The Record-courier. [volume] (Gardnerville, Nev.) 1904-current, 1904-09-16
From the New York World.


The paramount issue of this campaign
is not. as you would have it. free trade,
or free silver. but you yourself, Thee-
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
atty, your versatile and surprising
genius.
From Secretary Hays address at Jack
son, Mich:
Secretary Hays Questions.
Even on this narrow issue they win
dodge most Of the details Ask them,
has the President been good citizen,
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 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 thinks7
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 80 often, He u
unsafe.
I'm certain sense we sha all have to
| admit this to be true. To every grade
| OF law breaker, high or low; to a man
who would rob a till or a ballot beg;
to the sneak or the bully; TO the hypo-
critic and the humbug. Theodore Roose-
welt is more than unsafe; he Il posi-
lively dangerous.
But let us be serious with these peo-
pie. What are the coenlcients Of safety
in chief of state7 He should have
courage; the wisest coward that ever
lived is not fit to rule. And intefli-
gence; we want no blunder-headed here
In the White House. And honesty, .
clever thief would do infinite mischief.
These three are the Indispensable. wish
them man Is all the more safe II he
has sense of proportion, a sense Of
humor, wide knowledge of men Of
affairs; IL he seeks good counsel; and,
finally, If he is a patriot, IL he loves his
| country, believes in it and seeks In an
things its interest and its glory. An
men may make mistakes: but such
man az this win make few and no grave
ones.
such a man Is our President and eus
candidate"
The Independent Press.
Naturally, very emphatic Endorsements
of President Roosevelts personality and
candidacy comes from Acknowledged
n hnf frfh
influential Democratic and Independents
papers in which the pertinent interroga-
tives of Mr.. Hay are answered
From the Pittsburg Dispatch Qnd.n
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
heen made. He has deviated not hairs
breadth from the impulses of a noble
character or from promptings of a pro-
| foundly informed statesmanship
From the Chicago Evening Post
| Qnda:
Such is the man chosen to Lead the
Republican party In this presidential
1
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 Ind Z
The President is a man of such varied
| talents and activities. and his adminis-
tiation has already been so full of ex-
| al nj -, u
is quite too seldom remarked in the news
papers that the chief claim to dstinc-
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 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 energg
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
| DtINbhdi touIdbt hdft thdDleu uliu ~
impart his convictions to his party.
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
Qnd9:
lie 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 detesta ton
of all that rs hateful and mean. The
people love a man and the President II
every inch a man.
From the New York Times Dem.}:
you can't 'elp likin him." his Amer
icanism appeals to Americans. without
repelling those Of foreign birth. For