The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-07-24
Impossible in Old Parties, Says
Roosevelt
HE OUTLINES NEED OF IT
Privilege Must Not Stay in Power
1t Controls Both the Regular
Organizations, He De-
clsres.

New York, Juy 24.-In his first speech
since he returned from Chicago, Colonel
Roosevelt yesterday set forth his rea-
sons for leading in the formation OF a
new party. His address was delivered
at meeting of the New York State
county chairmen. Colonel Roosevelt did
not intend to speak, but the chairmen
cheered and waved their bandannas until
he saw that they would not be denied.
"No man knows better than I" said
Colonel Roosevelt, that enthusiasm and
high principles cannot be effective with
out organization and work. A great
responsibility rests upon you men here
who are undertaking the organization of
a new party which is to stand four
squared to Democracy which is to be
literally the party of the people. 1t will
fight on live issues and not dead ones.
IL will embody protest against the cor
ruption in both of the old party ma
chimes. Ii will be party into which OK
Democrats, ex- Republicans, without re-
gard to their political past. are to come
in on an exact equality and to have each
the same share in the party manage
ment
When we get this started II will be
party not only representing the people ut
election time, but will represent them in
party management. We are going to see
to if that it is organized so that il will
be impossible for any fifty three men
chosen four years before by politicians
to stand superior to all the voters of
great state like California and that ii
cording to a given call of fifty-three pri-
vate men, the state shall not be Olsen
franehised. My own judgment is that
Messrs. Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim
and company made poor swap when
they took the stolen delegates from Cali
fornia in place of the electoral vote Of
California. They we're not contented
with that. They snapped the electoral
vote of Massachusetts for the vote of
two delegates. j think it was about as
expensive swap as was ever made by
political managers
No good will come If we merely sub
stitute one set of bosses for another.
There is nothing that the bosses of both
parties wish so much as to see every de-
cent man vote alternately for each with
the vague idea that he is reducing the
other. Now, no doubt, Mr.. Barnes and
Mr.. Murphy would like TO have every.
thing all the time but they are perfect
ly willing each to take half instead of
the whole, But we do not care anything
about dividing the state equally between
them. What we intend to do Is to take
1t from both and we intend TO take the
nation from both. And in this party we
intend TO build government without |
and within the party on the lines of
genuine popular rule and of social and
industrial justice for farmer, wage work
er, business man and professional man
alike, to be achieved, not through the |
boss, not through the indirect control Of |
the party organization by special priv |
ilege, but to be achieved Through genu-
inc and not merely nominal rule of the |
people themselves"
After he finished speaking, the Colonel |
to hear brief reports of the |
county chairmen. All these were highly |
optimistic and the Colonel beamed with |
pleasure at various predictions of an /
vote for Roosevelt.
Announcement was made by Chair
nan Hotchliss that meeting of the
delegates and alternates to the Chicago
elected from the various con-
yressionai districts in the state would
le held at the Statler hotel in Buffalo
IN August ! for the purpose of electing
.wo delegates and two alternates-at-
arge from this state to the convention.
The delegates will stop off at that city
rom the special train which is to leave
New York on August 2 for the Chicago