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Show SHOUTS CHOI to mm Roosevelt Addresses Large' Audience in Boston Arena, j but Many Are Supporters of the President. "WHERE'S PERKINS?" COLONEL IS ASKED I Former Chief Executive, With a Trainload of Lieutenants, Makes Whirlwind Campaign Cam-paign in Bay State. BOSfTON, April 27. Boston gae Colonel Roosevelt tonight the most demonstrative welcome he has seen since the beginning of his campaign lor the presidential nomination. nomi-nation. Speakincr in the arena before a tumultuous throncr, the former presi dent again criticised Mr. Taft. He. however, did not repeat the severe denunciation de-nunciation which marked his speech at Worcester la.st night. Tie spoke calmly and devoted only a small part of his address to President Taft. "1 do not wish this to be a campaign cam-paign of personalities between Mr. Taft und myself.'' Sni Colonel Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Last night I felt compelled to answer Mr. Taft at length. Tonight T shall refer to him only as I feci that I must. Says He's Fortunate. lT am more fortunate than Mr. Taft in my friends. When Mr. Taft came here Thursday be came here having lost Illinois, I came here having lost New Hampshire. In Illinois, Mr. Taft's chief lieutenant hod been Mr. Tnrimer. In New Hampshire, my chief lieutenant was Governor Rass. Mr. Taft came here to explain that he did not like Mr. Lorimer, having Kept his dislihe pri irate and confidential until after he bad lost. Illinois. I came here, and say that win of lose, I am with Governor Bas.". ' Holding up a sheet of paper, the colonel col-onel said- "I've got two parallel col amns hero, in one are my chief supporters, sup-porters, in Cue other, Mr. Taft's." Among hi own supporters, the colonel col-onel mentioned the western governors who ashed him to run and Gifford Pi ncliot. Admission Is Forced. "Where's Perkins!" some one iu the croud shouted. "He's for me," the colonel called back. "Yon can't put a question to me that will embarrass me for a mo mont. You can search my record and vou will find that I have never done and I never wjll do for Mr. Perkins or any other human being one thing 1 won't tell yon in detail." As respecting Mr. Taft'fl supporters the colonel named amid hisses from the crowd Senators Lorimer. Penrose, Gug- genbeim and Qallinger "Vou can judge for yourselves on whose side the I bosses are." he went on. "Mr. Taft Bays I have accepted the support of bosses. So I have when thev went my way. But thov bad o go my way or we parted company. "That's all I have to sav of the personalities in this campaign. J will av that T will support any man so long as he serves the people of the United States and when he ceases to do so 1 will not support him." Colonel Roosevelt then turned to a defense of his position in regard to tho courts, repeating the arguments he has made in the campaign. Crowd Shouts for Taft. The crow. I gathered near the arena was so larce that tho police reinforcements reinforce-ments bad to be called to handle it. Pi nail 1 the doors of the arona were barred. As the crowd before the building en-TT several hundred men and women attempted to storm the, main entrance and In the rush a number of windows were shattered. Fifty policemen police-men charged the crowd and finally forced the people back. The scene within thy arena was a tumultuous one. Before Colonel Roose velt arrived a body of men in the middle mid-dle of the hall began to chant, "We want Taft!" "We want Taft!" The people rose to their feet with a shout and 'or a few moments the ha.ll was id confusion. Colonel Roosevelt spoke from a roped in closure which is used as i prize ring, It was the plat form from which Presi dent Taft spoke nizht before la-st. The ropes nscd in a boxing match last night still were in place tonight. When Colonel Roosevelt entered the ring, bending forward lo pass under tho rooeSi the crowd began to cheer. The colonel said be wanted his hear (Continued on Page Two.) we winrr TflFT." is SHOUTED By CROWD (Continued from Pae One) crs to support him at the polls next Tuesday, ''not because the light is easy, but because it is hard" ' It '? a contest between the mercenaries mer-cenaries and the minutcmen. " he said. "I want von to show that in civic life ' vou nan do what your forefather? did as mitiutcinen. ' ' At the end of his : speech Colonel Roosevelt called out: ' Now, you have hoard tne. Am I preaching anarchy?" "No, the crowd roared. Makes Several Speeches. Later Colonel Roosevelt went to Mechanics Me-chanics hall, where lie addressed an overflow meeting. Colonel Roosevelt addressed half a dozen crowds on his trip over the east ern end of the stute today. lie confined con-fined himself principally to the argument argu-ment which he has used throughout this campaign, Baying he stood for the people ami flcninst the bosses. Not Once during the trip did he mention President Tnft's nuirto. A trainload of the colonel's lieu tenants sot forth wiih him from Boston Bos-ton nt 0:30 o'clock this morning. The first stop was nt Broekton After speaking to a crowd massed in the square by the station the colonel was driven through streets thronged with rheerinp; men nud women. He went by automobile to Taunton, stop-pint; stop-pint; tor brief speeches at Bndjjewater and Middleboro. Although rnln wae falling when he reached Taunton, he wa9 met by another large crowd. Thence he went by train to New Bedford, Bed-ford, speaking in the Elm street rink. After an automobile trip to Fall River, where he spoke in the armory, ho returned re-turned to tins city. "I hope that on next Tuepday. " Colonel Col-onel Hoosevelt said, "you will vote so i that Massachusetts will take its tand where Illinois and Pennsylvania already al-ready have." Attacks the Courts. In hi? speech at Fall River, Colonel Roosevelt discussed his attitude toward the courts. "I am never afraid! to attack the; courts," said he. "1 do it when their decisions are wrong. I cven at times attack presidents. If T find a judge going wront; I attack him. Any other attitude is a servile attitude. " When judges go wrong I try to got them off the bench. ' ' In referring to the tariff Colonel Roosevelt said he wanted to have the wage-earner get some of the benefits ! of It. "We 6hould have a bureau," he continued, con-tinued, "whose special business should be to investigate conditions of labor. 