New-York tribune., 1910-11-06
AIDS HIS PARTY IN
PRESIDENTS STATE
Mr.. Roosevelt. at Cleveland,
Ohio, Defends Republican
Policies.
TAKES PROGRESSIVE VIEW
lndorses Tariff Commission Plan
and Explains New Nationalism
Again-Another Attack
on,Harmon.

Cleveland. Nov 5.-Theodore Roosevelt
came 10 the aid to-day of the Republican
party in Ohio. where it is having one of its
hardest fights. He made campaign trip
over the state, defending the policies of
the party. Of the Republican candidates
and the state platform he had little to say
Cleveland celebrated when he came
There were bands. torches and a parade
through crowded streets. The meeting was
held in the Central Armory, which has
room for more than tea thousand persons,
but only part of the crowd could get in
side
OF Warren @. Harding Republican can
didate for Governor, Mr.. Roosevelt said:
IF Mr Harding is elected you will have
Governor who viii put through a public
utilities bill"
The Republican state. platform, which in
dorses President Taft for denomination in
1912. received little attention from Mr..
Roosevelt He spoke of it long enough to
criticise the tariff plank, which contains a
strong Endorsement of the Payne -Aldrich
tariff bin. saying that the party leaders who
framed it had Jagged behind the people.
Mr. Roosevelt also repeated the attack on
Governor Harmon which he made first in
Toledo.
"BalIinaer Not Running for Office"
He was interrupted by repeated calls
from the audience of How about Ballin-
ger?" He stopped his speech abruptly and
shouted: He is not running for office IN
Ohio"
This answer did not satisfy his audience
and the calls We're repeated. Finally MIR
Roosevelt stopped again, and after waiting
a moment for quiet, he said, waving ms
arm emphatieally:
If / ever ask you TO vote for him you
can come and ask me questions,
The full text OF the ex-President's speech
follows:
During the last few years it has become
increasingly evident 10 all really farslght-
ed men that II is imperauVely necessary 10
srapple with the problems OF the present
day in the spirit in which Abraham Lin
coin and the men of his day, fifty years
ago. grappled with the then existing prob
lems We cannOs show ourselves the true
heirs of lincoln and his fellows by mere
ly praising what they did in the dead past
the sincerity Of our loyalty TO their ideals
must be shown by the resOlute efficiency
with which We apply those ideals TO pres
ent-day needs, working IN a Sanely pro
fowi5g witd iii experiments gl any more than
Lincoln miSied, but being equally reso-
lutte TO folloW Lincoln's course IN refusing
TO put our destiny in the hands of the
Bourbon and reactiOnary.
Much alarm-some of il sincere, some of
It entirely msineere-has been expressed
about the new nationalism. The new
nationalism really means nothing but the
efficient application to new conditions OF
the old and fundamental moraliues; in ac-
cordance with which our forefathers
worked in the days when they founded this
Republic; in accordance with which our
fathers worked in the days when they
saved the Republic. We are trying TO ap-
ply TO the economic and social conditions
OF the twentieth century the doctrine which
Abraham Lincoln enunciated fifty-one
years ago, WREN he said: our opponents
hold the liberty of one man to be abso-
lutely nothing when in conflict with an
other mans right of property; we, on the
contrary, are for both the man and the
dollar; but. in case OF conflict. the man he
fore the dollar
In other words, as l said in my Ossa-
watomie speech, and as | repeated in New
York. the new natiOnalism represents the
struggle of free men to gain and 10 hold
the right OF self government as against the
STeCial interests, who twist the methods of
free government into machinery for de-
feating the popular viii. Al every stage
and under all circumstances the essence of
the struggle is TO equalize opportunity, to
destroy privilege and to give TO the life
and citizenship of every individual the
highest possible value, both to himself and
10 the commonwealth.