The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-13
COLONEL RESENTS
S|CKLES ADDRESS
Protests Against Appeal to
Sectionalism by New
York Fire Eater.
{Naticnai News Associatfor)

OYSTER BAY ~ Y, July ia
protest against any hint of sectional
ism in the new Progressive party was
made yesterday by Col Roosevelt,
who said that he did not care rap"
where man was born or whether his
father wore the blue or the gray, SO
long as he was the right type. Col
Roosevelt was told of a speech made
yesterday by Maj. Gen. Daniel E.
SickIes of New York at the meeting
for the organization of the new party
lin this state. Major Gen. Sickles was
quoted as saying Woodrow Wilson was
''born amid rebel surroundings and
that we of the North have never been
disposed to put such a man in the
White House"
Col. Roosevelt said he could not dis
Fcuss the speech but that it was the
ldesire of the founders of the new par
ry to make the movement one which
would truly represent all sections of
1.-THE country.
1.-THE CALI for the progressive con-
tvention," he continued, stated that
this was to be nation wide, nonsec-
Ftional movement, free from any of the
sectional or other jealousies and bit
yternesses of the past
Cites Chicago Speech.
"In my speech at the Orchestra
Hall mass meeting in Chicago, in
which stated that would accept the
progressive nomination if rendered to
me, also stated that we appealed
alike to the men who wore the blue
and the men who wore the gray and
ITO sons of the men who wore the blue
sand to sons of men who wore the gray
81 am myself by blood half Geor-
igian. The brothers of my own moth
Ger served in the Confederate navy
Just as the kinsfolk of my father serv-
red in the Union army.
mo man has been more prominent
in this movement than Judge Ben
Lindsey, born in the South, whose
father served in Forests Cavalry. We
appeal to Northerners and Southern
'ers, Fasteners and Westerners alike
"All I ask is that the man himself
be of the right type, and as an Ameri-
can he face, in patriotic spirit, from
"a standpoint of one to whom all the
citizens of this country are equally
dear, the great and vital issue which
now concern all the American people
alike. And l do not care rap where
he was born.
Greets Many Callers.
And whether a mans father wore
the blue or the gray matters not to
me if the man himself stands true in
the great ideals which it is Imperative
1y necessary that our people should
translate into living acts"
Former Senator Alice and nine 9TH
er Delaware men who have been in
terested in the new party came to see
Col. Roosevelt yesterday.
They came in to talk over condi-
tions in Delaware" said the colonel
''They said they would begin the pr-
maries campaign soon and that they
believed the Republican machine to-
tally misrepresented the people,
The former President was asked
whether he would comment on the
testimony of George B. Cortelyou be-
fore committee of the Senate in
Washington yesterday concerning the
source of the campaign fund of 1904
and whether he would be willing to go
to Washington to give his testimony
There is nothing I can say about
that" he replied 81 will refer you to
the letter which I wrote to Judge Par
ker at the time, in which denied that
and contributions had been made by
corporations in return for promises
of immunity Every statement in that
letter was true. and the subsequent
events bore them out
Timothy L. Woodruff of New York
and A. F. Moore of Pittsburgh also
called on Roosevelt.
Mr.. Woodruff talked over the work