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SENATOR LORIMER
WITHDRAWS FROM
CLUB IN CHICAGO
Hamilton's Board of Directors
May Refuse to Accept
His Resignation
HARMONY DINNER IS SPOILED
Was to Have Been the Guest of
Honor Before Roosevelt
Refused to Attend
[Associated Press]
CHICAGO, S«pt. 10.—A terse note
of resignation from the Hamilton club,
of which he had been a member many
years, was the reply made here today
by United States Senator William
Lorimer to the action of the club pres
ident, John H. Batten, in withdrawing
his invitation to the Roosevelt banquet
Thursday night.
While Senator Lorimer urged that
his resignation be accepted immediate
ly, It Is said his friends on the club
board of governors, will probably re
fuse to vote its acceptance.
The correspondence from Prosldent
Batten to Senator Lorimer revealed, it
was shown today, that the senator
was to have been one of the guests
of honor at the banquet. This cor
respondence also showed it had been
the hope of the club to make the
dinner notable as a harmonious occa
sion, at which all factions of the Re
publican party could break broad to
gether.
At least three Invitations were sent
to Lorimer, each urging him to attend
the banquet, and to the last of these
he sent his acceptance.
The note of resignation was written
after a conference between the senator
and a number of his friends, and at
first was believed to be a cue which
would be followed by a number of his
admirers in the club. Later, It was
decided by his friends to prevent the
acceptance of the resignation.
ROOSEVELT REFUSES TO TALK
PITTSBURO, Sept. 10.—When Col.
Roosevelt heard tonight that Senator
Lorimer had resigned from the Ham
ilton club, he was greatly Interested,
but would make no comment.
DENIES DECLARING THAT
T. R. WOULD BE KING
North Dakota President Says He
Was Misquoted
, FARGO, N. D., Sept. 10.—Tonight
President Charles C. Creegan of Fargo
college said he was .misquoted in his
address introducing Colonel Roolevelt
at the laying of the cornerstone of the
Carnegie library building here last
Monday. President Creegan was
quoted as saying that "if Colonel
Roosevelt should come here to live we
would make him king."
President Creegan says that what
he did say was this:
"If you (Colonel Roosevelt) grew
weary of living under the shadow of
Wall street and butting up against
political bosses and newspaper men
who do not seem to understand you,
or try to undersand you, will come
out to this great commonwealth where
you spent several of the happiest years
of your early manhood, if you will
pitch your tent among a people who
honor you, believe in you and love'
you, I can promise you a Job on this
non-partisan platform. I dare not
mention the office, but it is one which
will tax all your powers, physical, in
tellectual and moral, and give you a
splendid field for happy service."
Many letters and telegrams have
been received by President Creegan
asking if he made the remarks at
tributed to him.
SOCIALISTIC CONVENTION
ORGANIZES IN SAN JOSE
Los Angeles Man Elected Secre
tary of Party Delegates
, SAN JOSE, Sept. 10.—With forty
eeven delegates present, many of them
women, the Socialistic state convention
was organized here this afternoon with
N. H. Richardson of San Bernardino,
chairman, and George W. Dunning of
Los Angeles, Secretary. Charles R.
Miller of Vallejo was elected assist
ant secretary.
A new state central committee was
elected and a platform, which will b&
adopted tomorrow, was drafted.
This evening a mass meeting was
held at which addresses were made by
J. Stitt Wilson of Berkeley, Socialist
candidate for governor; Job Harriman
of Los Angeles, for. United States sen
ator; Fred C. Wheeler of Los Angeles,
candidate for lieutenant governor, and
E. L. Reguin of San Francisco, candi
date for congress, fifth district.
PAYNE, TARIFF LAW
AUTHOR, HAS HARD FIGHT
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—According to
a special to the World, dated Auburn,
N. V.. Sereno E. Payne, chairman of
the ways and means committee in
the national house and father of the
Payne tariff law, has a stiff fight on
his handa for renomination to con
gress. His opponent will be former
Mayor Clarence E. Aiken of Auburn,
who today announced hla candidacy.
Mr. Aiken Is a lawyer and a well
known after-dinner speaker. He is said
to favor downward revision of the tar
iff.
NOTED SCULPTOR DIES
PARIS, Sept. 10.—Emanuel Fremlt,
the noted French sculptor, die;l today.
