Show ROOSEVELT URGES I HIS FOLLOWERS TO STAND BY PLEDGES 0 Opens p Conf Conference rence at Ghica Chicago go With mth Speech t to o Progressive Members of Legislature Dec 0 Without 0 t ing InS or dickering with the old parties patties pat par ties fight right to have o our platform prin grin principles principles embodied in the laws lawA of Illinois was the appeal of Colonel Roosevelt today made to the newly elected Progressive Progressive Progressive Pro Pro- members of ot the legislature to whom horn lie he delivered his first speech at the tho Progressive conference which opened toda today and will wUl continue over Wednesday Leaders say most of ot the states are represented and that b by tomorrow at least one man from every ever state wily will be bc present The lar largest est single delegation canto came from New York on a a. special train with Colonel Roosevelt toda today The colonel was greeted at tho the railroad station statton with cheers and shouts of ot he can come com comeback backI back I am glad c to ha have hae e the chance to come out hero and ray 0 again that weare wo we are in the fight tight to the end nd and that Itis it itla la is idle foil folly for the Republicans to toI waste time in Ie thinking of or any an attempt I Ito to lure us 18 back Into an or organization that the they have made of or such a character character character char char- acter that no honest man can be In it Colonel Roosevelt said Another thing I want to see Is this Our opponents are arc now making loud professions of ot loyalty lip to progressive sUe sive principles so make them show up or back up The They sa say ay that most moat of ot our measures are unconstitutional Nothing Nothing Noth Noth- In ing would please the old reactionaries better than thon to fall rail back on the dear dearold dearold dearold old constitution Roosevelt Scored Washington Dec 9 In I.-In In a 1 speech to toda today today to- to da day In the tho St Senate nate upon his resolution for tor a constitutional amendment that would provide a single year six ear presidential term Senator Works of or Call Cali fornia Identified since his entry Into IntI the Senate with the Insurgent Republican H Republican pu lican faction made mado a strong criticism of or Theodore Roo Roosevelt elt e and antI the Progressive Progressive Progressive sive party part for their affiliation with George W. W Perkins and other representatives 1 I oC of large corporations Senator Works said both Roosevelt and Taft deserved defeat derent He asserted that Roosevelt when President had withheld action against the Harvester trust with the tho natural result that Mr Sir Perkins Parkins had hail b been en one of or the chief Roosevelt backers In the fight tight this year for the Progressive nomination and with equal emphasis sal said President Taft Tart Marl had lost the respect and good will of or many good people by going upon the stump against ag Colonel Roosevelt |