1 In other words, T want a square deal." "Soap Box" Primary. SEATTLE, Wash., April 27. A pri marv election waa held toda in King county under the direction of the Ro publican and Democratic county committees com-mittees for the purpose of obtaining! an expression of presidential prefer enee and electing delegates to county contentions which will choose dele eates to the state convention. The primary did not arouse much ' interest. It U estimated that 1500 votes were cast, of which more than 1000 were Republican. The Taft, Har- j raon and Clark men had been advised i not to vote and the Republican ballots j were divided between Roosevelt and La Follette and the Democratic vote ' was practically unanimous for Wood-row Wood-row Wilson. Carried by Roosevelt. MOSCOW. Idaho, April 27. Re j turns touicht from the Latah county Republican primary election, at which ' the voters expressed their presidential preference, indicated that Roosevelt had earned the county by a vote of j five to one. The delegates to the state convention conven-tion elected todav are bound by the action ac-tion of the voters. Delaware For Wilson. By International N'ews Service WILMINGTON". Del., April 27. The six delegates from Delaware to the national Democratic convention will favol Wilson, but will be uninstructed. This was the result of the primaries held today throughout the state for the election of delegates to tho state convention at Dover next Tuesdav. The outcome, while favorable to the New Jersev governor, is a defeat for his chief supporter in Delaware, Willard Saulsbur, national committeeman. 'I ' e latter wanted the delegates instructed for Wilson. Quashed by Mack. BALTIMORE, April 27 The question ques-tion of tho temporary organization of the Democratic national convention 1 here next June was brought up at. the I meeting of tho national committee's sub-committee on arrangement today,, I but was dropped when hairnian Mack &TgQed that the selection of temporary I officers now might create the impre.s j feiou that the committee was seeking to I organize the convention in the inter-est inter-est of a particular candidate. Colonel John McGraw of West Vir-einia Vir-einia brought out . the question. Ho proposed the selection of United States j Senator 0 'Gorman of New York as temporary chairmau; Qrev Woodson of ' Kentucky, (secretary of the national I committee, as secretary pro tem., and ) ! Colonel John I. Martin of Missouri, ! sercreant-at-nrms of the national com-j DUttee as temporary sergeant-at-arms of the convention. Colonel Mi Graw announced that he will present nt a ceneral meeting of the notional committee to be held here! 'irlv ' June a concrete resolution j i , j callinc for tho abolition of the two-I two-I third6 rule &n the substitution there-i there-i fov of the maioritv rule, Accordint: to Colonel McGraw, the I resolution wiU a?k that the majority rule shall not applv to the Baltimore convention, but at the first national convention thereafter, hich will be m 1016. The business of the meeting was fin-1 fin-1 ishpd at today's meeting. Are Against Roosevelt. By International NeWfl Sftrvlae ! "NEW YORK, April 27. William , Barnes. Jr., has reported to President ; Taft. that ;.t last eighty of the nine tv Xew York delegates to the Republican Repub-lican national convention will vote against Colonel Roosevelt. Barnes has jest completed a canvass of the delegation to the national convention con-vention which convenes in Chicago in June. This canvass was made at the nigcrestion of President Taft, through Henry P. Stimson, secretary of war, and Seuator Root. Pleads for Harmony. I WORCESTER, Mastv, April 27. "This preliminary oampaljm which center on the nomination of candidates for the presidency has a significance which cannot be easily exaggerated." eald Governor Gov-ernor Wilson In an address hero today. "If It engenders personal rivalries which are bitter; If It divides the party, now united. Into Jealous and contesting fu'-tlons. It will embarrass every subsequent, subse-quent, process of our politics. "It Is too late to unite the warring elements of the Republican party, but the Democratic party- can make Itself the renter and Instrument of all these absont forces. "The Democratic party ought to tolerate tol-erate no man who Introduces like bitterness bitter-ness Into Its own debates Our task I? one of pooling ami concentrating the free thinking forces of the T'nlted States. No party ever had ae higher mlssloen than this; to fall ln tt is to fall upon permanent perma-nent disaster." Governor Wilson was met by a delegation delega-tion of leading Democrats at the station, went to Holy Cross college, where he addressed the students, received some of the leading business men and educators at a hotel and then delivered his principal princi-pal address ln Mechanics hall. Talks on Trusts, DOS ANGELES, Cal., April 27. Senator Sena-tor La Follette's second day of speech making In southern California was a busy one. Beginning the day's programme pro-gramme with an address to M0 law students stu-dents of the University of Southern California, Cali-fornia, he mado addresses in Watts and Compton and wound up with an hour's talk tonight In the Auditorium In Long Heach. In his talks todav Senator La Follette took the trusts as his first text. 'Tou stand In the doorway of the greatest opportunity that ever has coma into the life of a people for generations Of time,' he said to the law students. "We are ln a great conflict a conflict between be-tween the few organized rich and the many people unorgan'zed I lielie-. e this crisis will be settled within the next forty years and settled with the ballot "I cannot be'.leve that the descendant at the- men who fought at Lexington. Valley Forge, the Wilderness and at Appomattox ever will allow this government gov-ernment to be ruled bv trusts and monopolies mo-nopolies " Senator and Mrs. La Follette will rest tomorrow. Monday five speeches are on his ItinerarN. most of which will be made In nearby rltles. while Mrs. La Follette Is scheduled to address a mating mat-ing Monday evening In the Venice auditorium |
