Norwich bulletin., 1912-11-12
t 'progressives
 Here to Stay'
ROOSEVELT MAKES STATEMENT
 TO HIS FOLLOWERS.
WITHOUT A PARALLEL
Colonel Regards Achievements of Bull Moose Party In Election as Wonder fuI-Not a One-Man Movement,

New York, Nov. M.-Theodore Roosevelt made formal statement to- night bearing on the election and the future of the progressive party. In line with previous expressions of his own and of his colleagues, he retterates 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 over four million votes in the face of numerous obstacles naturally in the path of new movement as literally unparalleled in the history of free government
 The statement follows:
 Text of the Statement
 T 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 fll- ture demands from us who work in this present.
 Good Showing Against Great Odds.
 What the progressive Larty has done since the theft of the republican organization by the republican bosses at Chicago last June is literally un- paralleled in the history of free gov- ernment, worked under representa- tive institutions. Three months have gone by since some hundreds of earn est 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 bit ter hostility of 90 per cent. of the press of the country, against the furi- ous opposition of every upholder of special privileges, whether in politics or in business, and with the channels of information to the public largely choked, the progressive party has poll ed between four and four and one-half million votes; has hopelessly beaten one of the old parties both in the cleo toral colltge and popular vote; has taken second place in the nation and either first or second place in some 37 of the 4s states. Fought Against Trained Veterans.
 "No task in any way approaching this has ever before been performed by any party in our country. Such a feat, performed by volunteers hastily brought together and without any pre- l vious cooperation with each other, against the trained veterans of the political arena-these trained veterans including the entire mercenary forces of politics-should be a source of pride not only to those who performed the task but to all believers in good citi- zenship and in the capacity of AmeE- jeans for self-gOvernment.
 Party Has Come to Stay. During the campaign said repeat edly that this was in no shape or way Q one-man movement, but a move ment for great prinoiples-a 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 De kept steadily before the minds of all of 1 us. The progressive party has come to stay. If either of the old parties will endeavor to put into legislation any one of our blanks. 1t can count upon our hearty support in so doing; but we will not rest contended until the entire platform is enacted into law and becomes part of our political system, national and state.
 Battle Has Just Begun. T 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 vari- ous positions of leadership, have wag- ed this great battle for social and in dustrial justice. So far from being over, the battle has just begun. We | will not rest content untl every feature of the progressive programme has been put into effect; and when this has been done unquestionably there will have opened to us new avenues along which | it will still be a duty to work for the moral and economic betterment of our people.
 (Signed) Theodore Roosevelt.