Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1912-07-25
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is HIS KEYNOTE.
Colonel Roosevelt Outlines His
Creed to New YORK Followers.
TO FORM REAL POPULAR PARTY
Commander Of Third Party Forces
Meets officers of His New York
Detachment and Encourages
Them Vastly.

Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 24.-Colo-
mel Roosevelt expressed the greatest
pleasure over the enthusiastic meet
ing with his forty odd county chair
men at the Progressive headquarters
In the Metropolitan Tower.
After getting through a pile Of cor
respondence which awaited him at his
Outlook Office, the colonel tramped
over to the New York third party
headquarters a little before | o'clock,
as he said to make the acquaintance
of the men who are going to help him
carry New York state. He had in
mind only a greeting, he said, least
of all speech. But he had made a
speech before he got through and one
which stirred his New York workers
to wild enthusiasm. From the time
he entered the big room in cloud Of
waving red bandannas until the meet
ing disbanded there was not a let-up.
Fewer than a hundred men all told,
including forty of the county chair
men appointed recently by State
Chairman Hotchkiss, it was a little
family party with personal greetings
and handshaking all around
All the while the third party leader
was explaining to the men who filed
past how his movement was a genu-
inc peoples movement for eX-Demo-
Gratis and eX-Republicans alike, and
protest against the old order of things.
But he was not to escape the
speech. The county chairmen would
have 1t and to be on the safe side the
colonel had come prepared
Mr.. Hotchkiss reintroduced him all
over again, calling attention to the
fitness of the place, which twelve
days before had seen the birth of the
Progressives. He wanted the minute
men of "the new guard" to meet their
commanderin-chief, he said. Here
pandemonium interrupted him and
when 1t subsidized the commander be-
gan to speak for himself
mo man knows better than l." he
said, that enthusiasm and high prin-
cipleS cannot be effective without or
ganiZation and work. A great respon-
sibility rests upon you men here, who
are undertaking. the organization Of
new party which is to be literally the
party of the people. 1t will fight on
live issues, and not dead ones. 1t
will embody protest against the cor
ruption of both the old party ma
chimes.
at will be party into which en-
Democrats and Republicans, with
out regard to their political past, are
to come in on an exact equality.
when we get this started it will be
party not only representing the peo-
pie at election time, but will represent
them In party management. We are
going to see to 1t that it is organized
SO that II will be impossible for any
fifty-three men chosen four years be-
fore by politicians to stand superior to
all the voters of a great state like Cal
ifornia.
"My own Judgment is that Messrs.
Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim & Co.
made poor swap when they took two
SltitH NtItSdleS from NulllOInld Ill
place OF the electoral vote of Califor-
mia,
And in this party we intend to
build government without and with
In the party on the lines of genuine
popular rule and of social and indus
trial Justice for farmer. wage work
err, business man and professional man
alike, to be achieved not through the
boss. not through the indirect control
OF the party organization by special
privilege. but to be achieved through
genuine and not merely nominal rule
OF the people themselves.
After the address the gathering re-
solved itself into an experience meet
ing ut the colonel's request, and in one
minute periods the various charmen
told HON strong the Roosevelt move
mcnt was in their respective counties
and how dark was the prospect for
President Taft. Each report was
vigorously arplauded while the "bull
moose" leaders grinned