Teddy Roosevelt: “I appreciate to the full all the difficulties under which you labor, and I think that your progress has been…”

The American people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift.

I wish to say that the Progressive Party is making its appeal to all our fellow citizens without any regard to their creed or to their birthplace.

I want every labor man, every labor leader, every organized union man, to take the lead in denouncing crime or violence.

I don’t know anything about who the man was who shot me to-night.