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Show ROOSEVELT TALKS TO GREAT CROWD H famous Leader of the Progressive Movement Enthusiastically He- B ceived by the People of Ogden Thousands Wait All After- H noon in Order to Hear tho Former President Utah Sen- H ators Are Rapped For Their Part in the Chicago SJ Convention Gospel of Political Eighteous- H' 1 ! cess Is Preached HrJn Moro than live thousand persons H waited patiently but anxiously for H I. more than three hours yesterday af- Hl tcrnoon at the corner of Twenty-fifth B f street and Grand avenue to hear ex- I President Theodore Roosevelt deliver deliv-er his only speech in Utah, a speech in -which he vigorously, though not by name, excoriated Senators Sutherland and Snioot, and then predicted the success of the Progressive party at the pollB in November. Scheduled to arrive in this citv at 3:35 p. m. from tho north, .tho Roosevelt Roose-velt train did not arrive until about 5.15, a fact which caused the tedious is 11 of tho crowd and rorccd the Pro- resslvc leader to cut his speech in half. 11 A platform, for the Roosevelt speech was erected a hundred or more feet m south of Twenty-fifth street against the east wall of tho Lyceum theater. The sates of the vacant lot at the Grant avenue corner were thrown open, which, however, proed far too small to accommodate the vast throng of persons who gathered earlv in the afternoon to greet the colonel. Of the thousands that gathered perhaps half of them were from out of town. That the crowd was largely in sympathy sym-pathy with the Progressive movement was evidenced by tho picturesque array ar-ray of red bandannas and tho Roosevelt Roose-velt buttons that woro worn by a majority ma-jority of the men and women. Long before even the scheduled time for the arrival of the e.v-presi-dont'o party, the vicinity of the speaker's speak-er's stand .was crowded by people, many or whom had come to this city from distant parts' of the late to hear the message of progress and -''rule bv the people" which Mr. Roosevelt was to bring. Whllo It was expected that the colonel would make two speeches In thiB city, one of them at the Or-phcum Or-phcum theater to the delegates of tho state convonllon, the lateness of tiTe train prevented this arrangement being be-ing carried out and the convention was temporarily adjourned in plentv of time for the delegates to bo present pres-ent at the open air meetiug. Representatives of the "Utah committee com-mittee of the state Progressive o--ganlzatiou left thia city early In the day for tho north, meeting the Ilooae-i Ilooae-i volt train in Idaho and accompanying ; the Roosevelt party to this city. "Win CJla&mann. one of the committee, acr-ed acr-ed as chairman of the open-air meeting. meet-ing. On board tho speaker's traiu were: Air. Thompson, representing tho New York Times; Mr. McSweon, representing rep-resenting the Philadelphia North Am-,ca.Mr" Am-,ca.Mr" "ShHn. representing the Chicago Tribune; R. Pratt, ren-resenting ren-resenting the Hearst News Service-Mr Service-Mr Underbill of the Newark Dailv News, Air. Curtl of the Associated Press V, S. Lire. district superintend-I superintend-I ent or the Western Union of Salt Lake City, A. E. Bralnnrd of the New York I Central train service, Col. Go'Ke K Roosevelt, Col. Cecil Lyon, Dr Ter- rill and Martin McGrath, secrotarv jind stenographer to Mr. Roosovelt . The Roosevelt party arrived on 'tho Platform whoro the speaking was to take place unannounced going through the Lyceum theater building- and emerging from the basement door at the very foot of the stairs leading to tbe speaker's program. When the crowd caught its first sight of the ex- nSl ,l YCnt Wl,d w,lh chrs. Quickly the colonel mounted tho stalra ,,to the stand and stood gazing over tlie great sea of faces Then he turned and attempted to speak to tho committee In charge of the meeting Tho great din of cheert, which continued, con-tinued, made it almost impossiblo for the speaker and committee to reach an understanding. Teddy, with his characteristic smile turned to the audience and waved his soft black hat, which he had carried to the platform in hts hand, appealing to the crowd for silence. Air. Glasmann, after turning to the crowd, aud waving his hand for somo semblance of silence, did not devoia more than thirty seconds to his introduction in-troduction of Air. Roosevelt, and the great leader of the party of progress again faced the assembled throng. Speaking to the crowd, many of whom stood upon tiptoe to catch a better sight of the speaker or surged toward the speaker's stand to catch his words more distincth, Mr. Rocse-velt Rocse-velt said: Roosevelt's Speech. Aly friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible because, unfortunately, our train is late, so that I have had to cut short the address that I am to make to you. Now, friends. I wish first to thank the members of the Progressive Pro-gressive state convention who are present for their kindness In adjourning ad-journing the state convention session ses-sion so as to allow me to address ad-dress you, the people of Ogden and I think that was characteristic character-istic of the new party, that they should put the wishes of the people peo-ple foremost and to say to tho state convention how I appreciate the-action they are taking. I know well the tremendous strain of undertaking un-dertaking a task as colossal as the organization of a new party, and I deeply appreciate disinterested devotion and good citizenship which is actuating those who are undertaking that task. I wish to express my renso of personal obligation ob-ligation to then! for what they have done. Inspired to Lead. Friends, I would not have gone into it if It had not been borne oh