The Sentinel=record., 1912-06-23
ROOSEVELT
 ACCEPTS, IOO
COLONEL MAKES A STRENUOUS SPEECH IN ACCEPTING PRO-
 GRESSlvE NOMINATION..
FRAUD" IS THE KEYNOTE
Thanks Supporters for Their Support and Denounces the Regular Ma tional
 Ing Resolutions.

Chicago, June 23.-Colonel Theo. dore Roosevelt, in accepting the nom- ination at the hands of the second con vention, said:
 "Gentlemen: I thank you for your nomination and in you recognize the lawfully elected delegates to the Re publican convention, who represent the overwhelming majority of the vot- CTS who took part in the republican primaries prior to the convention and who represent the wish of the major ity of the lawfully elected members of the convention. l accept the nomi- nation, subject to but one condition.
 This has now become contest which cannot be settled merely along the old party lines. The principles that are at stake are as deep and as broad as the foundations of our de- mocracy itself. They are in no sense sectional They should appeal to all honest citizens, east and west, north anu south; they should appeal to all right thinking men, whether repub jeans or democrats, without regard to their previous party affiliations. feel that the time has come when not only all men who believe in pro gressive principles but all men who believe in those elementary maxims of public and private morality, which must underlie every form of success fui free government, should join in one movement. Therefore, 1 ask you to go to your several homes, to find out the sentiment of the people at home and then again to come togeth- CT, l suggest by mass convention, to nominate for the presidency, 8 pro gressive candidate on a progressive platform, a candidate and platform that will enable us to appeal to north erner and southerner, customer and westerners, republican and democrat alike, in the name of our common American citizenship. If you wish me to make the fight, l will make 1t even if only one state should support me- The only condition I impose is that you shall feel entirely free to substitute any other man, and in such case, I viii give him my heartiest sup port
 Wherever in any state the republi- can party is true to the principles of it's founders, and is genuinely party of justice and of progress, l expect to see it come bodily into the new movement, for the convention that has just sat in this city is in no proper sense of the word a repub- lican convention at all. It does not represent the masses of the republi- can party. It has served the purpose only of group of sinister political bosses. many of whom have used the party merely as an adjunct to money making, either for themselves or for the great crooked financial interests which they serve. The bosses who stole enough delegates to enable them to dominate this convention have no kinship of soul or spirit with the men who started the republican party on it's career as an agent of liberty and justice. You, niy friends, are the heirs in the spirit of Abraham Lincoln when he refused longer to be bound by shackles of the past and raced the new issues in the new spirit that the times demanded But we are more fortunate in one respect than our predecessors for we who now stand for the progressive cause, the pro gressive movement, have done for ever with all sectionalism, and we make our appeal equally to the sons of the men who fought under Grant and to the sons of the men who fought under Lee, for the cause we champion is as emphatically the cause of the south as 1t is the cause Of the north.
 q am in this fight for certain prin- ciples and the first and most impor- tant of these goes back to Sinai anu is embodied in the commandment Thou shalt not steal.
 "Thou shalt not steal nomination. Thou shalt not steal in politics Or business.
 Thou Shalt Not Steal.
 "Thou shalt not steal from the peo- ple the birthright of the people to rule themselves. hold in the Ian guage of the Kentucky court of ap- heals. that stealing is stealing No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing purse.
 'aI do not know whether our coun- Erymen fully realize the gravity of the crisis which we face. There IS no use in holding primaries, no use in holding elections If we permit q small group of interruptions politi- clans. some of whom are certainly act ing in the interests of big crooked hueiness. to air the veto power Over these primaries and elections by up setting the results at their own plea sure. The convention which today closes it's discfedItable career in Cni' cago represents a negligible mini mum of the rank and file of the re publican party But what it has done