The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-01
Colonel Makes First P0liti- cal Address Since Return
 From Brazil
SAYS TARIFF LAWS
 COLLOSAL FAILURES
Posses Indicted During Address and Progressive Party's Principles Ex- pOunded--Says It Is States
 Rights" Party

Pittsburg. June 30.--F'ormer Pres ident Roosevelt here tonight made his first speech of the 1914 campaign. He spent five hours in Pittsburg, and was welcomed enthusiastically. In his ad- dress before the Pennsylvania Progress sive league. he criticized the policies Of the Wilson administration, attacked Senator Boise Penrose and appealed for support of the progressive ticket. Colonel Roosevelt spoke with com parative ease. after the first few sen tences. but there was huskiness in his voice which showed his throat still troubled him. Persons in the rear of the building at times found 1t diffi- cult to hear him. His gestures were less rapid and vigorous than of old. and as he neared the end of his speech plainly was weary
 The colonel coined new phrase to- might
 II was what he called "government by convulsion" By this he said he meant the passage back and forth of power between the republican and
 
 continue until the people entrusted the power to the progressives.
 The former Presidents speech was regarded by progressives as indication or the line of attack the party will follow in this years campaign. There was no holding out the olive branch to the republican party. The colonel appealed to individual republicans to support the progressive ticket. but sur- uft an organization. He denounced repub- iican leaders, who, he said. had mis- represented the people, and attacked Senator Penrose unsparingly.
 Let him go in sackcloth and ashes" he said. because 1t was owing to him and his associates that the democratic party now has power to do wrong. No more scandalous appeal could be made than to return him to power to right the wrongs for which he primarily is irresponsible"
 The Wilson administrations policies. Isoionei Nooseyese said, wore rrspunst- ble for backward Business and unem- ployment No progress had been made, he said toward solution of the trust | question. and on this point he went's' Q what he later said was the most : prehensive statement of his positioni ever had made.
 The colonel was greeted on his ar val by crowd of several thousa persons. who blocked the streets neai the station and cheered him. He drove directly to dining hall, where 17OO progressives were having dinner. Here he made brief speech. then hurried on to Exposition hall, where he delivy cred his principal address.
 When Colonel Roosevelt entered the hall he was cheered for several rrin- utes. Bandana handkerchiefs were waved. and the weird bull moose Call" was sounded. The band blared hway a tune often heard in the first progres- sive campaign and Colonel Roosevelt looked entirely happy as he stood on the center Of platform. waving his hand at the crowd.
 After he had finished his speech, Col onel Roosevelt was told crowd at an overflow meeting in an adjoining hall was waiting for him. but he did not feel like making another extended speech. and stopped merely long enough, for a word of greeting.
 Pittsburg June 30.--Theodore Roose- welt delivered tonight his first politi- cal address since his return from Bra gil Ut was divided into three parts an attack on the Wilson administration. an indictment of "bosses" and an expo sition of the progressive party's prin- ciples.
 The administrators tariff laws Col onel Roosevelt hailed as a colossal fall ure. particularly hard upon the farmer. It's antitrust programme he branded as an economic absurdity: It's foreign poll icy he styles as "wretched" The demo- cratic tariff. he insisted. hnd brought distress upon the nation had not low cred the cost of living. and had chiefly benefited foreign rivals of the progress sive movement and the enactment of laws providing for tariff revision by Ia nonpartisan commission of the "bosses." MT. Roosevelt said they thwarted the rank and file of the re- publican party by the nomination of Taft at Chicago and in so doing. "de-