Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-10-04
ROOSEVElT|SOFF
FOR TRIP IN W|LDS
Will Penetrate South America
With Party of
NaturaliStS.
COLONEL ALSO TO SPEAK
BEFORE UNIVERSITIES
Many Progressive Party Leaders
Tender Former President
Farewell Dinner.

NEW YORK, October 4.-Theodore
Roosevelt set out today, for the second
time since he left the White House,
upon long journey into the southern
hemisphere.
The sailing OF the Lamp0rt & Holt
line steamship Vandyck, upon which he
had booked passage for South America,
was timed for 1 o'clock. but the former
President and members Of his party
were astir early with final preparations
for embarking, and many of the pro-
gressive party Leaders who rendered
him great farewell dinner atop of a
New York theat sr last night arranged
to be on hand to give him a, good send
off at the foo- Of Montague street,
Brooklyn.
Like his South African trip. the
South American journey is undertaken
with the colonel proposing to make it
one OF many aspects aside from the
pleasure Of 1t. His chief interest prob
ably lies in the proposed penetration
Of the interior Of Brazil with a party
of fellow -naturalists under auspices of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, but the earlier part Of the six
months which he will spend In South
America will be devoted to addresses
upon American democracy. which he
has been invited to deliver before uni
versities and other bodies.
Features of Journey.
A trip into Patagonia to visit an out.
of-the-way mission and two crossings Of
the continent to Santiago de Chile and
back to Buenos Aires will be other fea-
lures of his journey.
Those who prepared to embark with
him today were Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss
Margaret Roosevelt. who will make the
Fiala, the polar explorer, who has charge
of the expeditions equipment: G. K.
Cherry and Leo L. Miller, naturalists Of
the American Museum Of Natural His
tory; Frank Harper, Col. Roosevelt's sec
retary, and Rev Father John Augustine
Zahn, provincial of the Order of the Holy
Cross, former field companion of the
colonel.
The naturalists will start into the in
terror shortly after their arrival in Bra
I'll, to be joined by the colonel after he
has finished his lectures, which will be
In December. 1t will probably be April
before the party returns to civilization.
Plans Upbuilding of Party.
Col. Roosevelt last night told the pro-
gressives gathered to honor him on the
eve Of his departure, that on his return his
best endeavors would be extended toward
the upbuilding of the party. The party
is solid, he declared, and he added that
it was the firm determination of the rank
and file, as well as the leaders, to preserve
its political entity. its solidarity and in
tegrity. Speaking of the work he had
mapped out for himself on his return,
Col. Roosevelt said that 1--WE shall enter
undaunted as a national party on another
national campaign"
The colonel said that he never would
rest content until every single principle
enunciated by the progressive party is
put into practical operation by the ma
ton.
TT is emphatically fight for our coun-
try" he declared. Il would continue to
fight even if 1 stood entirely alone"
Compliments His Supporters.
Col. Roosevelt began his speech by say
ing that he wanted to take this means of
saying a word to all men and women of
the progressive party. All his life, he
said. he had been engaged in work that
eliminated in the last eighteen months,
and of all his political life 1t was the
last eighteen months to which he looked
back with the most satisfaction. This
was his compliment to the men and
women who have worked with him in the
organization and first campaign of the
party which he termed a movement for
social and industrial justice. to be
achieved in a spirit of brotherly good
will and of the broadest social con-
sciouSnesS.'
Il believe that all of us who have
worked in this movement have gained
thereby the inestimable advantage of a
finer and higher outlook on life,' he con-
tinued
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 prin-
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 parties in place after
place has been Obliged to pay at least
lip loyalty to them"
Col. Roosevelt predicted that the pro-
gressiye party would never go back, and
he declared, II warn our opponents that
the fight has only just begun. Whatever
may betide in the future. of one thing
the disciples of an easy opportunism may
rest assured-I will never abandon the
principles to which we progressives have
pledged ourselves and i will never
abandon the men and women who drew
around me to battle for these princi
pies They and l stand with our faces
toward the morning: We will never be
from one another. and We will
never yield the ground We have taken |
or finch from the HSnt 10 WHICH We are /
pledged
Lauds Party Candidates.
Col. Coosevelt in the course of his ad- |
dress lauded the candidates of his party |
in various states, mentioning Judge |
Learned Hand, Judge Seabury. nominees |
for chief and associate judge of the court |
of appeals in New York; Everett Colby |
for governor in New Jersey; Charles |
Sumner Bird for governor of Massachu |
setts, and the party's nominees for munic- |
cal offices in New York and Louisville, |
as well as the progressive party candi- |
dates for Congress in Maryland, West |
Virginia and elsewhere.
1.-The men l have named. Hand, Sea-
bury, Colby. Bird" said Col. Roosevelt. |
have embodied in their deeds the words |
by which in our declarations we have
pledged them to the service of the people |
as a whole. We turn to their past as the
warrant for asking the people of the
three great states to trust their future.
and the organizations which stand be-
hind them have no other purpose than to
hold up their hands in the struggle for
clean government and social fair play"