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Show H Progressive Leader Hurls Himself Into the Fight H of the People Once More Amid the Joyous H Cheers of 15,000 Persons. I THUNDEROUS OH FOR FORTY MINUTES H Teddy Makes Gestures With Left Hand Only, But H Voice Is Strong and Distinct Johnson H Also Makes Address. M New York, Oct. 31. Bearing no out- H ward sign of the bullet, in lr's breast, H Colonel Roosevelt last night hurled H himself back into the campaign at H Madison Square Carrion. He spoke H for forty minutes to tne blgge2l meet- H lng he has ever addressed in New H York, and to one of the greatest gath- H crings that has ever been eccn in thut H historic audltoilum. H More than 15, COO men and wo me lit H overwhelmingly Progressive, welcom- H ed him. Another crowd of 5,000 wait- H d all evening outside in the hope tfta? Hj . ihcy might catch a word or two tn H ' the cotonel. His physicians, fcari . , H too great a task on his strength ve- H fused to permit him to make ore H than one address, H The crowd inside cheered for fortv I H minutes v.'hen Roosevelt, at ft-20 1 H ' o'clock, led his guards Into the gar-1 H i : den, climbed the steps to tho speaker's speak-er's gallery and 3tood before them. Bandanas nnd American flags waed like a moving forest, the shouts oi' j the crowd and the drnmming of thousands thou-sands of heel3 on the floors drowned the band and every air that has been snug In the campaign, from "Everybody's "Every-body's Dolh" It." to "Onward, Christian Soldiers," Loomed foith when the enthusiasts, en-thusiasts, wearied of plain, cheering or mooing like the moose, or yelling "We want Teddy." "We Want Teddy." Greets the Audience. The great hall, whose galleries and arched celliugs were completely hid-dn hid-dn wiili bunting and huge flags, 'mado a marvelous picture as the colonel, leaning over the, speaker's rail, raisej I his left hand in his flm greeting. I For three quarter of an hour ho I stood N'ow and then recognizing a friend, he would make a little dash to the other end of the .stand, a distance dis-tance of twenty feet, and wave hta hand always his1" loft In greeting. As ho faced first to left, then to right, then wheeled around to bow to .'those In the galleries behind him, he. awakened successive outbursts of cheers and bandanas and flags were sot in motion by sections till rod Hashes ran ovor tho crowd like waves. Men, wonion and children for there were many-of the latter stood on their chairs and sang lustily as they knew how. 13 von OlIIo lames, stnator-olect from Kontucky. who presided ovor the Baltimore convention, clapped his hands as the colonel appeared, and Tom Smith, secretary of Tammany Hall, looked as if he would like to. Speech Ic Impressive. Tho colonel's speech was pitched in a solemn and impressive key. He made no direct allusion to the attack upon him. He made no attack upon an Individual among his political foes. lie named no names save tho3e of Washington, Lincoln, .Jefferson and Jackson. With cheeks thinner than they were before the attack upon him, but with abundant color, with figure sturdy aiH erect, and with a voice that reached to every part of the hall, an J nccr once cracked into the falsetto squeak that often characterizes It. the colonel seemed the picture of health Not at all while he was speaking did he cmllc. All his gestures save one or two were made with his left hand, which, bolnic farthest from his bullet wound, could j Le moved with impunity j Once or twice toward the end he brought his right hand down with a I slap on the rail of the speaker's stand but Ills face gave no Indication thni the gesture caused him pain Tho flashlights which were set off at intor- J vals during the address ho faced with- ' out wincing, though tho flare or flamo ! and detonations must have reminded him of the night In Milwaukee two weeks ago Monday when he had a narrower escape from death than any man cares to go through Dixon Presides. Colonel Roosevelt was preceded by Senator Dixon, who presided; by Oscar Os-car Straus, the candidate for governor, gover-nor, Tho h;.s carried hl3 fight on hi Now York, and by Governor Johnson of California, who has been carryins It throughout other states sinco tho head of tho ticket has been confined to his bed It was S:30 o'clock before Chairman William H. llotchkiss of the state Pro-giesBivc Pro-giesBivc party opened tho proceedings by Intioducing Senator Dixon, the national na-tional chairman. Predlctc Succe33. Dixon, after predicting that Roosevelt Roose-velt would enrry half the states lu the union (naming them), spoke oi Straus as tho next governor of the stato of Now York, of Johnson as the next vice prcsldont of the United States, and of Uoorevelt as the next president, getting larger and larger outbursts of cheers as he propoeded up his oratorical ladder. Concluding, he said: "If wo all do our duty on next Tuesday on the 4th of March next wo will hang our banners from the dome of the capltol at Washington " "Bandanas, you mean," yelled n man down In front, and tktT tAnvd laughed while ft cheered. Straus followed Dixon and was gU-en gU-en a groat reception on his own account, ac-count, a cheer that began with a rush and ended with another, while "Three cheers Tor Governor Straus" nroso from all sides. Governor Johnson, Introduced by Dixon as "our next vice president," spoke quietly and