The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-02-13
CROWD IN UPR0AR
WHILE ROOSEVELT
URGES NO FUSION
Progressives Heirs of Lincoln
Tells Wildly Enthusias-
TIC Hearers
COLBY NAMES HIM
FOR NEXT PRESIDENT
Momentum of Peoples Justice
). and So Forth Makes Him
Leader of Progress
sive Party

NEW YORK, Feb. Theodore
Roosevelt declared war TO the knife on
both OF the old parties tonight. lie
told the National Progressive club and
its many guests at the Lincoln Day
dinner, at the Hotel Aston, just what
he conceived the party TO be, and
what II stood for He said:
THE Progressive parry has come to
stay Ii viii amaigatnate with neither
OF the two old parties both nf which
arc boss controlled. and privilege rid
den. We believe that IL each of those
parties. however. there are hundreds
of thousands of good. honest ment and
women who are progressives, and the
soniy place for them is in cur party: we
will welcome them In, and we will
treat them on an exact equality with
ourselves, paving not the slightest
heed TO whether they are ex-kepubii-
cans or eX-DemoCrats. we are all
Progressives together. and nothing
else, we of the Progressive party. and
ours is the only party competent to
mould Alright the future OF this
mighty republic"
Emotional Outbreak.
Colonel Eoosevelts reception lacked
none OF the emotional elements which
have become familiar in connection
with hts public appearances. The up
rear was tremendous when Bainhriage
Colby, who fought the Progressive
contests before the Republican Ma
tionsl committee, at the Chicago con-
yentiou, concluded euIogy of Mr.
Roosevelt, by saying:
He is the logical leader, as he ls
the foremost spokesman OF the new
daanecrary. And IA another contest,
which VIII NOT be long delayed, the
combined momen tum of the people $
justice and their sense of enlightened
interest, demanding that again he lead
them, Will be beyond tie power OF
even Theodore Roosevelt to resist
Colonel Roosevelt in his speech.
thus outlined his political creed:
The Progressive movement " hich
eliminated last August In the creation
sign OF temporary political dtScon-
tent. il is the manifestation of the
> God-given impulse implanted in man
kind to make a better human race,
and better earth Its purpose Is
to establish in this world the rights
OF man. the right, not only TO religious
and political. but economic freedom,
And make these rights real and living.
Property Has Rights.
We recognize that property has its
rights; but they are only incident TO,
they. come second 10, the rights OF
humanity. We hold that the resources
Of the earth were placed here Tor the
use of man in the mass, that they are
to be developed for the common wel-
fare of all. and they are not TO he
scized by few for the purpose 81
oppression OF the many or even with
disregard of the rights of the many
Yet we earnestly believed and insist
that our policy so far from being de-
trimental to property, of to business,
will be for the good OF property and
Of business. Our policy alone can per
manently benefit property and bosi'
ness. because our policy is to put pro-
perty and business in their proper
raia strrz yxffh each other,
Referring to the occasion for the
AfDner Colonel Roosevelt asserted
that It was peculiarly hitting 10 speah
to the representatives OF the Progress
Nve party on Lincoln's birthday, ioi
we Progressives, and we alone, are To-
day the representatives of the mer
OF Lincolns day, who upheld the
hands Of Lincoln, and aided him IN
the great task TO which he gave ms
life. and In doing which he met his
DEATH"
Tells Who Lincoln Was.
He said that Lincoln and his FOL
lowers were tfl1e progressives OF their
: nax.. and quoted. AT length from Pres
ident fsirscoifa's speeches To. ssaasT inal
this was 40. and that their violent
opponents of that time held the very
principles by which the reacfionaries
OF today, including the tories, WY nn
now control thv machinery OF the Ike
publican party are themselves gov
He quoted Lincoln to show thai
Lincola believed in 1.-The man ABOVE
the dollar" slogan. and that LdncoiI
was also attacked as one WHO wouio
substitute q pure democracy Tor rep
rcsentatiye government. AND again
speaking of the liberty" whicE
cvcry reactionary court wishes te
guarantee to the employer who makes
money from the life-blood of those
lie EMPLOYS. ne quoted Lincoln as say
ing that the reactionartes OF his dan
sighed Cor that perfect hberty---tnt
liberty cf making slaves OF other PEG
ple."
Colonel Roosevelt gave lincoln. a.
an authority for the non-fusion IDEA
as illustrated by Lincoln's words ar
Ter his defeat by Douglas, and ther
held him up as the originator of tns
appeal from judicial decisions,
lincoln. he said, appealed from tht
courts 10 tho people on the Dres
Scott decision. and his denunciattoi
by ,his political opponents was ''prac
tscaliy Identical with the denunciatioi
Of as for what wc today say, on thu
same subject"
The recent action OF the Idah'
courts in imprisoning an editor ana
publisher Of a newspaper which crit
iglssed the courts action in denying
tho Progressive electors place OF
tho ballot. Colonel Roosevelt charac
teriSeG as ''an even greater blot OF
The American judiciary than the Dret
Scott decision itself" He said tina
sfstho rcgettopary Supreme court o
!. idaho" had played into thf hands q
the, Republican machine, of which I
Mas itself az part. precisely az Jus
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