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Show BIG VICTORY FOR PEOPLE Gov. Johnson Tells of the Awakening of Public Conscience ! New York, Oct, 3L That tho Progressive Pro-gressive party is the result of a widespread wide-spread demand for justice and is des- tlned to endure, was declared by Governor Gov-ernor Hiram W. Johnson In his ad-, dress at Madison Square garden last night. He said in part. 'The ictory Is won. not alone the victory marked by the counting of the 3 ballots, but the victory in the broader M and higher sense that comes from the M crystallzatlon of a great public senti-f senti-f ment, foundod on a moral conception and forcing Its way to fulfillment of t achievement. T "Tho history of tho development of A Government jg the outcome of the in-? in-? tollectual and moral development of i the averago man and average woman. J who orm the Bubstanco of a people. S All great permanont and moral move-il move-il merits have come from the people. Washington and tho men who sat In the first continental congress did not create representative government, but provided the medium through which j our people were able to express themselves. them-selves. Lincoln did not create the sentiment against slavery and for freedom, but through Lincoln spoke the men and women of this gTeat country. "Thero Is now anothor crisis In our history, and from the humble men and women of the nation, the common men and women, haR come anothor causo as snered as any of the past, the success of which Is essential that our nation may be enduring; and this cause has found Its leader, who, aa in every case In history, Is the medium between the wishes of the people and the fulfillment of those wlshos, and who, like all the great leaders who have made history and marked epochs in tho world, feels and knows and understands un-derstands the necessities of a great people and has the vision and the wisdom wis-dom and the courage of achievement "Tno great movement that finally this yenr has found Its expression in tho Progressive party has not been the growth of a day or a year Par muny weary years It has been striving and struggling in tho great shadow of privilege, unorganized, without real direction, unspoken often, but existing long. When a national and Industrial development made possible gigantic economic combinations of wealth, and those combinations, representing but a few human beings exercised for self profit their colossal Influence and power, the rumbling protest of those compelled to pay the price was first heard. "When Hrst tho lnjustlco of these enormous combinations foil upon the overburdened weak, then this movement move-ment had Its genosis, and it continued to grow until in this nation a great unorganized Rentiment against subtlo Injustice, against abstraction and appropriation ap-propriation from tboso who had little to those who had much, agai-nst conditions con-ditions of Inequality and oppression bearlnp harder and harder on those least able to bear It, and upon those very people who In tho final analysis make for the prosperity, stability and real wealth of a nation. "The pre-convention fight at the Chicago convention saw the vanguard of the Progressive movement, bohlnd which stood millions upon millions of unorganized volunteers. And then came the great August convention, where men and women of the broadest broad-est sympathy, the highest ldeas and the clearest vision, met to perfect something of an organization around which they, as volunteers, might i ally In tho movement as sacred as any since the Civil war. "No candidate now stands for of-llco of-llco unless ho makes the pretense at least that he Is a Progressive. It matters mat-ters not whether he Is Democratic or Republican, each candidate endeavors to Impress his constituency now with tho Idea that he Is In reality a Progressive. Pro-gressive. "A former Democratic candidate for president, who presided over the last convention of that party, and was denounced de-nounced as reactionary in lachrymose terms, of late has Insisted ho Is a Pro-Si Pro-Si essive Tho advocates of the prcs-ont prcs-ont president hysterically assert thai he Is a Progressive, and the Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for president, who during all this time has simply marked time and Is paying tho price for that harmony in his party whicli means keeping pace with tho slowest, gravely grave-ly Insists- that he is yet a Progressive. Dare Not Oppose. "But a href period ago to have preached our doctrine of minimum I wage lor women, shorter hours fori men, social Insurance to provide for old age. accident and lack of employ-. employ-. ment. and our program generally of social and industrial Justice, would have subjected us to denunciation publicly us 'destroyers,' 'demacogues' and 'anarchists.' Today, while secretly secret-ly frothing with bitterness at the doctrine, doc-trine, our opponents dare not publicly orpose it. " 'Assaulting tho constitution' were we only recently when Insisting uj.on direct legislation, the initiative, referendum refer-endum and recall Now only tho most hidebound, those alone living upon the ancient tradition that divides our people peo-ple Into a governing class (to which they of course belong, and a class to be governed, publicly oppose these governmental gov-ernmental Instrumentalities. "And thus the Progressive party has contributed to the nation and to tho program of political reform that means truo nopular rule. It has brought back government to its pristine pris-tine purpose, tho care of human kind. It has presented Its program of Justice Jus-tice to which tho patriotism of the nation has subscribed, and it has burst from the shell of Bhame In national na-tional political contests. Its cause is destined to be tho cause not only of a great nation, but of humanity. "Progresslvism 1b founded on a rock and St will endure. New Acthlvlty. "And with its causes, that mean so much for our iyeople's welfaro and happiness, the new parly haB contributed contrib-uted as woll to national politics a now sort of activity and a new kind of citizenship citi-zenship a citizenship that until this year has not actively engaged in political po-litical struggle It has given those men to political activity who today from the purest motives and most patriotic purposes are endeavoring to carry aloft the banner of Proyresslv-iBin Proyresslv-iBin men like Bird of Massachusetts, Smith of Connecticut. Churchill of Now Hampshire, Garfield of Ohio, Straus of New York, Funk of Illinois Bevendgo of Indiana, Watklns of Michigan and hundreds of others, who embody tho highest type of American manhood and unselfishly strive In tho various slates for human advancement and progress. And It has given to tho nation again a leader who came into the struggle only when the call of all of us made It imperative, yielding to the cause bololy because of a senso of patriotic duty, who with his Infinite and sublime courage uncomplainingly has made the long and weary fight for us ell. "Whon the last word shall have been written of this epoch, history will record as its greatest act the leadership leader-ship In 1912 by Theodore Roosovelt of the great struggle for justice, for overworked men, overburdened women wom-en and Utile children." |