New Britain herald., 1916-10-04

they extended hands Colonel Roose- welt shook. He shook hands with Gov ernor Whitman, with MT. Calder, with Robert Bacon, with George Won l.. Meyer. once member of his cabinet, with Chauncey M. Depew and with General Horace Porter. And then, or about then, came MT. Taft.
 Scared of the Press.
 After this exchange Of greetings they lined up to wait for the anxious horde in the railways, held in forma- tion by velvet ropes, which had been r1aced there to see that no newspaper man got by If a newspaperman ven tured even so little past the sacred line there was loud command which tended to make the situation trlfe ridiculous at times.
 The line in the alcove stiffened to meet the assault of the thousand or more Here is the way they stood: l FIihu Root, Charles E. Hughes. Theo- dore Roosevelt, Chauncey M. DepeW, William H. Taft, General Porter, Gov ernor Whitman, Senator A. B. Fall of New Mexico, R. Livingston Beeck- man. governor of Rhode Island; Ma tional Chairman Wilcox, Senator Weeks. MT. von l.. Meyer, Robert Ba- con. w. Cameron Forbes, head of the Hughes Alliance. It took an hour for the long line or men of thousand shades and convic- tions in the field of politics to file by. They showed how glad they were to see the colonel back in the ranks fehting for the success of the party. They were vigorous in their hand shakes and in their words, but no more vigorous than the colonel He had no enemies that he would admit to be such with the possible exceptions of MT. Taft in his efforts to get men working together to beat MT. Wilson.
 As the last man filed by-it was the biggest crowd ever inside the carefully guarded doors of the Union league there was a rush for the room where speechCs were to be heard. They cheered for MT. Root, they cheered for MT. Hughes and heard him tell what he purposed to do if elected, and of the faults of MT. Wilson. They roared for the colonel when he stood up and smiled in a way that was al- most an open peal of laughter.
 Colonel Assails Germany.
 Colonel Roosevelt in his address made no reference to MT. Taft or to the matter of reconciliation. He did attack the German Americans and re- fer with bitter words to the sinking of the Lusitania, which he termed murder on the high sea- a term not employed by MT. Hughes.
 He said that there was a, debate now in progress among the shapers of Germany's policy on the question of submarines. There would be nc such debate, he said if the Germans knew that there was in the White House a president who would not tol. crate such methods.
 President Wilson in his speech de- livered on Saturday, Colonel Roose- welt said, had expressed his real con- victions, namely that "he tapped his adversary on the wrist" The Wilson policies, he said, were being upheld by men whose shoulders "sloped like champagne bottles.'
 Mr. Taft made the nearest thing to an offer of reconciliation with Roose- welt, but it went unanswered. He said:
 We are holding one of those ex- ceptional meetings of the ex-oresi- dents club. It is not a large mem | bership and the members do not al ! ways entertain complete harmony o1 ! views. But there is one subject on | nich we are unanimous to a point | which cannot be exaggerated, an6 | that is that we are going to elect ir l November another. member"