Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — ROOSEVELT IN A MAD RUS[?]. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT IN A MAD RUS[?].

At Victor, Colo., He .Is Made the Victim of a Riotous Crowd. Probably because he was the most prominent person in the party, Gov. Theodore Roosevelt of New York was thecentral point of attack by a moi. «#f irresponsible ruffians, who started a riot, just after the Governor had finished addressing a meeting in Armory Hall in Victor,. Colo. The trouble began with the arrival of the train carrying Gov. Roosevelt and hisparty, in which were Senator Wolcott, Sherman Bell, John Proctor Clark and severs! of his old Rough Riders. A trifling incident started the row. A drunken# woman near the station when the train halted wayed a banner and cried out cheers for Bryan. Gov. Roosevelt paid no attention, nor was it resented by .'.'ny of his party. But some one tore thebanner from the woman’s hands, arousing the anger of her husband, a big Hungarian miner. He marched up and down the street, shouting and daring everybody to a fight. Meantime Gov. Roosevelt had proceeded to Armory Hall. The meeting there was not interrupted, although many persons foretfl their way in. As Mr. Roosevelt left the hall a mob of 150 men, most of them inflamed by drink, faced him. Some boys in the crowd began throwing missiles. A man tried to prod members of the party with a pole, on which wasfastened a banner. Gov. Roosevelt shoutbed to his supporters to preserve law and order. Eggs and lemons were thrown. Democrats of Victor and Cripple Creek deplore the incident. No one in Gov. Roosevelt’s immediate party was injured.