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Show IHEY MADE P0ORSWAP What Roosevelt Thinks of Barnes, Penrose and Guggenheim Nw York, July 23. In the first-speech first-speech since he returned from Chicago Colonel Roosevelt today set forth his reason for leading In the formation of a new party. His address was delivered deliv-ered at a meeting of the New York state county chairmen of the National Nation-al Progressive party. Colonel Roosevelt did not want to speak, he declared, but the chairmen would not be denied. - "No man knows better than I," said Colonel Roosevelt, "that enthusiasm and high principles cannot be effective without organization and work. A great responsibility rosts on you men here, who are undertaking the organization organ-ization of a new party which Is to stand four-squared to Democracy, which is to be literally the party of the people. "It will fight on live issues and not dead ones. It will embody a protest against the corruption in both of the old party machines. It will be a party into which ex-Democrats and ex-Republicans, without regard to their political po-litical past, are to come in on an exact ex-act equality and to have each the same share in the party management 'When we get started it will be a party not only representing the people peo-ple at election time, but will represent repre-sent them in parly management. We are going to see to it that it is organized orga-nized so that it will be Impossible for any fifty-three men chosen four years before by politicians to stand superior superi-or to all the voters of a great state like California and that, if that stale has not shaped its laws according lo a given call of 53 private men, the state shall not be disenfranchised "M. own judgment is that Messrs Barnes, Penrose, Guggenheim and company made a poor swap when they took two stoleu delegates from California Cali-fornia in place of the electoral vote of California They were not contented con-tented with that They swapped the electoral vote of Massachusetts for the vote of two delegates. I think it was (Continued on Page Five.) THEY IDE POOPAP (Continued From Page One.) an expensive swap as was ever made by political managers." "No good will come if wo merely substitute one set of bosses for another," an-other," continued the Colonel. "There Is nothing that the bosses of both parties wish so much as to see every decent man vote alternately for each with the vague Idea that he Is reducing re-ducing the other. Now, no doubt Mr. BarneB and Mr. Murphy would like to have everything all the time, but they are perfectly willing each to take half instead of tho whole. But we do not care anything about dividing divid-ing the state equally between them. What we intend to do Is to take It from both and we intend to take the nation from both. And In this party wo Intend to build a government without and within tho party on tho lir.es of genuine popular rule and with the object of social and political government gov-ernment for farmer, clerk, business and professional man alike, to be achieved, not through the boss, not through the indirect control of tho party organization by special privllego but to he achieved through genuine, and not merely nominal, rule of tho people themselves." Tho reports of the county chairmen all were highly optimistic and the colonel beamed with pleasure at various vari-ous predictions of an overwhelming Roosevelt vote. Announcement was made by Chairman Chair-man Hotchklss that a meeting of the delegates and alternates to the Chicago Chi-cago convention elected from tho various va-rious congressional districts in the state would bo held In Buffalo on August 3, to elect two delegates and two alternates-at-large from this state to the convention. The delegates will stop off in this city on their way to the Chicago convention. |