The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-27
Makes Temperate Address
and Doesn't Attack
Other Parties.
WILL SPEAK FIRST
IN PENNSYLVANIA
Colonel May Go to California
If Gov. Johnson So
Desires.
"WON'T TALK A DOZEN
TIMES IN A DAY.
He Praises Bull Moose in Con.
gress for Measuring Up
to Crisis.

Roosevelt made tonight the first pub
lie statement on politics to which he has
given utterance since he returned TO the
United States.
Much significance was attached to tina
fact that Mr.. Roosevelt couched hin
observations in temperate language and
that he did not have a harsh word to
say about the Republican party or Re-
publican leaders.
Mr.. Roosevelt eulogized the Progress
sive Senators and Representatives, and
announced that he would take his part
in the campaign this year. He said that
he would speak in Pennsylvania, and
possibly in California, but gave notice
that his appearances would be limited in
number.
Mr.. Roosevelt will make his initial
appearance in the campaign this year
on the occasion of the Progressive con-
ference. to be held in Pittsburg on June
30, to further the candidates. Of Clifford
Pinchot for the Senate and of Repre-
sentative Lewis OF that State, d Pro-
gressive.
Mr.. ROesevelts Audience.
Mr.. Roosevelt's political statement
was made in the Washington headquar-
ters OF the Progressive party. He
spoke in the presence OF tho Progress
sive Congressional committee and
gathering OF members Of the press and
others, who were drawn to Progressive
headquarters by the presence of the
leader Of the third party.
Among those who were present were
ex-senator Pettigrew of South Dakota.
who supported Champ Clark in the Bal
timore convention, and ex-senator But
Ter of North Carolina who has been
in all parties at one time or another in
the last ten years.
At the conclusion OF Mr.. Roosevelt's
brief speech he requested all those not
members of the Progressive Congress
sional committee to withdraw in order
that the Progressives might have a full
and free conference. Mr.. Roosevelt and
his associates then went into executive
session.
Mr.. ROOsevelt's Address.
! Mr.. Roosevelt's speech follows:
am not going TO have any inter-
views tonight, but there Is one
| statement l want to make. came
here primarily to attend the Geo.
graphic Society's meet; secondarily,
/ wanted to see the Progressive
Senators and Representatives IN
Congress because l feel that a big
| debt Is owing to them for what they
have done and the way they have
borne themselves under most trying
circumstances.
| I wish TO state thist
| Men who face crisis are either
overwhelmed by II or else grow II
stature because Of passing through IL
| You men have faced real crisis.
You have been tried as no other
| body OF men In either house of
Congress has been tried for sixty
years past-I mean not since tho
first man who championed the prin-
ciples OF Abraham Lincoln came to
Congress.
You have been exposed to every
form Of attack from both sides and
you have so borne yourselves as to
force the respect OF your enemies.
/ speak from my heart when 1 say
that my original feeling OF SYM
pathy has changed. / feel no
sympathy at all now. ! feel ad-
miration. respect and a small de-
gree of envy.
VIII he in the Campaign.
OF course I wish to take my part
in the campaign this year. But II
will not be possible for me to speak
dozen times a day. 1t is quite
impossible for me TO be in forty
different places at once.
l have been asked by Representa-
tive Lewis and Mr.. Pinchot. who
will open the campaign in Pennsyl-
vania at the second Progressive
conference in Pittsburg on June 30.
TO be present on that occasion. OF
course l shall accept.
have written Gov. Hiram John
son that II my presence Is desired
In California 1 shall go there. All
of us owe a debt Of obligation TO
California. l shall do all else that
can. but IL is impossible to par
ticularize now.
Unjust ask all of you to remember