The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-11-12
is here To STAY
Col Roosevelt Reviews the
Work of His Party.
Points With Pride to Achieve
ment of First Campaign.

New York, Nov. 12.-Theodore Roose-
welt has made a formal statement bear
ing upon the election and the future
Progressive party. In line with previous
expressions of his own and of his COL
leagues, he reiterates that the PRO
gressive party has come to stay and,
$50 far from being over, the battle has
just begun
He regards the party's showing in
polling more than 100000 votes in the
face of the numerous obstacles natural
ly in the path of a new movement, as
literally unparalleled in the history of
free government The statement fol-
lows:
81 congratulate the Progressives of
the country-that is, I 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 flu
ture demands from US who work in this
present.
What the Progressive party has done
since the theft of the Republican or
ganization by the Republican bosses at
Chicago last June is literally I'M
paralleIed in the history of free govern
ment, worked under representative in
stitutionS. Three months have gone by
since some hundreds Of earnest men
and women gathered to found the new
Progressive party. Without much
money, without any organization,
against the wealth of the country,
against the entire organized political
ability of the country, against the bitteS
hostility of 80 per cent of the country,
against the furious 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 po1led 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 popular
vote; has taken second place in the
nation and either first or second place
in some 81 of the 4S states.
A Source OF Pride.
mo task in any way approaching this
has ever before been performed by any
party in our country. Such a fact, per-
formed by volunteers, hastily brought
together and without any previous CO.
operation with each other, against the
trained veterans of the political arena
these trained veterans including the en-
tire mercenary forces of politics
should be a source of pride, not only
to those who performed the task, but
to all believers in good citizenship and
in the capacity of Americans for self
government.
During the campaign I said re-
peatedly that this was in no shape or
way a one-man movement, but a move
ment for great principles 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. 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 plat
form is enacted into law and becomes
part of our political system, national
and state.
81 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 So far from being over, the
battle has just begun. We will not rest