serlouslv. Ho was stopped at frequent Intervals by applause, ap-plause, of which he appeared Impatient Impa-tient Crowd Goes Wild. Jchncon had not finished his speech I when a peculiar movement of the men I about the door under the speaker's stand told those on watch that the j Colonel was coming. There was a sudden sud-den alienee, then a yell as the colonel climbing a fire escape from the automobile auto-mobile wh'ch had brought him from the residency of Dr. Lambert, to which ho had been" driven from Oyster Bay, ascended tho gallery steps to the platform. plat-form. That was the sistaal for the crowd to go wild and wild it went with no deiav. While "Onward, Christian Soldiers." now the official hymn of the Progressives, Progres-sives, -was caught from the band aud , takon up by more than 15.000 voices1 the cheering went on, while wave af- I tci wave of movin-j flne and bandanas ban-danas rwent over the crowd. At th-yells th-yells of "We want Teddy" the colonel'? col-onel'? face broke into a smile and the cheerr. ran:? out louder It was the welcome back to tho leadership ho jhnd laid down at Chicago, and certainly cer-tainly no leader couldhavc asked a greater one SF'CH op ROOSEVELT. "Friends, perhaps once in a generation, gener-ation, perhaps not to ofton. thero comes a chance for tho people of a country to play then- part wisolv and i fearlessly in some great battles of the age-long warfare for human rights. To our fathers tho chance came In tf-e mighty days of Abraham Lincoln, the man who thought and toiled and suffered for the people with sad, patient and klndh endcav-, endcav-, or To our forefathers, the chance I came in the troubled waters that stretched from the time when the ! first continental congress gathered, ! to the time when Yashlngton was i inaucuratcd as first president of the republic; To us. in our turn, the I chance hns now come to stand for liberty and righteousness as in their day these dead men stood for liberty and righteousness. "Our task Is not as great as theirs. Yet it Is. well nigh as Important. Im-portant. Our task is to profit by the lr3Sonn oC the past and to check- in time the evils that grow nround us, lost our failure to do so may cause dreadful disaster to the people We must not sit supine and helpless. We rauBt "not permit the brutal selfishness selfish-ness of arrogance and the brutal selfishness sel-fishness of envy each to run unchecked un-checked its evil course. If we do so, ! then some dav smouldering hatred will suddenly kindle into a consuming consum-ing flame, and either we or our children chil-dren will be called on to face a crisis as grim as any which this republic hns over ?ecn. Be Wise in Time. "It is our business to show that nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being viso in time. Woe to our nation na-tion If we lot matters drift if In our Industrial and political life we let an unchecked and utterly selfish In-rtividiislUtlc In-rtividiislUtlc materialism riot to Its apnolnted nd. That end would be widespread disaster for it would mean that our people would be sundered bv those dreadful Hnca of division which are drawn when Mie selfish greed zr the 'haves' Is set over against the Belflph greed of the 'have nots' There is but one way to prevent pre-vent such a division, and that is to forestall it bv the kind of a movement move-ment in which we are now engaged "Our movement Is ono of resolute Insistence upon the rights, and full acknowledgment of the duties, of ev-orv ev-orv man and pverv woman withjn . this great land of ours. Wq war against tho forces of evil, and the weapons -wo uso arc the weapons of right We do not set greed against grcod. or hatred asrplnst hatred. Our creed Is one that bids us be just to all to feel sympathy for all .and to strive for an uuderstandjng of the needs of all. Our purnosc in lo pmlte down v wrong. But toward 'those who have done tbo wrong .we j foel only tho kindliest charity thatl is compatible with causing the wrong to cease. Hatred to No Man. j "We preach hatred to no man, and j the spirit in which wo work is as far removed from viudlcllvenesb as from weakness. We are resolute to j do away with tho evil, nnd we Intend I to proceed with such wise and j cautious sanity as will cause the cry minimum of disturbance that Is compatible com-patible with achieving our purpose "We do not forget that we are not i proposing to substitute law for character. char-acter. We are merely proposing to buttress character by law Wo fully j recognize that, as has been true In tho past, so it is truo now, and ever , will be truo, that the prime factor fac-tor in each man or woman's success must normally be that man or woman's wom-an's own character character, the snm of many qualities, hut above all of tho qualities of hone3t), of cour-1 ago and of common sense. Character Is Needed. "Nothing will avail a nation If j thore is not the right type of char- j actor among the average men and women, the plain people, the hardworking hard-working decent-living, right-thinking people who make up the great bulk of our citizenship. I know my countrymen: coun-trymen: I know that they arc of this type. But It Is in civil life as it Is In v.'3r. In war, it is the man behind the gun that counts most, and yet ho cannot do hl3 work unless ho has the right kind of gun. In civil life. In the every day life of our nation. na-tion. It