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Show ROOSEVELT ASSAILS BOTH JO PARTIES Attacks Standard Oil People and Says "(he Lord Has Delivered De-livered Them Into My Hands." RAPS PRESIDENT TAFT Declares His Is Not a Progressive Progres-sive Republican, hut Belongs to New Party. Br International wk- Service ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt., Aug. M.-The M.-The trust attitude of the Democratic and Republican parties was scathingly assailed by Colonel Jioosovclt in a speech here tonight on the Tillage green, winding up a tireless day of stumping. The ex-president denounced the two parties as straddling tho problem prob-lem of controlling the corporations. Tho appearance of the Progressive candidate here tonight capped the climax cli-max of another day of automobile dashing dash-ing through the Oreen mountains, during dur-ing which ho covered 140 miles, overv-wlicre overv-wlicre the townspeople turning out In big crowds. During his speech here tonight, to-night, heard by 5000 people, the colonel colo-nel explained why he was recently converted con-verted to woman suffrage. Ho came out unequivocally for tho right of women to vote. Roosevelt began his dav wilh a speech at St Albans, where he re. newed his attack upon Senator Pen rose, John D. Archbold and tbe whole Standard Oil crowd. Quotes Scripture, "Tho Lord bas delivered them inti mv hands," declared Roosevelt, dropping drop-ping into scriptural phrase. "I thought they'd do some harm to the Progressive Progres-sive cause when tley started attacking attack-ing us, but their underhand methods were too transparent; they went upon the witness stand and confessed themselves them-selves guilty of trying to blackmail the government into immunity for the Standard Oil. Now 1 have them on the hip. They are out in the open and we will give them all the fight they want, and more, too. I'll hew them as Israel hewed Ammon, hip and tbigh." The ex-president rapped the Taft administration as upholding the Standard Stan-dard Oil trust. "Mr. Taft played into thefr hands," he cried. "The trusts know they have nothing to fear from him." Entirely New Party. During his St. Albans speech a voice interrupted to ask Roosevelt if his new party was the "progressive Re publican party.'' Roosevelt turned to his inquisitor with the brusque rotort: "No, this is not aD offshoot of the Republican Re-publican party. It is an entirely new party. Some bigots refused to leave the Whig partv with Abraham Lincoln Lin-coln and there are somo bigots today who are in the sime way and wouldn't vote for us now." Tn a speech before lOWO at the fair grounds at Barton tbe ox presi dnt prophesied that the Progressives are to win this fall. "You in Vermont had better come along wili us," he coaxed. " We are (Continued on Page Four.) ' ROOSEVELT ASSAILS BOTH OLD PARTIES (Continued From Page One.) roinp to win ;tnywnv, bet we d like to sco Vermont tak the IraH. 1 don! rare about myself in this fight. 1 'm not thinkiug of the consequence-; ' want to ?fe thp two obi parties fhown that the people will not tolerate the alliance of conspiring corporatinnj, and ! politicians of weak morals Alwavt in a crisis Men a6 this xou'll rind omo who are a little afraid) Mnjid and el" persons who take pleasure -n sticking to dead memories. ' '"' Republican party is h dead memory, or aril be soon. ' 1 JOHNSON SPEAKS AT CHEYENNE, WYO. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Ausj SO. Governor Hiram Johnson of California, vice preal dentlQ randldate of the PrOgTeUtve party, arrive.) line inniBlit and addressed ad-dressed a capacity audience at the Capitol Capi-tol Avenue theater. His apeech vas Mf'M Interrupted by apptauae ;i mi cheers. At time the orchestra and aja Her was a ea of wa'ltu; red bandannas. iovernor .(ehnon apoK In part as follows: fol-lows: "At lat th Anierlran people rari turn from fighting a sham battle on political leauea to a real strugrgle with real COtt-aequencea. COtt-aequencea. "In this year 1012 It is Riven to us to be b part In the great contest w here -. n-nomic n-nomic .Instire Is the coal. With what r'lirf we may turn from the platitudinous platitudin-ous plea ot the platform adopted at Chicago Chi-cago in June ant the Impossible opportunism oppor-tunism ot that of Baltimore, to a declaration decla-ration -f principles, of llvintr, breathing vitality, of real human Interest Contrasting; Theodore Roosevelt's Cbl- CasTO address with tiovornor Wltson'e spesch of acceptance) Governor Johnson .-aid "I listened with Intense intret to ihe reiiiarWat.i addrSSI Of our leader, ShlcH hae been desicnated aa his 'confession I of faith ' and just afterward I read with the utmost rare the speech of SAKMPtSMloe of the T'enux ra 1 1- candidate tor president. I commend these two documents to every thoughtful A iiv-riu n citizen. Hint be mav read both and that when be has COO" eluded the readtna of botb he asi hlm elf the qufCloni shich of these two meUi even assumina them to be eojual in other respects, aitndunces himself with greater clantyi with (raster atrensTth, with preoter eertamty. hlch document do I br-iie;- understand and which man can I better picture from the print before be-fore me? "tf you will read these two documents. which, presumably, authoritatively state the exact attitude of each of the real contesting candidates, and if you will thoughtfully thereafter answer these fjuestloriH to yourself, there will he no doubt of your choice at the November elect on. "dear, unambiguous, forceful, direct and certain Is the pronouncement of RooaeveH. and I challenge you to apply ;t single one of these adjectives to I he pronouncement of the T"rmocrntlc candidate.' candi-date.' rlscussing the tariff. QoVel'llor Johnson declared that the Progressive party -tand positively for a protective tariff, but insists on a tariff Which shall be represented rep-resented in the "pnv envelopes of the laborer." He continued. "I would not have, yon ;-eliee the Progressive Pro-gressive party is to embark upon a ruinous ruin-ous course concerning the tariff. It promises a protective, pollcv, a protection Which shall equalize, conditions of competition com-petition between the United Stales and foreign countries, both for farmer and manufacturer, and shall maintain for the laborer an adequate standard of living-It living-It does not believe in such a tariff as shall create a monopoly or enable one iass bo become rleh at the expense of another. It believes that the benelUs of protection should he received by the farmer , the horticulturist and the laborer, labor-er, and (bar the benefits derived from a tariff shall be disclosed In the pay envelope en-velope of the laborer." SUPREME COURT TO DECIDE THE ISSUE WASHINGTON, Aug. SO. The fisht between be-tween the Tft and EtOOSSVelt forces over the presidential electors from Kansas waa today transferred officially from the courts of the state to the supreme court of the United States. The r-. ord of the case tn the Kansas courts was tiled In I he supreme court here. It will be rushed to the printer, so that the court may dispose dis-pose of the case Immediately upon convening con-vening October 14. The decision of the Kansas court s was adverse to the Taft followers and the main hope of the Taft managers to procure pro-cure the electoral xote of Kansas lies In the fight to get the supreme court of the United State to reverse the state court. As shown by the completed record his' filed, the Taft forces claim they have been frequently deprived of rights guaranteed guar-anteed I hem by the, fourteenth amendment amend-ment to the federal constitution. It Is 'barged that the Roosevelt electors procured pro-cured Mie signatures of the Taft. men to their petition as candldatee for electors by pretending that they were Republican! and as such would support the party's andldates for president and vice preM- ' dent. Ah h matter of fact. It is added, these candidates did not Intend to support sup-port the paxty'h candidates for president 1 ami vtee president unless Theodore Roosevelt was nominated. The result of this alleged fraud, it t claimed, will be to deprive Taft men "f their right to vote for the person se-I se-I Acted by them for president while permitting per-mitting other citizens to vote for the person elected hv them |
