The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-10-04

NEW YORK, Oct 4.-Declaring that
he would never rest until the princl-
pies of the Progressive party are put
into practice, Col Theodore Roosevelt
delivered a farewell speech to the
Progressive party last night at ban
quet, just before his departure into
South American wilds.
Roosevelts speech was one of list
of addresses given at a dinner by the
Progressive national service. The din
ner celebrated the debut of the Pro
gressive national service in national
affairs, and bid the colonel farewell
Lauds Roosevelt.
Former Senator Beveridge in behalf
of the rank and file of the party paid
an eloquent tribute to Col Roosevelt
and bid the Progressives of the coun-
try rally to the colors of the party.
Among those at the speakers table
were Miss Frances A. Kellor, chief of
service of the Progressive national
SERVICE Victor Murdock of Kansas,
Progressive leader on the floor Of the
House of Representatives; Prof F. M.
Davenport of Clinton, n. Y, chairman
of the legislative committee of the
New York state Progressive service;
Prof Samuel McCune Lindsay of Col
umbia university, Mrs. Helen Hartley
Jenkins of Connecticut, Mrs. Charles
S. Bird of Massachusetts, Mrs. A. A.
Anderson of Connecticut, Mrs. Corne-
liza Bryce, Soslyn; Representative Wal
ter M. Chandler; John c. Shaffer, Chi
cago; William F. Cochrane, Baltimore; +;
former Governor Fort of New Jersey,
and Mrs. Frank A. Pattison, chief Of
the New Jersey state Progressive ser
vice. --..--vs -
AssaiIs Old Parties.
In eloquent terms Mr.. Beveridge as
sailed alike the Democratic and Re-
publican parties. The one, he said, was
dying of internal strife; the other was
becoming the antithesis of the Pro-
gressives-the conservatives. Such a
division he said, was bound to come !;
even now the party lines were fading
and reforming. The Progressive party,
brotherhood of liberals, was the party
of the future, he said. and he drew a
picture bright with color of what that
party had set it's hand to do.
eve hear that the Republican party
is to be reborn, but that was said of
tllS SuSTdllSt party anu Vi ever otlSl
party that passed away. How reborn
If Mr.. Lodge is a Republican, Mr.. La
Toilette can not be; if Mr.. Cummins is
a Republican, Mr.. Root can not be. 1t
is merely an incident that in Pennsyl-
vania the Penrose machine, in New
York the Barnes machine, in New Eng
land the Gallinger Bran.
degee machines, in Indiana the Fair
banks machine, in Utah the Smoot ma.
chine, in Colorado the Gugenheim ma.
chine. in Illinois the Cannon-Lorimer
machine are in the Republican saddle
at is only symptom that the Re
publican congressional committee, ell
ected only last month, is heavily reac-
tionary in numbers and it's majority
bitterly reactionary in spirit.
Deeper than all this are the war,
ring forces within the Republican par
ty itself. which can not make peace
with one another except by yielding UP
ideals which honest men ought to hold
dearer than life itself.
The whole philosophy upon which
the Progressive party is built is in
frank and open conflict with the rea
soning on which both of the old par
ties stand. All the reforms we mean tC
work out are only steps to reach the
vision toward which we match. We
know that we can not bring the mil
lennium, but we are resolved not to i'm
pede, but to welcome its coming"