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Show ROOSEVELT IN ARIZONA Will Call Extra' Session of Congress If Progressives Pro-gressives Win Winslow, Ariz., Sept. 18. On hiu way to Now Mexico, where he is to make his appeal for the Progressive party before tinning north to Colorado Colonel Roosevelt passed through eastern Arizona today. He was scheduled sched-uled to make speeches in Albuquerque, Laray and Santa Fo, before leaving the atate. One thing which Arizon neoded, Colonel Roosevelt said, was equal suffrage. suf-frage. He said that while there -wore many features of the Arizona 3lato constitution which would serve as a model for other states, he believed that the -women should be permitted to exorcise tho rlgHt of suffrage. "Women suffrag'p is coming, and that within a few years, In the eastern east-ern Btates," he said'. -'I don't want to see Arizona fall behind In this regard after sotting the pace in other ways. ' Colonel Roosovelt's physlolan, who Is making the trip' with him largely for the purpose of treating hiB throat, told him today that' he must be more careful In the use of his voice. Conversation Con-versation while tho train was In mo-lion mo-lion was barred, but Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt said lie could not keep still all the time, and tho docto. found it ne -essary to keep a close watch on his patient to make him obey the rules. The strain of the long campaign has. told on Colonel Roosevelt and his voice was slightly husky, although he said that he felt "bully," with some of the hardest flghjing of the campaign cam-paign ahead Afterhc returns to the ease the colpuel wa& warned he must take every precaution to save his voice. Colonel Rooseclt:s tour from Denver Den-ver onward, which was still undecided when he left New York, was nettled upon today. He is' to leave Uoin it Thursday night and go Into Nebraska, speaking in Hastings. Lincoln and Omaha on Friday. kOn the followlnz day he will go Into Kansas with 'speeches at Atchison r.nd Topeka He I will remain over S(inday in Topeka (and then go Into Oklahoma and Ar-ikansaR. Ar-ikansaR. His route then leads lo Memphis, Mem-phis, Now Orleans, Montgomery and I Birmingham in Alabama, Atlantn and then north to CaroUW. Onthe way P.ie will" slop oVf to speak In 'Baltt-Imore, 'Baltt-Imore, and Is dive in New York at C. on the morning of October 2. Phoenix, Ariz. Sept. IS. Across the sun-baked plains of Arizona Colonel Col-onel Roosevelt was whirled today on bis way eastward, after his trip through the northwest and down the Pacific coast In mid-afternoon tho thermometer registered 105 degrcee. Out of the car window Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt saw a folitary man standing on a pile of wood, with a bandanna around his neck and a flag in his hand. He was tho only human bolng in sight. On every side stretched a solitary, silent si-lent country, where sand, cacti and mesqulte brush made up the landscape. land-scape. The lono man wa .'. his flas as the train whizzed by, and Colonal RooseeIt waved hack at him. Th": scene was in sharp contrast to tho thronged cities of California which the colonel had just loft behind. CJTael Roosovolt expected to mako ono speech in Arlrona, that In Phoenix Phoe-nix last night, Tho Arizona Progressive Progres-sive committee protested, and offered to take him on a special train to Tucson Tuc-son and bring him on to Phoenix on lime He consented and the committee commit-tee kept its promloc. To cover the added mileage the colonel was taken on one of the fastest rides he ever had. Call Special Session. In coming to Arizona Colonel Roosevelt Roose-velt entered the first of the state3 accounted solidly Democratic to which he has carried his fight for tho Progressive party. Ho promised tho people of Arizona that if he were elected he would call a special session ses-sion of congress Immodlately In an effort to put Into effect the human welfare planks of the Progressive platform, so far as might be done by legislative action. Ho appealed to the Democrats ol the south to stand with the new party and asked for support on tho strength of what he had done as president and what the Progressive party purposed to do, for the reclamation of arid lands such as arc found In this stalo. His proposal for a special session of congress, Colonel Roosevelt said, would demonstrate that tho Progressive Progres-sive party was in earnest In the promises prom-ises it made, "I will call a special fceusion If I am' elected and It there is anything llko n majority of Progressives In congress," con-gress," he said, "so that we think we will h e tho chance of getting enough recruits to pas6 the laws " In the Oldeat Town. In Tucfion Colonel Roosevelt spoko In an auditorium In a park. The front rows of seats were filled with women, wom-en, aud as the colonel entered the building It looked at first glance as though women composed ahroBt tho entire audience, for the men were ijoatless. The chairman of the meeting meet-ing introduced him and said: "This, the oldest town in the United Stales, i-eets the candidate of the younge-., party In the United State?." Colonel Roosevelt said he was glad In h. thorn lint WOUld mnkft n n-iATif-jl rehorvatlon In favor of New Mexico whon he said It was the oldest town In the country. In Phoenix Colonel Roosevelt was welcomed by Governor Hunt, two companies of the state militia, a brass hand and a large crowd. He spoke In the ball park, driving there through streets decorated with flagB aud banners ban-ners and preceded by the militia which Governor Hunt had ordered out for an escort. "I felt that I musu come to Arizona," (Continued on' Page Sir.) 00 ROOSEVELT IN ARIZONA (ContiI- d From Page One.) he said, "tor It was from this stale that part of my regiment came, and I feel that Arizona has set a pace which might well be followed elsewhere, else-where, in framing its constitution. Thero are some things In your constitution con-stitution which I Intend to tr to havo put Into the New York constitution when there Ih a constitutional convention. National Party. "I am glad to soc the men who aro taking tho lead in the Progressivo fight in Arizona. This Is a truly national na-tional and not a sectional party. Tho men "who wore tho gray as well as thoeo who woro tho blue are Jolnlug with us. We have the right to appeal to thoBe who cherish the name of Lincoln, to those who revere tho name of General Lee, to join with us in this fight for tho common good." . "What about Bill Fllnn of Pittsburg?" Pitts-burg?" a man in tho crowd called ouL "A boss whose action Is to put tho people Into fcuprenie power over himself him-self and other bosses 1b not much of a boss, ' Colonel Roosevelt rotorted. Tho colonel referred to President Taft's opposition to the provision in the Arizona constitution for the recall of Judges, saying that he preferred the recall of decisions rather than thu recall of Judges. "In Arizona," he continued, "the people did not agree with me. You wanted the provisions for the recall of judges In jour constitution and wheu I saw you did 1 championed that clause, because I thought you knew, what you wanted and that people In" New York or Ohio should not say what your constitution should provide. Our opponents President Taft, Senator Sen-ator Bailey of Texan and others both Republicans and Democrats, took the opposite view." Colonel Roosevelt said that the bosses of both parties, and tho supporters sup-porters of "special privileges" wero rallying to tho support of Goornor Wilson. "The Archbolds and the Penrosc3 know," he said, "that thoy can do nothing with Mr. Taft that ho is a dead cock in tho pit and bo thoy are turning to Mr. Wilson " Colonel Roosevelt left Phoenix last night for Now Mexico. |