Arizona republican., 1916-10-27
WOMEN APPLAUD COLONEL AS HE
 RELATES TRUTH
THepubIlcan A. p. Leased wirel


 CHICAGO, Oct 26-Chieago wom- en cheered Colonel Roosevelt today when he appealed to them not to be influenced by the plea that Presidnt Wilson had kept the nation out Of war. When he told them that he would fight at the drop of the hat if necessary to stop the murder of women and chil- dren. they met the announcement with a '"ng chorus of applause.
 The colonel closed his western tour here toaay with two speeches, the first exclusively to women, with not more than a scant score of policemen and reporters in the audience. He had been asked, he said, to appeal especially to the women who had been influenced by the peace slogan but he had decided Co make. he declared, exactly the same appeal he would have made to men.
 T am not going to speak" he said, 'to what I might call the early Vic torian aunt"
 There was no attempt to heckle the speaker. the only interruption after he had described pictures of women and children killed in Mexico and said he would have gone to war if necessary Co avoid that several voices called, What about Hughes"
 MT. Hughes can be trusted to keep his word" answered MT. Roosevelt. When he says that he would not sub init to such deeds as the sinking of the Lusitania or the killing of our citizens in Mexico he means what he says"
 You have stood up and listened to The Star Spangled Banner" and to America, and you have stood up be- cause they were written about a gen eration of Americans that was not too proud to fight You may notice that tne expression safety first is not em- bodied in either song. And when you are told to vote for Mir. Wilson because he kept us out of war. remember that is something that cannot be said either of Washington or Lincoln"
 He was interrupted again when he told of returning from the border, where he said he found 150.O0O troops without knowing what they were there for. Wilson doesn't want them to vote" called a woman.
 "I was going to be more charitable and say that he wanted them there to help make up the presidents mind whether he was at peace or at war"
 The democratic platform said that the Mexicans have made war on our people. The judge advocate general ruled that the American army in Mex ico was at war. So the Mexicans are at war. and our army is at war, but Mr. Wilson is at peace"
 The women also applauded his ref erence to hyphenated citizens. There is no room in this country for the per petuation of different nationalities," he continued. ITO divide our citizens along political racial lines is to be guilty Of moral treason to the republic. To hold for this country only half an allegiance Is in reality to be hostile to this country. for in practice when the crisis comes, the man whose loyalty is on a fifty-fifty basis always shows that his loyalty to the other country comes first"
 Only the brief introduction to the address was devoted to suffrage, MT Roosevelt referring to the women as his fellow American citizens and urging them to work for the passage of an amendment to the federal constitution providing for suffrage He spoke at a mass meeting tonight.
 The colonel laughed at a huge clut labelled the Roosevelt Big Stick" that was handed him before he began tc talk tonight and declared that Presi- dent Wilson. instead of carrying a biz stick, had spoken harshly and carried powder puff He repeated that he would have seized every interned Ger. man ship immediately after the Falaba and Gulflight incidents and then lei the Germans bargain with him on how much he should concede them.
 Tn Mexico, I would have put Leon. ard Wood in there and told him to dC just as we did in Cuba, to avoid troubl, m he could. but if he couldn't. not tc slap anvbOdYs wrist And if fhere ura,