He was born December 15, 1821. Ho
was a grand officer of the Legion of
Honor and a member of the Institute
of France.
LOS ANGELES HERALD
SENATOR SNUBBED
BY CLUB TENDERS
HIS RESIGNATION
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WILLIAM IiOBIMBR
INDEX OF
HERALD'S NEWS
TODAY
FORECAST "
For I.<>» Angeles and vicinity—Fair Sun
dan light north wind. Minimum tempera
ture yesterday 98 degrees; minimum 09.
LOS ANGELES
I*. H. Griffith, well known mining .man. Is
shot and wounded by Mrs. Virginia
Krauss, Southern woman of distinguished
family. ■,■-': Section 1, PAGE 3
Ijos Jtngeles merchants will give united
fashion show during raining congress.
Section 1, PAGE} 7
Associates In office honor approaching* fif
tieth wedding anniversary of horticultural
commissioner. Section 1, PAGE 7
Alhambra citizens oppose lighting contract
and favor establishing municipal plant.
Section 1, PAGE 7
City club extends hearty welcome to Judge
W. P. Lawlor, who delivers address at
luncheon. Section 1, PAGE 6
Los Angeles public schools will Intro
duce new system of child training.
Section 1. PAGE 8
Charles Draper tells of Incompatibility of
his parents In suit of Benjamin Draper
for divorce. Section 1, PAGE 7
Three hundred Mlsaourlans attend picnic In
Sycamore grove. Section 2, PAGE 3
Broken trolley wire endangers several lives
and child Is saved from death by father's
bravery. Section 2, PAGE 6
Miss Osborne, grief stricken because
mother's death Interfered with wedding,
attempts to end her life. Section 1, PAGE 3
Fires In Santa Monica mountain ! forests
(continue to burn and ashes rain down
in Sherman, East Bants, Monica and Saw
telle. — Section 1, PAGES 6
Mayor Alexander vetoes ordinance fixing
wharfage rates at harbor because of con
flicts In Its sections. Section 2, PAGE 6
Case of Harry Chandler, charged with libel,
continued until September 19.
Section 3, PAGE! 6
Son of San Francisco millionaire writes
of love affair and ends life by drinking
poison. Section 2, PAGE 8
Youngsters swarm to health offices to b»
vaccinated, as required by law, before
school opens. Section 1, PAGE 1
Marriage licenses, births, deaths.
Section 3, PAGE 5
Theaters and dramatic criticism.
Section 4, PAGE 1
Fraternal and secret orders.
Section 2, PAGE 7
National guard officers discuss need of new
armory In Los Angeles. Section 2, PAGE 11
Editorial and Latter Box. Section 1, PAGE) 6
City brevities. Section 1. PAGE 7
News of the courts. Section 2, PAGE 6
Municipal affairs. Section 2, PAGE 6
Automobiles. Section 2. PAGES 1-2
Sport,. Section 2. PAGES 4-5
Markets and financial. Section 2, PAGE 11
Real estate. Section 3, PAGES 1-2
Building permits. Section 3, PAGE 2
Classified advertising. Section 3, PAGES 3-7
Society, clubs, music Section 2. PAGES 8-9
Art notes. Section 2, PAGE 9
Mining and oil fields. Section 1. PAGE 10
Shipping. Section 2. PAGE 11
SOUTH CALIFORNIA
Survey made by city engineer shows
Southern Pacific railway has tracks
on the Huntington concession.
Section 2. PAGE 3
Joe Snelllnte, 18-year-old San Bernar
dino boy, accidentally wounded in face •
by companion. Section 1, PAGE 11
Juvenile tournament of roses at Car
mellta park scores success.
Section 1, PAGE 11
COAST
Bloodhounds trail man wanted for the
murder of his young wife at Clay
burn. B. C. Section 1. PAGE 4
Gatlln Institute enjoins Neal institutes com
pany from using secret formula for cure
of liquor habit. Section 1, PAGE 3
EASTERN
Cause of sinking of ferryboat In Lake
Michigan, officials say. will remain a
mystery. Section 1. PAGE 4
Comptroller of Currency Murray will
conduct examinations In district of
east for national bank examiner.
