The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-07-01
ROOSEVELT ATTACKED
ADMINISTRATION
Indictment of Bosses and Exposition
of Progressive Principles Part.
of Speech.

PITTSBURG, Pa, July 1.-Ex-Pres-
ident Roosevelt made his first speech
of the 1914 campaign here tonight. He
spent five hours in Pittsburg and was
welcomed enthusiastically 1t was APP
parent as soon as the colonel began to
speak that he did not possess. his for
mer strength and vigor. There was
noticeable change in his manner as
compared with that of two years ago,
when he was engaged in his previous
campaign. He made the trip to
Pittsburg against the advice of his
physician and it was felt that the re-
suit would go far toward indicating
to what extent he would be able to
take part in the Progressive party s
battle of the next four months.
He spoke with comparative ease, af-
ter the first few sentences, but there
was huskiness in his voice, which
showed that his throat was still troub-
ling him Persons in the rear of the
buildings at times found it difficult to
hear him. His gestures were less
rapid and vigorous than of old and as
ne neared the end of his speech he was
| plainly weary.
His speech was divided, generally
| speaking, into three partisan attack
| on the Wilson administration, an in.
dictment of "bosses'' and an exposi
ton of the principles of the Progress
sive party.
The administration 5 tariff laws Col
onel Roosevelt hailed as a colossal
! failure, particularly hard upon the
farmer, its antitrust program he
! branded as an economic absurdity. tt
foreign policy he styled as wretch
ed bat upon this he did not elab
crate. The Democratic tariff, he in
i sisted, had brought distress upon th'
nation, had not lowered the cost o.
living, and had chiefly benefited for
eign rivals of American business. TIL
solution rested, he argued, in supper
OF the Progressive movement and tn
enactment of laws providing for tar
if revision by a non-partisan commits
sion.
Of the chooses, - Mr. Roosevelt sal,
what he has heretofore-that the,
. thwarted the rank and file of the Re
publican party by the nomination o
Taft at Chicago and in so doing ode
; hberately put the Democratic organ
ization and Mr. Wilson into power.
In conclusion the colonel sketche
the Progressive idea of needed ant
trust regulation by properly empowers
commissions, contrasting such proposal
with legislation now pending at Wasl
ington, which he found wOefullv inaC
: equate. Such a program alone, he cor
tended, proved the inadequaey of tn
Democratic party. 1T is and AWAY
g.. viii be, che said, ''the states right
will be, the party afraid of power.
Yet the colonel warned those iii:
satisfied with the administration nc
+ through their resentment to thro
: their support to the leaders he had a
= tackled. To do so, he said, would onl
. ensure a continuation of governmeI
by CONFUSION, of governmental SCI
saw between two sets of policies"
He spoke word concerning thos
whom the progressives would WELDON
: to the party. 1--WE Will gladly work,
Il he said, with any men who will then
. selves with open sincerity work II
:: these (Progressive) principles. pr
Vided that they are men of such cha
= acter as to justify confidence in the
z good faith In this spirit we ask a
e good citizens to cooperate with l
I when as here in Pennsylvania, v
! hold aloft the flag of good citizenshi
t. in the fight to translate these sor
/ and lofty principles into government
f practice.
i Colonel Roosevelt came here to spea
in support of the candidacy of Dea
!. Lewis for governor and of Ciffol
i. Pinchot for United States senate
- Their qualifications he touched upon
the opening of his speech. Thereaft
/. he confined himself to the national j
< sues outlined.
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