River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-09-01
SECRETARY HAYS TRIBUTE.
Courageous, ResOurcefnI, Frank. Patri-
otto, Honest and Intelligent Pains.
taking in All Things, with a Mar.
veIous Capacity for Work.
His Manliness Admired by
All the People.
From the New York World.

or free silver, but you yourself, Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
This issue is forced upon the country
| by your unusual temperament and tall
ents-your own strong, able, ambitious,
resourceful, militant. passionate person
atty your versatile and surprising
genius.
From Secretary Hays address at Jack
| son, Mich:
Secretary Hays Questions.
Even on this narrow issue they will
| dodge most of the details. Ask them,
has the President been a good citizen,
a good soldier, a good man in all per-
sonal relations? Is he a man Of intel
ligence, Of education? Does he know
| this country well? Does he know the
world outside? Has he studied law his
| tory and politics? Has he had great
| chances to learn, and has ne improved
| them?, Is he sound and strong iii mind,
| body and soul? Is he accessible and
| friendly to all sorts and conditions OF
men? Has he the courage and candor
and the Godgiven ability to speak to
| the people and tell them what lie thinks?
| To all these questions they will answer,
1es. Then what is your objection to
him? They will either stand speeches.
or they will answer with the parrot cry
which we have heard so often He is
unsafe.
I'm a certain sense we shall have to
admit this to be true. To every grade
Of law breaker, high or low; to Il man
who would rob a till or ballot box;
| to the sneak or the bully; to the hypo-
critic and the humbug, Theodore Roose-
welt is more than unsafe; he is posi-
| lively dangerous.
But let us be serious with these peo-
| pie. What are the coefficients of safety
i'll a chief of state? He should have
| courage; the wisest coward that ever
| lived is not fit to rule And ntelli-
| gence; we want no blunder-headed hero
in the White House. And honesty; a
clever thief would do infinite mischief.
These three are the indispensables. With
them a man is all the more safe if he
has a sense Of proportion, a sense Of
humor, a wide knowledge of men OF
affairs; if ne seeks good counsel; and,
finally, if he is patriot, if he loves his
country believes in it and seeks in all
| things it's interest and its glory. All
men may make mistakes; but such
man as this will make few and no grave
ones.
Such a man is our President and our
candidate"
The Independent Press.
Naturally, very emphatic Endorsements
of President R0osevelt's personality and
candidacy comes from acknowledged
party organs, but note the tributes from
! influential Democratic and Independent
| papers IN which the pertinent interroga-
tiyes of Mr.. Hay are answered.
From the Pittsburg Dispatch Ond):
| AS O party choice, none more saga
cious, none instinct with elements Of
popularity and exultant strength, none
possessing more courage, the frankness
and honesty that magnetic, could have
| been made. He has deviated not a hairs
| breadth from the impulses of a noble
character or from promptings of a pro-
foundly informed craftsmanship.
From the Chicago Evening Post
| Qnd9:
Such is the man chosen to lead the
Republican party in this presidential
year. A man Of courage, a man of sin
cerity, a strong man who frankly takes
the people into his confidence, tells them
what he believes to be right, and that he
|
| From the Review of Reviews 0nd):
| The President is a man of such varied
talents and activities and his admins
tration has already been so full of ex-
ceptional and diverting incidents that it
| is quite too seldom remarked in the news
| papers that the chief claim to distinc-
| ton in the present regime at Washing
| ton is the high grade of regular, ordi-
nary administrative work that charac-
| terizes the various departments almost
without exception. So indomitabIe a ca
pacity for work has probably never
| been known in any executive post in the
! United States as Mr.. Roosevelt shows
from morning until night every day, and
without apparent fatigue or impairment
| Of energy.
From the Outlook 0nd):
His utterances on all political issues
| have been more explicit than those Of
any other public man since Abraham
Lincoln, and his political experience and
personal courage have enabled him to
| impart his convictions to his party.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
| Qnd):
lie mas Deen honest, patrotlc and the
country knows it.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Qnd.):
The people love Roosevelt for the
strength and spontaneity Of his impulses
in favor of all that is good and the
depth and persistence of his detestation
of all that is hateful and mean. The
people love a man and the President is
every inch a man.
From the New York Times Oem):
You can't 'elp likin' him." his Amer
icansm appeals to Americans, without
repelling those of foreign birth. For
some millions of the people of this coun-
try he stands for the best type of citi-
zenship and this estimate of him does not
depend upon his chance of election.