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Show KOTernment settloa theae d!fferncon for them. Neither can wo allow bl? corporations to fleht out their differences dif-ferences with employes If disorder results. Wo cannot allow mob rule." Tho crowd cheered. "We muBt find out If the corporation corpora-tion acted fairly by lta employes and tho pubMc. The corporation has a duty to the community and tho public pub-lic should see that the public and local ofTlclal3 take action to prevent Injustice." A workman at the rear of the train called out above the tumult: "Teddy, how about 1912?" Col, Roosevelt smiled but made no reply. n want to talk of nuestlons that arc alive"' he continued. "Questions that effect us aJl. Wo want to snipe thousands so that every American citizen can cam a living ana be protected In hla rights Dishonesty and Kreed must bo fousht with absolute fearlessness without reference to publlo officials or whom It may hit. "You say I am with the poor man. I am If he's straight. If a man will po crooked In our Interests he will also bo crooked ajrnlnst us." As Col. Rosevelt concluded hla remarks, re-marks, a policeman In the crowd moved mov-ed toward the roar platform to shake hands with him. Reaching; toward tho officer Col. Roosevelt remarked: "I wag on the force In New York myself." TEDDY'S POPULARITY AS GREAT AS EVER CHICAGO, Aug. 23. Theodoro Roosevelt travelled across Ohio and Indiana today, greeted everywhere by euthasIaBtIc crowds to whom ho talked talk-ed of honesty, respect and corporations. corpora-tions. He expressed bis belief on questions that concern tho publlo in more fashions than he has done heretofore here-tofore since his return from Afrlea. Tho crowds that greeted him tod.ay wore larger than tnose which turned out to see him during his trip across New York state and they wore so insistent in-sistent In their demands to see him and hoar him that he responded In every Instance. From the time Colonel Rooeevelt reached Buffalo at 6:0 o'clock this morning until after he had made his last speech for the day, ho was kept on tho move. Wheu he was not shaking shak-ing hands, he was talking with visitors, visit-ors, dozens of whom rode for a time on his car. He said he wns not talking talk-ing politics and refused to ear a word on the New York situation. Even the nows thfit delegates from Orleans county to the stat convention have been ordered to support him for tern porary chnlrman of the convention brought forth no comment. The colonel col-onel merely smiled. At Elkhart, Ind. ELKHART, Ind.. Aug. 25. Colonel Roosevelt ' reached this city late this afternoon when lowering clouds j threatened rain and was mot by a ' crowd The colonel reminded Ms audience au-dience that tho right kind of men and women in tbe ranks of American citizenship cit-izenship was the ereatest thlntr in the country. "The stream does not rise higher than Its eource," he 6ald "You can't cot the right kind of government unless you have the right kind of citizens back of the government." govern-ment." He warned the "people against tho election of corrupt men to offlco bc-1 bc-1 cause they expected to profit by tho brilliancy of such men. "In the first place, yon want an honest hon-est man," ho said. "I don't care how able tho man is, If he Is not honest The greater his ability the greater curse ho will prove to the country. Pon't forgot that Is the case of publlo men as well as private citizens. Pon't support a man because ho is smart, because his smartness is no use without with-out conscience. And I don t even care how honest he is. how fame he is, if he has no common sense, ho is no use." At Toledo, Ohio. TOLEPO, Ohio, Aug. 23. Transferring Trans-ferring of malls delayed the fast mall train of thy Lake Shore thirty minutes min-utes this afternoon and gave Colonel Roosvelt more time than had been anticipated to address tbe great crowd assembled at tho Union station. He referred again to conditions relative rel-ative to the street cars strike at Columbus, Ohio. He said , ; "Wo do not allow Individuals to fight out their own differences. The |
