Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1912-06-23
THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
ROOSEVELT NOMINATED
CONTINUED from Page II

Utah, Thompson OF, Vermont, Judge
Hundley of Alabama, Judge Lindsey
OF Colorado. RAIN of Minnesota,
Judge Stevens of Iowa. Judge Lowder
of North Dakota, White OF Kansas,
lGreenway OF Arizona Ex-Governor
Fort of New Jersey. Carryington OF
Maryland, Jones of Illinois and
FTantz of Oklahoma.
Roosevelt's Speech
Gentlemen, / thank you for the
nomination and in you recognize the
lawfully elected delegates 10 the re-
publican convention who represent an
overwhelming majority OF voters who
ltook part in republican primaries
prior TO the convention, and who rep
resent the wish of the lawfully elect
ed members OF the convention
accept the nomination subject to but
one consideration. This nomination
has now brought on a contest which
I cannot be settled merely along old
party lines. The principles that are
at stake are as broad and deep as
/ the foundations of our democracy it.
self, and they are in no sense section
al They should appeal to all honest
citizens, east, west, north and south.
whether republicans or democrats.
Feels Time Ripe
Il feel that the time has come
when not only all men who believe
in those elementary maXims OF pub
lie and private morality which under.
lie every form of successful govern
ment, should Join one movement
Therefore | ask you TO 90 to your
several homes, find out the sentiment
of the people at home, and then
again come together. 7 suggest that
by a mass convention you nominate
for the presidency a progressive can
didate on the progressive platform. s
candidate and platform that will en-.
able us to appeal To the nOrtherner
and southerner, the casteTner and
westerner. republican and democrat
alike, in the name Of our common
American citizenship. If you wish
me to make the fight. will make II
if only one state should support me.
The only condition ! impose is
that you be entirely free when you
come together to substitute any other
man in my place If you deem il bet
Ter for the movement and in such
case ! will give him the beartest sup
port Wherever in any state the re-
publican party is true to the princi-
pies of its founders. there is genuine
party justice and progress, and / eE-
pect to see it come bodily into this
new movement For the convention
does not at all represent the masses /
OF the republican party. 1t was or
ganized in cynical defiance to their
wishes, and has served the purpose
only of a group OF sinister political
bosses who have not one shadow of
sympathy with the spirit or purpose
of the republican party OF fifty years
ago. Many Of them have used the
party merely as an adjunct to money
making either for themselves or the
great crooked financial interests
which they serve.
Thou Shalt not Steal
The bosses who first stole j
enough delegates to cuuble them TO |
nominate at this convention have nc
,Sinship in soul or spirit with the /
men who started the republican party /
on its career as the agent Of liberty /.
and justice Imagine yourselves |
how Messrs Barnes, PcnrOse and GUe- (
genheim would have looked standing I
under the historic oaks of that Michi- |
gan city in which the republican party 1
was born ffty-siX years ago. Gou. 4
my friends here before mo. are heirs 1
to the spirit Of Lincoln when he re /
fused to longer be bound by the l
shackles OF the past, and faced the /
new issues the spirit OF the times /
demanded
But we are more fortunate in one 4
respect than our predecessors, for !
we who now stand TOR the progress |
sive cause and progressive move
ment have done forever with all sec
tionalism, and We make our appeals (
equally 10 men who fought under !
Grant and TO the sons of men who 4
fought under Lee, tor the cause we I
champion is emphatically the cause Of Z
the south as 10 is the cause OF the /
north.
Il am in this fight, certain that .
principles are most important, and (
these go back to Sinai. where they I
are embodied in the commandment. I
HThou shalt not steal nomination, /
thou shalt neither steal in politics 1
nor business, thou shalt not steai i
from the people the birthright OF I
the people to rule themselves. ! [
hope. in the language OF the Kentucky /
court OF appeals, that stealing IS /
stealing
Stealing an Office
There are no people, wholly civil /
lized. where distinction is drawn /
between stealing an Office and steal 4
ing a purse. No truly honest mo /
should be satisfied with an Office to 4
which the title is not as valid as that 1
of the homestead which shelters a /
family ! do not know whether our /
country will fully realize the gravity
which We in this moment face. There /
is no use in holding primaries. no /
use holding elections. if we permit I
small group OF INSCRIPTIONS poll 1
ticisns, some Of whom are acting in I
the interests Of big crooked business, I
TO exercise veto power over these /
primaries and elections by upsettin@ .
the results at their own pleasure. a. .
in the convention which today closes /
a discreditable career here in Chicago /
and which represents a negligible /
minimum Of the rank and file OF the 4
republican party.
But what il has done. what IL has !
privided for the future. will Offer ma I
terial for very serious consideration. /
The old national committee, chosen b. 4
politicians four years ago, made up \ |
rol fprIuTfnu gnu1a ninety 3