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really means sc shall ain But. an
Or lose. We shall not faltsr. Our
cause - based OF the eternal pTinci-
pies Of righteousness. and even
though we who now lead may for the
time fall. IN the end the cause itself
all triumph Six weeks ago. here
in Chicago. spoke 10 the honest rep.
resentatiyes OF q convention which
| was not dominated By honest met.
| a convention wherein sat. alas. . E4a~
joriiy OF men who. with sneertng in
difference to every principle OF right.
30 acted a. TO bring 20 q shameful
end q party which had been founded
| over half q century ago By men In
| whose souls burned the Ere OF lofty
| endeavor. Now TO you men who. IL
your turn. have come together 10
| spend and be spent IN the endless
| crusade against wrong. TO you who
| face the future resolute and content,
| to you who strive in a spirit OF
| brotherhood for the betterment OF
| our nation. 10 you who grid your
selves for this great new fight in the
| neyer-ending warfare for the good OF
that speech | said in closing: We
stand at Armageddon. and We battle
| for the Lord"
Point to General Fremont.
: The easiest thing in the world in
Chicago now is 10 find men who ridi-
Guile the idea that new party cannot
win its first national campaign. They
point TO the birth Of the Republican
party and ask how much John c.
I Fremont would have lacked OF carry
ing the country If he had been such
magnetic leader as Theodore
Roosevelt. AS it was, they recall to
you that Fremont, though a weak
candidate and not a strong cam
paigner, carried eleven States. These
they remind you, were Michigan,
Massachusetts, Maine, New York,
Ohio, New Hampshire, Connecticut,
Iowa, Rhode Island, Vermont. and
Wisconsin.
Wiped Out Two Parties.
They also drew attention to the
fact that Fremont came within half
a million votes of carrying the popu-
lar election in that campaign OF
1856, and they always want to know
what would have happened if the
pathfinder had been such a man as
Teddy. That campaign" said John
c. Shafer, of Chicago, wiped out
the Wing and the American parties
at one swoop, and although the Re-
publican ticket did not elect it's can
didate for President, it did come
through SO strong that it became at
once the only contender in the coun-
: try against the Democrats, and in
:, 1860 it was victorious.
There are many men here WHO
claim they have no doubt that Roose-
welt will carry at least as many
States in 1912 as Fremont carried
in 1856, and more who claim that he
will carry the same States as Ere
mont and others as we'll.
The same optimistic feeling was
shown at the meeting of the provis-
ional national committee When
Senator Dixon called that body to or
der his first words of greeting
brought cheers. And as he proceed
ed with his account of the phenome-
| nal growth of the new party since
= the adjournment of the Republican
National Convention, and informed
the committee that all the elements
are here for a Roosevelt landslide, -
the forty men present made as much
noise as any forty men possibly
could.
This description of the optimism
pervading the delegates to the Pro-
gressive National Convention is not
overdrawn. 1t is remarkable that it
is sO-but it is so.