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Show COLONEL IN PORTLAND Roosevelt Puts in Busy Day Makes Several Speeches Portland, Ore., Sept. 11. Coming Into Oregon on his camplgn tour down the Pacific coast, Colonel Roosevelt made his appeal here today for the Progressive party. The colonel colo-nel expected to make only one speech in Portland and was perturbed when he was told by the local Progressive committee that ho was slated for threo. "There Is a -general Idea," he said, "that 1 am like a water faucet, which has Just to be turned on nnd out will flow a gallon of speeches." Colonel Roosevelt's first speech was delivered, at a luncheon given by tho Rotary club and Portland Ad Men "The boeses who are in charge of the Republican party," he said, "got the title to the party just as the pirate pi-rate gets the title to the ship they capture. They may keep the name of the ship, but they are not the heirs to the men whose throats they cut " In the primary campaign last spring, he said, the Progressives had beaten the "bosses." "We did not oppose the bosses because be-cause we were against them individually," individ-ually," he said, "but because they wore in the way. If any of the bosses had turned in to help us in the fight for the popular government, we should have said 'All right, brother, come aboard. You'll get fair treatment treat-ment as long as you don't try to be a boss.' But they didn't come aboard They were right from their point of view, because they knew if we won their occupation would be gone" Portland. Ore., Sept. 11. When Colonel Rooeevelt leaves Portland tonight to-night he bids fair again to have the opportunity to remark that he spent a "middling busy day" He was permitted per-mitted an hour to himself following the arrival of his train from Pugot dreds of Chinese they estimate, have another hour in the afternoon. Aside from these intermissions, his entire time was occupied in carrying out the length- program mapped out for him by the local committee of the Progrosslvo party. When the colonel left his car at S o'clock, he was s"eted by the official offi-cial reception committee and after a brief period of handshaking he was taken, through a large crowd that had gathered at the depot, to a motor mo-tor car which carried him over a rose-bestrewn rose-bestrewn highway to a local hotel Immediately the colonel entered into i conference with the leaders of the j Progressive part in Oregon. This j conference concluded in time for him I to attend a noon luncheon tendered bv the Admen and Rotary clubs. 1 Following the luncheon, was a (schedule in which Colonel Roosevelt headed a parade which took him first to one of the city's public squares where a flve-mlnute address was made, next to a park on the east side of the Willamette river, where he addressed an assemblage of school children for a few minutes and then back to the west side of the river where at the public plavgrounds, a second gathering of youngsters received re-ceived the colonel's attention. An hour's respite during which the colonel colo-nel retired for a short rest, and then ho was conducted to an auditorium where he delivered to a large crowd his principal address A visit to tho Moose lodge will conclude con-clude the colonel's stay in Portland. From the lodge room of that order, he will go to his train which will leave eastward at S o'clock tonight. |