The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1920-08-17

FRANKLIN ~. HO0SeVeN, Democratic
candidate for the e-presidency,
proved himself an obliging candidate
when he consented to make a mid
night talk in Bismarck. Arriving
here on No. from jamestown, the
candidate left his car and spoke
briefly from truck at Fourth street.
The train was late, and it was
1890 o'clock before the candidate
was in the midst of his short talk,
but local Democratic leaders were
gratified at the number Of people who
stayed up to hear him. T
''I'd stay up all night to meet a
crowd like this" said Mr. Roosevelt,
as he addressed the crowd of $50 to
200 people, Mr.. Roosevelt recalled
previous tripe to the state during the
shooting season. He said that he
hoped that Governor Cox would be in
Bismarck in September to make Il
speech during the day time.
Not For Porch Campaign .
"Our theory is that it is our duty
to come out and meet the people,, y
he said, "and 60 from coast to coast.
We do not believe in a porch cam
paign."
Outlining what he said was the
principal line of attack of the Demo-
Gratis he said it was the difference
between progressive principles and
reactionary principles"
"We are not calling the candidate
Names" he said referring to Sena-
tor Harding, "but we are calling the
men behind him narhes--men who
made the Chicago convention joke,
who wrote platform no one could
understand"
Refers to 7. r..
During his brief talk the candi~
date said he was fighting the same
men in the Republican party "who
were thrown out of the party by a
man who knew and loved this state
well-Theodore Roosevelt" The re-
ference to the name of distant re-
lative brought some hand-clapping
which plainly was in honor of the
deceased former president, .sssD ,-e,s,.,
Mr.. Roosevelt mentioned the
league of nations only briefly. Dur
ing his talk he said that the Demo-
Gratis were not satisfied in giving the
laboring man a full dinner pail, but
that "the laboring man wants some
thing else besides food in his stom-
ach" The crowd took this as
yelled thrust at prohibition, and
laughter and some hand clppping fol-
lowed it. y
On two or three occasions the
trend of Mr.. .Roosevelt's talk jndicat-
ed an open bid for the Nonpartisan
league vote.
Talks "Pr0gressiveism"
He said that Democracy offers a
platform just as progressive as the
people of North Dakota.
1--WE intend to go into the various
states and learn they have solved
various problems, for instance, ques-
tions such as you have gone into
to learn how to get food into the
hands of the consumer without too
great COST
- He said that too many men were
drifting to the cities and that the
problem of agriculture was an i'm.
portant one In closing he express
ed confidence as to how "this pro-
gressive state" is going to answer
the questions of the campaign on
election day.
Mr. Roosevelt, after speaking at
Valley City yesterday, made motor
trip to jamestown, marred only by a
couple of breakdowns do to tire
trouble. He spoke to about 1,0O0
people in Jamestown, his tour man
.ager said, who expressed himself as
we'll pleased with the results of the
trip. His next regularly scheduled
stop is Billings. >,
Mr. Roosevelt also spoke briefly in
Mandan, the train reaching there az
IL o'clock (Mandan time) At the
conclusion of his talk he shook hands
with many people about the train.
There were about 200 people at the
train.