The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1912-11-15

Parry TO STAY
COL. ROOSEVELT BREAKS LONG
SILENCE.
Says New Party Is Peoples Party
Much Encouraged over Present
outlook-Press of the Nation
Admit the Faet-New Party
Has Made Great Showing.
Republican Party Now
Third Party.

Oyster Bay, N. Y, Nov. 11.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt issued his first state
ment since the election tonight as
1ollows:
Il congratulate the Progressives Of
this coutnry-that is l congratulate
those good men and women who, with
sincerity of purpose for the common
good, have had the vision to look into
the coming years and see what the
future demands from as who work in
the present.
What the Progressive party has
done, since the theft of the Republican
organization by the Republican bosses
at Chicago last June, is utterly un-
paralIeled in the history of free gov
ernment, worked under representative
institutions. Three months have gone
by since hundreds of earnest men and
women gathered to found the new
Progressive party.
Against Great Odds.
Without much money, without or
ganization, against the wealth of the
country, against the entire political
ability of the country, against the furi-
GUS opposition Of every upholder of
special privilege, whether in politics
or in business and with the channels
of information to the public largely
choked, the Progressive party has
polled between four and four and one
half million votes; has hopelessly
beaten one of the old parties, both
in the electoral college and in the pop
ular vote; has carried several impor-
tant States in the Union, and has
taken second place In the nation, and
either first or second place in some
thirty-seven of the forty-eight States.
mo task in any way approaching
this has ever before been performed
by any party in our country. Such
feat performed by volunteers, hastl-
ly brought together and without any
previous cooperation with each other,
against the trained veterans of the po.
litical arena-these trained veterans
| including the entire mercenary forces
of politics-should be a source of pride
not only to those who performed the
task, but to all believers in good citi-
zenshlp and in the capacity of Ameri-
cans for self-government.
No One-man Movement.
During the campaign / said repeat
edly that this was in no shape or way
a one-man movement, but movement
for great principles-a movement
which has sprung, as all healthy move
ments in our democracy must spring,
from the heart and conscience of the
people themselves. This truth must
be kept steadily before the minds of
all of us.
"Has Come To Stay"
"The Progressive party has come
to stay. If either of the old parties
will endeavor to put into legislation
any one of our planks It can count
upon our hearty support in so doing;
but we will not rest contented until
the entire platform is enacted into
law and becomes part OF our politi
cal system, national and State.
"I am proud, indeed, that the great
good fortune has been mine to fight
shoulder to shoulder with the men
and women who, in the ranks and in
various positions of leadership, have
waged this great battle for social and
industrial justice.
$50 far from being over, the battle
has just begun. We will not rest con
tent until every feature of the Pro
gressive program has been put into
effect, and when this has been done
unquestionably there will have opened
to us new avenues along which it viii
still be a duty to work for the mora
and economic betterment of our peo
pie"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has ISSUED
statement to the country setting
forth his views of the New Progress
sive Party The Colonel makes il
clear that the party is not dead, but
is still a very live child in the politi
cal arena that promises to blossom
into full manhood in the very future
The papers of the country do not
take the Progressive Party lightly
They are compelled to admit that 6
party constructed upon such princi
ples as to win to its banner four mil
lion supporters in three months is moi
to he considered as a frivolous organi
zation. It is about conceded that the
ontest in the future will not be ba
tween the Republican and Democratic
parties, but instead between the Dem
ocratic and Progressive parties. Mr.
Rnnsevalt,s statement is as follows.