Section 1. PAGE 4
Private banks fight new regulating laws
In Now York state. Section 1, PAGE 6
Campaign closes In Maine with both
sides confident of victory.
Section 1. PAGE 5
Missouri candidate ends his campaign
for United States senate and begins
suit for $150,000 against rival candi
dates. Section 1. PAGE 5
Civil War veteran of Chicago, nearly 92
years old, applies for marriage license.
Section 1, PAGE 2
Attorney General Wlckersham to Inspect
"smoke zone" of Butte. Section 1, PAGE 3
Governor Patterson announces his with
drawal from race for ro-eleotion. Sensa
tional climax In bitter campaign.
Section 1. PAGE 1
Roospvelt in address at Columbus, 0., de
miunces violence which marked car strike
In that city. Section 1, PAGH 1
Senator Lorlmer withdraws from the Ham
ilton club In Chicago and board of gov
ernors may refuse to accept resignation.
Section 1, PAGE 1
Boy returned to relatives by Black Hand
aftor three months In captivity.
Section 1, PAGE 1
Kciity-flve thousand persons at Boston-Har
vard areo meet sco Johnstone in Wright
biplane break endurance record.
Section 1, PAGE 4
Psychological society offers »1000 prize
to any raodium who will reveal con
tents of sealed letter left by late
ITufesaor James. Section 2, PAOE 3
FOREIGN
Hevinty-flve thousand churchmen present at
open »lr ceremony of Eucharistic congress.
Section 1, PAGE 3
SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 11, 1910.
TENNESSEE CHIEF
EXECUTIVE QUITS
RE-ELECTION RACE
Governor Patterson Issues State
ment Withdrawing in Interest
of Party Harmony
CLIMAX IN BITTER CAMPAIGN
Nominee Charges Opponents with
Trying to Accomplish His
Political Destruction
[Associated Press]
NASHVILLE, Term., Scp» 10.—In a
scorching statement Governor Mal
colm R. Patterson tonight withdrew
his candidacy as the Democratic nom
inee for governor of Tennessee, fur
nishing a sensational climax to a long
and* bitter preliminary campaign.
The governor has already served two
terms and announced his candidacy
for a third term In compliance with
the wishes of the state committee,
which declared him the Democratic
nominee without opposition.
The opponents of the governor de
clined to enter a primary, preferring
to submit the matter to a convention,
and the governor, in order to avoid the
threatened split, withdrew in the in
terest of harmony.
GOVERNOR'S STATEMENT
In a signed statement given the As
sociated Press tonight the governor
says:
"I became a candidate for governor
for the third term contrary to my per
sonal wishes. Conditions have arisen,
however, which appear to make my
further candidacy an injustice both to
my friends and the Democratic party,
"When the opposition to me assumed
the shape of a refusal to enter a pri
mary called by the state executive
committee I proposed if any gentle
man would offer to run against me to
allow him to select his own method
and time of nomination, with an equal
division of officers of election. There
was not and could not be the slightest
excuse to refuse this If the party was
to preserve its organization and not
disintegrate Into schisms and factions;
but the proposition was rejected. I
was declared the nominee for governor
without opposition and since then I
have offered to yield my nomination
so as to test anew whether it was the
choice of the majority.
APPEALS TO PA8«ION
"But to the minds of my ungenerous
opponents ail things were fair as a
means to the end of my political de
struction. Even then I did not believe
that any considerable number of Dem
ocrata could be betrayed from their al
legiance, but now !t seems certain the
continued appeals to passion and cre
dulity have found a lodgment which
neither fact nor persuasion c»n change,
and so long as I remain a candidate
a considerable number of Democrats
will not affiliate with the party, and
while not large comparatively it is
enough to Imperil Democratic success
in November. I do not wish It said
that my desire' for office is responsible
lor this condition, or as furnishing an
excuse to indorse a Republican can
didate by the so-called independent
Democratic convention, soon to be
held in Nashville.
"My conclusion is that I can best
serve my party anJ state In this emer
gency by voluntarily doing what my
enemies have so persistently demanded.
"I therefore retura my nomination to
the Democratic paity."
