Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — ROOSEVELT ON THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM. [ARTICLE]

ROOSEVELT ON THE PROGRESSIVE PLATFORM.

“Our platform doei not deal with the empty generalities with which the ordinary political platform is filled; it does not contain the sound and fury designed ty) conceal the lack of gennine purpose. We, in our platform, for the first time since the Civil War, face the issues of the day fearlessly, resolute, determined to see that the cause of righteousness does not suffer in our hands. “The fundamental plank is the plank that pledges ns to fight for social and industrial justice, the plank that pledges ns to work in a spirit of real brotherhood, scorning any hospitality of creed, standing together shoulder to shoulder, in no matter what fashion we may severally choose to worship our Maker; standing together to battle for the and oppressed, for the lowly and the heavy-laden; standing together pledged to fight while onr lives last the great fight for righteousness in this country. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.