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Show "BELIE VES SICKLES j MADE BIG MISTAKE OYSTER BAY. N. V., July 12. A protest pro-test against any hint of sectionalism In the new progressive party wjui made today to-day by Colonel Roosevelt who said he did not "care ;i nip" where a innn was born or whether hln father wore the blue or the gray oo long aa he was the. right type Colonel Roone'clt was told of a speech made yesterday by General Daniel E. Sickles of Nuw York at the meeting for the organization of the new party In this stale. General Sickles was quoted as saying Woodrow Wilson was "born amid rebel surroundings and that we of tho north have never been disposed to put sueh a man In the White house." Colonel Roosevelt said he could not discuss dis-cuss the speech, but thnt It was the desire de-sire of the founders of the new party to make the movement one which would represent rep-resent all sections of the country. "The call for tho progressive convention, conven-tion, ' he continued, 'stated that this was to bo a nation-wide, non-sectlonal movement, move-ment, free from any of the sectional or other Jealousies and bitternesses of the past. In my speech at the Orchestra hall mooting In Chicago. In which I Btnted that I would accept the progressive nomination. nomi-nation. I nlso stntd that wc appolpd alike to the men who wore the blue and the mm who wore the gray uml to tho sons of the men who wore the blue and to the sona of the men who wore the gray "Tfte brothers of my mother aerved In the Confederate army Just as tho kinsfolk of my father served In the Union army. "No man has been more prominent In this movement than Judge Bnn Undsey, born In the south, whose fathor served In Forrests's cavalry. We appoal to the northerners and southerners, westerners and easterners alike." Ex-Senator Alice and nine other Delaware Dela-ware men who havo enlisted In the new party came to bbo Colonel Roosevelt tori to-ri a v. "They came to talk over conditions In Delaware," sHld tho colonel "They said thev would begin the primary campaign aooh and that they believed the Republican Republi-can maehlno totally misrepresented the people." Timothy L. Woodruff of Now York and A. P- Moore of Pittsburg called on Colonel Roosevelt nt Sagamore Hill today. Mi'. Woodruff talked over the work of organizing or-ganizing the new party In Manhattan and Mr. Moore discussed the situation generally gen-erally Mr. Moore said as he was departing depart-ing that he would bet S500 that Taft would run fourth; that in, behind the. Socialist So-cialist ticket. Dwlght B. Heard, who was a Roosevelt delegate to Chicago from Arizona, was another of the colonel's callers today. Colonel Roosevelt was asked If he would comment on Senator Larimer's attack on him In the senate. "I certainly hove no comment to make on Mr. Lorlmer," was the reply. |