INVESTIGATES PROGRESS
OF THE PEACE MOVEMENT
David Starr Jordan Is Honored in
Paris
PARIS. Sept. 10.—David Starr Jor
dan, president of Stanford university,
California, after attending the Inter
national Zoological congress at Gratz,
Austria, and lecturing in Berlin on
"Humanity and War." is now in Paris
investigating the progress of the world
peace movement, in connection with
the International school of peace, re
cently incorporated in the United
States. .
Frederic Passy, member of the
Academy of Morland of political sci
ences, presided at a dinner given to
night in President Jordan's honor, at
which Baron d'Estournelles de Con
stant, and other prominent French
men interested in the peace movement,
were present.
Mr. Jordan will so from Paris to
Belgium and later to England to con
fer with peace workers in those coun
tries. He announces the directors of
the International school of peace, in
addition to himself, probably will be
James Brown Scott, solicitor for the
state department, Washington; James
A McDonald, of Toronto, and Charles
R. Brown and Edwin D. Mead, of
Boston.
VANDERBILT NOT SHOT-IS
TYPHOID FEVER SUFFERER
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—A report
published here today thaU Reginald C.
Vanderbilt, who has bedh ill at his
home In Newport, was suffering from
a gunshot wound received this com
ment tonight from Dr. Austin Flint,
jr., who hus been attending him:
"Reginald Vanderbilt has been suf
fering from typhoid fever for three
weeks, but has Improved very much
lately. He Is entirely out of danger.
His temperaturo is normal and in fact
he is almost convalescent."
Dr. Flint was reached tonight at
Newport by telephone.
MISS ELKINS LEAVES VICHY
VICHY, France, Sept. 10.—Mrs. Ste
phen B. Elklns, wife pf the United
States senator; Miss Katharine EUkini
and the latter's brother, Davis, ]< ■ r t
today for Paris. It is expected they
will sail for New York about October 1.
Crowd of School Children Waiting
at Health Office to Be Vaccinated
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BOY FREED FROM
BLACK HAND TOILS
Kidnaped Youngster Returned to
Relatives After Three
Months' Captivity
[Associate Press]
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Although
little Michael Sclmeca, the 3-year-old
son of Dr. Michael aolmeea, a promi
nent Italian, la Bafe^ In the hands of
his relatives today after having been
held for nearly three months a captive
by Black Hand kidnapers, the abduc
tors of the boy having escaped the
police dragnet set for them -when It
was learned that the little fellow was
about to be returned to his guardians.
Fifty detectives of the Italian squad
had been for hours watching ferries
and railroad stations in the vicinity of
Dr. Scimeca's home in Manhattan in
expectancy of trapping the kidnapers
when the lad mysteriously turned up
late last night at the home of Dr. Sci
meca's father-in-law, Dr. Michael Pe
trella, in Brooklyn. The police had
heard that Dr. Scimeca was trying to
raise $7000, which had been demanded
as a ransom for the boy. Dr. Scimeca,
however, denied that he had paid a
cent for the return of the child.
FIND IAD AIX>NE
Much mystery is connected with the
circumstances of the child's reappear
ance. It was said at the Petrella home
that a telephone message was received
during the evening that little Michael
would be found walking on Fifty-fifth
street, Manhattan.
The Petrellas drove In their carriage
to that, locality, they said, and espied
the lad alone on the sidewalk. The
boy uttered a cry of Joy when he saw
his relatives and soon was snugly
wrapped up in the carriage and on the
way to the Petrella Brooklyn home.
Up to this afternoon the boy had not
been taken from the Petrella home to
that of his parents on the lower east
side of Manhattan.
Lieut. Vanchris of the Italian squad
declared that he kr.ew the Identity of
the boy's captors Snd arrests are con
sidered probable.
Mr. Scimeca settled in this country
in 1903 and soon built up a large prac
tice on the east side.
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
TO TRY TO HALT CHOLERA
Consuls at European Ports Or
dered to Detain Russians
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—The pub
lic health and marine hospital service
Is clearing for action to prevent the
cholera now spreading through Rus
sia and more recently discovered In
Germany, France and Italy, from be
ing brought to this country.
Orders have been flashed to Ameri
can consuls at Marseilles, Havre,
Cherbourg, Genoa, Palermo and Mes
sina to detain steerage passengers
from all parts of Russia and their
baggage for five days for disinfection
and observation before they are allowed
to embark for the United States.
