The Progressive West Virginian. [volume] (Williamson, W. Va.) 1911-1913, 1912-07-18
/. R, REPUDlATEs
BREAK OF DAN SICKLEs
Takes Advantage Of 1t to Tell How
Much He Loves Wearers Of Both
The Blue and The Gray.
Bull Moose Leader Dodses State.
ment on Testimony Given BY
Geo. B. cortelyou.

A protest against any hint of sec
tionalism in the new progressive
party has been made by Colonel
Roosevelt, who said that he did not
care a rap" where man was born
or whether his father wore the blue
or the gray. SO long as he was the
right type.
Colonel Roosevelt was told of a
speech made by Major General Dan
lei E. Sickles, Of New York at the
meeting for the organization of the
new party in New York. Major
General Sickles was quoted as saying
Woodrow Wilson was born amid
rebel surroundings and that we Of
the north have never been disposed
to put such man in the White
House.
Colonel Roosevelt said he could
not discuss the speech, but that it
was the desire Of the founders of
the new party to make the move
ment one which would truly repre-
sent all sections Of the country
Says 1t Is Nation Wide.
The call for the progressive con-
vention," he continued, stated that
this was to be nationwide, non
sectional movement, free from any Of
the sectional or other jealousies and
Bitterness of the past. In my speech
at the Orchestral hall mass meeting
in Chicago, in. which | stated that
would accept the progressive nomi-
nation If rendered to me, i also
stated that we appealed alike to the
8 men who wore the blue and the men
who wore the gray, and to the CONS
of the men who wore the blue and
to the sons Of the men who wore
the gray.
II am myself by blood half a
Georgian. The brothers of my own
mother served in the Confederate
navy just as the kinsfolks Of my
father served in the Union army.
mo man has been more promi-
nent In this movement than Judge
Ben Lindsay, born in the south.
whose father served In Forests
cavalry. We appeal to northerners
and southerners, fasteners and west
erners alike. All ask is that the
man himself be Of the right type
and as an American he. have patriot
ic spirit, from standpoint Of one
to whom all the citizens Of this coun-
try are equally dear, the great and
vital now concern all the American
people alike. And do not care a
rap where he was born.
A Common Heritage.
Il feel very strongly that we have
now reached the point where all of
us alike, wherever we dwell, can
treat the memory of the great deeds
of the men who wore the blue and
the great deeds of the men who wore
the gray, and Of the high valor and
lofty adherence to the right, as
each side saw the right, shown by
both sides, as making common
heritage of honor for all our peo-
Pile, in which all our people should
share. And whether a mans father
wore the blue or the gray matters
not to me if the man himself stands
true to the great ideals which 1t is
imperatively necessary that our
. people should translate into living
acts If the plain people Of this re-
public are really to secure the rights
which our form of government was
designed to secure for them"
Ex-senator Alice and nine other
Delaware men who have enlisted in
! the new party came to see Colonel
Roosevelt.
The former president was asked
whether he would comment on the
testimony of Geprga 3. Cor'ely' y be-
fore committee Of the Senate in
Washington concerning the source
Of the campaign fund Of 1904, and
whether he would be willing to go
to Washington to give his testimony
There is nothing / can say about
that he replied. II will refer you
to the letter which wrote to Judge
Parker, at the time. in which ! de-
MED that any contribution had been
made by corporations in return for
promises OF immunity. Every state
ment in that letter was true and the
subsequent events bore them out"