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Show ROOSEVELT AGAIN TALKS Colonel Makes Answer to Speech of Wilson Long Cheering New York, Npv. 2 Colonel Theodore Theo-dore Roosevelt for the second time In three days last night addressed an Immense audience In Madison Square Garden. There had preceded him to tho gar-iden gar-iden through the medium of Comptroller Comptrol-ler Prendergast. chairman of tho meeting, a request that no effort bo made by the crowd to cheer him be-jond be-jond the limit of time accorded Thursday night in the sarao hall to Governor Wilson 'When ColonelRopsovelt raises his left hand." said Mr!" Prendergast, "he asks jou to permit him to proceed with his speech, because he deslre.i a record next Tuesday In the voting rather than a record tonight in the duration of the cheers.-' Colonel Roosevelt w-as wildly cheered cheer-ed as he forced his way to the front of the platform and waved a welcome to all parts of the hall. It was twenty-five minutes before his uplifted hand brougnt tho cheering to an end. After it had gone on for twenty minutes he raised his arm. but the crowd renewed Its cheers and he dropped the arm to his side. Again he mad tho gesture but an enthusiast unfurled a bandana fiom the gallery and the crowd was in an uproar When he could finally make hlmspL' heard the colonel, declaring that he spoke in behalf of tho Progressive state and local tickets of Now York talked for over an hour, his voice strong and his strength apparently unimpaired un-impaired by the effort. "Friends, I wish you to remember that this Is no ephemeral or temporary tempo-rary movement," he said. "We have gone into this movement making our appeal to all good citizens without regard to their past party affiliations, af-filiations, and with tho resolute intention in-tention to make this a permanent movement, and a movement that shall real not merelv with national but with state and local affairs. "For, mind you, friends, the evils that affect our people are evils which cannot can-not bo dealt with by any one branch of the government alone, "We can grapple with them only when the national and state and municipal mu-nicipal government alike are in the hands of men whose honesty Js above reproach and who know and understand and sympathize with the needs of the plain peoplo of the country " nrv |