Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-27
On John Wannamaker's Invi-
tation Will Speak at
Cooper Union
GREAT CROWDS HEAR HIM
in CHICAGO YESTERDAY
Expressing Contempt for VIII
son He Twice Likens Him
To a Woman
By ]. P. Yoder

(Unlted PresS staff correspondent
Chicago, Oct. 27.-Answering pub
lished reports that he was to be gagged
into pussy-footing on the German is
sue, and that as a result a coldness had
arisen between himself and the powers
behind the Hughes campaign, Colonel
Roosevelt today announced that he will
probably make five more speeches in
the interests of the republican presi-
Dental candidate.
Besides Baltimore, the colonel will
speak at Cooper Union, in New York
city probably next Friday evening, and
lat Toledo and Cleveland earlier In the
week. The Baltimore speech is set for
next Saturday evening. He speaks in
Brooklyn tomorrow night.
The colonel denied the reports of fric-
ton in the following statement to the
United Press:
1t s all nonsense. | am in absolute
agreement with the managers of the
campaign, with Mr.. Hert, Mr.. Wilcox
and Mr.. Perkins. The question here was
whether all that We said should be in
the evening or afternoon. The gentle
men named aske,sme only to state my
innermost and best ~, convictions as
strongly as | desired. am in entire
harmony with them. The only question
/ had to decide yesterday was whether
could meet the desires of the chair
man and the national committeeman
of Ohio and speak in Cleveland and To
ledo. After getting in touch with Mr..
Wilcox, 1 am happy to say / have
been able to do so.
Wanamaker Invites Him
81 have also accepted the kind offer
of MIR. Wanamaker to speak at Cooper
Union next Friday. / shall speak at
Baltimore Saturday of next week. -
The Wheeling, w. Va, speech, which
had been only tentatively set, has been
called off.
The colonel's party left this morning
at S:25 over the New York Central and
will reach New York at s clock to.
morrow. By the time it arrives there,
the trip will have included speaking
through fourteen states and $500 miles
of travel.
Although the colonel has insisted he
will adhere rigidly to his plan not to
make any real speeches along the route,
republican managers here, in Indiana,
and Ohio have his promise for "plat-
form appearances, and perhaps very
brief talks and handshaking at all reg
ular train stops. Elkhart was to be the
first of these today.
The Colonel s Birthday
Today is the colonel s birthday. He
is 5S, and says he is as replete with
Roosevelt ginger and pep as of old. He
looks it today and he looked ID yester-
day when he was given reception that
everyone here said was noisier, bigger
and more enthusiastic than those re-
Gently accorded President Wilson and
Hughes here. He spoke twice. In the
afternoon he hit all hyphenates hard
and spoke on woman suffrage and
Americanism before 1000 women pho
packed the auditorium. In the evening
he even went stronger against 'pro-
fessional Germans and any citizens who
are of the $3.50 allegiance variety
The meeting at the Stock Yards pavil-
ion in the evening was unique. Bedam
got loose the minute he catapulted his
way to the platform, and continued
loose and excessively noisy for 35 min
utes.
The speech in the afternoon was very
similar to the one he delivered to the
women in Denver Tuesday afternoon,
except that the colonel was more bit
ing in his denunciation of hyphenates.
And his condemnation of President
Wilson s European and Mexican poll.
cics was also more scathing than at any
time since he mounted the stump. He
declared "any man who even thinks
of another nation ahead of the United
States should be driven uot. " He said
he has since discovered he flattered
President Wilson in a previous speech,
when he said "he speaks bombastically
and carries dishrag.'
Is Silly AS A Woman
"It Is more true to say he speaks
softly and carries a powder puff, said
Roosevelt
He described "peace at any pric-
ers" as being gentlemen whose shoul
ders slope like champagne bottle who
tell us Wilson has kept us out OF war.
| Interrupted only once at the evening
meeting by hecklers who called "what
would you have done with Germanyf'
he called it a fair question and said:
"In the first place, | never would
have gotten in that fix. But If had,
should have seized every interned
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