is ludhfdual character which counts most: and yet the individual character cannot avail, unless in ad- ditlon thereto there be ready to hand j the social weapons which can be forged only bv law and by public opinion operating true and operated upon bv law. "Again, friends, do not forget that I we aro proposing no new principles: J the dlctrlnes we preach reach back to the golden rule and the sormon on j tho mount. They reach back to the commandments delivered nt Sinai. Meet Living Issues. "All that we are doing Is to appiy these doctrines In the shape uecec-' aary to make them available for mect-I mect-I Ing the living issues of our own day. I Wo decline to ho bound by the empty I little cut-and-dricd formulas of bygone by-gone philosophies, useful porhapB once, but usless now. Our purpose Is to shackle greedy cunning as we shackle brutal lorce, and wc are not to be diverted from this purpose by the appeal of the dead dogmas of advanced ad-vanced past. We propose to lift the burdens from the lowly and the weary, from the por and oppressed. We propose to stand for the sacred rights of childhood and womanhood Nay. i more, we propose to see that mun-hcod mun-hcod is not crushed out of the mon who toll, by excessive hours of labor, by under-payinent. by Injustice nnd oppression. When this purpose can only be secured by the collective ac- ; Uon of our people thiough their gov-j ernmentni ncencies, we propose so to seccre it. I Would 3ar Action. "We brush aBdc the arguments of those is ho seek to bar action by the repetition of some formula about 'utates' rights' or about 'the history his-tory of liberty,' being 'the history of the limitation of governmental power.' pow-er.' or about the duty of the courts finally to determine the meaning of the constitution We are for human rights, and wc intend to work for them In efficient fashion Where they can be best obtained by tho application applica-tion of the doctrine of states' rights, then we aro for states' rights. "Where, in order to obtain them, it Is necessary to Invoke the power of the nation, then wc shall Invoke to its uttermost limits that mighty power. Stands for Llborty. "We are for liberty. But we are not for the liberty of the opulent to oppress tho weak and to bind burdens on the shoulders of the heavy-laden. It Is idle to ask us not to exercise the power of tho government, when only by the power of the government can we curb the greed that sits In high j places, v.'hen only by the exercise of J the government can we exalt tho lowly low-ly and give heart to the humble and the down-trodden We care for facts j and not for formulas We care for deeds and not for words We recognize recog-nize no snered right of oppression. We recognize no divine right to work injustice. in-justice. We stand for the constitution. constitu-tion. Wo pecognize that one of Its most useful unctions Is the protection of property But we will not consont to make of the constitution a fetich for the protection of fossllllzed wrong. Foosllllzed Wrongs. "We call the attention of those who thus interpret It to the fact that In that great instrument of justice life and llborty are put on a full level with property. Indeed, are enumerated ahead of It in the order of their importance. im-portance. "We stand for an upright judiciary. But where tho judces claim the right to make our laws by finally interpreting interpret-ing them, by flnallv deciding whether or not we have the power to make them, then we claim the right ourselves our-selves to oxerclse that r'er. We forbid any men, no matter what their official position may be, to usurp the right which Is curs, the right which is the people's. We recognize lu neither : court nor congress nor president anv divine right to override the will of the people expressed with due delib-I delib-I eration and In orderly fashion and through thp forms of law We Pro-j Pro-j arcssives hold that the words of the Declaration of Independence, as given effect to by Washington, and as construed con-strued and anpHed by Abraham Lincoln, Lin-coln, are to be accepted as real and not as empty phrases. Belongs to People, "We believe that in very truth this is a government by the people themselves, them-selves, that the constitution is theirs That the covrts pro theirs, that all the governmental agent3 and agencies are theirs. We bele that all true leaders lead-ers of tho people must fearlessly stand for righteousness and honesty, must fearlessly tell the people what justice and honor demand But we no less strongly Insist that it is for the people themselves finally to decide nil questions ques-tions of public policy and to have their decision made effective. i "In the platform formulated by the l Progressive party we sot forth cloarly ' and specifically our faith In every vital i point at issue before this people. We have declared our position on the, trusts nnd on the tartu, on ine machinery ma-chinery for securing genuine popular government; on the methods of meet-wz meet-wz the needs of the farmer, of the bi'BlncsB man and of the man who toils with his hands, in the mine or on tho railroad, in the factory or in tho shops. Promises to Be Kent. "There is not a promise w havo made which cannot be kept. iero is not a promise w have made thut. will not be kept Our platform io a I covenant with the people of the Unl- I ted States, and it we are