ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typescript of a speech for the Progressive Party, with approximately 150 words of emendations and revisions in TR's hand, Chicago, 19 October 1914. Together 25 pages, 4to, revisions in ink and pencil, in good condition. [With:] A clean carbon copy of the revised speech incorporating Roosevelt's changes.

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ROOSEVELT, THEODORE, President. Typescript of a speech for the Progressive Party, with approximately 150 words of emendations and revisions in TR's hand, Chicago, 19 October 1914. Together 25 pages, 4to, revisions in ink and pencil, in good condition. [With:] A clean carbon copy of the revised speech incorporating Roosevelt's changes.

ROOSEVELT SPEAKS OUT AGAINST "THE OLD PARTIES"

A lengthy speech in favor of the Progressive party, analyzing several Senatorial races and disparaging the two traditional parties for their ties to Standard Oil and Wall Street interests. "This year...the dominating issue is not one of party principles, but of simple civic honesty. We Progressives are fighting for a definite, reasoned, balanced social and industrial program, but after all it is impossible to get such a program unless we have sincere and honest men in public life..." Roosevelt then notes that "it is impossible for any President to have personal knowledge of the great majority of the men he appoints...Of the Post Masters I appointed, I myself afterwards removed, for various offenses...a considerable number...[W]hile I was President, there was no need for raising the cry to 'turn the rascals out,' in as much as I turned them out myself..." (2)