New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-04
Colonel Is Cheered by
$4,000 at Cooper
Union Rally
'76 SLUR BLAMED
UPON PRESIDENT
Lincoln and Washington
Cited to Prove Execu-
tive Is Weak


army of ghosts to confront Wood
row Wilson last night. From the
platform of Cooper Union, he peo-
pied the reaches of Shadow Lawn,
the Presidents summer residence.
with an accusing host of shades. He
pictured the hands Of dead men and
women stretched toward a man who
could not hear. He pictured the
voices of those who have gone TO
their death, without the protection
of the flag, calling to man who
could not hear.
They were all there-"the shadows
Of Shadow Lawn"-those Americans,
he said, who had died while Woodrow
Wilson sat in the White House,
and whose murders he never has
avenged:
The men, women and children OF
the Lusitania, killed by foreign
power, with whom the United States
remains on terms of diplomatic
friendliness, "the shadows Of the
helpless whom Mr.. Wilson did not
dare to protect, lest he might have
to face danger"
The shadows of the troopers slain at
Carrizal following the flag, which went
no further after their defeat because
President Wilson, who had sent them
to do a task, then "shamefully aban-
doned them to the mercy OF their foes"
Other shadows Cited
These were some Of the shadows"
that Theodore Roosevelt saw creeping
about the house Of him who askA ths
American people to reelect him next
? Tusday.
Other shades were in that dolorous
company. Even Washington and Lin
coin were called upon TO confront the
! President-the first y answer Seere-
tary Bakers comparison Of the men OF
/ Valley Forge with the men OF villa and
a score of border outrages, the other TO
bear mute testimony that II was not
"bad policy TO swap horses crossing
creek Men in the tense days Of 1850
swapped horses "a Lincoln for
! Buchanan.
And then. with that mute company
grouped before Shadow Lawn, Colonel
] Roosevelt called upon the crowd which
jammed Cooper Union to its roof and
overfowed far out into the streets, 20
"place in the White House the upright
! Justice, the fearless Governor OF the
/ State of New York, who will do right,
no matter what influence is brought
/ against him."
Colonel Roosevelt referred TO the
nations crisis ss "a crisis preemi-
nently moral and spiritual" and said
I that President Wilson had failed to
vindicate American tradition in every
| instance.
Oldtime Teddy in Action
In this, the first Official appearances
I Colonel Roosevelt has made In New
York in this campaign, he was the
/ Roosevelt of old-full Of fire and with
1the punch" in every sentence-thst
! time after time reused those OF the
crowd Of $4,000 that were able to get
/ into the hall 20 frenzied cheers. Again
boos and Kisses marked a point scored
against the Administration. At times
there was laughter, as when he re-
ferred to Secretary Baker as can ami
able gentleman who likes TO knit" This
rocked the house with laughter.
/ IL was not. however. until referring
to Mr.. Wilson's residence at Shadow
/ Lawn, he described the shadows OF
slain Americans that should be there.
that he reached his climax. In a
silence that permitted his voice 70 be
heard in the furthest corners of the
hall, Colonel Roosevelt spoke slowly.
clipping of his words in Characteristic
style and pausing solmnly between
phrases until he had reached the end.
Then the crowd swirled on TO the plat
form. whence able-bodied friends .hus-
tied him TO his automobile that be might
speak at another meeting in the Ma
tional Theatre. at Second Avenue and
/ Houston Street.
Ovation at Theatre
There the Colonel received another
typically Rooseveltian reception. The
theatre was packed TO capacity az 1880
o'clock waiting the return OF the
Hughes women campaigners who have
circled the country. Ten thousand
persons outside waited the coming of
/ Colonel Roosevelt and at 9:a5. whei
he arrived. broke loose in tumultuous
demonstration. The Colonel spoke in
the theatre for an hour. while the
throng waited outside, and another
mighty roar Of applause filed the
strees, when he rsappesred.
Colonel Roosevelt in Cooper Union
was az home. But il was not .
typical Cooper Union audience. Ad-
mission was by ticket. and the bulk OF
| the house was allied with men and
women we'll known in the ranks Of
business. of finance and society. Al
T:55 O'clock the doors were opened