Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-08-31
SECRETARY HAYS TRIBUTE.
Courageous, ResourcefuI, Frank, Patri.
otto, Honest and Intelligent-Pains-
taking in All Things, with Mar
velous Capacity for Work
His Manliness Admired by
All the People.
From the New York World.

The paramount issue Of this campaign
| is not, as you would have it, free trade,
! CT 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 good citizen,
a good soldier, good man in all per-
soaal relations? Is he a man of intel
| lisence, 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 he improved
| them? Is he sound and strong in mind,
body and soul? Is he accessible and
| friendly to all sorts and conditions of
men? Has he the courage and candor
and the God-given ability to speak to
the people and tell them what he thinks?
To all these questions they will answer,
Yes. 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.
In a certain sense we shall have to
admit this to be true. To every grade
| Of law breaker, high or low; to man
who would rob a till or ballot box;
! to the sneak or the bully; to the hypo-
critic and the humbug, Theodore Roose-
| Felt is more than unsafe; he is posi-
lively dangerous.
but let us be serious with these peo-
| pie. What are the coeff1cients of safety
| in a chief of state? He should have
courage; the wisest coward that ever
| lived is not fit to rule And intelli-
gence; we want no blunder-headed hero
! in the White House. And honesty; a
clever thief would do infinite mischief.
These three are the Indispensable. With
them 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 he seeks good counsel; and,
| finally, if he is patriot, if he loves his
country, believes in it and seeks in all
| things its interest and its glory All
| men may make mistakes; but sucn a
| man as this will make few and no grave
| ones.
'such man is our President and our
| candidate
The Independent Press.
Naturally, very emphatic Endorsements
of President Roosevelt's personality and
candidacy comes from acknowledged
party organs but note the tributes from
| influential Democratic and independent
in VIII oh ha int
| tiyes Of Mr.. Hay are answered
From the Pittsburg Dispatch Gnd.):
AS a 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 pro-
| foundry informed craftsmanship
From the Chicago Evening Post
| Und):
Such is the man chosen to lead the
Republican party in this presidential
year. man Of courage, a man Of sim
cerity, a strong man who frankly takes
| the people into his confidence, tells them
| what he believes to be right, and that he
| intends to follow the right at any cost.
From the Review of Reviews Und):
| The President is a man of such varied
| talents and activities, and his admins
| traton 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 ndomitable 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 Ond.):
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):
| He has been honest, patriotic 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 man and the President is
| every inch q man.
! From the New York Times Dem):
You can't clip likin' him." his Amer
| icanism 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-
zenshp and this estimate of him does not
/ depend upon his chance Of election.