Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-07-08
HOPES ALL WILL AID
Roosevelt Appeals to Voters,
Irrespective of Party.
FIGHT FOR PROGRESSlVES
Substance of Letter to Supporter in
Reconsideration Bristow
Joins Colonel.
FIGHT FOR PROGREsSIvES

NEW YORK. July s.-Roosevelt head
quarters made public here today long
telegram which Col Roosevelt sent last
night TO William Allen White, at EN-
poria, Kansas:
Our appeal nationally. says the tele-
gram. is OF course TO all men OF pro-
gressive principles regardless OF past
party differences. The action locally must
be guided by the needs OF the local situa-
ton. In any state where there Is no real
republican party I am entirely content
that the local organization should call tt
self by the title of progressive democratic
IL that is the local desire and IL they sup
port the national progressive electors.
Where. as in New York, Mexico and
Colorado. the local organizations OF both
the republican and the democratic par
ties are hopelessly boss-ridden and re-
dictionary. then we must have a straight
progressive ticket from top to bottom. In
dependent OF both the old parties. Where.
as / understand to be the case in Kansas.
South Dakota, California and other states,
the local republican organization IL pro-
gressive and represents the principles for
winch We stand, / hope that they will be
able to make the fight locally for good
government in whatever effective organi-
cations they have.
Hopes for Republican Support.
Il feel that this year in the progressive
republican states we should have the sup
port of the organization itself. Moreover.
1 feel that everywhere I have a right to
expect the support OF the entire rank and
file of the republican party. made
straight-out primary fight, and I'm the
states where the republican voters them
selves had the chance TO express their
wishes I won by two million plurality.
THE titular national republican party
today is not the party of the republican
voters, and Is not the party Of Abraham
Lincoln, but purely the party OF Messrs
Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and COM
pany, who have stolen the door-plate with
the name, but nave no moral right to
the name or to anything else. Therefore.
hold that every honest republican who
Is true TO Lincolns memory and prin-
ciples must vote with US. Under such
conditions the entire local republican or
ganization in a state like Kansas can
rightly continue as such, and yet II in
duty bound loyalty to support the ma
tional progressive electors. OF course.
feel that in every such progressive re-
publican state the progressive republican
candidates for any office should openly
support the national progressive electors
and go In the same column on the ticket
Senator Bristow Bolts Taft.
EMPORIA, kans.. July S.-United
States Senator Joseph L. Bristow OF
Kansas. formally has declared for Theo-
dore Roosevelt for President in let
ter to William Allen White. Roosevelt
national committeeman from Kansas. ac-
cording to an announcement here today.
Mr. Bristow declared that the renomina-
ton of President Taft was fraudulent"
and that republicans are in no way
bound by it,
Senator Bristow advises all Kansas re-
pubiicans to go to the August primaries
and vote for the Roosevelt electors.