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Show APPEALS TO THE WOMEN Roosevelt Says Platform Is Party's Contract With People Santa Barbara, Cal , ScpL 10. "Don't stand still," Colonel Koosovelt ald to the crowd which mot him In Santa Barbara today. "This is no time to hold back. Take a decided position posi-tion In thlH fight If you aro with us, como out squarely for us. That la the way to be really progressive." Colonel loosevelt stopped for ten niumtoR In Santa Barbara on hia way down the coast from San Francisco to Los Angplos. "California has taken the load In this fight," said Colonel RoosovolL "If you will road the Progressive platform plat-form you will see that It Is much like the record of nchleements of Govor-nor Govor-nor Hiram Johnson In this state. I want to see California hold its own want to see California hold Its placo In the load." Colonel Roosevelt received a noisy welcome when his train stopped at Surf. The noise came chiefly from a boys' band which endeavored to play "Teddy, Teddy Roosevelt," which the bands almost everywhere the colonel col-onel has been through the west havo played, although ho remains In lgnor- unue ui me mcu He says "The Star Spangled Banner" Ban-ner" and "Garry Owen" arc tho only two tunes which he recognlros. Colonel Roosevelt appealed especially espe-cially to women In his Santa Barbara speech. "Women havo suffered enough Injustice In-justice In the past" he said, "so that we ought to count upon them for help I In the present. Wherever thoro are social or Industrial Injustices which we are trying to do away with we feel thnt we havo a peculiar right to appeal ap-peal to the women to support us." Colonel Roosevelt said that neither tho Democrats nor the Republican platforms offered a solution of the great questions of the day. "Tho Progressive platform," he continued, con-tinued, "Is our contract with the people. peo-ple. If any Progressive candidates fails to keep the promises in tho platform plat-form or those which ho makc3 on tho stump, I'll take the stump against him myself." oo |
