Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-11-14
CONGRATULATES PEOP LE OF MA AT|ON WHO so LOYALTY coNTENDED FOR THE PRINCIPLES
 OF RIGHT ACHIEVEMENTSHAVE
 NO PARALLEL PROGRESSIVES, IN THREE SHORT MONTHS, MAKE THEIR
 CAUSE FELT I'VE WILL NOT REST UNTIL OUR PLATFORM IS ENACTED IN. TO LAW TO BECOME
 PART OF OUR PO-
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By Theodore Roosevelt

NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-I congrat- ulate 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 Republican or ganization by the Republican bosses paralleled in the history of free gov ernment, worked under representative institutions. 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 bit ter hostility of 90 per cent of the press of the country, against the furious op- position of every upholder of special privilege, whether in politics or in business, and with the channels of in- formation to the public largely choked the Progressive party has boiled be- tween four and four and one-half mil lion votes; has hopelessly beaten one of the old parties, both in the electoral college and in popular vote; has taken second place in the nation, and either first or second place in some 37 of the AS state
 Feat Is Source of Pride
 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- 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 Ameri- cans for self-government.
 During the campaign l said, repeat ediy, that this was in no shape or way a one-man movement, but a movement for great principles-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 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 blanks it can count on our hearty support in so doing, but we will not rest until the entire platform IS enacted into law and becomes part of our political system, national and state.
 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 varl- ous 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 content until every fea- ture of the Progressive program 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 duty to work for the moral and economic bet lterment of our people,