The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-09-09
COL. ROOSEVELT
AGAIN |NVADES
SOLID SOUTH
IN SEARCH OF PROGRESSIVE
VOTES FROM DlSCONTENTEO
DEMOCRATS. DEGREES POLICY
OF GOVERNMENT ON TARIFF.

New Orleans, Sept. S.-TheOdOre
Roosevelt in "a speech at the French
opera house tonight decried the back
ward and reactionary" policy of the
government in handling the tariff ques
ton, particularly as it affected Loui-
siana sugar interests, reiterated his
charges that the paying Of $25,OOO,OOO
to Columbia as a result of the deal
whereby the United States obtains the
Parama canal zone would be black
mail, and left late today for a One-day
campaign in the Third Louisiana con
gressional district. The Third dis
| trict comprises the largest sugargrow-
| ing section of the state.
Admission to the spacious opera
| house was gained only by cards which
! had been issued by the local progress
, i've committee. Some time before the
.ormer president began his address
| the place was filled, and the doors
were closed. The police had some diff
fculty with the crowds at the several
entrances.
Col. Roosevelt dwelt on principles Of
the progressive party, but laid especial
stress lupon the tariff insofar as it af-
fected the sugar growers of Louisiana,
and stood out strongly for federal con
troll of the Mississippi river.
In the afternoon he talked a few
minutes at Southern park, where a
Labor Day picuic was in progress In
that address he emphasized that la
Dor unions in principle were all right,
and if led by the right sort of men
worked toward a good end. Unions,
how ever, he said, should be careful
that their leaders did not rest with
the men who placed their personal in
terest above that of the body they
represented.
There are little crooks as well as
big crooks, and the progressive party
is after them all he said.
Colonel Roosevelt will begin his
trip through the Third district soon
his train arrives at Franklin tomor-
row morning. He will go from there
to New Iberia by automobile, making
several stops in the trip of forty
miles. At New iberia he will make
the main address of the day.
Colonel Roosevelt made a particu-
lar point of the flood problem, which
| he said, must be met not only by
levees, but great storage reservoirs
upstream, which would not only stop
the floods but serve well for irrigation
| purposes. He reminded his hearers
that he had been an advocate of fed
eral control of the river for a long
| time. 81 insisted upon it when ! was
president he said, but neither OF
. the old parties adopted it. 1t is only
! the progressive party that has seen
the need of such a farreaching con
structive policy"
J He spoke warmly of the progress
ives in Louisiana. There were no 9th
er members of the party, he said,
who more emphatically deserved well
of the partN than the progressives OF
Louisiana He spoke of the ola repub-
lican party as having a deliberate
purpose to become the bulwark of
bourbon antagonism to advance
throughout the nation" and said the
democrats were welded to outworn
principles of government and dead
and buried economic theories"
The day was Labor Day, which led
him to discuss industrial and economic
conditions. Both the old parties are
welded to their idols. The republican
party by every action il has taken dur