me that In no other way could wo obtain substantial justice for our people as a whole. It is because, be-cause, friends, both of the old parties are rotten at heart. (Cheers and applause.) Each of them is boss-controlled and priv-ilege-rldden, and each is so organized or-ganized that It Is incapable of facing in a serious spirit tho serious ser-ious problems of today. And I make my appeal to ex-Republicans and to ex-Democrats alike. I make my appeal for the new party to all good citizens, what- oer their past political afflla-tions afflla-tions may have been, provided only they are loyal to the fundamental funda-mental principles of our American Ameri-can political -life. (Applause ) Whereer I have been on this trip I have been greeted by men who wear the button that shows they fought in the great war. I havo been greeted by ex-Union soldiers and, even in tho north here, by e:c-C'onfederate soldiers, sol-diers, and, friends, It Is fitting that the men of that" great crisis, the men who proved their -truth by their endeavor, en-deavor, should come forward to Join the only party that is sincere in this crisis. Our opponents are fighting over again dead battles, are reviving again vanished war cries that refer to Igsucs that have passed away. YVe and we alone face tho real issues of today, resolute to try so to bear ourselves our-selves that we may solve them, as the generation which saw the, Civil Avar sohed its issues. The first of all principles is the right of the people to rule themselves. (Cheers and applause.) ap-plause.) And we are putting that forth, not as a, mere Fourth of .Tulv oration, but as a "platform which in i a coenant with the people of the United States. Accuses Utah Chiefs. In the Republican national convention conven-tion last June the right of the people peo-ple to choose their own candidate was denied them, and it was denied them by the alliance of the boss and of special privilege I am sorry to say. denied thcui In part, with the aid or representatives of yours from Utah, who helped steal from the people peo-ple the right of nomination, which was the people's. And now. mind you. nominally that was a theft from nfe. If It only concerned myself T should ot have appealed to you fn takr any part In the matter. It w y really a theft from you. It was the theft of your right to name your can- , didate. Their objection was not primarily pri-marily to me. They don't like me. (Laughter.) Thev haven't any cause to. (Laughter.) But, after all, their dislike or me that was not what main- I ly influenced them They do not Ilk i me. but they dread you. The reason they objected to me primarily was 1c- cause, for the lime being. I ropresent- j cd the movement which meant on- j throning in ower the people them-' selves. Dicclalms Perfection, Now, friends. 1 do not mean for a momont that when the people (that I means you and I) got real control ) our government we won't make mis- takes. Of course wo will make mis- ' takes now and then, but wo will make ' them ourselves. ((Applause.) We; won't have any one else make them f for us. if y.-e make them ourselves , we won't make tho same mistake twice. If we let somebody el?e make them for us we don't know how often of-ten he wil make them. (Applause ) People, again, have said that J have preached class hatred. Nonsense! Non-sense! I have preached hatred of no class except the class or crooks political po-litical crooka, financial crooks, big crooks and little crooks. (Applause.) And even In that caso I do not real- 1 preach hatred of the crook, I preach hatred of tho crookedness. I do, not mind tho bosses If they will quit being bosses. (Laughter.) If Archbold and Penrose will go Into In-to private life and behave themselves .they will have my blessing, but 1 want them to quit governing mn and io'.i aud I want them to quit acting against the law That is all. That Is a perfectly per-fectly moderate request-Will request-Will Fight Crooka. I would protect m every way tho rights of property. Not only that, but I will protect tlie man of great wealth who Is honest, but I wish 1 could, make that man of great wealth who is honest understand that I:o is ihis own worst enemy when he. joins hands with the ,man of great wealth who is dishonest, for the only man T am against is the man who is dishonest. dis-honest. As 1 said, I am against the big crook, not because ho Is big, but because he Is a crook (Applause.) And I am protecting them against themselves, I am protecting the hon-ost hon-ost men of Wealth against themselves when I try to make It understood that wealth must behave itself 1 shall protect it, but as far as in mc lies I Intend to see that it does the justice which It requests; that the man of big means, who is protected In hb rights, shall in return do justice to the smaller rival, to tho man who I Invests his fortune, to the wage-worker, tlie employes and to the general i public with whom he deals. All I ain asking, all I am endeavoring to secure se-cure Is ordinary justice, ordinary fair dealing, and that I intend to secure If It is In me to secure it. Has Love for West. And friends, I feol that I havo a peculiar right to come out here among you people of the west to ask 'our help in standing on such a platform plat-form For mauj jears of mj ll I lived in the western country I worked work-ed with the western men, 1 know you. Ydu can only know a man when you have worked with him and have not confined yourself to looking on while he worked ((Applauso and laughter) And It helped me more than I can say when I bocame president. "(The school children In front of the platform were making such a commotion commo-tion that Mr. Roosevelt paused long enough to remark: "Come, come children. chil-dren. You can talk