Show Police Bar Wilson Parade Bj Sy Tb Tb J lf nm f Sedil ed 1 Nl ai i Sen lot Pa Oct 14 Threats Threat to use fifty state police were required here today to prohibit a parade and keep within bounds an outburst of Wilson enthusiasm by bythe bythe bythe the coal miners to whom Colonel Roosevelt expected to appeal on be behalf behalf be be- half of Charles Hughes Roosevelt was escorted to his hotel by a squad of twenty state police Not so much s a single American Amer ican flag was in evidence to greet the colonel Tho The colonel came to a town so seething with Wilson sentiment that it took the threat of armed force to guarantee him even th the traditional courtesy and hospitality due duo to a prominent citizen The miners had prepared banners proclaiming We Love You Teddy But We Are Going to Vote for Wilson Wilson Wil Wil- son We Want Peace and Plenty We Want the Hour Eight Law Vote for Wilson Not a man prominent in the miners miners miners' min miri- ers ers' union could be found willing to servo serve on en the committee or sit behind the colonel while he told how he settled the strike By J. J P. P YODER By Ry The Th Tel Special N Nei wt Pa Oct 14 Characterizing the Adamson i hour eight-hour law passed at the close of congress to avert a nation wide strike subordination of ot duty to political profit and as deeply prejudicial to the real and permanent permanent permanent per per- manent interests of the laboring men Colonel Roosevelt tonight made his third campaign speech favoring election elec eloc- tion of ot Hughes Roosevelt's trip here from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York this afternoon afternoon Was t as in every minute detail He started shaking hands when he reached the Twenty-third Twenty street ferry where hemet hemet he hemet met half haU a dozen truck drivers several ticket choppers and all the uniformed of the place and kept it up all the way At Easton Ed Simmons whoever heIs heis he heis is became famous He crowded to the platform and said My name is Simmons Dont Don't you remember me i j Roosevelt took a chance and replied replied replied re re- re- re j plied Sure I 1 remember you Ed Simmons Simmons Sim Sim- mons moos and the man went away saying sayIng saying say say- I ing what a wonderful mind the colonel has Six thousand turned out at Wilkes Wilkes- barre The usual band led the procession pro cession to the hotel and then tooted I Roosevelt all the way to the state armory armory armory ar ar- ar- ar I mory where the speech was delivered Excepting a slight reference to the Mexican situation and to the tariff issue Roosevelt confined himself to attacking not only the hour eight law but President Wilson himself for the way the latter handled the threatened national disaster He lie impugned the presidents president's courage and questioned his political honesty in yielding to threats Roosevelt declared a great point of difference between the way he settled settled set set- tIed the anthracite strike and the way President Wilson settled the railroad difficulty was that he took action that was Intended to meet the situation while the presidents president's action has been deferred to take place considerably after election And alt all that he achieved said the colonel in his high falsetto was the violation of ot the principle 1 in the concrete concrete concrete con con- crete case at Issue The only law he secured established the precedent of ot violation of the principle It is a a. precedent which will return return re reo re- re turn to plague us throughout all further time whenever we ire have in the White House a president who Is timid in the face of threat of physical violence violence vio yb lence or who subordinates public duty to political profits The colonel accused the president of playing second fiddle to Samuel Gompers by permitting Gompers to send lend a message to Carranza asking liberation liberation lib JIb lib lib- of the soldiers captured at Carrizal Gompers and Wilson Wil son Ion amateur diplomats was the way Roosevelt described the president and the labor leader |