Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1912-06-25
CRYING
FRAUD, THROWS HAT
IN NEW PARTY RING
Accepting Nomination by Pro-
greSsiyeSr Colonel Says Time
Has Come for New Public
and Private Morality
CBy Assoaated Press. J

CBy Assoesated Frsss)
CHICAGO, June T22.-In accepting the
nomination tonight at the formation Of
the new party. Theodore Roosevelt
hurled his hat into a new ring, in a
Characteristic and ringing speech. He
said:
Gentlemen: ct thank you for your
nomination, and in you 1 recog-
nize the lawfully elected delegates
to the Republican convention, who
represent the overwhelming majority Of
the voters who took part in the republic
an primaries prior to the convention and
who represent the wish Of the majority
of the lawfully elected members of the
convention. 1 accept the nomination sub
ject to but one condition.
This has now become contest, which
cannot be settled merely along the old
party lines The principles that are at
stake are as broad and as deep as the
foundations of our democracy Itself.
They are in no sense sectional. They
should appeal to all honest citizens, east
and west, north and south; they should
appeal to all right thinking men, whether
to their previous party Affiliations"
TIME FOR NEW PARTY.
II feel that the time has come when
not only all men who believe in pro-
gressive principles, but all men who be-
neve in those elementary maxims of
public and private morality, which must
underly all forms of successful free gov
eminent, should join in one movement.
Therefore I ask you to go to your several
homes, to find out the sentiment of the
people at home, and then again to come
together, 1 suggest by mass convention,
to nominate for the presidency progress
sive candidate on a progressive plat
form, a candidate, and a platform that
will enable US to appeal to northerner
and southerner, fastener and westerner,
republican and democrat alike, in the
name Of our common American citizen
ship II you wish to make the fight, I
will make it even If only one state should
support me. The only condition 1 i'm
pose is that you shall feel entirely free
to substitute any other man, and IN such
case 1 will give him my heartiest sup
port.
wherever, in any state, the republic
an party is true to the principles of it's
founders and is genuinely the party Of
Justice and of progress, / expect to see
ii come bodily into the new movement,
for the convention that has just set in
this city is I'm no proper sense of the
word a republican convention at all.
PURPOSE OF BOSSES.
TT does not represent the masses of the
republican party. 1t has served the pur-
pose only of a group of sinister politi-
cal bosses, many of whom have used the
party merely as an adjunct to money
making, either for themselves or for the
great crooked financial interests which
they serve.
1.-THE bosses who stole enough delegates
to enable them TO dominate this conven-
ton, have no linship of soul or spirit
with the men who started the republican
party on it's career as an agent of liberty
and justice. You, my friends, are the
heirs in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln
when he refused longer to be mound by
shaclles of the past and faced the new
issues in the new spirit that the time
demanded.
But we are more fortunate in one re-
spect than our predecessors, for we who
now stand for the progressive cause, the
progressive movement, have done for
ever with all sectionalism, and we make
our appeal equally to the sons of the man
who fought under Grant and to the
sons Of the men who fought under Lee,
for the cause we champion is as empha-
tically the cause of the south as it is the
cause of the north.
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL"
Il am in this fight for certain princi-
pies and the first and most important OF
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