Williams news., 1912-11-23
ROOSEVELT STATES
 FIGHT JUST BEGUN

party. In line with previous express ions of his own and of his colleagues, reiterated that the progressive party has come to stay" and so ''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 numerous obstacles naturally in the path of new move ment as literally unparalled in the history of free government.
 The statement follows:
 ''I 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 future demands from us who work in this present.
 "What the progressive party has done since the theft of the republi- can organization by the republi- can bosses at Chicago last June is literally unparalled in the history of free government, worked under re- presentative institutions. Three months have gone by since some hundreds of earnest men and women gathered to found the new progress i've party
 "Without much money, without any organization against the wealth of the country, against the entire organized ability of the country, of the bitter hostility of 90 per cent of the country, against the fu- rious opposition of every upholder of special privilege, whether in poli- tics or in business and with the channels of information to the pub lie largely choked the progressive party has boiled between four and four and one-half million votes; has hopelessly beaten one of the old parties, both in the electorial col lege and in the popular vote; has taken second place in the nation, and either first or second place in some thirty-seyen of the fory-eight states.
 "No task in any way approaching this has been before performed by any party in our country. Such feat performed by volunteers hastily brought together and without previ- ous cooperation with each other, against the trained veterans of the political arena; these trained veter- ans including the entire mercenary forces of politics be d source Of pride, not only to those who per formed thestask, but to all believers in good citizenship and in the capacity of Americans for self gov ernment.
 During the campaign 1 said re- peatedly that this was in no shape or way a one man movement, but a movment for great principles "a movement which has sprung, as all healthy movements in our dem ocratic government must spring, from the heart and conscience of the people themselves. This truth must he 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 in- to legislation any one of our blanks 1t can count upon our hearty SUD- port in so doing: but we will not rest contented until the entire plat form is enacted into law and be- come part of our political system, national and state.
 : 1T 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 just ice. So far from being over, the