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| 62d Congress | } | SENATE | { | Document |
| 2d Session | No. 616 |
ADDRESS
OF
HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT
DELIVERED
SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 1912
PRESENTED BY MR. REED
April 29, 1912.—Ordered to be printed
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1912
PRINCIPLES, NOT PERSONALITIES, AT STAKE.
My friends and fellow citizens, men and women of Massachusetts,men and women of Boston, I am glad indeed to be in your old historicState, your old historic city, this evening to plead for a cause which ispreeminently the cause for which Massachusetts has stood throughouther existence as a colony and as a Commonwealth. [Cheers.] Andfriends—friends, I shall make my appeal to you in the name of everyman and every principle for whom and for which Massachusetts hasstood in the heroic days of the past. [Applause and cheers.]
Now, friends, last night I felt obliged to answer at length the attacksmade upon me by Mr. Taft, but I do not wish this contest to be putupon the basis of a contest of personalities [Good! good! and cheers]between myself and Mr. Taft, and to-night I shall only allude to Mr.Taft just as far as it is necessary for me in order to illustrate the principlesfor which he and I respectively stand. [Applause.]
FIGHTING FOR EVERY GOOD CITIZEN.
And those allusions I shall make right at the outset, so that I canget down to the part of my speech in which I shall strive, howeverfeebly, to put before you the principles which I think are at stake inthis contest. For mind you, friends, I hold that this is infinitelymore than a mere faction fight in the Republican Party. [A voice:“That’s where you’re right.”] I hold that this is infinitely more thanany ordinary party contest, for I claim that we who stand for theprinciples of progressive Republicanism [applause and cheers]—thatwe who stand for making the principles of Abraham Lincoln livingprinciples applied to the living issues of to-day—I hold that we arefighting not only for every good Republican, but for every good citizenin the United States, whoever he may be. [Cheers.]
And now at the outs