The guard at ports of entry in this
country Is being doubled. Cholera has
appeared in the Philippines, but it la
said to be under control.
Last reports gave about 600 cases In
the archipelago. Increases are in
the provinces and in districts over
which the service has no control. In
Manila the plague is nominal.
ARIZONA EDITOR HELD TO
GRAND JURY FOR LIBEL
TUCSON, Ariz., Sept. 10.— E. H.
Blighton, editor of the Voice of the
People, a weekly paper, was held to
the grand Jury today on two charges
of criminally libeling James T. Wil
liams, Jr., proprietor of the Tucson
Citizen. Justice Dufton fixed Bligh
ton's bond at $2500 and Justice Richey
fixed another bond at $1500. The bonds
were executed in both courts. The al
leged libel consisted of the publication
that Williams, a former United States
civil sin u-f commissioner, traveled to
Washington and back on Southern Pa
cific transportation -hinged to a seml
flctltioua advertising accoun*
SAN JOSE FIRE CHIEF
KILLED IN AUTO WRECK
BAN FRAXCISCO, Sept. Richard
Brown, chief of the San Jose lire de
partment, was killed early today by the
overturning of an automobile near the
TiiDforan race track. He wan returning
home from this city In company with
Iran Treadwell, who escaped Injury.
The car was going; at a fast rate when
It skidded at a sharp turn In the road
and was upset. Chief Brown being
burled under the wreckage. The body
was taken to the offices of the coroner
at South San Francisco and will be sent
to San Jose.
GIRL IN SALVATION ARMY
LEADS COOK TO CONFESS
Pretty Face Makes Roy Haslett
Tell of His Crimes
SAN BERNARDINO, Sept. 18.—In
spired by the pretty face of one of the
lassies of the Salvation Army at Flag
staff, Ariz., Roy Haslett, who launched
himself on a career of crime in the
Yucaipa valley two years ago by pass-
Ing forged checks, arose and created a
sensation by announcing himself in
the meeting as a crook and confessing
to his crimes that have continued since
he was released from prison after serv
ing an eighteen months' sentence from
Los Angeles county.
Haslett forged checks amounting to
J3OO on George W. Hopkins of Redlands
and Yucaipa, and then skipped to Los
Angeles, where he continued the writ
ing of worthless paper and where he
was apprehended and sent to prison.
He recently was liberated and went to
Phoenix, where he is charged with hav
ing secured a large sum of money
through bad checks.
Leaving Phoenix, Haslett went to
Flagstaff and while attending the Sal
vation Army he decided to reform.
He is now In jail at Phoenix waiting
trial.
STEAMER ROANOKE GROUNDS
ON SAN DIEGO MUD FLATS
Is in Still Water and Soon Will Be
Floated
SAN DIEGO, Sept. 10.—While enter
ing the harbor after dusk today the
steamer Roanoke of the North Pacific
Steamship company got out of the
channel and ran aground on Mud
Hats.
All attempts to communicate with
the boat by wireless havo failed, and
so far the captain of the Roanoko has
not signaled or asked for aid.
The Roanoka, is in still water and ap
parently is resting easily. It is ex
pected she will be floated without dif
ficulty at high tide, if not before.
DENIES TREATY PERMITS
CANAL FORTIFICATIONS
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—Phillippe
Duneau Varilla, who was one of the
negotiators of the Panama treaty of
1903, in a statement given in Paris and
cabled to this country, denies that this
instrument invested the United States
with the right to fortify the canal, in
the sense of such fortifications as ad
vocated by Col. Roosevelt.
Varil'a dec'ares the fortlflcitlons
mentioned in the treaty were thought
of as a meroly temporary character,
intended to protect the canal against
malefactors, filibusterers, local nsur
gont«, aggression by bordering coun
tries and accidents of any kind that
would endanger the waterway.
MAN KILLS WOMAN AND
ENDS HIS OWN LIFE
TJKIAH, Cal., Sept. 10.—Presumably
prompted by jealousy, Edward Robin
son shot and killed his cousin, Mrs.
Edward Browning, today and sent a
bullet Into his own brain.
