Arizona republican., 1913-10-04
Former President Tells Those Gathered to Honor Him on Eve of Departure for South America That Party Will Continue
PLEDGES WORK
 WHEN HE RETURNS
Says Will Never Rest Con- tent Until Every Princi- pie Enunciated by Organ
 izatiOn is Put into Prac- tical Operation by Nation
ASSOCIATED PRESS DIsPATCHl

NEW YORK, oct. 3. - Colonel Roosevelt tonight told the progress ives gathered to honor him on the eve of his departure for South Amer ica that his best endeavors would be extended upon his return toward the upbuiIding of the party The party is solid. he declared. and he added that it was the firm determination Of the rank and file as we'll as the lead CTS to preserve it's plentity, it's solid arity and integrity. Speaking of the work he had mapped out for himself cn his return, Colonel Roosevelt said:
 We shall enter undaunted as national party on another national campaign"
 The colonel said he would never rest content until every single prin- ciple enunciated by the progressive party is put into practical operation by the nation
 Colonel Roosevelt began his speech by saying he wanted to take this means of saying word to all men and women of the progressive party. All his life, he said. he had been en- gagged in the work that cuiminated in thc last eighteen months, and of all
 
 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 spirit of hrotherly good will and of the broad est social consciousness"
 T believe that all of us who have worked on this movement have gained thereby the inestimabIe advantage of a finer and higher outlook on life" he continued
 We have striven to make good every promise of the covenant with the people which our platform repre- sents. There is no principle 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"
 Colonel Roosevelt predicted that the progressive party would never gp ba elk, and he declared:
 "I warn our opponents that the fight only has just begun. Whatever may De done in the future, of one thing. the disciples of an easy op- rOrtunism may rest assured-I will never abandon the principles to which we progressives have pledged our selves, and I will never abandon the men and women who drew around me to battle for these principles. They and I stand with our faces toward the morning, we will never be sun dered from one another; and we will never yield the ground we have taken or finch from the fight to which We are pledged
 Colonel Roosevelt, in the course Of his address. lauded candidates of his party in various states. mentioning Judge Learned Hand and Judge Sea bury. nominees for chief judge and associate judge of the court of ap- peals of New York; Everett Colby. for governor of New Jersey: Charles SWaner Bird for governor of Massa chusetts, and the party nominees for municipal offices in New York and Louisville as well as the progressive party candidates for congress in Maryland. West Virginia and else where