Colby Assails Newspapers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, July 26, 1912:
Leagued in Conspiracy to Belittle the Bull Moose, He Says.
Special to The New York Times.
    FREEPORT, R. I., July 25.— Long Island followers of the Bull Moose movement held an enthusiastic meeting to-night at Freeport. Timothy L. Woodruff was expected to speak, but did not appear. The principal address was made by Bainbridge Colby, the New York attorney who represented Col. Roosevelt's interests before the Committee on Credentials at the Republican Convention in Chicago.
    Mr. Colby attacked the New York newspapers for what he called unfair treatment of Col. Roosevelt. He declared that they "are leagued in a conspiracy to suppress the facts about the third party movement and to represent its advocates as worthy only of derision." He concluded by comparing Roosevelt to Lincoln, Washington and Jefferson, all of whom, he said, were made the victims of unfair and hostile criticism by their contemporaries.