The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-19
SURE FOR ROOSEVELT.
Second Term Is Announced by
Secretary Hay.

New York. Jan 19.-JOhn Hay. secre-
tary of state, is considered to have an
nounced officially Saturday night that
President Roosevelt is candidate for
the presidency to succeed himself. MIR.
Hay responded to a toast at the BAN
Quet of the Ohio society at the waldorf
praising the president of whose cabinet
ne is a member. In concluding his adj
dress he predicted that Mr. Roosevelt in
his next six years in the White House
would accomplish wonderful things for
the nation. That his announcement was
premeditated, that the secretary meant
to convey his announcement in no un-
certain terms is understood from the
fact that he hesitated and said he want
ed some one to correct him il his arith-
metical calculation was wrong.
Secretary Hay praised the records OF
President Mckinley and many other
Ohio leaders He spoke before bril-
liant assemblage, which included the
Diplomatic corps from Washington. The
diplomats viii be guests of the society
while in the city. and tomorrow the
women of the party viii be given
luncheon by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid.
The banquet was enliVened by speak
ers of note besides Secretary Hay. His
talk, however. was the sensation of the
night. Mr. Hay spoke in part as fol-
lows;
II lived a little while in Ohio and was
very happy there, but, Obeying call
which seemed to me imperative, / went
to washington some twenty years ago.
I might be pardOned for thinking / had
not left Ohio, for every great depart
ment of national activity and power was
under the direction of a citizen Of that
masterful state.
But I imagine your toast referred
more especially to our actual president,
our young. gallant, able brilliant Presi-
dent Roosevelt. / am glad to be called
on to say in his absence what few men
would be hardy enough to say to his
fact, for, like all men of high courage
lnnOGD1fG
dattery. In the great roll of our presl-
dents-au of them men Of mark. OF
lofty character and ideals, not one name
among them smirched by the slightest
stain of personal corruption OF wrong
doing, all Of them showing to the world
clean hands and high aims-he holds
now, he Will hold forever a distinguished
place.
"a great German has said: "A talent
is formed in the solitudes, a character in
the torrent of the world
Our president has had the advantage
of both of these envirOnments. From the
clustered life of American college boys
sheltered from the ruder currents of the
world by the ramDarts of wealth and
gentle nurture, he passed, still very
young, to the wild and free existence
of the plains and the hills. In the 81
lence of those vast solitudes men grow
TO full stature when the original stuff
is good. He came back to the east
bringing with him. as TennysOn sang
Lle WLealiAlB lleWS LfldL throw lHe
world His career since then has
been singularly varied. He has gone
rapidly forward and upward because
that was the law of his being. He does
not disdain the garlands of fame, but
he finds his highest enjoyment in grasp
ing the tools that tit his hand
To RULE SIX YEARS MORE.
at does not distinguish an American
president to be honest nor to be brave
nor to be intelligent nor to be patriotic
They have all been all of these. these
qualities are Dostulates of the position
But the nation is to be congratulated
when all these desirable attributes art
heightened and tinged with that inef
fable light which, for want of a more
descriptive term, we call genius. 1t il
this which makes honesty a scOrchins
flame against fraud or corruption
which makes courage an inspiration t.
others in battle or in council: which
raises intelligence to the quick flash O
intuition and patriotism to a religious
fervor of conservation. And it is thi
which makes Theodore Roosevelt tn
man and the president he is
I'm the six years which remain o
President Roosevelts term-if my arith