Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-10-23

eve of his departure for South Amer
 ica, Colonel Roosevelt spoke as fol
 lows; in part:
 I wish to say a special word tC
 men of the Progressive party thru
 out this great union. All my life
 have been engaged in work which cul
 minated during the last eighteen
 months; and of all my political life
 it is these eighteen months to which
 I took back with most unalloyed sat
 is faction. I can never overstate
 what it has meant to me to work
 with men and women of such lofty
 ideals, of such personal disinterested-
 ness and of such sound and resolute determination to make the conditions of life better, juster and nobler. In its deepest essence, this is a move ment for social and industrial justice to be achieved in spirit of brotherly goodwill and of the broadest social consciousness.
 There is in us nothing of vindica- tiveness toward the men who we think represent what is wrong. We fight the wrong; we know that very often the wrong doer is not himself to blame; and then we try to get him to join with us in undoing the wrong fiohf fhn cin n hTinO the sinner to repentance; and if he re- Dents, then we take him in our ranks and work shoulder to shoulder with him. Nor is this a movemet in any way one of the mere charitable re- gard for others. We are not patron fzing any one. We are not acting in a condescending spirit toward those who have met with unmerited injus- tice, toward those who without fault of their own have found that the struggle of life has gone against them. We are all working together for the good of all on an equality of selfre- Spect and mutual respect, and in con- munity of effort for a common end, the good of all of us, to better not merely the natural but the moral and spiritual conditions of each of us. We are striving each to help bear his brothers or sisters burden in such fashion, and with such readiness to receive help in return, to make it easier for that brother or sister to bear the burden unaided in the fu- turc.
 Tt has been great privilege to me to be associated with the men and wo- men with whom have worked during the past eighteen or twenty months and who have striven for a cause so high, a cause in which it is so well worth while to spend and be spent believe that all of us who have worked in this movement have gained thereby the inestimable advantage of a finer and a higher outlook on life More over, friends, we have kept the faith wherever and to the extent that power has been given us. We have striven to make good every promise of the covenant with the people which our platform represents. There is no rim ciple to which we have not striven to live up in spirit and in letter alike. We have so driven our principles home that each of the old arties in place after place has been obliged to pay at least lip loyalty to them
 "I at this nomcI. ask. you ia consider the candidates of our party; men such as Judge Learned Hand, whom we have nominated for Chief Justice of this great stala and his as sociate Judge Seabury; men such as Everett Colby, whom we have nomin- ated for Governor of New Jersey; men such as Charles Sumner Bird, whom we have nominated for Governor of Massachusetts; men such as those who are making so valiant a fight for good government in the city of Louisville, men such as those whom we are endeavoring to put at the head of the governmen of this mighty city in which we now meet; the men whom we are running for Congress in Maryland, in West Virginia, and else where.
 "The men I have named, Hand Sea- bury, Colby, Bird, have embodied in their deeds thewords by which in our declarations we have pledged them to the service of the people as a whole. The life record of each of them repre- sents the past performance of the promises which we now make for the future. They are loftly idealists whose practical achievements in the past have represented the realization of these lofty ideals. We turn to their past as the warrant for asking the people of the three great States ito trust their future, and the organi- Zations which stand behind them have no other purpose than to hold up their hands in the struggle for clean gov