Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-10-10
WHY BE 4 PROGRESSIVE 2"

We have had great issues before to. day. but none larger than those of to- day. We face the third war of Ameri- can independence. It is not enough IT. days like these to sit down clutching the, clay idols of an ancient party in our laps and refusing to lift our eyes. Whether we do or not. the world sure moves on. ...
 Now. all the great issues of coun- try. of this country, are not decided inside of old parties, but outside of them. This is true in spite of the voeiferatioRs of all the Borahs, La FoIlettes and Hadleys who get cold feet when the shooting actually be gins. New and great human needs al ways have demanded new and great political parties. If you do not be- lieye this, read American history You will find there that great parties have come up and grown, that they have waxed and that they have waned; :; th2t is why there are Progressives to- day, and the Progressive party. In tipe 8 yet more progressive party will replace this Progressive party, Always there are some men who think, some men who are on the sic ofs civilization, some men who are on the side of the future and not of the past The Progressive party is the party of the future, not that of the past. Oppose it if you like. Your choice is your privilege. But the good, old world will move on just the same.
 Not a One-Man Party
 The Progressive party is not one man party, but he would be worse than foolish who did not congratulate it. on having the friendship and the leadership of one of the most wonder ful minds, one of the most wonderful bodies, one of the most wonderful nervous systems this country or any other has seen. Put before the stand pat man the full tale of the days work of this one man, the vast range of his activities, and he will tern away from yeu as did the countryman after a long study of the camel in the men aEerie. There ain't no such ami nial.". said he. For the standpat man there ain't no such a animal as Roose- welt. f-
 sH Is urged against Theodore Roose- veh that he is a self-seeker and that he is an egotist One imagines that any man succeeding under the great law of the survival of the fittest is obliged to be somewhat of an egotist Any great man is obliged to be some thing of an egotist. Look on the front page for the name of the man who has forged forward, who leads where oth CTS follow. Perhaps you will adjust yourself to a new definition of the term "egotism." You do not call the tall tree egotistic.
 But as to the selfishness, the little self-seeking which is charged against Theodore Roosevelt, it is idle to pay attention to that sort of thing. Since it is charged in mere assertion. sup pose we argue about that, and do not rets1iate in like weak assertion.
 On La Toilette
 Many of us were present at tht fatal Philadelphia banquet on Febru' ary 2. 1912, when Senator Robert M La Toilette, in the parlance of the day "blew up" If we do not care to be SO flippant, let us call unfortunate anc unhappy that two hours address 1T the wee sma' hours. to the end ol which we saw the bowed and broken figure of & man who had aspired te lead the new progressive thought ol his time. It is not fair to ask whether the speaker or his listeners made the more unfortunate, the more discour teous figure. But at the end or II all