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Daily Kennebec Journal
Augusta, Kennebec County, Maine
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On Oct. 26 in New York, 53 prominent 1912 Progressive party supporters issued a statement endorsing President Coolidge's election, asserting that Theodore Roosevelt would back him for upholding American ideals and morality.
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Declare That if Roosevelt Were Alive Would Vote for Him In His Devotion to American Institutions and Highest Ideals of American Life, Calvin Coolidge Upholds the Faith of Their Former Leader--Statement Signed by 53 Men and Women Prominent in Progressive Movement
New York, Oct. 26--A number of the supporters of the Progressive party of 1912 tonight gave out a statement urging the election of President Coolidge and "earnestly appealing" to the Progressives of 1912 to vote as they knew in their hearts Theodore Roosevelt would vote.
"We affirm with complete assurance," the statement said, "that he would be vigorously supporting Calvin Coolidge, who exemplifies the elemental principles of public and private morality which shaped the great labors of Theodore Roosevelt in behalf of democratic civilization and human progress.
"We believe," the statement added, "that in his devotion to American institutions and to the highest ideals of American life he upholds the faith of our former leader."
The statement is signed by 53 men and women of prominence in the Progressive movement of 1912, including Charles Sumner Bird, Massachusetts; Mrs. Anna C. Bird, Massachusetts; Maud Howe Elliott, Rhode Island; Albert Bushnell Hart, Massachusetts; Frank Knox New Hampshire, and Alexander Lambert, New Hampshire.
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Oct. 26
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A number of the supporters of the Progressive party of 1912 gave out a statement urging the election of President Coolidge and appealing to the Progressives of 1912 to vote as Theodore Roosevelt would vote. The statement affirms that Roosevelt would support Coolidge, who exemplifies principles of public and private morality, and upholds the faith of their former leader in devotion to American institutions and ideals. The statement is signed by 53 men and women prominent in the Progressive movement of 1912.