Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1912-07-26
FRIDAY, JULY a6, 1912.
THE NATIONAL PROGRESSIVE
PARTY.
New YORK COUNTY LEADERS MEET.
[From Boston Journal ]

rom BOSTON JOuTndl.
New York, July pa mighty roar
of cheers burst from hundred threats
and red T. r. bandannas flashed from
a hundred hands of ex-Republicans and
ex-Democrats when Theodore Roose-
welt walked into the Metropolitan
tower headquarters of the National
Progressive party today.
One hundred leaders, representing
every county in the State, stood up.
They had come to meet Col. Roosevelt
and talk over the new third party and
what it means.
OVATION FOR COLONEL.
Chairman from nearly every county
were among the five score. And there
was one lone woman-Mrs. Wilfred j.
Emo of the Queensborough woman 8
suffrage party.
After an enthusiastic greeting Col.
Roosevelt said;
''No man knows better than l. that
enthusiasm and high principles cannot
be effective without organization and
work A great responsibility rests upon
you men here who are undertaking the
organization of new party. which is to
stand tours squared toDemocracy, which
is to be literally the party of the peo-
pie.
at will fight on live issues and not
dead ones. 1t will embody a protest
against the corruption in both of the
into which eX-Democrats and eX-Re-
publicans, without regard to their po-
litical past, are to come in on an exact
equality and to have each the same
share in the party management
When we get this started it will be
a party not only representing the peo-
pie at election time, but will represent
them in party management. We are
going to see to it that it is organized so
that it 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 if this State has not shaped its
laws according to given call of fifty
three men, the State shall not be dis
franchsed.
my own judgment is that Messrs.
Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim & Co.
made a poor swap when they took the
stolen delegates from California in place
of the electoral vote of California.
'They were not contented with that.
They snapped the electoral vote of
Massachusetts for the vote of two dele
gates. | think it was about as expen-
sive swap as was ever made by polit-
ical managers.
mo good will come if we merely
substitute one set of bosses for another.
There is nothing that the bosses of both
parties wish so much as to see every
decent man vote alternately for each
with the vague idea that he is reducing
the other.
Nov, no doubt Mr. Barnes and Mr..
Murphy would like to have everything
all the time, but they are perfectly
wiling each to take half instead of
the whole. But we do not care any
thing about dividing the State equally
between them.
What we intend to do is to take it
from both and we intend to take the
nation from both. And in this party
we intend to build a government with
out and within the party on the lines of
genuine popular rule and of social and
Industrial justice for farmer, wage
worker, business man and professional
man alike, to be achieved not through
the boss, not through the indirect con-
troll of the party organization by spe-
cial privilege, but to be achieved
through genuine and not merely nom
inal rule of the people themselves. 4"