afterward. I like kids vory much, but I dou't want them to become too conversational. I have them myself, Including one grandchild.") grand-child.") Among the experiences to which 1 have felt I owed much. I have folt that probably my experience In tho west was tlmt to which I owed most in helping me to serve my countrymen country-men when I was in the White Hou9e. And uow friends, I ask ydu. you of tho west, you of Utah, to take your part in leading the new movement (Officer Kclliher by this time had succeeded in quieting the children aud i in taking down those who had climbed climb-ed up on the platform, and Roosevelt remarked, "Bully for you. Officer") Appeals for Support. I have been accustomed to look to the west for leadership. We got that leadership In this progressive movement move-ment from many of the states of the west At first it was very, very diffi- cult to start it in the east Wo have w,wt'J ' L '-Ml K-MiKBasn r wi tuigB iBBnamogi got it started, we are pushing it jlR through Pennsylvania, Massachusotlr. im and Maine and Now Jorsey, and now Mq I don t want you to fall out of I'm Mm lead and tack along at tho tall of tho & procession. "1 And now here in Utah I want to i say one thing, because of stntemonts I; ss that have been brought to mc from ' men who say they wero very friend- ly to me personally, but as a mai- .',. a$ tor of principle wore pledged to Mr. J ; RH Taft and so had to support him at ( the convention last June. Friends, JH there Is no principle that can pledge a man to theft. -Any man could lion- i ; Wi orably take a position for or tigalnst ' M me prior to that convention, but no man could claim to be an honest man S and at the convention, aid those who : Pi stole the convention from the people j '; of tho country. (Applause.) No ob- JM ligation, no pledge to Mr. Taft or in 1B one olse can serve as an excueo fo J, sj taking part In or sanctioning rascality v mt And I use my words with 8ciunli- 1 RJ precision. To 3teal a nominating con- liNI ventlon for president Is a worse or- XJS fense thcai to cheat at the polls' in the 4:1 H election of an alderman, and yet wj ftlfS can put the man who cheats at thj tlllfl polls for alderman in tho ponltentlan 111 IT and we do put him In tho penitentiary ijllll for such an offense, whereas becausi; 1III1II the nominating convention Is not a li nil body known to law the men who take cjllll part In what is an Infinitolv worso of- ItlHl fense against the people of the United f (Continued on Page Fourteen ) k JdI H UP m ROOSEVELT TALKS l TO GREAT CROWD; H '(Continued From Page Eight.! 1 states are able 10 go harmless. Any 1 man -who took part In the theft of U that convention. In the seating of the H fraudulent delegates and the carrying H of the convention by means of tnoso H fraudulent delegates any man who H benefited b it, any man who upholds H it, all rlike arc guilty of treason to H the rjhic of American institutions. H They are committing a -worse offense H against the pcoole than is committed Hi by the mere, ordinary malefactor who H.1 is brought Into the courts for a -wrong W( , against a given individual, for their Kij " wrong was not against one individual, V1 it was against all of you H; I Reason for Talking. H T said in my primarv campaijfn that H'l ,; IT the people decided against me ' K m would have nothing to say, hut that 1f !i-" they decided for me, and the politicians politi-cians cheated me out of the results 1 would have a great deal to say. ami V am saying it now. (Applause and laughter) And T will contlmio to say f .jv it. And, friends, I appeal to the ex- Hr 1 Democrat and the ex-Republican aliko Bp 1 because the professional politician. V 1 the bosB&B, the beneficiaries of priv- B 1 liege, the men responsible for the H 1, crooked politics and crooked business, H I are opposing us The do not care H I whether they elect Mr. Wllcon or Mr. 1 ' I Taft. They maj have Rora prefer- H I encA between them, but they do not H I ronllj care as long as they can beat "x the Progressives, because the Progres- I""""" Mve party Is the party of the peoplo themselves, and they know that their ; occupation is gone If once the people come into power themselves. (Ap- plau?e and cheers.) H I Fight Up to People. H t 1 , And friends, when you see the pow- H 1 ers that prey, without regard to poll- H I tics, to beat us, I ask the plain, de cent, honeBt citizens, without regard to politics, to come together and as-rtlst as-rtlst us. Thin Is your fight Thla la the fight to give you the rlsht to decide de-cide vour own policies. Any man who thinks that the bos can dollar his vole better than he can himfiolf ought to go against us, ho hasn't any place with us. Any man -who Is afraid 'of his fellowfl. who thinks that the bos and the representative of privilege priv-ilege should stand between him nnd the people, that man ought to ko against us, that man belongs on tho other side of the fence. But any man who thinks that Ive Is fit to do his share In the difficult and responsible work of self-government, any man who thinks that his neighbors ought to be inlj uslcd together with him .n the work of deciding under pommon Interests, any man who believes ta i In the long run the American op! lean govern thera.elve. better thnn any outside foodj of mn can govern them every such man should stand with us in this fichL (Applause.) AiU T a.sk you to stand with us, because we stand for the basic principles on which the American goernment is founded; we stand for the right of the people to rule themselves, and for their duty (o so rule u to bring nearer near-er th day when social and industrial justice hall be don to every man and every woman within this Krat country of ours (Prolonged cheer i and applatise 1 on |