given the power we will live up to that covenant coven-ant In letter and In spirit. "Wo know that thero are in life injustices which we are powerless to remedy, but wc know also that thero is much injustice which can bo remedied, reme-died, and this injustico wo intend to remedy. "We Icdqw that tlio Jong nath leading lead-ing upwards toward the light cannot be traversed at once or in a day or in n year, but there are certain steps that can be takon at once. These we intend to take Then, having taken these first steps, we shall see more clearly how to walk still further with j a bolder stride. Reform Is Possible. I "We do not Intend to attempt the impossible. But there is much, verv much, that is possible in the way of righting wrong and remedying injustice, injus-tice, and all that irf possible we intend in-tend to do. We intend to-strlko down prlvlligo, to onuallzp opportunity, to ( wrest justice from the hands that do j Injustice, to hearten and strencthrp men and women for the hard battlo of life. . ! "We stand shoulder to shoulder in a spirit of real brothorhood. We recognize recog-nize no difference of class creed or birthplace We recognize no section-1 allsm. Our appeal is mad.e to the easterner no leas than to the westerner. west-erner. Our appeal is made to the southerner no lesi than to the north-1 erncr. Wc appeal to the men who wore the gray just as wo appeal to the t men who wore the biuc. Wc appea' to tho sons of the men who followed Lee nc; less than to the sons of the men who followed Clrant: for the memory of tho great deeds of both Is now part of the common heritage of honor which belongs to all our people, peo-ple, wherever thov dwell Ask Only Justice. ' "Wo firmly believe that the American Ameri-can people? feel hostility ;n no man tConllnued "on Page Nine.) ROOSEVELT TALMS- i CHEAT GATHERING (Continued From Page Two.) who has honestly won success. Yc I firmly believe that the American peo-f peo-f pie ask only Justice, justice each for ; himself and justice each for all oth-; oth-; ers. They are against wickedness In ; rich men and poor men alike. They : arc against lawless and murderous . violence exactly as they arc agalnat , the sordid naturalism which seeks wealth ly trickery and cheating, whether on a large or a small scaly. They wish to deal honestly and in good faith with all men. They recognize rec-ognize that the prime national ncp.d ( is for honesty, honesty in public Ht-a i and- In private life, honesty In business busi-ness uud In politics, honesty In the broadest snd deepest significance of Mho word. "We Progressives are trying to rep- i resent what we know to bo the hlgh- tct ideals and the deepest and most : Intimate convictions of the plain man and woman, of the good men and women, who work for the home and within the home. Our people work I hard and faithfully; they do not wish to shirk their work. I Must Be Bread. ' "They must feel pride In the work for the work's sake. But there must be bread for the work. There must be a time for play when the" men and women are young When they grow old there must be the certainty of rest under conditions free from tho haunting care of utter poverty. We i believe that no life Is worth anything unless It Is a life of labor and effort and endeavor. ' "Wo believe In tho Joy that comes with work, for he who labors best Is really happiest. "We must shape conditions con-ditions so that no one can own the spirit of the man who loves his task, ; and gives its best there Is In him to that task; and It matters not whether l this man reaps and sows and wrests i his JIvellhood from the rugged reluc- tance of the soil, or whether with lhand or brain he plays his part In the tremendous Industrial activities of our great cities. Meet the Needs. "We are striving to meet the needs of all these men, and to moct-them In such fashion that all alike shall feel bound together In the bond of a common brotherhood, where each works hard for himself and for those dearest to him, and jet feelc mat he m8t also think of his brother's rlgh's : because he Is in ery truth that brother's broth-er's keeper. 1 "Seven months ago n this city almost al-most at the beginning of the present campaign I spoke as follows: '"The leador for the time being, whoever he niny be, is but an instm- ' ment to be used until broken and then to be cast aside: and if he Is worth I his salt he will care no more wbon I he Is broken than a soldier cares wnoi he is sent where hh life Is forfeit n I order that the victory may bo won. In the long fight for righteousnc33 the watchword for all l "stvnd pn' hr. spent." It is of little matter whether any ono man fails or succeeds; but tho cause shall not fall, for It Is the cause of mankind " 'We here In America hold In our hands the hope of tho world tho fa'th of the coming years, and shame and disgrace will bo ours If In our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden lioiici of men.' "Friends, what I said then I sa now. Surely there never was a greater great-er opportunity than ours. Surely there ncvor was a fight better worth making mak-ing than this. I believe we shall but win or lose I am glad beyond measure that I am one of iho many who In this fight have stood ready to spend and be spent, pledged to fight while life lasts in the great fight for righteousness and for brotherhood and for the wolfare of mankind " |