New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-28
Tells Dixie Voters PrOgreSSlveS
Offer Open Door to DISsat-
isfied Democrats.
OWELLS ON SUGAR TARIFF
He Points Out That He TOOK
Isthmus of Panama Largely
in the Interests Of the
Southern People"
fBy Telegraph TO The TRIBUNE }

New Orleans. Sept 27-That the third
party has come TO stay and that South
arucrs VINO believe I'm its principles should
shake of the traditional belief that only
the Democrats may flourish In Dixie was
the burden Of Theodore Roosevelt's speech
IN New Orleans this afternoon.
The third term candidate spoke 20 an
proximatelv FIVE thousand Louisianians
who crowded the Winter Garden, the larg-
est auditorium of which the city boasts.
n was the coloneps frat elaborate cam
paign argument in the Solid South. lie
smoke with unusual emphasis and Eigor
and along comparatively new lines for
his task was TO conyinc" Democrats that
the Progressive party was national in itS
scope and offered an open door 20 the
man who was dissatisfied with Democ-
racy and yet who hcstated 20 oitiliate
with the Republican party.
Il want YOU 60 ,mancipate yourselves
and 10 vote as your convictions incline,
said Mr. Roosevelt in his most per-
-ua-ive manner 81 don't want you %
feel that you have p'atonic affection
for MS, but that you must vote for some
one else.
~ YOU believe in the things for which
We stand. come out into the open and
heht for them and II we win this fight
DO your part IT. steering the Tarty ra-
uonally. want you 10 feel tEat you
have voice IN Us affairs"
Reluctant Leader" He Says.
Colonel Roosevelt explained that ne had
been most anxious 20 make this New Or
leans speech. he also explained that be
had reluctantly assumed the leadership
Of the new movement, tut that ct seemed
u bad O." be- Jed by me- an this moment
bic continued:
r. had never existed. the movement
would nave begun just the same. The only
d.n'' enc" i- ;Nai if might have come 20 n
head year or Two later. No one could
foresee at first the exact shape X was
eu.HS ~ take and 40 vas bs actual eN-
peri nee hat vo answered the question
lark.
one or tine things I had mos, AT heart
ua. 20 make the TpW party q national
NOV Weri with principles upon winch
North. East south aud West might come
together. 30 bent heartily upol attaining
O. common purpose our declaration ~
iurc.p..s is a deeilra ion which applies
90 the shores NJ the Gulf as well &. the
shores Of he Great Lakes. which apples
t0 the Golden Gate and across Sandy
H0oA
The colonel touched on his acquisition
OF the Panama Canal his plan Tor the
permanent Improvement OF the M!ss's-
sppi River hy the Use Of tho Panama
Canal machinery and reservoir system
as "a protection against foods. and his
stand FOR a protective tariff on sugar.
These three subjects are OF local interest.
and the colonel said be cited them as
concrete examples of why BE- felt en-
ared 90 ask the voters of Louisiana to
sever their old political connections and
to 80 with the Progressive party
colonel Roosevelt said that when be
took the Islhmus of Panama the act
was largely I'm the interest OF the South
oru people. and yet the majority OF Scna-
tors from Dixie had fought the rataca-
ton OF the treaty. He mentioned sPecih-
cally Senators Bailey and Culberson. Of
Texas. BE said:
n the ratification Of the treaty had been
LEFT % Southern Senators. it might never
have passed / think In this instance /
represented the South better than rs own
representatives,, some Of whom Were will
INK 90 sacrifice tu, Interests OF the South
and tine United States TO partisan dislike
Co having me do something which their
sections had been wanting Tor htty
wears