The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1904-01-19
Ohio People Love Roosevelt.

The following Is part of a Column
bus letter which appeared in the Sid !
ney Journal:
The people of Ohio have a warm /
place in their hearts for Roosevelt. !
They love him because he is man of !
his word: they love him because he Is I
a man of courage; they love him be
cause he Is honest and above re
prOach; they like him because he has
ferretted out fraud in the post Office
aud othe- departments of the Govern
ment and punished the criminals.
whether of high or low station in
public life: they like him because he
has spared neither friend nor foe in
this exposure or in the punishment
which followed. They like him be-
cause of that Independence of char
acter which makes him the President
| of the whole people rather than any
particular class. His foreign policy
| is thoroughly approved because it has
been thoroughly American. Alfred
Henry Lewis, in an article in the sat
urday Evening Post, SAYS the only
element of opposition to President
Roosevelt's denomination is MONEY
and had its origin in Wall street.
This is his great strength everywhere
else.
| While Senator Hanna says he Is not
a candidate for the Republican Presi-
dental nomination, and will not be,
his friends are laying plars to con
troll the Ohio delegation to the Ma.
tional Republican convention. If the
vote of oh O is delivered to X ioseveli
at Chicago, they want him to under.
stand and appreciate the fact that il
Twas delivered by Hanna. Back oi
this Is the ulterior motive of humiliat [
|. ling Senator Foraker. who has beer
president Roosevelt's friend from the
fstart. 1t was Senator Foraker wht
forced endorsement of Roosevelt
candidacy by Il e last State conven
. tion. He was aided, of course. b,
Pres. Roosevelt's Walla-walla tele
graphic dispatch, in which he sbowet
his familiarity with the scripture h,
quoting the words: He who is no
for me is against me" Senator Han
> Ina and Samuel ]. Patterson offere,
Roosevelt's candidacy for the nOmi
nation in 1904 was endorsed by tn
4 Unanimous vote of the !. coo delegate
: composing that Convention as tn
Representatives of the half million
and more Republican voters in tn
1 State.
The people of Ohio love Ssnato
= l Hanna. but they are disposed to tax
thiP at his word when he saws he
not a candidate for the Presidency
and that beingtrue, they are inter
n ested in knowing that Roosevelt mer
[ tried and true. are sent as delegate
from Ohio to the National Republics
convention.
They want Roosevelt renominateC
,, They feel that it Is not only court
J, esy due him, but one richly earned
= and they can not see the necessity 9
a contest over the control OF DELI
gates to a convention which Is
= have only one candidate before 1t
n Roosevelt. They cannot understan
= why Senator Hanna should want I
control the delegates, and sine
not hing more Is involved than tha
l. Rooseyelt's friends are determine
h that only Roosevelt men are place
70 on guard. Control of the deiegatio
would not mean anything, as Senate
Hanna nor no one else could delivt
ID the vote to any one except Roosevelt
10 There is feeling that Senator For
= ker should at least share in the hol
lor of bearing to the President II
fruit of seed sown by him in Il
State convention last year when l
II forced the endorsement resolutiC
A through.
There Is an intimation that Sen
tor Hanna will ask that he be not pI
>, on the delegation. and that Geors
ID B. Cox be named in his stead. Ii
10 suggested by some that If Hanna
left off that Foraker should also
D. left of. What a sorry figure oh
y would cut in the conye ntion withol
se influential leadership. Hanna al
"a Foraker should be made to 60. but
Hanna insists on remaining hom
IN then the greater becomes the reasC
;: why Foraker should go.
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