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Show I COLONEL IN I MINNESOTA eddy Delivers "Lay Jmt Sermon'' on the Pro- 31 r gressive Movement adiflo I St. Paul, Sept 0. .Minnesota heard lj2 'Irst hand from Colonel Rooscclt :.es- flOn.l tcrday his reasons for asking su;ipoi J a; for the new Progressive party. The S colonel spent Jtho day in St Paul and Jr Minneapolis, made three speeches an:I H was welcomed enthusiastically in both !!& Places. Last night he resumed his tMK journey westward with Grand Forks, oBB X D., as his next stoinnnsr noint. JBB Colonel Roosovclt'.s prlnclpnl ad w dress was delivered at the Minnesota -flKE state fair Standing ou a platform JBB Tii lit In a shad spot, the colonel gflBf looked down over the heads of a n'l throng which extended on nil sides jBf beyond the range of his vision. jm I He declared that the nomination of 'il Woodrow Wilson at Baltimore was Mf rirranSsd by the Democratic "bosses," oV I He expounded the Progressive Ideas B f vl)0n Hie tariff. Canadian reciprocity, ,B m tle courts, co-operation of the gov- 'Bl 10r,irae.nl an(l tJlc farmers to Improve vfll -D yield of farms and measures to ..rmn better the condition of wage-workers. I Then he wont to Minneapolis, and after a luncheon attended by several hundred members of the Minnesota Progressive league he delivered what he called a "lay dermon " in which bo Save his views upon the significance out tRC Progressive movement from f, . iho standpoint or the moralist rather than the politician. ; Last night he made a brief address , ; at tho fair grounds, -where he attend -r13 cd a "farm dinner." 35J I From the People. 'S4Efl "I am in this movement,' said Col. I Roosevelt In his address in Minneapolis Minneapo-lis after the luncheon, '"because it springs, as every great movement must, from the conscience of the people. peo-ple. The politicians have been blind and deaf because they have ignored the fact that In the last few ears there has been a steady growth or dlflcontent with the slipshod Inefficiency Ineffi-ciency In dealing with the great economic. eco-nomic. Industrial and political problems prob-lems of the day. "If I have rendered anj service It has been to brinp about the moe-went moe-went a littie quicker man it would otherwise have come, When we get the proper standards it will be Impov-sible Impov-sible to have a repetition of siifh thefts as were practiced at Chicago. tils When we get the proper standards we jj -will see that any man who profits by -J,f such theft or condoneB it Is unworthy I or public confidence." Colonel Rowevclt drifted for a moment mo-ment into practical politics nnying that Governor Wilson had said " the Democratic platform was not a pro-- pro-- gram. "Then what Is It?" he asked. 'The minul" an men announce tnat their platform does not tell the truth tliev condemn themsehes for putting it out and they condemn the man who is compelled to stand upon It ' Colonel Roosevelt spent an hour in consultation with Minnesota Progressive Progres-sive leaders who were anxious for bis advice as to whether ? Progressive state ticket would be named Colonel RooeovcH expressed th opinion that the Progressives should name then-own then-own ticket straight down the line, although al-though ir the "Progressive Republicans Republi-cans should win at the Republican primaries this month' he thought such a step might not be necessary. He m Is willing (o abandon the Progressive state ticket, h? told the Minnesota -gj leaders onlv if it Is. possible to take A' oer the Republican organization bod- , gv ' ily I |