The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1904-10-12
ALLAREFOR ROOSEVELT
"0ld Guard" Join With "First
Voters" In Patriotic Campaign. ,
IN "oLD BOYS" CLUB
Young Americans Are Standing
SteadfastIy BY President Roose'
Especial Correspondence

in the campaign for the election Of
Roosevelt, he has not overlooked the
"0ld Guard"
Primarily, this is a contest in which
the young Americans have figured as
they never figured before in American
politics, and they are backing Theodore
Roosevelt almost to man. From the
outset of the campaign special efforts
have been directed to get the First
Voters" lined up solidly for the Repub-
lican ticket, and on every hand there
have been organizations formed of
First Voters"
The conspicuous part taken by these
younc men has aroused the "Old Guard"
and men who have not for a number of
years participated in presidential
campaign are coming to the front and
demanding positions on the firing line
for Roosevelt and the whole ticket,
The"Old Boys they style themselves
in many places, and following the plan
of campaign adopted in New York state
they have gotten together in different
and held reunions and rat
ification meetings at which experiences
of the past have been recounted and
resolutions adopted reaffirming their
fealty to the party of the Union and
protection to American industries.
A national organization has been
formed along these lines of men VINO
voted for Fremont or Lincoln, and who
have banded together to get the "0ld
Guard" to the polls on next election
day for Roosevelt and Fairbanks.
1t has been found that clubs organ
ized by such men have created great
enthusiasm among their neighbors, who
cannot help admire the devotion and
the loyalty of the veterans to the stand
ard of Republicanism.
These organizations inspire theyoung
men with renewed respect for the party
which has held in its ranks so
many patriotic citizens for half CEN
tury, and which at the same time today
represents the progressive spirit of the
nation at home and abroad.
One of the most successful of the "Old
Boy" organizations in this state is that
which was organized recently in Chris.
tiana. Lancaster county. The 81 mem
bers voted either for John c. Fremont
in 1856 or Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
The chairman, George Whitson, is an
octogenarian, who attended the Phila-
delphia national convention which
nominated Fremont for the presidency.
Every day there are received at the
Republican state headquarters letters
announcing the organization of "Old
Boy" clubs in different localities in
Pennsylvania, and in reply Secretary
Wesley II. Andrews informs the officers
that the names of all the members Of
such clubs are enrolled at the state
headquarters and will be preserved
among the most cherished records Of
the party organization in Pennsylva-
MIA.
Where such organizations desire
speakers to address their meetings,
special care is taken to furnish them
with men of experience and intelli-
gence who can review the great work of
the Republican party in the nation
and state since its organization
"While the "Old Guard" are gath
ering in serious deiberation of the
burning issues, the new recruits are
being marshalled for the spectacular
of the campaign. In
many counties handsomely uniformed
clubs have been organized to attend
mass meetings and assist in stirring up
party enthusiasm Companies of Roose-
welt Rough Riders, fully equipped with
campaign hats and suits of khaki and
rifles have been drilled to perfection
and have been on parade at many meet
ings.
The Young Republican Campaign
Regiment of Philadelphia is possibly
the strongest organization numerically
that has been formed. 1t turns out
1000 fully equipped men in the old
fashioned campaign capes and caps
with the coal oil torches of the days Of
old.
In York county, under the command
Of Senator McConkey, there is a regl-
ment of Rough Riders which is doing
great work for the whole Republican
ticket.
Pennsylvania had the largest repre-
sentation of any state at the national
convention of the Republican Club
League at indianapolis last week, and
she succeeded in again winning the
presidency of the organization by the
reelection of j. Hampton Moore. Of
Philadelphia. The delegates to that
convention have still ringing in their
ears the patriotic and magnificent ad.
dress of Senator Beveridge, who, in
commenting upon the work Of the
young men in this campaign, among
other things said:
Young men want president whose
confidence in the American stock is
strong enough to leave the future TO
those future Americans who must deal
with it when it arrives.
Young men do not want a president
whose doubt of them places them under
bond to carry out his views long after
he Is gone-especially when that bond
binds them to strike our countrys coll
ors, even though when the time to do
it comes the whole world might ag-
grieve that such an act would be un-
righteous, unpatriotic and unwise."
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