home. Politics
come second.
How to Get Together.
There has been a great deal of talk
about political parties getting together.
They can get together any time they
wish by joining us. But they must
adopt all of our principles, even the
judiciary plank in our platform. 1t has
been said that 1 have condemned
judges. 1 never have done anything of
the kind. 1 never used anything like
the language which Abraham Lincoln
used in Criticising the United States
supreme court. 1 believe judges are
high class of public servants, but l
don't believe in the right of any pub
lie servant to become a public master.
IF an executive does not do what
the people want him to he should be
recalled, even if he is a Judge. If we
don't get the laws we want we should
have the initiative and referendum to
give US the desired relief. We intend
+ n n in n
I'VE are tile only party that has
adopted national plan for handling both
big and little business. We don't believe
in strangling business. We favor "A policy
that will compel business to serve the
public, not swindle it. Our wish is to ap-
ply the principles of Abraham Lincoln to
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