CanÌƒon City record. [volume] (CanÌƒon City, Colo.) 1883-192?, 1904-09-01
SECRETARY HAYS TRIBUTE
Courageous. Resourceful, Frank, Pstri.
stic. Hosest and Inteiligent-Pains.
taking In All Things, with Mar.
veious Capacity for Work
His Maniiness Admired by
All the People.
From the Sew York world.

ID NOT, as you would nave II. free trade.
or free silver. but you yourself. Theo-
dore Roosevelt.
This issue is forced upon the country
by your unusual temperament and tai
ents-your own strong. able. ambitious,
resourceful, militant. passionate person
ality. 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
sonaI 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 be had great
chances to learn, and has he improved
them? Is he sound and strong in mind.
body and soul? Is he accessible and
friendly to all sorts and conditions Of
men1 has he the courage and candor
and the God-giyen ability to speak to
the people and tel them what he thiuksf
To all these questions they viii answer,
Yes Then what Ia your objection to
him? They will either stand speeches
or they will answer with the parrot cry
which we have heard 30 often: He 10
unsafe
admit this to be true. To every grade
of law breaker. high or low; to q man
who would rob a till or a ballot bokS
to the sneak or the bully: to the hype-
critic and the humbug. Theodore Rooss-
velt is more than unsafe: he 10 pod
lively dangerous.
But let Us be serious with these pes-
pie. What are the coenicients Of safety
in a chief of state? He should have
courage: the wisest coward that ever
lived is not ct to rale- And inteIli-
gence: we want NO blunder-headed hero
in the White House. And honesty; .
clever thief would do infinite mischief.
These three are the Indispensable. Wtth
them q man Is all the more safe IL be
has sense Of proportion. a sense OF
humor. q wide knowledge OF men Of
znais: IL he seeks good counsel; and,
finally. II he is a patriot. il he loves his
country. believes in it and seeks in all
things its interest and its glory. All
men may make mistakes: but such q
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 indorsements
OF President Rooseveit's personality and
candidacy comes from acknowledge
party organs, but note the tributes from
influential Democratic and Independens
papers in which the pertinent in,erroga-
tives of Mr.. hay are answered
From the Pittsburg Dispatch Qnd-):
As n party choice. none more saga-
rions i1<.inrf with al nS
popularity and exultant strength. nons
possessing more courage. the frsnknexs
and honesty that magnetixe. could have
been made. He has deviafed not q hairs
breadth from the impulses OF a noble
character or from promp,ings of q pro-
fcundly informed craftsmanship.
From the Chicago Evening Post
Qnd);
Such is the man chosen to lead the
Republican party in this presidential
year. A man Of courage. a man OF sim
cerity, strong man who frankly takes
the people into his confidence tells them
what he believes to ba right. and that he
intends to follow the right at any cost
From the Review of Reviews QndJ:
The President Is q man OF such varied
talents and activities, and his adminis-
tsation has already been so full of ex-
ceptienal and diverting incidents that il
Is quite too seldom remarked in die news
papers that the chief claim to distinc-
ton in the present regime at Washing
ton Is the high grade of regular. orai-
nary administrative work that charae-
terixes the various departments almost
without exception. So indomitable 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 und.l:
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 convictioas to his party.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Qnd):
He has been honest, patriotic and the
country knows 1t.
From the San Francisco Chronicle
Qnd).
The people love Roosevelt for the
strength and spontanei,y OF his impulses
in favor OF all that Is good and the
depth and persistence OF his detestaticn
Of all that is hateful ard mean. Tie
people love a man aud the President 10
every inch man.
From the New York Times Dem.l:
~You can't 'elp likin' him." his Amer
icanisn appeals to Americans. without
Fspelling those Of foreign birth. For
sene nillisns of the people Of this coa.-
TN ho standa for me b@sf tvpa Of rftS-