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Show ii HEW JERSEY NEWARK, N. J., March 1. Roosevelt Roose-velt supporters in New Jersey had the first meeting of their campaign tonight, when an audience listened to speeches by Governor W. R. Stubbs of Kansas and ox-Governor J Franklin Frank-lin Port of New Jersey. Governor Stubbs talked progres-sivenoS8 progres-sivenoS8 in politics. KausaB had tried out the Idea of progressiveneas in making sound, decent business laws, he said, and It was tho same kind of method that the progressives meant to apply to the national governraont under the leadership of Roosevolt. The people, he was convinced, are beginning to learn that thoro Is something some-thing better than dollars and cents. "It is becauso Teddy Roosevolt Is one of the kind that has learned It," continued Govornor Stubbs, "that I like him. He has a place in history that is secure against the world, and when the history is written us all. the historian will write ono of the greatest things In history when ho wrltos that Columbus speech. "The speech did not ploaso Plor-pont Plor-pont Morgan and others, but it did pleaso tho man who has to work for a living. Some people called that speech crazy and denounced it as an-nrchy, an-nrchy, but they might just ao well say the same thing of expressions of Lincoln." Former Governor Fort In a brief spoech lauded Colonel Roosevolt as the greatost leader of the day and the man who could unite the party and put it where it once was. |