The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-10-29

many Hall extend It's grip 10 Albany.
The meeting was managed by the Re-
publican Club and Republican county
committee.
= Ovation for Roosevelt.
II was an unconditional surrender
meeting, Those two words, first uttered
by the chairman. Robert w. Bonynge.
and later by Cob Roosevelt, as united
Americas demand upon Germany. caused
great explosions of cheering. which were
surpassed only by the fuss the audience
made over the Colonel himself when he
, appeared on the stage.
The band hailed the chief speaker
. with "A Hot Time In tho Old Town To-
night, The $500 persons in the hall
yelled in the old time Teddy" de-
ilrium. They stood UP and shrieked his
name again and again. They sat down
, and clapped their hands steadily, then
were up Va gain. when man screamed
!. whats Tue matter with Teddy and
n big voice across the auditorium BEL
, lowed Hes a bear"
Chairman Bonynge obtained partial
silence with his gavel. but was lost In a
Z new tumult when from the gallery there
came the cry Unconditional surrender.
: The Colonel waved at his friends. then
waved for a chance to be heard. but only
I. after n verse of America had been
sung was Mr.. Bonynge able to intro
duce him.
HE led where others followed" said
Mr. Bonynge. ITO him more than TO
any other man is due that military spirit
= that Is now sweeping the nations 10 VIC
tory on the battlefield"
.sThree cheers for a fighting man. an
ecstatfc Teddyite shouted when Col
Roosevelt insisted that there could be
only one peace-the peace OF "uncondi-
tional surrender"
"Don't Cheer for Me-"
Don't cheer for me-" the ex-Presi-
dent replied I'D have been fighting
man IL 1 had been allowed to be. Cheer
! for the men who are really fighting
overseas
The speaker was at his best, both In
his deadly serious remarks and MS
comic interludes.
"Nen come to me- even to-day they
have come" he said. land say they
hope 1 won't be extreme. The trouble
is that my extremeness Is somebody
else's moderation three years later. FOR
-four and a quarter years they've toid
me not to be extreme. and any NUMBER
Of. peoble who said was extreme are
now saying l wasn't extreme enough
| They forget that they professed 10 nave
catalepsy because of my extremeness
of four and a quarter years ago.
~ Don't worry (here the Colonel
chuckled infectiously). 7 shan't be ex-
streme tonight. BY that I mean
shan't go beyond the point I think
ought to 60"
later a man in the gallery found oc-
casion to cry out: We understand
you. Teddy
yes Mr. Roosevelt answered. land
you won't find letter from me in two
or three days taking back or explaining
!, anything / say to you tonight"
Reference to Aircraft.
He also interpolated an assertion that
: although American made bombing ana
observation planes are now at the front
b .fhere is not one American war plane,
sstNe Avion de Chase, despite 100000
J 600 spent.
- II have had my hands full keeping up
,. with the Presidents notes" Col. Roose-
welt said later. II can't be sure that
2 what I saw at A. NJ as the Presi-
dents opinion will not be proved err
roneous at p. NJ. I hear dthe other
y day that the President had counted up
: that morning his notes TO Germany, and
finding that Germany was one note be-
I hind he didn't think it fair TO write
another note to Germany, and so wrote
a note to America.
Mentioning the World as the Presi-
dents personal organ he observed ;
when I say that I hope I am not
wronging Mr.. Hearst l think the World
is about neck ahead in the race"
How about the New York Tin,csf
came a query from balcony.
''Now don't ask me 10 give list OF
the also rams" the Colonel falsettoed.
That part of the Roosevelt speech
dealing with the Presidents appeal TO
tnt voters follows in full:
J, r This meeting Is held under peculiar
Z circumstances II the President of the
United States is right In the appeal he
has just made to fhe voters. then you
and J. my hearers, have no right to vote
! at this election or to discuss public ques-
lions while the war lasts. If his appeal
In justified, only that faction OF the
Democratic party which accepts toward
the President the rubber stamp attitude
OF complete servility is entitled to con-
trol Congress- and no man who ia a
Republican, and no man whether Re-
publican or not who puts loyalty to the
people ahead~of loyalty 10 the servant
OF the people. is to have a voice in de-
termining the greatest questions ever
brought before this nation.
"In this election appeal which the
President has issued TO the voters OF the
country he states that he earnestly
= beRs' the voters to return n Democratic
majority to both tire Senate and the
House OF Representative and that al
though the leaders Of the minority in
the present Congress have unquestion-
ably. been pro-war they have been anti
Administration and that the return OF
Republican ma jority to either house
of Congress would certainly be inter-
preted on the other side OF the water
as a repudation OF my president Will
/. son's) leadership
b $50 Reflects Upon sincerity
This is an extraordinary document
I II is AN emphatic reputation and re-
versal OF the Presidents announcement
OF few months back that politics is
adjourned 1t casts the gravest doubt
on the sincerity of that announcement
and indeed for the last few months
the Democratic party organization. act.
Ing with the support and direction OF the
Presidents closest advisers such as
Aessrs. Burleson and Creel, has been
working with naked eagernPss for parti.
san success. and has displayed a greedy
unscrupulousness as TO methods and 2
complete subordination OF national In.
-terest to partisan welfare never before
= known in our history during a great war
when this war broke out I, and al
those who believed as did, cast al
thought OF politics aside and put our.
Feives unreservedly at the service OF the
President. OF course II Mr.. Wilson had
really meant TO disregard politics hi
would at once have constructed a coali
ton, non-pE rtisan Cabinet. calling the
best men OF the nation TO the highest