Show rosievelt Roii evelt breaks long silence new york the following state ment by theodore Roose roosevelt his first comment since tho the recent elections will appear in the forthcoming issue of the magazine of which be he Is an edi tor on every hand personally and by correspondence I 1 bare have been asked to make a statement regarding the election so far as I 1 am concerned I 1 nave have nothing whatever to add to or to take away from the declaration of the principles which I 1 lave made in the speech and elsewhere east and west during the last three months on a the fight for progressive popular government has merely berun begun and will certainly go on to a triumphant in spite cf of initial checks and irrespective of the personal success or failure of individual leaders |