Robinson had be: i living with the
Brownings and Mr. Browning had left
the house only a few moments before
the tragedy. The act evidently m
premeditated, as Robinson came to
town toclny from the Browning place,
which Is in the suburb*, and purchased
a pistol and a box of cartridge*
DTVTIT 17" /"<f~n>Tl^« • DAU/1T 20. ON TRAINS 80.
SIJNCjr-LJi/ CUJL llilO . SUNDAYS 60. ON TRAINS 10«
CHILDREN SWARM
TO BE VACCINATED
Youngsters Jam Health Offices
on Last 'Scratch' Day
Before School Opens
It was a kaleidescopic crowd that
ranged along the walk in the city
hall park yesterday afternoon and
strung on up to the second floor of
the board of health quarters, for 276
little kiddies of every color had to
stand very still while big doctors with
fuzzy whiskers scratched their arms.
It was the last vaccination day before
school takes up Monday and no Child
can go to school without a certificate
of successful vaccination.
When the hard day's work was over
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Dr.
T. R. Bancroft, chief assistant health
officer, and his assistants were very
tired, for they had scratched, scratched
like a cat trying to get in the back
door until they had made their mark
on every race of human being that in
habits Los Angeles. There were white
children of every nationality that is
white, there were little black chil
dren, there were brown child.ren and
there were yellow children, for two
Chinese youngsters were Inoculated
with the cow vims that protects them
against smallpox.
While Dr. Bancroft and the other
assistant health officers were vaccinat
ing, Dr. L. M. Powers, health officer,
and a corps of nurses sat In a tent In
the city hall park and examined and
dressed the scratches that had been
made on previous vaccination days.
They had to deal with 212 children,
making a record of nearly 500 for the
day.
TASK DIFFICULT FOR DOCTORS
The long line of mothers and chil
dren that waited their turn for hours
yesterday is only one of the indica
tions that the health department needs
more room. The building committee
of the council has arranged for an
annex to the city hall and the health
department will either be given ade
quate quarters In the annex or in
rooms in the Temple block.
But this difficult vaccination job
would not fall so heavily on the
health department if the people who
take their children to the city physi
cians to be vaccinated fully understood
conditions. The board of education
does not require that a school child
must be vaccinated by the health de
partment, but will Just as readily ac
cept a certificate from any registered
physician. The law, however, compels
vaccination and there are some people
who cannot afford to pay a physician
the small fee charged for this service.
It Is for this class of people that the
board of health is supposed to do
vaccinating. In other words, the work
done by the city physicians in vaccin
ating is charity. It would hurt the
pride of a good many people who take
their children to the board of health
and who are fully able to pay the feo
demanded by a physician it they knew
they were the recipients of charity,
but' somehow the idea has gone abroad
that no one but the physicians of the
health department are permitted to do
this work and it is no uncommon thing
to bin the children of wealthy parents
standing in line waiting their turns
and increasing the burdens of the city
doctors.
ADMIRAL EVANS DECLARES
WEST COAST DEFENSELESS
'Fighting Bob' to Head Important
Oil Interests
SELMA, Cal., Sept. 10.—Rear Admiral
Robley D. Evans, retired, and a party
of eastern capitalists, who have been
visiting the oil fields in Central Cali
fornia, left Coalinga today for San
Francisco.
It is rumored that Admiral Evans
will head a coalition of Important oil
interests In the Sun Joaquin valley
fields and will make his home in Cali
fornia.
The admiral rode 120 miles in an au
tomobile yesterday, the most strenuous
trip he has taken In twelve years, but
suffered no 111 effects from the Journey.
After expressing surprise at the mag
nitude of the oil industry, he said Unit
this coast was practically defenseless
and that its industries could be de
stroyed by an invading natiop
PJ CENTS
T. R. DENOUNCES
STRIKE VIOLENCE
AT OHIO CAPITAL
Tells People of Columbus That
Recent Disorder There
Was Disgraceful
URGES MORE ARBITRATIONS
Colonel Says Men Have Right to
Join Unions and Ask for
Better Wages
. . i ii
I'ITTSBCRG, Sept. Kx-Presld )
Roosevelt, coming to littsburg at tU*>
conclusion of his tour through the w ■ >■•
fiercely denounced dishonest politic!
and corrupt men of wealth In an addi .-.
at a citizenship rally here tonight, roxl
appealed to the people to follow no ll<9
work of reform which they have beg-tu.
