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Show ROOSEVELT PLEDGES II11SELE III HELP All Sincere Citizens to Receive fSis Support -Strong Plea for Punishment of Crafting Public Officials Believes in Party GovenmientThousands Shout for Teddy Y., he was met by a large delegation of railroad men. "I have always admired the railroad men because thoy have certain qualities quali-ties 1 like as typical of Americans. Thoy know- how to act, eech for himself him-self and also in combination. They know how to work They know how to oy orders and bow to act, each on his individuality. The average American in our political, industrial and social life must show just these traits." ; The moving of the steaming locomotive locomo-tive made speaking difncult. ' It Is really an outrage," he de. clared. "I can't talk to that engine." I Ho then told the crowd that an en-I en-I gine was the "only th,ng he could not talk against," and the train moved i off, as some of the men shouted, "Do I them up in the convention. Teddy.". Colonel Roosevelt smiled broadly, but i made no reply, j Thousands Greet Teddy. Thousands of people greeted the colonel when his special train arrive,! I In Eiie at 8:28 this morning. Th colonel spoke briefly. chleny along t 9 lines of the earlier speech he made i-r 1 Buffalo regarding the puro water in tho Great Lake cities. He was met by a reception comuiit-I comuiit-I tee from Erie, consisting of Congress-I Congress-I man Arthur L. Elates. Frank D. Schults, president of the chamber of l commerce; K. C. Sturgeon, president of the board of trade, and William Tifisk. Congressman Hates was a member of the lower h"usc during the seven I and one-half years that Colonel Roose-I Roose-I velt was president, and a long consultation con-sultation was held In the private car as tho train pushed through the northwest Pennsylvania gap. At every town and hamlet hundreds lined the tracks. When tho train pulled Into Erie the station was lined with people, and It. was some minutes before tho colonel's voice could be heard. In an under-! under-! lone to Congressman Hates, vjio was on the rear platform, the African hunter said: Likes to Be Called "Teddy." "I used to think it lowered my dignity dig-nity to have them call me 'Teddy,' I but, do you know, I am getting to Ilko it now." j TJit ffalo. An?. 25. Theodore Roosevelt Roose-velt pledged himself to the men of Buffalo today to help them and all sincere citizens to fight crookedness wherever it w?s round. "I'll help you just ns 1 did In the past,'" he said, speaking to the Elliot club whose pttest he was nt breakfast an hour after sunrise. Ho made a plea for the punishment of crooked and grafting public odlclals and the election of honest ones iu their places. 1 a process of gradually hut permanent - j ly raising the moral of political and buslncsn life and he said he thought it a duty to hunt out crooks and especially espec-ially crooks In his own party Believes In Party Government. 1 "I believe in party government," he I said, "but the moment a question of honesty Is Involved, I recognize no party distinctions, or If I do make J any it is that it is a llttlo more my business to put the grafter and crook out of public life if he belongs to my party than if to another this attitude demands that one's attention be Hxec' not on financial or social status but on 1 conduct " Nearly 1"'0 members of the Elliot cluh and other citizens repreentln'? leading professional and business interests in-terests and n wido variety of pollti cal affiliation aweJted Mr. Roost- i velt's coming from the New York Central station, where he had arrived arriv-ed from Utlca at 6 -20 la his private car Republic, attached to a regular train. As the ex-president entered he was cheered and " America"' was sutifc with the accompaniment ef a regimental regi-mental band. Breakfast wa expeditiously expedi-tiously served as there was less than an hour before the time for Mr. Roosevelt's departure to Chicago. Among tho?e who got an especially hearty greeting from Mr. Roosevelt, was "Tony" Calvin, a Buffalo policeman, police-man, formerly a rough rider. The colonel hook his hand across the table and said some pleasant things regarding their past acquaintance. Will H3vc "All the Fight They Want." The men who heard him noled his earnestness In dealing with the sub-Jen sub-Jen of crookodness and grafting, and who frequently broke In with sharp applause had In mind his expressions within the last few days that they "will have all the; fight they' want" j Mr. Roosevelt first dwelt on a subject sub-ject of particular local interest tho necessity of preserving unpolluted "the wonderful fresh water supply of the great lakes." "We claim to be a civilized people." peo-ple." he said. "As such we oucht to he able to dlsposo of our sewerage without putting It into our drinking water." State and Nation Musi Combine. He said further: "State and nation muat combine in preventing further contamination and waking the purity of lake water as absolute as possible. That Is so ns well in the. field of morals, public and domestic. "There must be no pollution at the sources " This led naturally to his grimly earnest expression of intention to seek out aud bring to an accounting grafters, hi? and little. "Distrust, however" he said, "financiers "finan-ciers who only c?n see crookedness in crafting small politicians and grafting I leaders; distrust also those who can eo it only In the financiers. You must attack a man because Ih-'h i crooked If poor and crooked attack him. If rich and crooked attack him. In fact, attack the rich crook a trifle Uronger. Yes. I will put it attack I him very strongly." . ) The gathering of people at the station sta-tion had been considerably augmented during tho hour. Standing on the r?ar platform of his car, Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt 'Raved his hat as tho train pulled r'Ut westward shortly after 7:30 a m. When Mr. Roosevelt appeared on ' 'he rear end platform at D.nkirl:, N. |