The Washington herald., 1916-11-04
BIC STICK" HITS
WILSON POLICIES
7. R. Makes Bitter Attack on
Shadow Dance of Words"

CBy the International News service.)
New York. NoVsS-CoL Theodore Roose-
welt and I 500 of his admirers had hot
time at Cooper Union tonight slamming
Woodrow Wilson. The Colonel concen-
trated everything he had said before
about the President during the campaign
into this final speech. and then said some
new things.
Hit 'em again. Teddy shouted the
crowd at his hardest knocks, and every
time the Colonel grinned. and did hit
EN- again"
Very little was said about Mr.. Hughes.
John Wanamaker, who presided, spoke
Of him more times in his talk OF twenty
minutes than the Colonel did In his, talk
Of more than an hour. From appear
ance, the Colonel might have been the
candidate.
Lincoln I'm Evidence.
One thing Is certain, the Republicans
and Democrats alike are unanimous for
Abraham Lincoln. The night before
President Wilson was likened right to his
face to Abraham Lincoln, and he did not
deny IL. Attention was called to the
tablet, over the Presidents head, COM
memoratfng Lincoln's famous. Cooper
Union speech.
Tonight. the managers of the Roosevelt
meeting did the thing much better. They
had the hall profusely DECORATED with
bunting. which the Tammany <Hall COM
mittee did not do for Wilson. They had
a portrait of Lincoln behind the speak
ers stand, and two huge plaster busts
of Lincoln on either side They brought
out for the occasion the old reading desk
and the chair which Lincoln used when
he made his great speech.
The crowd was quite different in ap-
pearance from the Wilson meeting of the
night before. There were many in even
ing clothes. and one-f1fth at least of the
audience was women, including some of
the Roosevelt family. On the stage were
many Old Guard Republicans and George
w. Perkins to represent the returned
Progressives. There was not a heckler in
the crowd.
When Col. Roosevelt entered the crowd
cheered him for seven minutes, four more
than the crowd cheered Wilson the night
before Cries of 1--WE want Teddy made
the Colonel smile. The cheers were taken
up outside the hall by thousands in the
street.
Sees Period of Peril.
ness interests of the country in intro
ducing the Colonel
believe. and many business men
believe" he said, that a period of
peril and distress threatens this ma
tion on account of the Wilson policies
believe the Republican party, which,
under God. saved the nation nifty
years ago. win have to save II now
from being plunged into a century of
Indebtedness"
Col Roosevelt was cheered for an
other minute when he began to speak.
His scornful references to Mr.. Wilson
as another Buchanan made the crowd
yell with delight. and when he said
the President resembled a horse in the
middle Of a stream that moved feebIy
forward and feebly backward and oc-
casionally lies down." they cheered for
a minute and cried hit him again."
Several new phrases of the ColonePs
attacking the President delighted the
crowd. Shadow dance of words" Span
gied shroud of rhetoric" "sordid un-
truths" He passes for a man of learn
ing" Veil of rhetorical phrases" made
them cheer again and again.
His excoriation OF the President for
saying You cannot worship God on an
empty stomach reused the greatest ap-
plause in his address. There was another
demonstration at his pictures of Ameri-
can troopers massacred by Mexicans, the
crowd on the floor and the people on the
stage rising in spontaneous salute to
him, and cheering him for q minute.