"The people that hurt PUtsburg >re
the people that are corrupt," he Bali
The crowd which filled the music ) -II
at the exposition grounds cheered (him
wildly as he spoke.
"You first put the wealthy con.*t>t
business man In stripes," he went on,
amid loud applause. "Men of wealth,
were sent to the penitentiary by yon.
Yon have- sent that man. the crooked
man, the big business man, to the peni
tentiary just as you sent the crooked
politician to the penitentiary."
When the question Is one at honesty,
"all American citizens should stand to
gether," he said.
At the conclusion of his speech Sir.
Roosevelt hurried away to catch the
11:10 Pennsylvania train for New York.
[Associate t Press]
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Sept. 10.— lan
guage as emphatic as he could make it.
Col. Roosevelt told the people of Co
lumbus today that scenes of disorder
such as had occurred here during the
street car strike were reprehensible and
reflected disgrace on any person who
either was responsible for them or tel
erated them.
Col. Roosevelt spoke to one of the
largest crowds of his western tour. He
was guarded by an escort of regular
troops from the barracks at Columbus,
although there -was no sign of disorder.
The colonel raised his voice to the
highest pitch, and with flats clenched
and his face set sternly he told them
that it was their first duty to repress
lawlessness. -■; J.:
. Mayor Marshall of Columbus, whose
conduct of the police force during the
strike has been the subject of much dis
cussion, said to Col. Roosevelt after he
had finished his address:
"You do not know how much strength
you have given me."
Policemen who heard the former pres
ident denounce the officers of the law
who did not repress lawlessness went
to him and shook his hand.
The great crowd cheered him for sev
eral minutes. :\.| ■
TALKS ABOUT STRUCK
Col. Roosevelt's address was as fol
lows:
"Before I came to Ohio I of course
knew of the lamentable conditions
which had continued for so many weeks
here at Columbus.
"As soon as I entered Ohio and ever
since I have from time to time been
addressed by letter and even personally
by both sides, asking me to come to
Columbus and speak. I will say frank
ly that I did not like to come here,
but I like still less dodging, and so I
have come. I notice I have been adver
tised to speak on the subject of law
and order, and so I shall. But I shall
also speak on justice, for exactly as It
is the duty of all good citizens to see
absolutely and without reserve that law;
and order prevail, it Is just as much
their duty to see that justice prevails.
■ The first requisite to the establish
ment of Justice is the establishment of.
law and order, and woe to the man,
public official or private citizen, who
fails to realize this fact. And especial
ly should we abhor and reprobate the
conduct of the public servant who for
any reason fails in his duty in this re
spect. We must equally condemn the
public servants and ourselves. The
people also are as responsible as tha
public servants.
WOULD PROBE TROUBLE
"If we stop content with the mere
establishment of law and order, we
fall to our further duty, which is
by thoroughgoing Investigation to find
out whether Justice has been denied
and Injustice committed, and then to
use the whole power of the govern-"
ment to right any wrong that has been
done.
"Now, at the outset let me say as
clearly as possible that I do not and
cannot undertake to say what the
exact facts are, for thoroughly reput
able citizens, writing to me on behalf
of the two sides, flatly contradict each
other. But there are certain broad
points directly applicable to your pres
ent situation which can be laid down
without hesitation. There is no ques
tion whatever but what many acts of
violence have been committed, includ
ing bombthrowlng and the use of that
weapon of the worst, meanest, the
basest and most cowardly type of as
sassins—d ynamlte.
"Now, the first duty of the govern
mental authorities, high and low, from
top to bottom, is to put an end to the
reign of violence and disorder, to
check and punish every crime of
brutality and lawlessness. No excuse
can be accepted for any government
official who falls to do his duty in this
regard and no excuse can be accepted
for any private citizens who fail, not
merely passively but actively, to per
form the prime duty of good citizenship
in Joining with the authorities in help
ing to put an end to such an intoler
able condition.
ADVICE TO EMPLOYES
"Let the employes remember that it
may well be to the interest of some
of their leaders for political or other
reasons to have lawlessness and dis
order continue, but that it Is pre-emi
nently against . the Interest of the
worklngmen themselves.
"Then your duty has not ended. It
has only begun. Then yqu will hay«
(Continued on rag* 1"U«)
