New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-18
ROOSEVELT OFF
TO CLNCH WEST
Will Attack Wilson and
Pacifsts-Adds Emporia
to Itinerary
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tProm 4. STAFF Correspondent, o, ne Tribunel
On board Colonel Roosevelt's car,
Buffalo, OcI.. 17.-Before Colonel
Roosevelt reached Albany this after
noon on the start Of his twelve day
speaking tour for Hughes he had
agreed TO the first change in an timer
airy which he had declared was unal-
terable. In Difference to William Allen
White and other old friends in Kansas
the Colonel has decided to stop for
half an hour in Emporia Thursday
evening
He made this announcement after
he had received word that the En-
poria editor would join the Roose-
welt party in Kansas City.
There will be no other stops be-
tween Louisville, where he speaks to-
morrow night, and Phoenix, Ariz.,
where he will discuss the Mexican
problem Saturday afternoon, the Colo
mel asserts. His associates on the
Western tour, however, are not so pos
tive concerning his ban on rear-plat-
form speaking. They fear his acqui-
essence to the request from Kansas will
bring down upon his secretaries a
deluge Of kilograms from local Re-
publican committees along the route.
First Day Out Is Quiet.
This was a quiet day for the Colonel.
He left the Grand Central Ter
minal at 1920 o'clock this morning
In a private car attached to the regular
Mohawk Express. He is accompanied
by his political secretary, Regis H.
Post, former Governor OF Porto Rico;
Walter j. Hayes, his private secretary;
Alvin T. Hert, Western campaign man
ager for the Republican National Com
mittee, who will leave the party at
Louisville, and three newspaper cor
respondents.
As the train sped along the Hudson
Colonel Roosevelt was asked to read =
newspaper clipping in which Frank p.
Walsh, former chairman of the Federal
Commission of Industrial Relations,
referred to him as the "Gyp the Blood
of the Republican campaign.
"Mr. Walsh is not TO be taken seri-
ously as a reformer,7 he said. II can't
give serious attention to comic lit
erature."
Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow, re
tired. rode in the ColonePs car as far
as Harmon, n. Y. -.
At Albany Mr.. Roosevelt left his
luncheon to shake hands with score
Of railroad employees who gathered
about the car.
"I'm for you, Teddy" one OF the
men shouted.
Tomorrow morning the Roosevelt
party will dash through Cincinnati
without a stop and turn south into
the mountain district Of Kentucky,
where the Colonel is due TO make thir-
teen short speeches before he arrives,
in the evening, at Louisville, for the
first of his FIVE important speeches:
There are thousands OF Republican
votes in the Kentucky district where
we CO." Mr.. Hert said tonight. Our
task is to get them stirred up so they
will come to the polls, as many of them
live thirty miles from the nearest
voting place. We anticipate that the
mountaineers will drive miles 20 see
tho Colonel"
In his speeches at Louisville, Ph9nlx,
Albuquerque, Denver and Chicago, Colo
mel Roosevelt is planning to deal
smashing raight-from-the-s boulder
blows against the pacifsts, the hyphen.
ates and the Wilson slogan, HE Kept
Us Out Of War"
Tonight the Colonel was reading
Lecky's "History OF England"